Susanne Heim

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Susanne Heim (* 1955 ) is a German political scientist and historian with a focus on National Socialism , the Holocaust and international refugee policy .

Career and work

Susanne Heim studied political science , history and literary studies in Hamburg and Berlin from 1974 to 1981 . In 1981 she completed her diploma in political science at the University of Hamburg . As a thesis, the granddaughter of one of the leaders of the Schleswig-Holstein rural people movement , Claus Heim , submitted an investigation with the title The rural people movement in Schleswig-Holstein 1928/29. An analysis of their socio-economic development conditions .

From 1985 to 1989 she worked as a research assistant at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research , where she dealt with the project “Perpetrator Biographies in National Socialism”. In 1991 she did her doctorate at the Otto Suhr Institute of the Free University of Berlin (FU Berlin) on the German occupation in Poland during the Second World War .

From 1991 to 1993 Heim worked as an editor at the genetic ethical information service in Berlin. From 1996 to 1997 she was a Fellow at the International Research Center for Holocaust Studies at the Yad Vashem Memorial in Jerusalem , Israel . In 2002 she completed her habilitation in the Department of Political and Social Science at the Free University of Berlin. In 2002 she was a Charles Revson Fellow for Archival Research for a research stay at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC in the USA . From 1999 to 2005 Heim was involved in the research program History of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society in National Socialism of the Max Planck Society as a research assistant or, since 2004, as head of the research program, her work focused on "East and 'living space" research in Kaiser- Wilhelm Institutes ”.

Since 2005 she has been the project manager of the scientific edition “ The Persecution and Murder of European Jews by National Socialist Germany 1933–1945 ”, whose editorial board currently includes : the Klagenfurt historian Dieter Pohl , the Freiburg historian Ulrich Herbert , and Horst Möller , the former director of the Munich Institute for Contemporary History , as well as the acting director of the IfZ, Andreas Wirsching, and Michael Hollmann, the President of the German Federal Archives . In the 16-volume source edition on the persecution of Jews in Germany during the National Socialist era , private voices are to be documented as well as government and party officials as well as persecuted persons or eyewitnesses. According to press reports, the long-term project is being financed by the German Research Foundation (DFG) with around 250,000  euros per volume, making it currently the DFG's most complex humanities project.

In the winter semester of 2009/10, Heim held a visiting professorship at the University of Vienna . She has been a member of the International Scientific Advisory Board of the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI) since 2010 .

For many years she has lived with Thomas Schmid , a foreign reporter for the Berliner Zeitung .

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • With Ulrich Dillmann: Vanishing Point Caribbean. Jewish emigrants in the Dominican Republic . 1st edition, Ch. Links Verlag , Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-86153-551-5 .
  • Calories, rubber, careers. Plant breeding and agricultural research in Kaiser Wilhelm Institutes from 1933 to 1945 . Volume 5 of: Kaiser Wilhelm Society for the Advancement of Science: History of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society in National Socialism . Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-89244-696-2 .
  • With Götz Aly: thought leader of annihilation. Auschwitz and the German plans for a new European order . Revised edition, Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag , Frankfurt am Main 1993, ISBN 3-596-11268-0 . (Licensed edition by Hoffmann-und-Campe-Verlag, Hamburg 1991); extended new edition Fischer paperback, Frankfurt / Main 2013, ISBN 978-3-596-19510-7 .
    • With Götz Aly: Architects of Annihilation. Auschwitz and the Logic of Destruction . Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London 2002, ISBN 0-297-84278-1 . (English)

Editorships

  • With Carola Sachse, Mark Walker: The Kaiser Wilhelm Society under National Socialism . Cambridge University Press , New York City 2009, ISBN 978-0-521-87906-4 . (English)
  • Autarky and eastward expansion. Plant breeding and agricultural research during National Socialism . Volume 2 of: Kaiser Wilhelm Society for the Advancement of Science: History of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society in National Socialism . Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2002, ISBN 3-89244-496-X .
  • With Ulrike Schaz: calculation and evocation. Overpopulation - Criticism of a Debate . Verlag der Buchladen Schwarze Risse / Rote Strasse, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-924737-33-9 .

Edits

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chair of Modern and Modern History: PD Dr. Susanne Heim. In: herbert.geschichte.uni-freiburg.de. Retrieved on February 27, 2019 (Academic career. Scientific coordination of the research project Edition Jews Persecution (VEJ)).
  2. ^ Bernhard Schulz: Everyday life of disenfranchisement. In: Der Tagesspiegel . January 25, 2008, accessed January 19, 2010 .
  3. ↑ When it comes to your own family, your own company ... In: Frankfurter Rundschau . September 10, 2014, accessed on April 5, 2019 (Susanne Heim in an interview with Arno Widmann ).
personal data
SURNAME Home, Susanne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist and historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1955