Wolfgang Dierker

Wolfgang Dierker (* 1968 ) is a German historian and CEO of General Electric Deutschland Holding GmbH .

Life

Dierker studied history and social sciences in Münster, Edinburgh, Paris and Bonn.

He received his doctorate in Bonn in 1999 with a study on the religious policy of the SS Security Service from 1933 to 1941 as Dr. phil. The study received a lot of attention: It was not only discussed in the historical magazine and the theological literary newspaper , but also in the Zeit , the FAZ and NZZ . Within a year it saw a second edition. The historian Christoph Kösters called it a "pioneering study". The Regensburg Bishop Gerhard Ludwig Müller quoted the work in a sermon. Dierker also wrote several essays on the topic of his doctorate.

After positions in the German Bundestag and in the Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties in Bonn, Dierker became head of the main office of the Federal Association for Information Technology, Telecommunications and New Media (Bitkom) in Berlin's Albrechtstrasse in 2001 . From 2004 to 2010 he headed the Hewlett-Packard liaison office in Berlin (his official title: Director Government Affairs Europe, Middle East, Africa). He has been Head of General Electric's capital city office since 2010 and Chairman of the Executive Board since 2017.

Publications

Himmler's religious warrior. The SS Security Service and its Religious Policy 1933–1941. Schöningh, Paderborn 2002, ISBN 3-506-79997-5 ( Diss. Univ. Bonn, 2000).
National Socialism in French Historiography. In: Francia , Vol. 23/3 (1996), pp. 155-180 ( full text ).

Web links

Literature by and about Wolfgang Dierker in the catalog of the German National Library
Reviews at perlentaucher.de
Publications in the GVK
Clemens Vollnhals : Final solution to the religious question. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . February 11, 2002.

Individual evidence

↑ Christoph Kösters: Catholic Church in National Socialist Germany. Current research results, controversies and questions. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) (PDF; 62 kB) In: Ethica. Yearbook of the Institute for Religion and Peace. 2003, pp. 228-240 (supplemented reprint).@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.kfzg.de

↑ Gerhard Ludwig Müller: Sermon at the pontifical office in the High Cathedral in Regensburg on the 60th anniversary of the execution of the cathedral preacher Dr. Johann Maier ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 85 kB).

personal data
SURNAME	Dierker, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German historian and lobbyist
DATE OF BIRTH	1968

[1] Christoph Kösters: Catholic Church in National Socialist Germany. Current research results, controversies and questions. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) (PDF; 62 kB) In: Ethica. Yearbook of the Institute for Religion and Peace. 2003, pp. 228-240 (supplemented reprint).@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.kfzg.de

[2] Gerhard Ludwig Müller: Sermon at the pontifical office in the High Cathedral in Regensburg on the 60th anniversary of the execution of the cathedral preacher Dr. Johann Maier ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 85 kB).