Ingo Haar

Ingo Haar ( born February 3, 1965) is a German historian.

Life

Ingo Haar studied history, German and Politics at the Free University of Berlin and at the University of Hamburg. He graduated from the University of Hamburg in 1993 with a Master of Arts from. According to research at the University of Halle for Heinz- Gerhard Haupt, he was from 1994, a fellow of the Landesgraduiertenförderung Saxony- Anhalt and the Hamburg Institute for Social Research in the workspace "Theory and History of Violence ". In Halle he was in 1998 with the main labor historians in Nazi Germany: the German historical science and the ' racial struggle ' in the ` East ' doctorate. As of 1998, followed by guest stays at the Presidential Commission of the Max Planck Society for the History of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society under National Socialism and the Leipzig Collaborative Research Centre " Regional Identification Processes: The Case of Saxony ". In 2001, he worked in the Historical Commission of the Republic of Austria. From 2002 to 2007 he worked as a research assistant with the DFG project science - Population - Politics: Continuities and demographic thought and action ( 1918-1960 ) at the Department of Demography of the Humboldt University of Berlin and the Center for Research on Antisemitism at the Technical University of Berlin concerned. He then managed at the Department of Economic and Social History at the University of Vienna, the project Jewish Migration and Integration in Vienna and Berlin ( 1867/71-1918 ) in the FWF of Austria Lise -Meitner program.

His research focuses on the history of science of the 20th century, the Holocaust research, the history of forced migration in Europe and the social history of German elites. The edited by Ingo Haar and Michael Fahlbusch book German Scholars and Ethnic Cleansing, 1918-1945 was awarded in 2005 in the U.S. with the " Choice Outstanding Book Of The Year Award".

Hair was with the thesis publicly that he holds the file specified by the covenant of displaced persons ( BdV ) number of two million German casualties by the expulsions in Central and Eastern Europe after the Second World War to be excessive. He estimates the number of victims corresponding to 500,000 to 600,000 people. In his view, the figures are based on the BdV politically motivated surveys from the 1950s. The President of the BdV Erika Steinbach responded with a press release of 17 November 2006 ( headline " hair " bucking Zahlenklitterung the historian Ingo Haar ) on the " claim " hair, the BdV would make excessive sacrifices information.

Publications (selection )

Monographs

  • Historians of National Socialism. German historiography and the " racial struggle " in the east. Cambridge University Press, Göttingen 2000, ISBN 3-525-35942- X.

Editorial Boards

  • Along with Michael Fahlbusch: German Scholars and Ethnic Cleansing ( 1933-1944 ). Berghahn Books, New York / Oxford 2005, ISBN 1-57181-435-3.
  • Along with Michael Fahlbusch: Handbook of racial science. People - Institutions - Research Programs - foundations. Saur, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-598-11778-7.
  • Along with Michael Fahlbusch: Völkische sciences and policy advice in the 20th century. Expertise and "new order " in Europe. Schöningh, Paderborn 2010, ISBN 978-3-506-77046-2.

Papers

  • The Genesis of the Final Solution from the Spirit of Science: folk history and population policy in the Nazi era. In: Magazine of History 49 (2001 ), pp. 13-31.
  • " People's History " and Konigsberg environment: research programs between revision policy and Nazi extermination plan. In: Hartmut Lehmann, Otto Gerhard Oexle (ed.): National Socialism in the cultural sciences. Göttingen 2004, pp. 169-210.
  • Friedrich Valjavec: a historian living between the Vienna Awards and documentation of the expulsion. In: Lucia joke Berg ( ed.): Theology and past. A critical survey of the interdisciplinary comparison. Paderborn 2005, pp. 103-119.
  • Racist difference designs and biopolitical management instruments in occupied Poland 1939-44. Space and population policy in the field of tension between local civilian administrations and central government leadership. In: Jürgen John et al ( eds ): The Nazi districts. Local agent instances in the centralist " leader state." Munich 2007, pp. 105-122.
  • " Sudeten Germans " population issues between minority struggle and Munich Agreement: To nationalization and radicalization of German science milieus in the Czechoslovak Republic 1919-1939. In: Historical Social Research 31 (2006 ), pp. 236-262.
  • The German "Expulsion losses " - The history of the "Documentation of the expulsion ." In: Tel Aviv Yearbook 35 (2007 ), pp. 251-272.
  • Демографическая конструкция " потерь от изгнания ": состояние исследования, проблемы, перспективы. In: Европа 24 (2007 ), pp. 113-133.
  • The German " expulsion losses <- status of research, contexts and problems in origins, types and consequences of the construct " population " before, during and after the " Third Reich ". In: origins, types and consequences of the construct " population " before, during and after the "Third Reich" History of the German population science. Springer 2009, ISBN 978-3-531-16152-5.
  • Population balances "and" expulsion losses. To the History of Science of the German victims of expulsion and flight information. In: The Challenge of Population: about developments of modern thought about the population before, during and after the Third Reich. Publisher of Social Sciences, 2007, ISBN 978-3-531-15556-2.
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