Dörte von Westernhagen

Dorte ( August 5th * 1943 in Pearl Mountain ) from Westlife is a German journalist and author.

Life

It dates from the eichsfeldischen noble family von Westernhagen and is the daughter of Heinz von Westernhagen ( 1911-1945 ). Dorte von Westernhagen was with a thesis on the legal and social history of the 19th century Dr. iur. doctorate and was a staff member at the Hamburg working group on reform of legal education. 1974 to 1979 she worked in the public service of the State of Lower Saxony. From 1980 to 2005 she worked as a freelance journalist and author. In 1987, her book The children of perpetrators. The Third Reich and the generation after that, for which she won the special prize of the city of Osnabrück in 1993. In 1997 she published And so do I love my ruin, the chronicle of an illicit love and a political murder in Hanover end of the 17th century. In her 2012 book " From the reign followers. The Western Hagens in the Third Reich ", it provides the basis of nine CVs impressive depiction of a family history that shows which helped the nobility that by the emperor " was leader. " The tenth CV stands to clarify that other action was possible, the fate of a Western Hagens claimed (without of ), who belonged to the workers' resistance.

Book publications

• The children of the perpetrators. The Third Reich and the generation after that. In 1987. ISBN 3-466-34180-9
• Dance on the position. In 1992. ISBN 3-89151-126-4
• And so do I love my ruin. In 1997. ISBN 3-89244-246-0
• From the reign of allegiance. The Western Hagens in the Third Reich. , 2012. ISBN 978-3-89971-969-7