Uwe Danker

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Uwe Danker (born January 14, 1956 in Westerland on Sylt ) is a German historian .

Life

After graduating from high school, Uwe Danker began teacher training at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (CAU), specializing in history and sociology. He completed this training in 1981 with the state examination for higher teaching qualifications. After that, Danker deepened his history studies and completed a history degree in 1986 with a dissertation on the topic of robber gangs in the Old Kingdom. from. Danker's work was rated summa cum laude and awarded a university prize.

In 1986, Danker was hired as a research assistant by the Hamburg Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg . From there he moved in June 1988 to the position of press spokesman for the SPD parliamentary group in Schleswig-Holstein. The previous press spokesman who was involved in the perch affair had recently taken up a position as a speaker in the State Chancellery of Prime Minister Engholm .

Danker held the position of press spokesman for the SPD parliamentary group until January 1994. In the meantime, he had applied for a professorship at the Institute for History and Didactics of the Educational Science University of Flensburg (BU-Flensburg), which is currently in the process of converting from a college of education (PH) to a university. At that time you did not need to be qualified as a university lecturer for this position. The professorship was associated with one of the three director posts at the " Institute for Schleswig-Holstein Contemporary and Regional History " (IZRG), which was founded by the State of Schleswig-Holstein in 1992 and is based in Schleswig, which is primarily concerned with coming to terms with NS history in Schleswig-Holstein. Holstein should take care of. This institute was established by the SPD state government after non-university circles had campaigned to deal with the long-neglected regional history of National Socialism in Schleswig-Holstein. In addition to individual politicians and specialists, these groups also included the Working Group for Economic and Social History of Schleswig-Holstein , the "Working Group for Research into National Socialism in Schleswig-Holstein" ("AKENS") and the " Advisory Board for History ", which is close to the SPD , to which Uwe Danker belonged. As a historian and SPD politician, Danker had been very committed to founding this institute and had ultimately been successful with the other initiatives. On the board of trustees of the new institute sat these three associations and specialists as well as a full professor from Kiel University, representatives of the Society for Schleswig-Holstein History and other scientific institutions. The institute's board of trustees unanimously approved the appointment of Uwe Danker to the position.

Danker finally got the position through the Ministry of Culture, whereby the fact that "Uwe Danker was a SPD member and functionary provided ammunition to the opposition parties" against the candidate. In his contract, Danker received the C3 professorship as a probation position for 5 years.

At the beginning of 1998, the University of Flensburg suggested extending Danker's contract, which was running out, from January 1999. The Ministry of Education, however, ordered the position to be advertised. When it became apparent in the appointment process that the chair holder Uwe Danker would not even be among the proposed scientists due to disputes among the historians of the University of Flensburg, the ministry abandoned the tender process and announced that it would "evaluate Danker's performance separately". After that, a decision about his continued employment “as it was agreed in his employment contract”. In this situation, the "Kuratorium of the IZRG again clearly expressed its thanks". The evaluation turned out positive and shortly thereafter, Danker was appointed civil servant for life. This procedure was contradicted in several press releases. Jörn Eckert , law professor at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, criticized the process as being opaque and politically influenced.

After the extension of Danker's contract, the IZRG made a successful new start with Uwe Danker and Robert Bohn . In 2002 the institute celebrated its 10th birthday with the presence of numerous guests and held a conference on National Socialism in the regions . The Schleswiger Nachrichten reported on November 9, 2002 that the institute had meanwhile "found wide recognition."

When Danker gave a lecture on the subject of the revolutionary city of Kiel - the starting point for the first German democracy in December 2011 in Kiel City Hall , the reporter for the Kieler Nachrichten dubbed him "one of the most respected historians in the country."

Danker lives with his family in Kronshagen near Kiel .

plant

Danker mainly writes about the history of Schleswig-Holstein , the Nazi regime and its pre- and post-history. Only a few important works by Danker are mentioned in this section. Since 1985, Danker has been a board member of the SPD-affiliated Society for Politics and Education Schleswig-Holstein , under whose aegis the regional historical yearbook Democratic History is published. Danker has been co-editor of this yearbook since 1985. The yearbook deals with the history of Schleswig-Holstein from the Middle Ages to the recent past. The history of National Socialism plays a major role in this.

From 1997, Danker was significantly involved in a multi-year project for the newspapers of the Schleswig-Holstein newspaper publisher , NDR radio and NDR television and the IZRG. For example, he supported the NDR documentary: Der Führer went - the Nazis stayed - post-war careers in Northern Germany from 2001, through his extensive professional advice on the subject.

He also played a key role in the Story of the Century project . In this project, citizens, especially schoolchildren, should be encouraged to research regional history and regional stories in Schleswig-Holstein. The starting point was a total of 40 newspaper articles by Uwe Danker on special pages of the newspapers, in which he wrote about specific events and occurrences in the 20th century in a wide variety of topics. With the respective richly illustrated articles, information about sources on the respective topic could be found, so that it was possible for the students to research about it in their region. The publisher made a homepage available in which the respective student projects could first present their findings online. At the same time, NDR radio and television took up individual topics. 200 project groups from many schools in Schleswig-Holstein took part in the project. There were several hundred readers who participated in the project. Danker's articles and the students' echo were recorded in a 3-volume book that was published from 1998 to 2000. Topics of the first volume were, for example, "The turn of the century", "The First World War", "The first state election in 1947", the "Disputes about the Brokdorf nuclear power plant" and the "Snow catastrophe" of the winter of 1978/79 Volumes from 1998 to 2000 and was called The Story of the Century .

In 2007 Danker published the book Schleswig-Holstein and National Socialism with Astrid Schwabe . The book was distributed to the schools by the Ministry of Culture and is used there to teach history about NS. The historian Frank Bajohr praised the book in a review in the history portal H-Soz-Kult u. a. as an "exemplary overall representation of National Socialism in a region".

In 2012 Danker published a study about the NSDAP Gauleiter, Oberpräsident of the province of Schleswig-Holstein and during the war against the Soviet Union in World War II Reichskommissar in the occupied eastern territories in the Baltic States and Belarus, Hinrich Lohse in the one from Danker, Robert Bohn and Sebastian Lehmann- Himmel jointly published book of a conference on the Reichskommissariat Ostland . In 2017, Danker and Sebastian Lehmann-Himmel published the book on the empirical study on the Nazi exposure of political leaders in the early days of the state of Schleswig-Holstein, commissioned by the Schleswig-Holstein Landtag in 2014 and completed in 2016 under the title State Policy with a Past .

Publications (selection)

Monographs

  • with Sebastian Lehmann-Himmel: State politics with a past . Historical analysis of the personal and structural continuity in the Schleswig-Holstein legislature and executive after 1945. Carried out on behalf of the Schleswig-Holstein Landtag , Husum Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Husum 2017, ISBN 978-3-89876-857-3 . review
  • Volksgemeinschaft and living space - the Neulandhalle as a historical place of learning. Wachholtz, Neumünster / Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-529-02253-1 .
  • with Astrid Schwabe: Films tell stories. Schleswig-Holstein in the 20th century . Wachholtz, Neumünster 2010, ISBN 978-3-529-02821-2 .
  • with Arne Bewersdorff and Astrid Schwabe: experience history. Views of Schleswig-Holstein from 1850 to today. Wachholtz, Neumünster 2008, ISBN 978-3-529-02809-0 .
  • with Astrid Schwabe: Schleswig-Holstein and National Socialism. Wachholtz, Neumünster 2005, ISBN 3-529-02810-X . Positive reviews from u. a. Frank Bajohr on H / Soz / Kult online here hsozkult.de and by Joachim Szodrozinski in the magazine of the Association for Hamburg History 92/2007
  • with Astrid Schwabe : History on the Internet. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2017, ISBN 978-3-17-022433-9 .
  • In the beginning there were workers' coins. 140 years of the SPD media company . Dietz, Bonn 2003, ISBN 3-8012-0334-4 .
  • Gangs of robbers in the Old Kingdom around 1700 - a contribution to the history of rule and crime in the early modern era. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1988, ISBN 3-518-28307-3 . (At the same time dissertation , University of Kiel 1986)
New edition as: The story of the robbers and crooks. Artemis & Winkler, Düsseldorf 2001, ISBN 3-538-07118-7 .

Editorships

  • with Jens-Peter Steffen: Jochen Steffen : A political life. Schleswig-Holsteinischer Geschichtsverlag, Malente 2018, ISBN 978-3-933862-53-2 . (Special publication of the Advisory Board for History; 24)
  • with Astrid Schwabe: The National Socialist Community - contemporary promise, analytical concept and a key to historical learning? Conference publication of the Schleswig Conference 2015. V&R, Göttingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-7370-0544-9 .
  • with Utz Schliesky : Schleswig-Holstein 1800 to today. A historical geography . Created in collaboration with the Schleswig-Holstein State Parliament and the Schleswig-Holstein State Center for Civic Education and the European University of Flensburg represented by the Institute for Schleswig-Holstein Contemporary and Regional History (IZRG). Husum Druck- und Verlag, Husum 2014, ISBN 978-3-89876-748-4 .
  • with Thorsten Harbeke and Sebastian Lehmann: Structural change in the second half of the 20th century . Wachholtz, Neumünster 2014, ISBN 978-3-529-02252-4 .
  • with Sebastian Lehmann and Robert Bohn: Reichskommissariat Ostland. Crime scene and souvenir. (= Publication by the Institute for Schleswig-Holstein Contemporary and Regional History at the University of Flensburg and the Military History Research Office ). Paderborn 2012, ISBN 978-3-506-77188-9 .
  • Reimer Hansen - from a millennium historical neighborhood. Studies on the history of Schleswig, Holstein and Dithmarschen. Schleswig-Holsteinischer Geschichtsverlag, Malente 2005, ISBN 3-933862-33-7 . (A tribute to the historian Reimer Hansen by printing important articles by Hansen and listing a bibliography)
  • with Heribert Ostendorf : The Nazi criminal justice and its aftermath. Nomos, Baden-Baden 2003, ISBN 3-8329-0136-1 .
  • Forced laborers in the district of North Friesland 1939–1945 . Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 2004, ISBN 3-89534-552-0 .
  • Foreign deployment in the Nordmark. Forced laborers in Schleswig-Holstein 1939–1945 . (= IZRG series of publications. Volume 5). Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 2001, ISBN 3-89534-385-4 .
  • The story of the century. Project idea and management Stephan Richter , Uwe Danker. Texts, concept and scientific advice U. Danker, (newspaper editor) Christoph Reisinger. Schleswig-Holsteinischer Zeitungsverlag, Flensburg 1999. Volume 1: ISBN 3-926055-14-6 . Volume 2: ISBN 3-926055-20-0 . Volume 3: ISBN 3-926055-21-9 .
  • with Robert Bohn: "Standgericht der Inner Front" - The Special Court Altona / Kiel 1932–1945. (= IZRG series of publications. Volume 3). Results-Verlag, Hamburg 1998, ISBN 3-87916-052-X .
  • with Gerhard Paul and Peter Wulf: History wraps. Social and cultural history reader. Schleswig-Holstein 1848–1948. Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-8012-0237-2 .
  • Der Hesterberg - 125 years of child and youth psychiatry and curative education in Schleswig. Catalog editor Uwe Danker. Ed. Clinic for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy Schleswig ..; Institute for Schleswig-Holstein Contemporary and Regional History (IZRG); Schleswig-Holstein State Archives. (Exhibition Landesarchiv Schleswig-Holstein 19.3.1997 to 5.6.1997. For the anniversary of the Clinic for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy and the Special Education Center in Schleswig) Verlag Landesarchiv, Schleswig 1997, ISBN 3-931292-53-3 .
  • 50 years after the pogroms against the Jews . Editor Uwe Danker; Andreas Rink. Ed. Advisory Board for the History of the Labor Movement and Democracy and Press Office of the State Government of Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel 1989.

Articles in magazines

  • Parliamentary continuity studies during the Nazi era. Methodological potentials and limits using the example of the Schleswig-Holstein case. In: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte (VfZ) 65 (2017) H. 1, pp. 75–101.
  • “Champion of Germanness” or “Degenerate Artist”? Thinking about Emil Nolde during the Nazi era. In: Yearbook Democratic History. Volume 14, 2001, pp. 149-188.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Frank Omland: Akens Board of Directors - The dispute on and about the IZRG. In: Information on contemporary history in Schleswig-Holstein. Working Group for Research on National Socialism in Schleswig-Holstein (AKENS), Issue 36, October 1999, pp. 71,72. Online version , accessed January 16, 2018 (hereinafter referred to as Omland 1999, pp. 71/72)
  2. Omland 1999, pp. 71/72.
  3. ^ Jörn Eckert: Appointment scenes in the north of Germany. "No alternative to transparent procedures". In: Hochschulpolitik aktuell. 1/1999, pp. 30-31.
  4. Proceedings ed. Michael Ruck (political scientist) ; Karl Heinrich Pohl : Regions in National Socialism . IZRG series of publications, Bielefeld 2003, ISBN 3-89534-490-7 .
  5. Heiko Scharffenberg: 10 years on the trail of National Socialism in the provinces.
  6. Jürgen Küppers: The revolution city lacks the revolutionary mood. In: Kiel News . December 14, 2011.
  7. ^ The editor of the regional historical yearbook "Democratic History". Retrieved April 13, 2013.
  8. 100 years in the north. In: The daily newspaper . January 26, 2000. Retrieved June 6, 2018.
  9. Frank Omland's review http://www.akens.org/akens/texte/info/36/107.html
  10. hsozkult.de
  11. Heike Stüben: Displaced instead of worked up. Even browner than expected anyway: In Schleswig-Holstein, more post-war politicians had a Nazi past than in other countries. Historians have now found out on behalf of the state parliament. And for the governments, their conclusion was even more drastic. In: Kiel News . April 27, 2016. (kn-online.de)
  12. ^ Uwe Kulm: The Nazi past. Schleswig-Holstein's state parliament and its heavy legacy. Schleswig-Holstein comes to terms with the Nazi past of its parliamentarians after 1945. How were the MPs, but also members of the government, involved in the Nazi era? A recently published study shows a previously unknown extent and tries to explain how these figures came about. In: Deutschlandfunk. January 19, 2017. (deutschlandfunk.de)
  13. Joachim Szodrozynski, review about Uwe Danker, Astrid Schwabe Schleswig-Holstein and National Socialism. Wachholtz, Neumünster 2005 in the journal of the Association for Hamburg History 92/2006, pp. 171–174. Online via the document server of the State and University Library Hamburg SUB here. (agora.sub.uni-hamburg.de)