Wigbert Benz

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Wigbert Benz (* 1954 ) is a German teacher a. D. and historian.

Life

After several years of professional activity as a nurse and geriatric nurse, Benz obtained the general university entrance qualification at the Bismarck-Gymnasium Karlsruhe in 1982 and then studied politics, history and education at the Karlsruhe University of Education. His thesis "The Russian campaign of the Third Reich: causes, goals, effects. To cope with a genocide taking into account the history lesson ”was published in 1986 and 1988 in two editions by the publishers Haag and Herchen.

From 1987 to 2010 Benz was a history teacher in the Baden-Württemberg school service, and 1990–1997 mentor for students at the Ludwigsburg University of Education .

He analyzed school history books of secondary level I and is the moderator of the magazine Praxis Geschichte published by Westermann Schulbuch Verlag .

Benz published a number of contemporary history books and essays, including on the thematic treatment of the Second World War in class.

On the occasion of the Wehrmacht exhibition starting in 2001, he was in charge of a literature database with a discussion forum set up in advance at the Historisches Centrum Hagen , which supported the public with references to literature, particularly on World War II. After documents from the former Ludwigsburg Central Office were made available in 2000 , Benz began his research on Paul Carell . He is also a reviewer of the Süddeutsche Zeitung , H-Soz-u-Kult , the archive for social history .

Fonts

Monographs

  • The Russian campaign of the Third Reich. Causes, goals, effects. To Cope With Genocide Taking The History Class Into Account . Haag and Herchen, Frankfurt am Main 1986; 2nd revised edition 1988, ISBN 3-89228-199-8 .
  • Paul Carell. Ribbentrop's press officer Paul Karl Schmidt before and after 1945 . wvb, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-86573-068-X .
  • The hunger plan in "Operation Barbarossa" in 1941 . wvb, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-86573-613-0 .
  • Hans-Joachim Riecke, NS State Secretary. From the hunger planner before to the “world feeder” after 1945 . wvb, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-86573-793-9 .

Articles (selection)

  • On the reception of the “Barbarossa Company” in history books: facts and trends . In: International textbook research. Journal of the Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research 10 (1988), Issue 4, pp. 379–391
  • Preventive Genocide? On the controversy about the character of the German war of annihilation against the Soviet Union . In: Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik 33 (1988), no. 10, pp. 1215-1227
  • The lie about the German preventive war in 1941 . In: History learning 52 (1996): Legenden - Mythen - Lügen , pp. 54–59
  • The attitude of the Vatican to the Barbarossa enterprise , in: Hans Schafranek and Robert Streibel (eds.), June 22, 1941. The attack on the Soviet Union, Picus, Vienna 1991, ISBN 3-85452-224-X , pp. 87-98
  • June 22, 1941 and its history in history class in the Federal Republic of Germany . In: Gerd R. Ueberschär / Lev A. Bezymenskij (ed.): The German attack on the Soviet Union in 1941. The controversy about the preventive war thesis . Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft / Primus Verlag Darmstadt 1998, ISBN 3-89678-084-0 , pp. 70–74
  • Stalingrad in German textbooks and lessons . In: Wolfram Wette and Gerd R. Ueberschär (Ed.): Stalingrad. Myth and Reality of a Battle . Fischer, Frankfurt a. M. 1992, 5th edition 2012, ISBN 978-3-596-19511-4
  • The journalist's continuity. Paul Karl Schmidt alias Paul Carell . In: Hans-Heinrich Nolte (ed.), Confrontations with the dictatorships. Russian and German experiences . Gleichen 2005, ISBN 3-7881-1729-X , pp. 135-143
  • Calculus and ideology. The starvation project in "Operation Barbarossa" in 1941 . In: Klaus Kremb (Ed.), Weltordnungskonzepte. Hopes and disappointments of the 20th century , Wochenschau-Verlag, Schwalbach / Ts. 2010, ISBN 978-3-89974-543-6 , pp. 18-37

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wigbert Benz: Stalingrad in German school history books .
personal data
SURNAME Benz, Wigbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German history teacher and historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1954