Wolfgang Wilhelmus

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Wolfgang Wilhelmus (born September 15, 1931 in Berlin ) is a German modern historian .

Life

Wolfgang Wilhelmus experienced the end of the war in Berlin-Schöneberg in 1945 , became a boat builder in Berlin-Spandau and studied history, philosophy and education in Greifswald from 1952 to 1956. He received his doctorate in 1963 . In 1976 he completed his habilitation and became a lecturer. From 1981 until his retirement in 1991, Wolfgang Wilhelmus was Professor of Modern History at the University of Greifswald .

He researched and published on the history of the labor movement in Germany and on German-Swedish relations. In 2008 his book "Schweden im Fadenkreuz" was published, in which the German-Swedish relations between 1918 and 1945 are analyzed. Since 1987 he has headed a working group "History of the Jews in Pomerania " and published numerous papers on this topic. In the book “Threads of a Carpet - Traces of Jewish Life in Pomerania and the World”, published in 2013, he reports autobiographically about his encounters with Judaism.

Fonts (selection)

  • The beginning of the organized people's struggle against the imperialist policy of division in Germany - the People's Congress movement 1947–1948. Dissertation , University of Greifswald, 1963.
  • Fascist Germany and Sweden in World War II. Dissertation B , University of Greifswald, 1976.
  • University of Greifswald 525 years. Editor Wolfgang Wilhelmus u. a., Ed., University of Greifswald, Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin / GDR 1982.
  • District party organization Greifswald of the SED. Chronicle . Produced on behalf of the district leadership of the SED Greifswald by a collective of authors, led by Wolfgang Wilhelmus; Werner Lamprecht; Jürgen Schröder, Greifswald district party organization of the SED.
  • with Julia Männchen: The fascist pogrom from 9./10. November 1938 - on the history of the Jews in Pomerania. Colloquium of the History and Theology Sections of the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University Greifswald on November 2nd, 1988. Scientific contributions from the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University Greifswald, 1989.
  • Jews in Western Pomerania. Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung , Mecklenburg-Vorpommern State Office, Schwerin 1996 (3rd revised and expanded edition 2007, ISBN 978-3-89892-806-9 )
  • Escape or death. Memories and letters from Pomeranian Jews about the time before and after 1945. Koch, Rostock 2001, ISBN 3-935319-27-4 .
  • History of the Jews in Pomerania. Koch, Rostock 2004, ISBN 3-937179-41-0 .
  • History of the Jews in Greifswald and the surrounding area. From the beginning to the Holocaust. Scheunen-Verlag, Kückenshagen 1999; Revised and expanded version: History of the Jews in Greifswald, Wolgast and the surrounding area. From the beginning to the Holocaust. Scheunen-Verlag, Kückenshagen 2007, ISBN 978-3-934301-08-5 .
  • Sweden in the crosshairs. German-Swedish relations 1918–1945. Koch, Rostock 2008, ISBN 978-3-938686-86-7 (on p. 440, another 16 articles by Wolfgang Wilhelmus on German-Swedish relations are mentioned.).
  • It depends on every car! The list of names of the Jews deported from the Stettin administrative district in 1940 (= regional contemporary history. Special issue 3). With an introduction to the events and to the document by Wolfgang Wilhelmus. Rostock 2009, ISBN 978-3-938686-92-8 .
  • Threads of a carpet: traces of Jewish life in Pomerania and the world. Koch, Rostock 2013, ISBN 978-3-86436-044-2 (with the author's list of publications on Jewish history).
  • with Helmut Müssener: Stettin - Lublin - Stockholm. Elsa Meyring: From the life of a German non-Aryan woman in the twentieth century. Ingo Koch-Verlag, Rostock 2015.

literature

  • Margret Heitmann, Julius H. Schoeps: "Keep away from the whole country any ruin ..." History and culture of the Jews in Pomerania. (= Haskala - Scientific Treatises. Volume 15). Georg Olms, Hildesheim 1995, ISBN 3-487-10074-6 , p. 545.

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personal data
SURNAME Wilhelmus, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin