Ulrich F. Sacrifice man

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Ulrich Friedrich Opfermann (* 1945 in Krefeld ) is a German historian and author.

Life

Ulrich F. Opfermann is a trained industrial clerk and holds a doctorate in history. He studied economics, history, German studies and education at the University of Cologne and the Siegen University. In the 1970s he was a member of the SPD and joined the Socialist University Association (SHB) . He was the founding senator of the GH Siegen.

He was a board member of the NS Memorial Active Museum South Westphalia in Siegen and as such was active in the working group of NS Memorials in North Rhine-Westphalia. He is a research associate at the Rom e. V. in Cologne and was a board member of the association. He is a member of the Society for Antiziganism Research.

As an author, he is particularly concerned with the history of Roma , Jews and Yeniche as well as with German nationalism and Nazi history. He puts a focus on West Germany.

He worked temporarily as a lecturer at the history seminar of the University of Siegen . The volume he published together with Karola Fings , Gypsies in the Rhineland and Westphalia 1933–1945 , was rated by Gottfried Niedhart as having "remarkable analytical competence and great empathy for the victims".

Publications (selection)

Monographs

  • Nuclear weapons in our vicinity , board of the GEW Siegen - working group peace education, Siegen 1982
  • Home, stranger. “Foreign deployment” in Siegerland, 1939 to 1945. How it came about and what preceded it , Siegen 1991
  • "That they should take off their gypsy habit". The history of the "Gypsy colonies" between Wittgenstein and Westerwald , Lang: Frankfurt am Main 1997, 2nd, additional ed.
  • Siegerland and Wittgenstein under National Socialism: people, dates, literature. A handbook on regional contemporary history , Siegen 2001
  • Don't be a goat monkey, but imperial cornet. Sinti in the 17th and 18th centuries. An investigation based on archival sources , Metropol: Berlin 2007; Review by Stephan Steiner on recensio.net : [3] and by Wolfgang Wippermann on Literaturkritik.de : [4]
  • With clinking windows and yelling. Jews and Volksgemeinschaft , Siegen History Workshop: Siegen 2009

Editorships

  • with Klaus Bücker, Klaus Dietermann and others, Konrad Kaletsch , the Flick Group and the Siegerland. An attempt at a necessary work-up, Siegen 1987, 2nd ed.
  • with Karola Fings (ed.): Gypsy persecution in the Rhineland and Westphalia 1933–1945: History, coming to terms with and remembering . Schöningh: Paderborn 2012 [including numerous own contributions], ISBN 978-3-506-77356-2 [author profile on p. 373], short biography and reviews of works by Ulrich F. Opfermann at perlentaucher.de ; English Historical Review , September 5, 2013, 128 (534), pp. 1.300-1.302: [5] ; Frankfurter Rundschau , September 8, 2012: [6]
  • with Bernd D. Plaum and Kurt Schilde , life, work and mentality in Siegerland. Summary of available findings , Siegen 2007

Book / magazine articles

  • “Gypsies” under interrogation at Marienthal in 1696. On the situation of the “Gypsies” in the county of Sayn-Hachenburg , in: Nassauische Annalen , Vol. 107, 1996, pp. 111–117
  • The “Mäckes” - On the history and change in meaning of a vicious word , in: Nassauische Annalen, Vol. 109, 1998, pp. 363–386
  • Relicts of the Manic and the Yenish in Wittgenstein and in the Siegerland , in: Klaus Siewert (Ed.), Aspects and Results of Special Language Research . II. International Symposium May 28 to 31, 1997 in Brussels (Special Language Research, Vol. 4), Wiesbaden 1999, pp. 111-134
  • Gypsy persecution, expropriation, redistribution. The example of the Wittgenstein district town of Berleburg , in: Alfons Kenkmann / Bernd-A. Rusinek (Ed.), Persecution and Administration. The economic plunder of the Jews and the Westphalian tax authorities, Münster 1999, pp. 67–86
  • The registration of Gypsies in National Socialism. Responsibility in a German region , in: Romani Studies (continuing Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society), 5th Series, Vol. 11, No. 1 (2001), pp. 25-52
  • with Kurt Schilde : "Dynamite in Siegerland". The trial against Siegerland communists before the Reichsgericht 1925 , in: Siegener contributions. Yearbook for Regional History , 7 (2002), pp. 69-104
  • From the files of an inquisition trial in the county of Wittgenstein-Hohenstein. About poverty delinquency and Yenish life in the first half of the 18th century. In: Johannes Burkhardt , Ulf Lückel (Ed.): Essays on the history and natural history of Wittgenstein. Eberhard Bauer on his 75th birthday. Kreuztal 2004, pp. 197-233.
  • On the situation of the "Gypsies" in the territorial states between Main, Lahn and Sieg in the first half of the 18th century. Three cases in comparison , in: “Theft in view”? To criminalize the "gypsies" . Published on behalf of the Society for Antiziganism Research e. V. by Udo Engbring-Romang and Wilhelm Solms (= contributions to research on antiziganism, vol. 2), Seeheim 2005, pp. 64–115
  • “There can be no consideration here.” Expropriation and deportation using the example of a small-town family , in: Arbeitskreis der NS-Gedenkstätten (Ed.), Violence in the Region. The November pogrom in Rhineland and Westphalia , Düsseldorf / Münster / Wuppertal 2008, pp. 92–97
  • "Extermination" and "Pardon". Norm setting and legal practice against Sinti in Westphalia in the 18th century , in: Rheinisch-Westfälische Zeitschrift für Volkskunde , Vol. 54 (2009), pp. 63–88
  • Berleburg under National Socialism , in: Rikarde Riedesel, Johannes Burkardt, Ulf Lückel (eds.), Bad Berleburg - Die Stadtgeschichte , Bad Berleburg 2009, pp. 215–246
  • The Yeniche and other travelers. A minority justifies itself in: Yearbook for Antisemitism Research, 19 (2010), pp. 126–150
  • "Gypsies" in the Rhineland and Westphalia. An overview from the first documents up to the 19th century , in: Karola Fings, Ulrich Friedrich Opfermann (Ed.), Gypsy persecution in the Rhineland and in Westphalia. 1933-1945. History, processing and memory , Paderborn 2012, pp. 23–36
  • Prussia - Empire - Weimar. Upheavals and continuities , in: Karola Fings, Ulrich Friedrich Opfermann (ed.), Gypsy persecution in the Rhineland and in Westphalia. 1933-1945. History, processing and memory , Paderborn 2012, pp. 37–52
  • Genocide and Justice. Closing line as “state political objective” , in: Karola Fings, Ulrich Friedrich Opfermann (ed.), Gypsy persecution in the Rhineland and Westphalia. 1933-1945. History, processing and memory, Paderborn 2012, pp. 315–326
  • Paula Fechenbach and Robert Jagusch. Jewish life stories in the 20th century , in: Siegener contributions. Yearbook for Regional History, 17 (2012), pp. 223–246
  • "Gypsies" on the home stage. A Sauerland successful author and her main work , in: Christine Koch -Mundartarchiv in cooperation with the Kreisheimatbund Olpe (ed.), Josefa Berens-Totenohl (1891–1969). Successful National Socialist author from the Sauerland. Research contributions by Peter Bürger , Reinhard Kiefer , Monika Löcken, Ortrun Niethammer, Ulrich Friedrich Opfermann and Friedrich Schroeder, Eslohe 2014, pp. 69–84
  • "Gypsies": Fiction and Reality in a West German Region. A contribution to the history of minorities on the Lower Rhine in the 19th and 20th centuries , in: Die Heimat. Krefelder Jahrbuch, 85 (2014), pp. 50–63
  • "Long drawn out and pored to Germany". On the early modern history of the Sinti in Central Europe , in: Oliver von Mengersen (Ed.), Sinti und Roma. A German minority between discrimination and emancipation (published by the Federal Center for Political Education and the Bavarian State Center for Political Education ), Bonn and Munich 2015, pp. 25–47
  • Weimar: "Race studies provide information" , in: Oliver von Mengersen (Ed.), Sinti and Roma. A German minority between discrimination and emancipation (published by the Federal Center for Civic Education and the Bavarian State Center for Civic Education), Bonn and Munich 2015, pp. 71–85
  • About ants and crickets. On continuities in recent and recent German gypsy research , in: Thomas Baumann, Jacques Delfeld jr. ua, antiziganism. Social and historical dimensions of "Gypsy" stereotypes (published by the Documentation and Cultural Center of German Sinti and Roma ), Heidelberg 2015, pp. 200–222, also as an online version: [7]
  • On the situation of the Roma in Germany from the founding of the Reich 1871 to 1933 , in: Winfried Nerdinger (Ed.), The persecution of the Sinti and Roma in Munich and Bavaria 1933–1945. Publication for the exhibition at the NS Documentation Center Munich, Berlin 2016, pp. 56–70
  • with Klaus Dietermann, The Jews in the Principality of Siegen , in: Historical Handbook of the Jewish Communities in Westphalia and Lippe . The localities and territories in today's administrative district Arnsberg. Edited by Frank Göttmann , editors Wilfried Reininghaus , Burkhard Beyer and Rita Schlautmann-Overmeyer, (Publications of the Historical Commission for Westphalia. New Volume 12), Münster 2016, pp. 99-104
  • with Klaus Dietermann, Siegen , in: Historical manual of the Jewish communities in Westphalia and Lippe. The localities and territories in today's administrative district Arnsberg. Edited by Frank Göttmann, editors Wilfried Reininghaus, Burkhard Beyer and Rita Schlautmann-Overmeyer (publications by the Historical Commission for Westphalia. New Volume 12), Münster 2016, pp. 731–742
  • Remnants of the Romanes and Yeniche in Wittgenstein and in Siegerland , in: Klaus Siewert (Ed.), Secret languages ​​in Westphalia, Vol. 3, Hamburg / Münster 2017, pp. 221-254
  • Anmärkningar rörande sintier ,military och migration i den tidiga moderna historiens Mellan- och Nordeuropa , in: Drabbrikan, No. 8, June 2018, pp. 10–18, see: [8]
  • "Traveling people". Internal migration in and out of the Alemannic area in the 19th and 20th centuries , in: Juliane Geike / Andreas Haasis-Berner (ed.), Menschen in Bewegungs (Lebenswelten im rural area. Historical explorations in central and southern Baden, vol. 4) , Heidelberg et al. 2019, pp. 189–235
  • "... one of the offenders' children, as Heyden is called, but Xsten are". On the Christianity of the Sinti minority according to early modern sources , in: ZfG , 67 (2019), no. 2, pp. 101–117
  • Sinti in early modern military and police service. Sources and tradition formation , in: Early Modern Info, ed. from the Institute for Research in the Early Modern Age, Vienna, 30 (2019), pp. 56–78

Online publications, etc.

  • When the street calls , ZDF television production [on the situation of the Yeniche in southwest Germany], directors: Maike Conway , Matti Bauer, subject expertise Christof Baudrexel, Ulrich Opfermann, Germany 2001
  • Ed., Regional Personal Lexicon on National Socialism in the old districts of Siegen and Wittgenstein , Siegen 2014, [9]
  • Mitbearb., Active memorial book for the victims of National Socialism in the Siegen-Wittgenstein district , Siegen 2015, [10]
  • Ed., Directory of the archival material relating to the Düsseldorf administrative district on the history of the Sinti and other Roma groups , 2018, [11]
  • Editing, contradiction and resistance. Opposition to National Socialism in the old districts of Siegen and Wittgenstein , Siegen 2018, [12]

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information in the intro and further personal information see LCCN entry.
  2. ^ Kurt Schilde , personal glossary, in: The foundation and the founders. A look back at the beginnings of the University of Siegen 1972–1980, Siegen 2012, pp. 215–250, here: p. 237; see. also: Interview with Dr. Ulrich Opfermann, in: ibid., Pp. 137–145.
  3. ^ [1] Page of the mobile advice against right-wing extremism in the Cologne district.
  4. ↑ pearl divers .
  5. ^ Westfälische Rundschau , January 22, 2009: [2] .
personal data
SURNAME Sacrifice man, Ulrich F.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sacrifice man, Ulrich Friedrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Krefeld