Rolf Tophoven

Rolf Tophoven (* 1937 ) is a German journalist . He has been known as a terrorism expert since the 1970s .

Life

Tophoven studied German language and literature and history with a focus on military history and guerrilla warfare at the University of Münster and graduated with the second state examination. During his studies he became a member of the Catholic student association Saxonia Münster in the Cartell Association of Catholic German student associations . Following his studies was Tophoven teachers for the subjects History , Politics and German at the Hugo-Junkers-Gymnasium in Rheydt .

Tophoven ran the Institute for Terrorism Research in Bonn on behalf of and together with Hans Josef Horchem , the long-time director of the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Hamburg , from its establishment in 1986 until its dissolution in 1993 . Since it was re-established as an institute for terrorism research and security policy on September 11, 2003, the second anniversary of the aircraft bombings in the USA , he has been head of the Essen- based facility, which conducts its own research and pursues political goals. Tophoven is also a member of the Citizenship Advisory Board of the Annette Barthelt Foundation .

Tophoven lives in Grefrath .

Services

Tophoven is an expert on terrorism and other security issues. In addition to newspaper articles, including for Die Welt , he has published several papers on the Middle East conflict , GSG 9 and militant Islamism .

The RAF prisoners had his book Fedayin in their library in Stammheim .

With his statements on hostage-taking in the context of the Chechnya conflict , he established an ideological connection between the perpetrators there and Al-Qaeda .

Publications (selection)

• Fedayin. Guerrillas without borders , Munich 1975
• Politics through violence. Guerrilla and Terrorism Today , Bonn 1976
• GSG 9th Command against Terrorism Bonn 1977, ISBN 3-7637-5445-8
• Terrorism and Guerilla , Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-590-54809-6
• Die for Allah. The Shiites and Terrorism , Düsseldorf 1993, ISBN 3-612-26038-3
• The Israeli-Arab conflict , Bonn 1999
• The terrorism lexicon. Offenders, victims and backgrounds , with Kai Hirschmann and Wilhelm Dietl , Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 978-3-8218-5642-1
• The Middle East Conflict. Documents, comments and opinions , with Kinan Jaeger , Bonn 2011
• Rainer Glatz : At the Hindu Kush - and beyond? The Bundeswehr on foreign deployments: experiences, balance sheets, prospects. Ed .: Rolf Tophoven. 1st edition. Federal Agency for Civic Education , Bonn 2015, ISBN 978-3-8389-0584-6 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Rolf Tophoven in the catalog of the German National Library
• Institute for Terrorism Research and Security Policy