Stephan Lehnstaedt

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Stephan Lehnstaedt (born 1980 in Munich ) is a German historian and professor of Holocaust studies and Jewish studies at Touro College Berlin .

Life

Stephan Lehnstaedt studied history and received his doctorate from the University of Munich in 2008 . In 2016 he completed his habilitation in modern and contemporary history at the Technical University of Chemnitz . From 2005 to 2009 he was a research assistant at the Institute for Contemporary History (IfZ) in Munich, and from 2010 to 2016 he worked in Warsaw at the German Historical Institute . He deals with imperialism, the history of the two world wars, the Holocaust and its reparation.

Lehnstaedt was an expert in social court proceedings from 2008 to 2010 and an expert for the Bundestag on ghetto pensions in 2012 . For his research work and his contribution to German-Polish reconciliation, he received the order “ Missio Reconciliationis ” and the medal “Powstanie w Getcie Warszawskim” (Anielewicz Medal) from the Association of Jewish Fighters and Victims of World War II in Poland in 2015 . In 2017 he received the order "Za Wybitne Zasługi" from the Association of Polish War Veterans and Former Political Prisoners .

Lehnstaedt is publicly involved in current issues related to the Holocaust and Polish history; in 2018, for example, he proposed the construction of a German-Polish history museum. In 2017 he was an expert in a hearing of the Bundestag subcommittee on foreign cultural and educational policy as an expert on the commemoration of Aktion Reinhardt . He publishes regularly and a. in the Süddeutsche Zeitung , the Tagesspiegel and the Jüdische Allgemeine .

In 2017 he and his students organized the exhibition “In the Face of Destruction. Work and Resistance in the Ghettos, 1941–1944 ” curated for and with the German Resistance Memorial Center , 2019 with the House of the Wannsee Conference Memorial and the Vienna Library in London, the highly acclaimed bilingual one shown by the United Nations in New York Exhibition “Tracking and Enlightening. The first generation of Holocaust research ”.

In 2016 Lehnstaedt became Professor of Holocaust Studies and Jewish Studies at Touro College Berlin. He previously taught at the University of Munich, the Humboldt University of Berlin and the London School of Economics .

Memberships

Lehnstaedt is a member of the scientific advisory boards of the Forum: Austria-Hungary in the First World War, the Foundation for Flight, Expulsion, Reconciliation and the journals "Studia nad Totalitaryzmami i Wiekiem XX | Totalitarian and 20th Century Studies" and "Przegłąd Zachodni".

Publications

Monographs

  • The forgotten victory. The Polish-Soviet War 1919-1921 and the emergence of modern Eastern Europe. CH Beck, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-406-74022-0
  • Imperial Poland Policy in the World Wars. A comparative study of the Central Powers and Nazi Germany . Fiber-Verlag, Osnabrück 2017, ISBN 978-3-944870-57-1 .
  • The core of the Holocaust. Bełżec, Sobibór, Treblinka and Aktion Reinhardt. CH Beck, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-406-70702-5 .
    • Czas zabijania. Bełżec, Sobibór, Treblinka i akcja "Reinhardt". Prószyński i S-ka, Warsaw 2018.
    • Le Coeur de la Shoah. Bełżec, Sobibór, Treblinka et l 'Aktion Reinhardt . ASBL Mémoire d 'Auschwitz, Bruxelles 2020.
  • History and interpretation of the law. On the continuity and change of the Federal German reparation discourse using the example of ghetto pensions. fiber-Verlag, Osnabrück 2011, ISBN 978-3-938400-69-2 .
  • Occupation in the east. Everyday occupation in Warsaw and Minsk 1939-1944 . Oldenbourg-Verlag, Munich 2010.
    • Occupation in the East. The daily lives of German occupiers in Warsaw and Minsk, 1939–1944. Berghahn Books, New York / Oxford 2016; 2nd edition 2019.
    • Życie codzienne okupanta. Warszawa i Mińsk w czasie II Wojny Światowej. PWN, Warsaw 2020.

Editorships

  • (with Bernhard Bachinger and Wolfram Dornik ) Austria-Hungary's imperial challenges 1867-1918 . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2020.
  • (with Svea Hammerle and Hans-Christian Jasch) 80 years later. Pictures and diaries of German soldiers from the attack on Poland in 1939 . Metropol-Verlag, Berlin 2019.
  • (with Hans-Christian Jasch) Tracking and Enlightenment - Crimes Uncovered. The First Generation of Holocaust Researchers. Metropol-Verlag, Berlin 2019.
  • (with Robert Traba ) The "Aktion Reinhardt". History and remembrance . Metropol-Verlag, Berlin 2019.
    • Akjca "Reinhardt". Historia i upamiętanie . Warszawa, Neriton 2019.
  • (with Marta Ansilewska-Lehnstaedt) Identity and War. Journal for Genocide Research 16-1 (2018).
  • (with Dariusz Adamczyk) Economic crises as turning points. Causes, consequences and historical classifications from the Middle Ages to the present , Fiber-Verlag, Osnabrück 2015.
  • (with Jochen Böhler ) The reports of the Einsatzgruppen from Poland 1939. Complete edition , Metropol-Verlag, Berlin 2013.
  • (with Jürgen Hensel) Work in the National Socialist Ghettos , Fiber-Verlag, Osnabrück 2013.
  • (with Grzegorz Krzywiec, Joanna Nalewajko-Kulikov, Ruth Leiserowitz ) Reading hour - Lekcja czytania , Neriton, Warsaw 2013.
  • (with Jochen Böhler) Violence and Everyday Life in Occupied Poland 1939-1945 , Fiber-Verlag, Osnabrück 2012.
  • (with Kristin Platt ) Everyday life in the ghetto. Structures, orders and lifeworld (s) in view of new research. Journal for Genocide Research 13-1 / 2 (2012).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ German digital library: Stephan Lehnstaedt .
  2. ^ Staff page from Stephan Lehnstaedt. In: touroberlin.com. Archived from the original on March 25, 2017 ; Retrieved April 12, 2017 .
  3. ^ Touro College Berlin. In: facebook.com. June 9, 2017. Retrieved June 10, 2017 .
  4. ↑ For example, the article Simply listen in the Süddeutsche Zeitung on April 25, 2017, interview on Aktion Reinhardt on Deutschlandfunk on March 17, 2017, interview on ghetto pensions for Deutsche Welle on January 29, 2017 (Polish).
  5. ↑ Lehnstaedt in "Der Tagesspiegel": Plea for a Polish-German museum Learning to understand the neighbors. August 2, 2018, accessed March 5, 2019 .
  6. ↑ The Daily Mail: How sheep to the slaughter? In: die-tagespost.de . June 9, 2017 ( die-tagespost.de [accessed June 10, 2017]).
  7. ↑ Blog entry on the exhibition with many references to the reception. Retrieved March 5, 2019 .
  8. ^ Forum: Austria-Hungary in the First World War. Archived from the original on April 13, 2017 ; Retrieved April 10, 2017 .
  9. ^ Advisory group of the Foundation Flight, Reconciliation, Expulsion. Retrieved April 12, 2017 .
  10. ↑ Studia nad Totalitaryzmami i Wiekiem XX | Totalitarian and 20th Century Studies. In: Instytut Pileckiego. Retrieved March 5, 2019 (pl-PL).
  11. ↑ homepage Przegląd Zachodni. Retrieved March 5, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Reviewed by Klaus Hillenbrand in the taz on July 15, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Lehnstaedt, Stephan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and professor of Holocaust studies and Jewish studies
DATE OF BIRTH 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich