Ulrich Schneider (historian)

Ulrich Schneider as a speaker at an Antifa demo (2012)

Ulrich Schneider (* 1954 in Bremen ) is a German historian , federal spokesman for the VVN-BdA and general secretary of the International Federation of Resistance Fighters (FIR)

Life

After earning his university , he studied German, history and social studies in Marburg / Lahn and his doctorate there as a historian Doctor of Philosophy with Scripture The Confessing Church between "joyful yes" and antifascist resistance . After working for a long time at the University of Kassel , from 2003 he worked as a German and history teacher at the vocational high school in Bebra, where he was a member of the school management. There he headed the department of the vocational high school from 2008 until his retirement in summer 2019.

Since 1975 Schneider has published on the topics of anti-fascist resistance , regional contemporary history and the history of the Buchenwald concentration camp . He is the author of numerous books and magazines with a focus on the history of the anti-fascist resistance, dealing with historical revisionism and anti-fascism today.

Since 1975 he has been a member of the Association of Those Persecuted by the Nazi Regime - Association of Antifascists (VVN-BdA), since 1991 he has been a member of the board of directors and one of the federal spokesmen. Since 2020 he has been working in the editorial team of "ANTIFA" magazine. He is also the managing director of the Buchenwald - Dora / Freundeskreis eV camp community and editor of the anti-fascist magazine Glocke vom Ettersberg .

Since 1991 he has been the representative of the VVN-BdA in the International Federation of Resistance Fighters (FIR) and since 2003 General Secretary of the FIR. In this role he is responsible for the implementation of the FIR congresses in Berlin (2005), Athens (2007), Berlin (2010), Vienna (2011), Sofia (2013), Prague (2016) and Reggio Emilia (2019) as well of the conferences at the European Parliament in 2006 and 2007. Schneider is the FIR coordinator for the international youth meetings in Buchenwald in 2008, Auschwitz in 2012, 2015 and 2021.

Publications

• When the war was over, Hesse 1933. Röderberg-Verlag, Frankfurt 1980
• Marburg 1933–1945, labor movement and Confessing Church against fascism. Röderberg-Verlag, Frankfurt 1980
• Hesse 50 years ago, 1933: Nazi terror and anti-fascist resistance between Kassel and Bergstrasse, 1932/33. Röderberg-Verlag, Frankfurt 1983
• The Confessing Church between “joyful yes” and anti-fascist resistance. Brothers Grimm Publishing House, Kassel 1986
• Buchenwald concentration camp human experiments, a documentary report. NMG Buchenwald, Weimar 1986
• IG Farben, Department Behringwerke Marburg - Buchenwald Concentration Camp - Human experiments. Brothers Grimm Publishing House, Kassel 1986
• Still say yes to life (biography Willy Walberg). VVN, Association of Antifascists, District Association Kassel, Kassel 1990
• Neo-fascism in today's FRG. State committee of the VVN / BdA Hessen, Frankfurt / Main 1993, 1st and 2nd, ext. and updated ed.
• Margret (biography Margret Walberg). VVN - Association of Antifascists, District Association Kassel, 1994
• History Revisionism Today. VVN / BdA Hessen, Frankfurt am Main 1994
• Auschwitz - a process History, questions, effects. PapyRossa, Cologne 1994
• Between completion and redesign (to the Buchenwald Memorial). Ed. VVN-BdA, Hanover [1996]
• Antifascism draft for the future: 50 years of work by the VVN for “a new world of peace and freedom”. Pahl-Rugenstein, Bonn 1997
• Commemoration on January 27th. VVN - Association of Antifascists, Hanover 1999
• Christians against fascism and war - decision for life and solidarity. VVN-BdA, Hanover 1999
• Antifascist and trade unionist - Willy Schmidt a political biography. Pahl-Rugenstein, Bonn 2001
• Do something! Strategies Against Right. PapyRossa-Verlag, Cologne 2007
• Peter Gingold, Paris - Boulevard St. Martin No.11, a Jewish anti-fascist and communist in the Resistance and the Federal Republic. PapyRossa-Verlag, Cologne 2009 (publisher; published in French translation in 2013 under the title Jamais résignés! )
• Federation Internationale des Resistants (FIR) - Association Antifasciste 1951–2011. FIR, Berlin 2011
• “Where you burn books, you end up burning people too” - documents and materials on book burning. Published by VVN-BdA Hessen, Frankfurt / M. 2013
• Heinrich Vogeler / Johannes R. Becher, The Third Reich, annotated reprint edition from 1934. Self-published, Kassel 2013
• Anti-fascism. Series: Basiswissen, PapyRossa-Verlag, Cologne 2014
• The Potsdam Agreement: Basis for a peaceful and anti-fascist post-war development. Published by VVN-BdA Federal Organization, Berlin 2015
• 70 years of VVN: Resist - then - today - tomorrow. Published by VVN-BdA Federal Organization, Berlin 2017
• Resistance . Basic knowledge series, PapyRossa-Verlag Cologne 2019
• Michel Vanderborght Award 2019 . (Event documentation), FIR Berlin 2019
• Auschwitz . Basic knowledge series PapyRossa-Verlag Cologne 2020
• We do not forget! The other Buchenwald commemoration 2020 , ed. Lagerarbeitsgemeinschaft Buchenwald-Dora eV / Lagergemeinschaft Buchenwald-Dora / Freundeskreis eV, Frankfurt / M. 2020

Publications together with other authors or editors:

• Antifascism using the example of a life - biography Cilly Schäfer (together with Gabriel B. Moeller). Association d. Persecuted d. Nazi regime, Bund d. Antifascists, Marburg / Biedenkopf 1979
• Buchenwald, a concentration camp: reports-pictures-documents (together with Emil Carlebach and Willy Schmidt). Pahl-Rugenstein, Bonn 2000
• Organized resistance in Buchenwald concentration camp (together with Horst Gobrecht). Buchenwald-Dora camp community / Freundeskreis, Frankfurt 2005
• Resistance - for a lifetime! (together with Horst Gobrecht). Buchenwald-Dora camp community / Freundeskreis, Frankfurt 2006
• Antifascism in Europe (together with Michel Vanderborght). Pahl-Rugenstein-Verlag, Bonn 2007
• Map of the camps and other Nazi detention centers (together with Jean Cardoen). Institute des Veterans, Brussels 2011
• “… Made a modest contribution” - Alfred Schellenberger - anti-fascist resistance and letters from the Lichtenburg and Buchenwald concentration camps (together with Horst Gobrecht). GNN-Verlag, Schkeuditz 2011
• Emil Carlebach - resistance fighter and former inmate of the Buchenwald concentration camp. Documentation for the 100th birthday (together with Christoph Leclaire). Edited by the Buchenwald-Dora / Freundeskreis camp community, Bonn 2014
• Days of Liberation 1945: Kassel - Tiger City - Rubble City, Dreams of a New Era (together with Helge von Horn). Edited by DGB Nordhessen, Kasseler Friedensforum, VHS Kassel, VVN-BdA Kassel, Kassel 2015
• Antifascism as a challenge and orientation for Christians: yesterday - today - tomorrow (together with Tobias Jachmann). Published by VVN-BdA Federal Organization, Berlin 2015
• Anti-fascist resistance in Europe 1922–1945 (together with Jean Cardoen). PapyRossa-Verlag, Cologne 2015
• Hans Gasparitsch - resistance fighter and former inmate of the Dachau and Buchenwald concentration camps. Documentation for the 100th birthday (together with Christoph Leclaire). Published by the Buchenwald-Dora / Freundeskreis camp community, Bochum 2018

Web links

• Literature by and about Ulrich Schneider in the catalog of the German National Library
• Speakers: Dr. Ulrich Schneider. Objection! Historical- political conference of the VVN-BdA 2010. In: vvn-bda.de. April 19, 2010, archived from the original on April 18, 2010 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ DNB 129629596
2. ↑ school management. Bebra vocational schools, archived from the original on October 12, 2018 ; accessed on July 4, 2020 . 
3. ↑ FIR Executive Committee. In: fir.at. Retrieved July 4, 2020 .