Thomas sand cooler

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Thomas Sandkühler (* 1962 in Münster / Westf. ) Is a German historian, university professor and author.

Life

After graduating from high school, Sandkühler completed a teaching degree in history, German and pedagogy at the Universities of Bochum and Freiburg im Breisgau , which he completed in 1988 with the first teaching degree for secondary level I and II. He then worked as a research assistant at Bielefeld University , where he was awarded a doctorate in 1994 with a dissertation on the murder of Jews in Eastern Galicia (1941–1944). phil. PhD . From 1994 to 2002 he was a research assistant at the history and philosophy faculty of Bielefeld University and from 1997 to 1999 he headed the German research team of the Independent Expert Commission Switzerland - Second World War in Bern . In 2002 he was a Miles Lerman Fellow at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum . In 2003 he did his legal clerkship and in 2004 he passed the second teaching degree. He then taught German and history at grammar schools, most recently at the old state school in Korbach . Since August 2009 he has held the chair for history didactics at the Humboldt University in Berlin .

From September 2015 to September 2019, Sandkühler was 1st Chairman of the Conference for History Didactics , the Association of History Didactists of the Federal Republic, as well as the editor of the Zeitschrift für Geschichtsdidaktik and its supplements. Sandkühler is a member of the working committee of the Association of Historians in Germany . He has also been co-editor of the book series Contributions to History Culture founded by Jörn Rüsen since 2017 , and has been managing director since 2019.

Sandkühler is a member of the Scientific Board of Trustees of the Weimar-Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorial Foundation, assessor of the board of the Association for the History of Berlin and, since March 2017, chairman of the scientific advisory board of the German-Russian Museum Berlin-Karlshorst .

Sandkühler is the author of publications on National Socialism and the Holocaust as well as on history theory and history didactics . His current research focuses on the history of West German historical didactics and historical learning in memorials. His biography of Adolf Hitler for young readers was awarded the Emys Non-Fiction Prize in September 2015 and has been translated in China, Japan and Hungary.

In 2016, together with the Association for the History of Berlin, he published a documentary on the Reich Chancellery in which many previously unknown images were shown on over 100 pages.

Fonts (selection)

  • "Final Solution" in Galicia . The murder of Jews in eastern Poland and the rescue initiatives of Berthold Beitz . 1941-1944 . Dietz successor, Bonn 1996, ISBN 3-8012-5022-9 (dissertation Bielefeld 1994, 592 pages with illustrations, table of contents ).
  • with Horst-Walter Blanke, Friedrich Jaeger (Hrsg.): Dimensions of history. History theory, history of science and history culture today (Festschrift Jörn Rüsen on his 60th birthday). Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 1998, ISBN 3-412-03898-9 ( table of contents ).
  • with Benedikt Hauser u. a .: Switzerland and the gold transactions in the Second World War (= publications of the Independent Expert Commission: Switzerland - Second World War , Volume 16). Chronos, Zurich 1998; 2nd, expanded edition 2002, ISBN 3-0340-0616-0 .
  • Switzerland and the German ransom extortion in the occupied Netherlands. Deprivation of property, ransom, exchange 1940–1945 (= publications of the Independent Expert Commission: Switzerland - Second World War, vol. 24). Zurich 2002.
  • (Ed.): European integration. German hegemonic policy towards Western Europe 1920–1960 (= contributions to the history of National Socialism , vol. 18). Wallstein, Göttingen 2002.
  • Think historical learning. Conversations with history didacticians born between 1928–1947. With a documentation for the Historikertag 1976. Wallstein, Göttingen 2014.
  • Adolf H. The life path of a dictator. Hanser, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-446-24635-5 .
  • The Reich Chancellery in Wilhelmstrasse 1871–1945 and Adolf Hitler's “Führer Apartment”: History of a forgotten place . In: Susanne Kähler , Wolfgang Krogel (Ed.): The Bear of Berlin. Yearbook of the Association for the History of Berlin . 65th year, Berlin 2016, pp. 101-138.
  • (Ed.): Rolf Schörken : Learning Democracy. Contributions to history and political didactics (= contributions to history culture , vol. 38). Böhlau, Cologne / Vienna 2017, ISBN 978-3-412-22464-6 .
  • with Charlotte Bühl-Gramer a . a. (Ed.): History Lessons in the 21st Century. A historical didactic location determination (= supplements to the journal for historical didactics, vol. 17). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2018, ISBN 978-3-8471-0891-7 , licensed edition in the publication series of the Federal Agency for Civic Education, Vol. 10294, Federal Agency for Civic Education, Bonn 2019.
  • with Horst-Walter Blanke (Hrsg.): Historicization of history. Jörn Rüsen on his 80th birthday (= contributions to historical culture , vol. 39). Böhlau, Cologne / Vienna 2018, ISBN 978-3-412-50407-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ kgd on https://www.historicum.net
  2. ^ Adolf H. - The life path of a dictator. EMYS award winners September 2015 on http://www.wis-potsdam.de
  3. ↑ Image documentation for download on the website of the Association for the History of Berlin: http://www.diegeschichteberlins.de/
  4. ^ A zombie for the middle school in FAZ from November 25, 2015, p. 10.
personal data
SURNAME Sand cooler, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Muenster