Ulrich Bongertmann

Ulrich Bongertmann at the Göttinger Historikertag 2014

Ulrich Bongertmann (born April 23, 1958 in Haltern ) is a German high school teacher and chairman of the Association of German History Teachers (VGD) from 2012 to 2018 .

After graduating from high school in Kleve, Bongertmann studied history, Latin and philosophy in Münster from 1979 to 1985 . Then he became a teacher in Osnabrück and Hildesheim . In 1993 he went as a specialist manager of History and Latin at the study seminar Rostock and taught at the Great City School Rostock . At the same time, he is also the subject librarian for history and Latin at the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Ministry of Education with responsibility for the framework plans and teacher training . From 2012 to 2018 he was the federal chairman of the Association of History Teachers in Germany.

Bongertmann published practical and historical didactic contributions mainly on German post-war history. In it, following Christoph Kleßmann , he spoke out in favor of integrative German-German parallel history in the classroom. Bongertmann is textbook author for history books ( Epochs and Structures , That Were Times ) and editor of the magazine geschichte für heute . In 2017 and 2018, he repeatedly rejected false claims by AfD politicians that the Holocaust was an inappropriately large part of current history lessons.

Fonts

• Mithrsg .: Vita Bernwardi: the life of Bishop Bernward von Hildesheim , Hildesheim 1993
• Godesberg's eye of the needle. The SPD am Scheideweg , Praxis Geschichte, volume 6, vol. 10 (1996), pp. 38-43
• (Moderator): Learn, work, win: Die Ära Ulbricht , Praxis Geschichte, Volume 5, Vol. 11 (1997)
• (Moderator): BR-D-DR: eighties , practice history, 3-2000
• Mithrsg .: Ora et labora [electronic resource]: Monastic life in the Middle Ages, Braunschweig 2001 ISBN 3-14-376001-X
• (Moderator): A divided country - a divided life? , Practice History, 3-2005
• Mithrsg .: GDR history in class: textbook analysis , student survey , model curriculum , Metropol, Berlin 2006
• (Moderator): Peaceful Revolution 1989 , Praxis Geschichte, vol. 22 (2009)
• GDR: Myth and Reality: How the SED dictatorship determined the everyday life of GDR citizens , didactic support for the exhibition of the same name / Ulrich Bongertmann, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung , St. Augustin 2011 ISBN 978-3-942775-12-0
• Ed .: 100 Years Association of German History Teachers. Contributions to the anniversary in Marburg (Lahn) on September 28, 2013 , Verlag Nicole Schmenk, Oberhausen 2014 ISBN 978-3-943022-26-1
• Détente policy. The basic contract , in: Praxis Geschichte 5-2013, pp. 14-17
• CVs of “depraved old men”? A WebQuest on biographies of the SED nomenclature , in: Praxis Geschichte 2-2015, pp. 12-17
• Co-author: Guide to legal clerkship in history , Wochenschau, Schwalbach 2017 ISBN 9783734404450
• Beware of illusions and open lessons to new things , in: Christian Kuchler , Andreas Sommer (ed.): Effective history lessons , Schneider Hohengehren 2018, pp. 46–54 ISBN 978-3-8340-1905-9
• (Mithrsg.): Germany and France - History lessons for Europe / France - Allemagne. L'enseignement de l'histoire pour l'Europe The German-French textbook discussions / Les rencontres franco-allemandes sur les manuels scolaires dans le contexte européen , Wochenschau, Frankfurt am Main 2018 ISBN 978-3-7344-0598-3
• Quirky and dangerous things from the "Reich Citizens' Movement ", in: geschichte für heute , 2-2018, pp. 48–53
• " Our" story. History lessons in Germany , a country of integration , in: Die Politische Demokratie , 551 (2018), online
• Education for democracy in schools zdf-heute-nachrichten
• A big task today interview from January 27th, 2020

Web links

• Literature by and about Ulrich Bongertmann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Association of History Teachers in Germany
• Portal of contemporary witnesses: tell stories, remember, discover - schools
• Die Welt 01/19/2017 Höcke's statements absurd
• Interview with news4teachers on June 5, 2018: Gauland and the “bird shit ”: Do the schools practice a “guilt cult” around the Holocaust? History teachers disagree

Single receipts

1. ↑ Ulrich Bongertmann: Gauland and the “Vogelschiss”: Do the schools practice a “guilt cult” around the Holocaust? History teachers disagree. In: news4teachers. June 5, 2018, accessed July 6, 2018 .