Wolfgang Dreßen

Wolfgang Dreßen (* 1942 in Düsseldorf ) is a German historian , political scientist and exhibition organizer .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1964 at the Moltkeplatz grammar school in Krefeld, Wolfgang Dreßen completed a philosophy and history degree in Tübingen and West Berlin. In Tübingen he was involved with the radical left situationists , in West Berlin he belonged to the undogmatic wing of the Socialist German Student Union . From 1968 Dreßen worked as an editor at Verlag Klaus Wagenbach , where he was in charge of the Politics series and, before the split, the Red Books . He also worked for the anarchist-libertarian magazine Agit 883 . In 1982 he received his doctorate with the work The Pedagogical Machine: on the history of industrialized consciousness in Prussia / Germany with Jacob Taubes in West Berlin.

In the 1980s, Wolfgang Dreßen worked for the Museum Education Service in Berlin. He was also co-editor of No Man's Land magazine . From 1994 to 2008 he was head of the neo-Nazism department at the Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences . Among other things, he organized exhibitions on the Aryanization of Germany during the Third Reich, on the conflict between Jews and Palestinians in Israel, and an exhibition on the Middle Ages based on a story about a diplomatic trip on behalf of Charlemagne. Wolfgang Dreßen is a state board member of the party Die Linke in North Rhine-Westphalia. Wolfgang Dreßen is a member of the advisory board of the Internet project Information on German Foreign Policy and the scientific advisory board of the SALZ educational community .

Publications (selection)

• Anti-authoritarian camp and anarchism. A reader with texts by Michail Bakunin [u. a.] . Edited by Wolfgang Dressen. Wagenbach, Berlin 1968.
• Against psychiatry . Berlin: Wagenbach 1972
• Political processes without defense? Berlin: Wagenbach 1976
• Left Conservatism? Berlin: Aesthetics and Communication Publishing 1979
• The educational machine . Frankfurt / M. : Ullstein 1982 (dissertation)
• together with Annegret Ehmann: Jewish life . Berlin: Verlag Ästhetik und Kommunikation 1985
• Subject: "Action 3": Germans recycle Jewish neighbors - documents on Aryanization . Selected and commented by Wolfgang Dreßen. Catalog for the exhibition of the same name in the Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf, October 29, 1998 - October 10, 1999. Published by Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf. Construction Verlag, Berlin 1998. ISBN 3-351-02487-8 .
• Law and violence. Berlin 1848. Revolution as a regulatory power , Berlin: Aufbau-Taschenbuch-Verlag 1999, ISBN 978-3-7466-8038-5 .

Others

Michael Verhoeven shot the documentary Human Failure about aryanization measures and the involvement of German tax authorities in them, which premiered in 2008 on SWDR. In the film it is described, among other things, that the regional finance directorates in Düsseldorf and Cologne claimed in the early 1990s that they no longer had any files on aryanization processes. This was to prevent an explanation of the aryanization measures. In the Cologne case, an anonymous tipster ensured that Dreßen found the hiding place of 20,000 Aryanization files.

Web links

• Literature by and about Wolfgang Dreßen in the catalog of the German National Library
• Bavarian library network

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The educational machine: to history d. industrialized consciousness in Prussia / Germany / Wolfgang Dressen in the German National Library
2. ↑ Looting of Jewish Property - Accepting Acceptance at Low Price , on taz.de.
3. ↑ Subject: Action 3 - Germans recycle Jewish neighbors , on komm-bildungsbereich.de, accessed on March 7, 2020
4. ^ The expropriations, called "Aryanization" by the National Socialists , on gelsenzentrum.de, accessed on March 7, 2020
5. ↑ Tolerance versus Dialogue , on taz.de, accessed on March 7, 2020
6. ↑ Christa Müller does not speak on our behalf! , at linke-sh.de, accessed on March 7, 2020
7. ↑ Michael Verhoeven: They were all on tagesspiegel.de, accessed on 7. March 2020