Thomas Rahe

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Thomas Rahe, 2012
Thomas Rahe (fifth from left) during a VEHN eV general meeting with Rainer Hoffschildt

Thomas Rahe (born March 6, 1957 in Münster ) is a German historian and author , editor and academic and deputy director of the Bergen-Belsen memorial .

Life

Thomas Rahe received his doctorate in 1987 from the University of Münster with a dissertation on early Zionism and Judaism . Investigation of the program and historical context of early Zionism up to 1897 .

Since 1986 Thomas Rahe has published numerous works “on the Jewish history of the 19th and 20th centuries and on the history of National Socialist persecution ”.

Publications (incomplete)

  • Michael Bochow, Andreas Pretzel (ed.): I wanted it to be as normal as others. Walter Guttmann tells his life. with an afterword by Thomas Rahe. (= Edition Waldschlösschen. Volume 10). Männerschwarm-Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86300-102-5 .
  • Gerda Steinfeld (translator), Arieh Koretz: Bergen-Belsen. Diary of a youth. July 11, 1944 - March 30, 1945. with comments by Thomas Rahe. Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-8353-0899-2 .
  • The Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. A look back 65 years after the liberation. In: grandstand. Journal for the Understanding of Judaism. Issue 195, 2010, pp. 121–128.
  • Distance and ideal. Istvan Irsai's drawings from the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. In: Contributions to the history of the National Socialist persecution in Northern Germany. 11, 2009, pp. 94-103.
  • with Katja Seybold: “Professional Criminals”, “People in Preventive Detention” and “Asocial People” in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. In: Contributions to the history of the National Socialist persecution in Northern Germany. 11, 2009, pp. 160-169.
  • Bergen-Belsen Main Camp. In: Geoffrey P. Megargee (ed.): The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum , Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos 1933–1945. Vol. I: Early Camps, Youth Camps, and Concentration Camps and Subcamps under the SS-Business Administration Main Office (WVHA). Indiana University Press, Bloomington 2009, pp. 278-281.
  • Bergen-Belsen main camp. In: Wolfgang Benz , Barbara Distel (eds.): The place of terror . History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps. Volume 7: Niederhagen / Wewelsburg, Lublin-Majdanek, Arbeitsdorf, Herzogenbusch (Vught), Bergen-Belsen, Mittelbau-Dora. CH Beck, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-52967-2 , p. 212.
  • The museum and media presentation of the National Socialist history of persecution in the Bergen-Belsen memorial. In: Contributions to the history of the National Socialist persecution in Northern Germany. 6, 2001, pp. 82-96.
  • "Hoor, Israe͏̈l": Joodse religositeit in national-socialist concentration camps. Vertaling Francis Hijszeler, ten Have, Baarn 2001, ISBN 90-259-5217-8 .
  • “Hear Israel”. Jewish religiosity in National Socialist concentration camps. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1999, ISBN 3-525-01378-7 ( limited preview in the Google book search)
  • with George L. Mosse , Claudia Schoppmann , Katharina Kaiser, Klaus Müller, Frank Wagner and Rainer Hoffschildt : Project to record the names of homosexuals persecuted in the Nazi regime. In: To commemorate the homosexual victims of National Socialism. Heinrich Böll Foundation eV, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-927760-36-6 , pp. 105–111.
  • with Rainer Hoffschildt: Homosexual prisoners in the concentration camp - the example of Bergen-Belsen . In: Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial (ed.): Persecution of homosexuals under National Socialism. Contributions to the history of the National Socialist persecution in Northern Germany. Edition Temmen, Bremen 1999, ISBN 3-86108-738-3 , pp. 48-61.
  • Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Reports and documents. Selected and commented on by Rolf Keller, Wolfgang Marienfeld, Herbert Obenaus , Thomas Rahe, Hans-Dieter Schmid, Wilhelm Sommer, Wilfried Wiedemann. Göttingen 1995, ISBN 3-525-35488-6 .
  • with Monika Gödecke (Red.): Inmate drawings from the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. ed. by the Lower Saxony State Agency for Political Education, a special exhibition by the Lower Saxony State Agency for Political Education , Bergen-Belsen Memorial, Hanover 1993.
  • Early Zionism and Judaism. Investigation of the program and historical context of early Zionism up to 1897. Dissertation . Lang Verlag, Frankfurt am Main / Bern / New York / Paris 1988, ISBN 3-8204-1038-4 .
  • Leopold Zunz and the science of Judaism. In: Judaica. Contributions to the understanding of Judaism. 42/3, 1986, pp. 188-199.
  • Thomas Rahe, Rainer Hoffschildt : Homosexuals in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp , 1st edition, Celle: Lower Saxony Memorials Foundation, 2019, ISBN 978-3-946991-08-3 and ISBN 3-946991-08-4

Web links

Commons : Thomas Rahe  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Vademecum of the historical sciences. Steiner, Stuttgart 2000, p. 521.
  2. ^ GBB - research and documentation
  3. ^ Title of the dissertation
personal data
SURNAME Rahe, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian, scientific director of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp memorial
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Muenster