Detlev Peukert

Detlev Peukert K. Julio ( born September 20, 1950 in Gütersloh, † 17 May 1990 in Hamburg ) was a German historian and director of the Research Centre for the History of National Socialism.

Detlev Peukert grew up in the mining colony Hamm- Herringen, where he made the High School. From 1969 to 1975 he studied History and German Studies at the Ruhr University Bochum. In 1975 the state exam. From 1978 to 1988 he was a research assistant to Lutz Niethammer at the University of Essen. In 1979 he received his doctorate in Hans Mommsen, with a thesis on " The Communist Party in the resistance." In 1984 at Niethammer with a thesis on the history of the German youth welfare habilitation. For his habilitation in 1988 he received the Heinz Maier- Leibnitz Prize of the Federal Minister of Education and Science. Peukert taught a decade in food and was founded in 1988 as the successor to Werner Jochmann Head of the Research Centre for the History of National Socialism in Hamburg. Peukert was until 1978 a member of the German Communist Party, then a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany. Peukert lived openly homosexual. He died in 1990 of complications from AIDS.

Peukert sought after his dissertation about more open to contemporary history to social history. His work on National Socialism, the Weimar Republic and the development of the human sciences have received international recognition and have been translated, among others, into English, Italian and Japanese. Peukert had published mainly studies on workers' resistance in the Nazi era. Nazism he interpreted as extreme variant development of modern societies and not as an intrusion of medieval barbarism in a modern civilization.

Peukert taught the "Project Hamburg Resumes - Workshop of Memory" a, which has to date more than 1500 life history interviews, especially with victims of Nazi persecution carried out.

Writings (selection )

List of Publications: Frank Bajohr / Johe Werner / Uwe Lohalm (ed.): civilization and barbarism. The contradictory potentials of modernity. Detlev Peukert in memory. Christians, Hamburg 1991, pp. 348-354.

  • The KPD in resistance: Track and underground work in the Rhine and Ruhr 1933-1945, hammer, Wuppertal 1980, ISBN 3-87294-165-8.
  • The rows almost closed: contributions to the history of everyday life under National Socialism, published together with Jürgen Reulecke and Countess Adelheid of Castell Rudenhausen, hammer, Wuppertal 1981.
  • Fellow and Non-Community: adaptation, extermination and rebellion under National Socialism, Cologne: Bund Verlag, 1982 ISBN 376630545X, translated into English by Richard Deveson under the title Inside Nazi Germany: conformity, opposition and racism in everyday life, Batsford, London, 1987 ISBN 071345217X
  • Limits of social discipline: the rise and crisis of the German youth welfare 1878-1932, Bund Vlg, Cologne 1986..
  • Youth between war and crisis. Life worlds of young workers in the Weimar Republic, Cologne 1987.
  • The Edelweiss Pirates: protest movements of Young Workers in the ' Third Reich '. A documentary, 3rd extended. Ed, Federation -Vlg. , Cologne 1988.
  • Max Weber's diagnosis of modernity, Cambridge University Press, 1989 ISBN 3525335628 Göttingen
  • Right-wing extremism in Germany - Two historic contributions, together with Frank Bajohr, results Verlag, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-925622-69-1.
  • The Weimar Republic: the crisis years of classical modernism, Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 1987 [ Translated into English under the title The Weimar Republic: . The crisis of classical modernity, Hill and Wang, New York 1992, ISBN 0-8090-9674-9. ]
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