Thomas Casagrande

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Thomas Casagrande (* 1956 ) is a German political scientist and author. He is an external employee at the Sociology Department of the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main and currently works as a teacher in Frankfurt.

Casagrande studied ethnology from 1978 to 1979 , then sports and then English and sports for teaching at the University of Frankfurt am Main. In 1991 he passed the second state examination. He obtained his doctorate in 2002 with a thesis on the SS division "Prinz Eugen" . In the same year he became deputy director of the schools of the German book trade .

His father, Otto Casagrande (1919–1990), was a political activist of the illegal German Hitler Youth in South Tyrol and SS-Untersturmführer in the 2nd SS division "Das Reich" during the Second World War . After his death, Thomas Casagrande dealt intensively with ethnic Germans in the Waffen SS and wrote several books about them.

Publications

  • The Volksdeutsche SS-Division "Prinz Eugen". The Banat Swabians and the National Socialist war crimes. Campus , Frankfurt 2003 ISBN 3-593-37234-7
  • "Our opponents got to know us as Germans". The 7th SS Volunteer Mountain Division "Prinz Eugen" - an ethnic German fighting formation as a National Socialist instrument of rule . In: The Waffen-SS. New research . Jan-Eric Schulte, Peter Lieb, Bernd Werner (Eds.), Schöningh Verlag , 2014
  • "Mio padre, Otto Casagrande" . In: Era un giorno di fine aprile ... Commemorative publication on the 70th anniversary of the liberation from German occupation, Comune Rodengo Saiano (ed.), 2015
  • South Tyroleans in the Waffen-SS: Exemplary attitude, fanatical conviction , Raetia Verlag, Bozen 2015
  • The "Volksdeutsche": A case study from South Eastern Europe (together with Michal Schvarc, Norbert Spannenberger, and Otmar Trasca). In: The Waffen-SS: A European History , Jochen Boehler and Robert Gerwarth (eds.), Oxford University Press, 2016
  • The Volksdeutsche SS Division 'Prinz Eugen' and the National Socialist counterinsurgency in Yugoslavia 1941–1944 . In: On the disappearance of the German-speaking minorities. A difficult chapter in the history of Yugoslavia 1941–1955 . Flight and Expulsion Foundation (ed.); Danube Swabian Central Museum , 2016

Web links

  • Homepage at the University of Frankfurt

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Goethe University: Dr. Thomas Casagrande. Retrieved March 22, 2018 .
  2. ↑ From the German School of Booksellers to mediacampus frankfurt. 1946 to 2012. A chronicle. Retrieved March 22, 2018 (2.4 MB).
  3. ↑ a b Thomas Casagrande: South Tyroleans in the Waffen-SS: exemplary attitude, fanatical conviction. Raetia Verlag, Bolzano 2015.
  4. ^ Die Presse: South Tyroleans were disproportionately represented in the Waffen SS. June 2, 2016, accessed March 22, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Casagrande, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1956