Uwe Bahnsen (journalist)

From left: the Hamburg journalists Uwe Bahnsen, Herbert Schütte and Bodo Fischer , members of the Bundestag (SPD)

Uwe Bahnsen (born June 23, 1934 in Hamburg ) is a German journalist , author and translator.

Life

After studying economics and history, he worked for the Hamburger Abendblatt , the North German Radio , as a mirror - editor as well as a book author and translator. He has been working for Die Welt and Welt am Sonntag since 1975 .

Bahnsen wrote many books. One of his more successful works was Die Katakombe , published in 1975 , which deals with Hitler's last days in the bunker under the Reich Chancellery and was interviewed for witnessing the events in the Reich Chancellery bunker in 1945. The book was made into a film in 1981 with Anthony Hopkins in the lead role. Bahnsen's latest book was published in 2015 with the title Hanseaten unter dem Hakenkreuz . It was written on behalf of the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce and deals with the role of merchants during the Nazi era .

Publications (a selection)

with James P. O'Donnell: The Catacomb - The End in the Reich Chancellery. 1975. Reissued as Rowohlt Taschenbuch, Reinbek 2004, ISBN 978-3-499-61696-9 . (filmed as The Bunker . 1981)
The attack - power struggle over the media. Hase and Köhler, Mainz 1985, ISBN 3-7758-1104-4 .
The “Stern” trial - Heidemann and Kujau in court . Hase and Köhler, Mainz 1986, ISBN 3-7758-1114-1 . (About the trial of the fake Hitler diaries )
with Kerstin von Stürmer: The city that should die - The bombing war in 1943 . Convent, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-934613-55-1 .
with Kerstin von Stürmer: The city that wanted to live. Hamburg and the zero hour . Convent 2004, ISBN 3-934613-82-9 .
with Kerstin von Stürmer: The city that rose - Hamburg's development 1948–1960. Convent, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-934613-89-6 .
The Weichmanns in Hamburg, a stroke of luck for Germany . Edited by Herbert and Elsbeth Weichmann Foundation, Christians Verlag, Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-7672-1360-5 . (About the politician couple Elsbeth and Herbert Weichmann .)
with Eckart van Hooven: Report by a contemporary witness from 1925. Knapp, Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3-8314-0750-9 .
Mercury, power and money - a foray into Hamburg's state finances. Ellert & Richter, Hamburg 2006, ISBN 3-8319-0266-6 .
Karl Schiller . Ellert & Richter, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-8319-0325-2 . (Biography of the social democrat Karl Schiller .)
with Kerstin von Stürmer: The history of Hamburg from 1945 until today: rubble, dreams, gateway to the world. Sutton, Erfurt 2012, ISBN 978-3-95400-050-0 .
Hanseatics under the swastika - The Hamburg Chamber of Commerce and the merchants in the Third Reich. Ed. Chamber of Commerce Hamburg, Wachholtz, Kiel a. a. 2015, ISBN 978-3-529-05261-3 . Reviews of the book here, here, and here

Web links

Commons : Uwe Bahnsen - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Literature by and about Uwe Bahnsen in the catalog of the German National Library
Uwe Bahnsen on the Sutton Fiction website

Individual evidence

↑ Jörn Lauterbach: The act must follow the thought. In: The world . June 23, 2009. Retrieved December 17, 2012.
↑ James P. O'Donnell, Uwe Bahnsen: The catacomb - the end in the Reich Chancellery , Deutsche Verlagsanstalt , Stuttgart 1975, ISBN 3-421-01712-3 .
↑ Critical in a collective review of the Chief of the Research Center for Contemporary History in Hamburg Axel Schildt and the director of the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial Detlef Garbe in the period from June 28, 2015 under the title Beautiful story .
↑ Review of the head of the Center for Holocaust Studies at the Institute for Contemporary History Munich and specialists for the Hamburg history of the Third Reich, Frank Bajohr, and the head of the Department of Contemporary History until 1945 of the Institute for Contemporary History Munich , Johannes Hürter , in their article Contract research NS- Burden. Comments on a business cycle. More than a story - contemporary historical perspectives on the Federal Republic. Festschrift for Axel Schildt . Edited by Frank Bajohr; Anselm Doering-Manteuffel ; Claudia Kemper and Detlef Siegfried , Wallstein 2016, ISBN 978-3-8353-1882-3 , 226. Your article deals with the recent historiography of companies about the role of this company in the time of the Third Reich. In their consideration of Bahnsen's book about the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce, they accuse the author of having written a paper in which the Chamber of Commerce had already written the positive result in the order and linked the payment of the fee to the coordination of the text with the Chamber of Commerce. In view of this order structure, Bajohr and Hürter speak of the "abysses of contract research".
↑ In her review, the historian Lu Seegers judges the book about the history of the Chamber of Commerce by Bahnsen as a “representation” that does not meet “scientific standards”. In Lu Seegers: Uwe Bahnsen review : Hanseatic people under the swastika - The Hamburg Chamber of Commerce and the merchants in the Third Reich. In the journal of the Association for Hamburg History, Volume 102, 2016, pp. 184–188.

personal data
SURNAME	Bahnsen, Uwe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German journalist, author and translator
DATE OF BIRTH	June 23, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hamburg

[1] Jörn Lauterbach: The act must follow the thought. In: The world . June 23, 2009. Retrieved December 17, 2012.

[2] James P. O'Donnell, Uwe Bahnsen: The catacomb - the end in the Reich Chancellery , Deutsche Verlagsanstalt , Stuttgart 1975, ISBN 3-421-01712-3 .

[3] Critical in a collective review of the Chief of the Research Center for Contemporary History in Hamburg Axel Schildt and the director of the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial Detlef Garbe in the period from June 28, 2015 under the title Beautiful story .

[4] Review of the head of the Center for Holocaust Studies at the Institute for Contemporary History Munich and specialists for the Hamburg history of the Third Reich, Frank Bajohr, and the head of the Department of Contemporary History until 1945 of the Institute for Contemporary History Munich , Johannes Hürter , in their article Contract research NS- Burden. Comments on a business cycle. More than a story - contemporary historical perspectives on the Federal Republic. Festschrift for Axel Schildt . Edited by Frank Bajohr; Anselm Doering-Manteuffel ; Claudia Kemper and Detlef Siegfried , Wallstein 2016, ISBN 978-3-8353-1882-3 , 226. Your article deals with the recent historiography of companies about the role of this company in the time of the Third Reich. In their consideration of Bahnsen's book about the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce, they accuse the author of having written a paper in which the Chamber of Commerce had already written the positive result in the order and linked the payment of the fee to the coordination of the text with the Chamber of Commerce. In view of this order structure, Bajohr and Hürter speak of the "abysses of contract research".

[5] In her review, the historian Lu Seegers judges the book about the history of the Chamber of Commerce by Bahnsen as a “representation” that does not meet “scientific standards”. In Lu Seegers: Uwe Bahnsen review : Hanseatic people under the swastika - The Hamburg Chamber of Commerce and the merchants in the Third Reich. In the journal of the Association for Hamburg History, Volume 102, 2016, pp. 184–188.