Werner Bräuninger
Werner Bräuninger (born April 6, 1965 in Offenbach am Main ) is a German publicist and author .
Life
After graduating from secondary school in Neu-Isenburg and attending the Schiller-Gymnasium in Frankfurt am Main, Bräuninger completed an apprenticeship as a publishing clerk and did his military service in Kassel. He then worked for the German Book Trade Association. Today he works on a sales level. In the late 1980s and early 1990s he was a member of the Hesse NPD party and its youth organization JN . In 1992 Bräuninger was elected deputy chairman of the Young National Democrats in Hesse.
Works and reception
Bräuninger's publications focus on oppositional currents and the resistance under National Socialism . His work Hitler's adversaries in the NSDAP 1921–1945 (2004) on the opposition inherent in the system and "internal emigration" was received controversially. Michael Peters wrote in the Zeitschrift für Geschichtswwissenschaft : “Bräuninger's monograph draws on extensive source material, and the legible text is made particularly clear by numerous, sometimes long, quotations.” Sven Felix Kellerhoff called Bräuninger's approach, the available material on the crises within the National Socialist state structure put together, an "excellent idea". Klaus A. Lankheit from the Institute for Contemporary History criticizes the inadequate academic quality of the work, which he himself cannot admit as being “popular science”. He judges that, intentionally or unintentionally, “an apology for a supposedly better, but failed 'National Socialism without Hitler' emerged: a contribution to the transfiguration, not to the explanation of National Socialism”.
Bräuninger's book about Claus von Stauffenberg is accused of being less concerned with this person and the George circle than with a political criticism of the Federal Republic from a conservative right-wing perspective. The reviewer of the book "Secret Germany" by Manfred Riedel about the George circle around Stefan George criticized that Bräuninger's presentation of the same was characterized by "inadmissible harmonization of the different views" in this circle.
Publications
- DUX. Mussolini or The Will to Power . Ares Verlag , Graz 2018, ISBN 978-3-902732-91-0 .
- Bold. Portrait of a German career. The biography . Gerhard Hess Verlag, Bad Schussenried 2016, ISBN 978-3-87336-568-1 .
- Feldherrnhalle. Triumph and Downfall 1935–1945 . Regin-Verlag , Preetz 2012, ISBN 978-3-941247-41-3 . (Second part of an essayistic biography of Adolf Hitler)
- Odeonsplatz. Ascent of a stranger . Universitas, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-8004-1498-7 . (First part of an essayistic biography of Adolf Hitler)
- "I didn't want to stand by it". Life plans from Alfred Baeumler to Ernst Jünger. Ares Verlag, Graz 2006, ISBN 3-902475-32-3 .
- Hitler's opponents in the NSDAP 1921–1945 . Herbig, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-7766-2367-5 .
- Claus of Stauffenberg. The genesis of the perpetrator from the spirit of secret Germany. Karolinger, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-85418-104-3 .
- Radiation Fields of National Socialism: The Leviathan's Fin . Verlag Siegfried Bublies , Schnellbach 1999, ISBN 3-926584-67-X .
Web links
- Literature by and about Werner Bräuninger in the catalog of the German National Library
- Bibliographical (self-presentation)
Individual evidence
- ^ The “Young National Democrats” | Antifa information sheet. Retrieved July 3, 2020 .
- ↑ Michael Peters in: Journal of History . Volume 52, 2004, no.12.
- ^ Gerhard A. Lankheit: Good Nazis? . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, October 9, 2004, p. 8
- ↑ Review on literaturkritik.de
- ↑ Gunilla Eschenbach: Manfred Riedel: Secret Germany. Stefan George and the Stauffenberg brothers . In: H-Soz-Kult, January 31, 2007
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bräuninger, Werner |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German publicist and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 6, 1965 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Offenbach am Main |