Walter H. Pehle

Walter H. Pehle (born February 8, 1941 in Düsseldorf ; † March 28, 2021 in Buchschlag ) was a German publisher and historian . He worked at S. Fischer Verlag , where from 1988 until he left the publishing house in 2011 he was the editor of the book series The Era of National Socialism , generally known as the Black Series .

Live and act

Pehle was born in 1941 in Düsseldorf as the son of the government building director Georg Pehle and his wife Luise, née Tschann. After graduating from the State Max-Planck-Gymnasium in Düsseldorf in 1963, after military service and a commercial apprenticeship, he began studying German, history and philosophy at the University of Cologne in 1966 , where Theodor Schieder was his most important teacher. In 1970 he moved to the Heinrich-Heine University in Dusseldorf and was just there in 1976 Wolfgang Mommsen with a thesis on The Nazi seizure of power in the district of Aachen with special reference to state and local administration 1922-1933 doctorate . The following year he joined the S. Fischer Verlag in Frankfurt as a lecturer. Initially, he was in charge of the fields of education and psychology, and from 1978 the field of contemporary and cultural history. With a restructuring of the publishing program, the publisher Monika Schoeller entrusted Pehle with the publication of the book series The Times of National Socialism . This series, known as the black series because of its cover design , became the largest of its kind in the world and "acts as a powerful locking bar against forgetting and repressing." ( Volker Ullrich , Die Zeit ).

In addition, together with the editor Wolfgang Benz and Rebekka Habermas , Pehle developed the concept of the international book series “European History”, in which 36 volumes have been published since 1996.

In 1993 he was appointed honorary professor at the University of Innsbruck . Pehle died in March 2021 at the age of 80.

Awards

1997: Goethe badge from the city of Frankfurt am Main
2001: Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon
2007: Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class

Web links

Literature by and about Walter H. Pehle in the catalog of the German National Library
Literature by and about Walter H. Pehle in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Jan Eger: Interview: Against the line. In: t-online . January 28, 2008 .; accessed on March 30, 2021
Kerstin Decker : Walther Pehle: His printed matter. In: Der Tagesspiegel . February 17, 2011 .; accessed on March 30, 2021

Individual evidence

↑ It is important to know the ways of injustice - the editor as a fighter: On the death of Walter Pehle. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , March 30, 2021, p. 12.
↑ Walter Pehle died at the age of 80. In: Börsenblatt . March 30, 2021, accessed March 30, 2021 .
↑ Walter H. Pehle. In: fischerverlage.de. Retrieved March 30, 2021 . Series 1 - European History (edited by Wolfgang Benz, conceived by Wolfgang Benz, Rebekka Habermas and Walter Pehle). In: fischerverlage.de. Archived from the original on February 17, 2013 ; accessed on March 30, 2021 .

personal data
SURNAME	Pehle, Walter H.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Pehle, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German lecturer, editor and historian
DATE OF BIRTH	February 8, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH	Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH	March 28, 2021
PLACE OF DEATH	Book cover

[1] It is important to know the ways of injustice - the editor as a fighter: On the death of Walter Pehle. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , March 30, 2021, p. 12.

[2] Walter Pehle died at the age of 80. In: Börsenblatt . March 30, 2021, accessed March 30, 2021 .

[3] Walter H. Pehle. In: fischerverlage.de. Retrieved March 30, 2021 . Series 1 - European History (edited by Wolfgang Benz, conceived by Wolfgang Benz, Rebekka Habermas and Walter Pehle). In: fischerverlage.de. Archived from the original on February 17, 2013 ; accessed on March 30, 2021 .