Ulrich Walluhn

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Ulrich Walluhn (born February 2, 1959 in Erfurt ) is a German author whose writings deal with topics relating to the railway sector. In political terms, Walluhn became known for his collaboration with the NPD .

Life

According to his own account, Walluhn studied after attending the extended secondary school and doing military service with the National People's Army from 1980 at the Technical University of Ilmenau and the University of Transport in Dresden , but without attaining an academic degree. He then worked at the Deutsche Reichsbahn, initially as an unskilled unskilled laborer and later as an IT technician.

Walluhn has been a writer since the 1990s. He claims that his writings on the history of the railways are based primarily on archival material, such as documents from the Sovetskaya Vojennaja Administrazija Transporta (SWAT), the Soviet military transport administration. His last book so far, which is devoted to locomotives and railcars in the area of ​​the Soviet occupation zone in Germany , was published in 2004. It was positively discussed by the specialist press and described by the magazine Drehscheibe as a “valuable asset”. A tracing plan of the Polish State Railways (PKP) comes from Walluhn's own archive , which is said to date from 1928 and presented the Walluhn to the professional world in the 1980s, who initially expected important findings from it. However, after Eastern European archives became accessible after 1990, doubts arose about the plan. According to the current state of knowledge, this is not considered to be authentic. The Austrian engineer and author Reimar Holzinger describes it as a "totally dubious work" and also questions the authenticity of other documents from Walluhn's archive.

Walluhn lives in the Erfurt settlement of Wiesenhügel .

Political commitment

Walluhn was a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) from 1985 to 1989 . His activity as chairman of an Erfurt local political initiative that worked closely with the right-wing extremist National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD) in 2007 and 2008 before the upcoming Thuringian local elections caused a stir .

Publications (selection)

  • 94 1292 and her Engelsdorf sisters. The mileage of the museum locomotive corresponds to 30 times around the world. In: Lokmagazin 1/1996, pp. 6-8 (as GE Walluhn).
  • Locomotive pictures and their stories. Photos from the steam locomotive era. In: Lokmagazin 1/1996, pp. 17–19.
  • The express train locomotive Magdeburg 483 of the former Braunschweigische Staatsbahn. In: DGEG-Nachrichten 156 (2000), pp. 18-20.
  • 94 1292 and her Engelsdorf siblings. In: Lokrundschau, Issue 187 (2000), pp. 70-72 and Issue 189 (2000), pp. 60-65.
  • Chronicle 2001. What happened 150, 100, 50 years ago. In: DGEG-Nachrichten 164 (2001), pp. 18-28.
  • The 95028 DGEG eV and their 44 siblings. German Society for Railway History eV, Werl 2001, ISBN 3-921700-92-2 .
  • Series 95. Transpress Verlag, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-613-71198-2 .
  • Series 03.10. Transpress Verlag, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-613-71241-5 .
  • Locomotives and railcars in the Soviet Zone / GDR 1945–1950. Transpress Verlag, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-613-71231-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ulrich Walluhn: Chronicle 2001. What happened 150, 100, 50 years ago. In: DGEG-Nachrichten 164 (2001), pp. 18–28, especially p. 22.
  2. ↑ See reviews of the book mentioned at buecher.de (accessed on March 16, 2015).
  3. ^ Reimar Holzinger: The handover of locomotives of the Austro-Hungarian railways to the newly founded PKP in the years 1920-1924. In: Josef Pospichal: Lokstatistik (pospichal.net; accessed on 27 March 2015).
  4. ↑ Thilo Schmidt: The nice neighbor from next door. How the NPD is preparing for the Thuringian local elections. In: Deutschlandfunk, contribution from May 12, 2008 (accessed on March 26, 2015).
  5. ↑ Frank Karmeyer: Citizens' Council disqualified - right-wing extremists infiltrated. In: Thüringer Landeszeitung, September 14, 2007.
  6. ↑ Citizens' Council relies on right-wing extremists. In: Thüringer Allgemeine, September 14, 2007.
  7. ↑ Brown free riders in social protests. In: Neues Deutschland, September 27, 2007.
personal data
SURNAME Walluhn, Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author and political activist
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd February 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Erfurt