Wolf Gruner

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Wolf Gruner (born December 13, 1960 in East Berlin ) is a German historian . He teaches as a professor of history at the University of Southern California .

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Wolf Gruner initially trained as a repro technician in a printing company, where he also worked for the first time. In 1984 he began studying history at the Humboldt University in Berlin , which he completed in 1989 as a graduate historian. In 1994 he was at Wolfgang Benz at the Center for Research on Antisemitism of the Technical University of Berlin Dr. phil. PhD.

In 1994 and 1995 he worked as a research assistant at the Historical Commission in Berlin, and in 1998 he became a Fellow at the International Research Center for Holocaust Studies in Jerusalem . From 1998 to 2002 he went back to the Center for Research on Antisemitism at the TU Berlin, now as a research assistant. Here he researched the discrimination against the Indian majority population in the Republic of Bolivia in the 19th and 20th centuries.

In summer 2002 he was visiting scholar at the Institute for Comparative Studies of Culture at Tokyo Woman's Christian University in Japan . From September 2002 he was Pearl Resnik Fellow at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies in the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC , USA , from February 2003 then John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow at Harvard University , in the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies. Finally, in the fall semester of 2003, he was E. Desmond Lee Visiting Professor of Global Awareness at Webster University , St. Louis , Missouri , USA.

From January 2004 to December 2007 he worked at the Institute for Contemporary History , where he was co-editor and editor of the source edition The Persecution and Murder of European Jews by National Socialist Germany 1933–1945 . Wolf Gruner currently holds the Shapell-Guerin Chair in Jewish Studies and is Professor of History at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.

His main research interests are the history of National Socialism , specifically the Nazi persecution of Jews in Europe and forced labor in the Nazi state , comparative genocide research and the history of discrimination against the Indian population in Latin America in the 19th and 20th centuries. Century, especially Bolivia. In 2005 Gruner first turned his gaze to the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. In 2016 he published the first complete German-language account of the persecution of Jews in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia and its history. For the first time, he evaluated the weekly reports archived in Yad Vashem by the Jewish Community in Prague from the summer of 1939 to the end of 1942 at Adolf Eichmann's Central Office for Jewish Emigration . Gruner came to the conclusion that "the persecution [...] was mainly driven by the Czech government and the regional councilors, district offices, police headquarters and city administrations".

Fonts

  • Persecution of Jews in Berlin 1933–1945. A chronology of the measures taken by the authorities in the Reich capital. Topography of Terror Foundation, Berlin 1996; 2nd completely revised and greatly expanded edition 2009, ISBN 978-3-9811677-7-1 .
  • The closed labor deployment of German Jews. On forced labor as an element of persecution 1938–1943 (= series of documents, texts, materials. Volume 20). Metropol, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-926893-32-X .
  • Forced Labor and Persecution. Austrian Jews in the Nazi state 1938–1945 (= National Socialism and its Consequences. Volume 1). Studien Verlag, Innsbruck / Vienna / Munich 2000, ISBN 3-706-51396-X .
  • with Armin Nolzen (Ed.): Bureaucracies, Initiative and Efficiency (= contributions to the history of National Socialism . Volume 17). Association A, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-935936-01-X .
  • Public welfare and persecution of the Jews. Interactions between local and central politics in the Nazi state (1933–1942) (= Studies on Contemporary History. Volume 62). Oldenbourg, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-486-56613-X .
  • Resistance in Rosenstrasse. The factory campaign and the persecution of "mixed marriages" in 1943 (= Fischer. Volume 16883). Fischer, Frankfurt 2005, ISBN 3-596-16883-X .
  • Jewish Forced Labor under the Nazis. Economic Needs and Racial Aims 1938–1943 / 44. Cambridge et al., Cambridge University Press 2006, ISBN 0-521-83875-4 .
  • as arrangement: The persecution and murder of European Jews by National Socialist Germany 1933–1945. Volume 1: German Reich 1933 to 1937. Oldenbourg, Munich 2008
  • Rosenstrasse 2-4 memorial site: internment and protest in the Nazi state (= Topography of Terror Foundation. Volume 6). Hentrich & Hentrich, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-95565-001-8 .
  • The persecution of the Jews in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. Local initiatives, central decisions, Jewish answers 1939–1945. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2016, ISBN 978-3-8353-1910-3 .

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Remarks

  1. ↑ See the reviews by René Küpper in: sehepunkte 17 (2017), No. 9 [15. September 2017], online ; Edith Raim in: Historische Zeitschrift 305 (2017), pp. 452–454; Thomas Krzenck in: Zeitschrift für Geschichtswwissenschaft 66 (2018), pp. 478–480; Stefan Dölling in: H-Soz-Kult , March 14, 2019, online .
  2. ↑ Wolf Gruner: The persecution of the Jews in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. Local initiatives, central decisions, Jewish answers 1939–1945. Göttingen 2016, p. 293.
  3. ↑ series. Vol. 1: readable and searchable online
personal data
SURNAME Gruner, wolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH East Berlin