Ulrich Sander (journalist)

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Ulrich Sander (born March 11, 1941 in Hamburg ) is a German journalist , book author and, since 2005, federal spokesman for the Association of Those Persecuted by the Nazi Regime - Association of Antifascists (VVN-BdA).

Life

Ulrich Sander was born in Hamburg on March 11, 1941. His parents were Gerda Sander, b. Hübner, kitchen assistant, and Willi Sander (painter, tram driver, administrative clerk).

From 1947 to 1950 he attended school on Bullenhuser Damm in Rothenburgsort in Hamburg. This school was previously a concentration camp and place of execution. After graduating from secondary school, he began training as a publishing clerk at the Hamburger Echo . Then in 1962 he switched to the sales department for the specific magazine . After working as a publisher, he worked as a journalist from 1963. From 1963 to 1967 he worked as an editor for the JW youth information service in Wiesbaden. He has lived in Dortmund since 1968. From 1968 to 1972 he was editor-in-chief of the youth magazine elan in Dortmund. From 1978 to 1990 Sander was editor and deputy editor-in-chief of the DKP party organ Our Time in Düsseldorf .

From 1998 to 1999 Sander was an editor at the press office against racism in Cologne , from 2000 to 2001 research assistant for the statistical processing of Nazi forced labor at the Heimatverein Lüdenscheid and from 1993 to 2005 honorary state manager of the VVN-BdA NRW.

After 1990 he worked as a freelancer for New Germany for many years . He is a permanent employee of the Weltbühnen successor magazine Ossietzky .

He has been a pensioner since January 2005.

Sander is married with two sons and three grandchildren.

Political life

Sander co-founded the anti-fascist Geschwister-Scholl-Jugend in Hamburg in 1958 , and in 1960 co-organized the first German Easter March .

In December 1961, Sander became a member of the KPD , which had been banned since 1956 , in 1968 he was a co-founder of the SDAJ , and from 1968 also a member of the DKP . Today also a member of the party “ Die Linke ”.

In 1959 he became a member of the United Working Group of the Nazi Persecuted Hamburg, 1977 a member of the VVN-BdA. In 1988 Sander co-founded the initiative group for the rehabilitation of the victims of the Cold War. He is the spokesman for the VVN-BdA initiative “Crimes of the Economy” (to identify and expose the activities of the economic elites during the Nazi era). He researches the Nazi crimes in the end of the war (death marches, massacres in the German Reich, etc.) and publishes about them.

From 2005 to 2012 he was state spokesman for the VVN-BdA in North Rhine-Westphalia.

Since 2005, Sander has been the federal spokesman for the Association of Those Persecuted by the Nazi Regime - Association of Antifascists . Sander defends himself journalistically and legally against being mentioned in reports by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution in this function, for example in Bavaria 2017.

Works (selection)

  • Axel Springer as an educator for young people. Survey, report and documentation about the concentration of the youth press and the situation in the field of youth magazines. Sander, Wiesbaden 1967.
  • Youth and class struggle - or anti-capitalist youth work today (together with Wilhelm Schwettmann), Weltkreisverlag, Dortmund 1972
  • For truth and justice. Helmuth Hubener. Series Christ in the world , No. 59. Union Verlag Berlin , East Berlin 1985th
  • Murder in Rombergpark. Factual report. Grafit Verlag , Dortmund 1993, ISBN 978-3-89425-900-6 .
  • SchwarzBrounbuch. The alternative constitution protection report (together with Anne Rieger). Pahl-Rugenstein Verlag , Bonn 1995, ISBN 978-3-89144-211-1 .
  • Scenes of a closeness. After the big right in the Bundeswehr. Pahl-Rugenstein Verlag, Bonn 1998, ISBN 978-3-89144-258-6 .
  • Against a new kind of Auschwitz lie. Response to the open letter to the ministers Scharping and Fischer (ed. With Peter Gingold ). Self-published, Frankfurt am Main 1999 ( online ).
  • The Bundeswehr in action / the third campaign against Serbia (published by the Association of the Persecuted of the Nazi Regime - Association of Antifascists ). Berlin 1999.
  • Youth resistance in war. The Helmuth Hubener Group in 1941/42. Pahl-Rugenstein Verlag, Bonn 2002, ISBN 978-3-89144-336-1 .
  • Acquittal on his own behalf. In: Ralph Klein, Regina Mentner, Stephan Stracke (eds.): Murderer under the edelweiss. Documentation of the hearing on the war crimes of the mountain troops. Papyrossa Verlag , Cologne 2004, ISBN 978-3-89438-295-7 .
  • The power in the background. Military and politics in Germany from Seeckt to Struck. Papyrossa Verlag, Cologne 2004, ISBN 978-3-89438-287-2 .
  • Murderous finale. Nazi crimes at the end of the war (edited by the International Romberg Park Committee). Papyrossa Verlag, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-89438-388-6 .
  • From aryanization to forced labor. Crimes of the economy on the Rhine and Ruhr 1933-1945. Papyrossa Verlag, Cologne 2012, ISBN 978-3-89438-489-0 .
  • Ivan came to Lüdenscheid. Protocol of research on forced labor. Papyrossa Verlag, Cologne 2015, ISBN 978-3-89438-582-8 .
  • It didn't start with the Borussia front. A short history of the lasting Nazi influence in post-war Dortmund (published by the Association of Those Persecuted by the Nazi Regime - Association of Antifascists). Dortmund 2015 ( online ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of authors http://www.ossietzky.net/archiv
  2. ↑ Rally “Searching for Clues in the Economy 1933-1945”. Retrieved September 12, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Remembrance of Nazi mass crimes in the end of the war. Retrieved September 12, 2018 .
  4. ↑ End-of- war crimes see Completely clear up the end-of- war crimes. Retrieved September 12, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior and for Integration: Report on the Protection of the Constitution 2017 . Ed .: Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior and for Integration. S. 223 ( online [PDF]).
  6. ↑ Ulrich Sander: Four alleged enemies of the constitution - 8/2018 - Ossietzky - two-week publication for politics / culture / economy. Retrieved June 12, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Sander, Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and book author
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg