Wolfgang Benz

Wolfgang Benz (born 9 June 1941 in Ellwangen ) is a German historian of contemporary history and internationally recognized representatives of the research on prejudice, antisemitism research and the Nazi research. He taught until 2011 at the Technical University of Berlin and led from 1990 to 2011 the associated Center for Research on Antisemitism, whose yearbook he edited until 2011.

Training and activities

Benz studied history, political science and art history in Frankfurt am Main, Kiel and Munich. He received his doctorate in 1968 with Karl Bosl at the Ludwig- Maximilians- University of Munich with the topic Southern Germany during the Weimar Republic ( internal politics 1918-1923 ). From 1969 to 1990 he was a research associate at the Institute for Contemporary History in Munich.

In 1985 he founded with the Dachau books and gives it out ever since. In 1986, he took a visiting professorship at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. In 1992 he received the Scholl Prize and the Prize The Political Book of the Friedrich -Ebert -Stiftung. Since 1992 he is the magazine of History (1953), since 2001, the Handbook of German history with out. He works frequently with the Federal Centre for Political Education. In 2007 he was a visiting professor at the Sir Peter Ustinov Institute for Research and combat prejudice at the University of Vienna. In the Fischer -Verlag, he publishes the paperback series " European History ". Benz is also editor of the series "Life Pictures - Jewish memories and Zeignisse ", which appears as part of the Black series since 1991 in Fischer -Verlag.

On 21 October 2010 he became Professor Emeritus and received the Golden Badge of Honour of the Technical University of Berlin, however, was still in office until March 2011. His successor was the historian Stefanie student Springorum.

In 2012 he was awarded the prize Against Forgetting - For Democracy for his services "for the culture of remembrance in Germany and his social commitment against prejudice and against xenophobia ".

Controversies

2008 Benz launched a one-day conference at the Berlin Center for Research on Antisemitism to the " ratio of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia ." Authors such as Daniel Goldhagen, Matthias Küntzel and Clemens Heni criticized the program announced in the comparison in advance as equating and to blur qualitative differences between the two structures of prejudice and thus in danger of leveling the specifics of the Holocaust.

Beginning of 2010, declared Benz in conjunction with the Swiss minaret controversy: " anti-Semites of the 19th century, and some Islam critics ' of the 21st century work by similar means at their enemy. " 's Flat discrimination against Muslims was a " declaration of war against tolerance and democracy." Disagreed among others Julius H. Schoeps, Ulrich W. Sahm and Henryk M. Broder. Micha Brumlik and Norbert Frei, however Benz gave regarding the social psychological comparability of today's Islamophobia with anti-Semitism in the late 19th and early 20th century law.

Writings (selection )

  • Potsdam 1945. Occupation rule and rebuilding in the four-zone Germany. German Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich, 1986; 4th edition 2005, ISBN 3-423-34230-7.
  • Domination and Society in the National Socialist State. Studies on the structure and history of mentalities. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1990, ISBN 3-596-24435-8.
  • The Holocaust. Beck, Munich 1995; 7th edition 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-39822-3.
  • History of the Third Reich. Beck, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-406-46765-2.
  • Pictures of the Jews. Studies of everyday anti-Semitism. Beck, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-406-47575-2 ( Review by Susanne Benöhr h- soz - cult).
  • What is antisemitism? Federal Agency for Civic Education, Bonn 2004, ISBN 3-89331-562-4 ( review ).
  • The 101 most important questions. The Third Reich. Beck, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-406-54142-9; 3rd edition 2012, ISBN 978-3-406-64907-3.
  • Expulsion, genocide. Genocide in the 20th century. German Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-423-34370-2.
  • The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. The Legend of the Jewish world conspiracy. Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-53613-7.
  • Order democracy. The founding history of the Federal Republic and the emergence of the GDR from 1945 to 1949. Metropol, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-940938-42-8 ISBN 3-940938-42-4 or
  • The enemies from the East. As the fear of Muslims our democracy at risk. Beck, München 2010; 2nd edition, 2013, ISBN 978-3-406-66260-7.
  • German Jews in the 20th century: a history in portraits. Beck, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-406-62292-2.
  • Anti-Semitism and " criticism of Islam ". Metropol, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-86331-012-7, DNB 1010076876, LCCN 2011-494703.
  • Rush to the West? For the perception of Islam in Western society ( = Vienna Lectures at City Hall. Band 170). Picus, Vienna, 2013, ISBN 978-3-85452-570-7.
  • Responses to the Holocaust. Anti-Semitism, anti-Zionism and philo-Semitism. In: Grandstand. Magazine for the understanding of Judaism. Volume 37, Tribune, Berlin 1998, No. 148, ISSN 0041-2716.
  • Silence, Deny, Cope. Dealing with the Nazi past. In: Claudia Brunner, Uwe von Seltmann: silence the perpetrators, speaking grandson. Books Gutenberg, Frankfurt am Main 2004, pp. 175-190, ISBN 3-7632-5443-9; in paperback: Fischer TB 16760, Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 978-3-596-16760-9.
  • Article Semitism and anti-Semitism Research, version 1.0, in: Docupedia - time story, published on 11 February 2010
  • Between anti-Semitism and philo-Semitism. Jews in the Federal Republic. Metropol, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-926893-10-9.
  • Salzgitter. History and the presence of a German town 1942-1992. Beck, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-406-35573-0.
  • Germany under Allied occupation 1945-1949/55. A handbook. Academy, Berlin 1999, ISBN 978-3-05-003148-4.
  • Angelika Königseder: hostility toward Jews as a paradigm: Studies of the research on prejudice. Metropol, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-936411-09-3.
  • Survival in the Third Reich. Jews in the subsurface and their helpers. Beck, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-406-51029-9 ( Review, Institute for Peace Education Tübingen eV).
  • Self-assertion and the opposition. Church as a place of resistance against government dictatorship. Metropol, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-936411-32-8.
  • The hatred against the Jews. Dimensions and forms of anti-Semitism ( = positions, perspectives, diagnoses. Volume 2). Metropol, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938690-82-6.
  • Angelika Königseder: The Dachau concentration camp. History and Impact of Nazi repression. Metropol, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-940938-10-7.
  • Handbook of anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitism in the past and present. 7 volumes planned in about 9 part volumes. De Gruyter / K. G. Saur, Berlin. Have been published: Volume 1: countries and regions. 2008, ISBN 978-3-598-24071-3; revised edition 2010, ISBN 978-3-11-023510-4.
  • Volume 2: people. 2 vols. 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-24072-0 (A- K); ISBN 978-3-598-24072-0 (L- Z).
  • Volume 3: concepts, ideologies, theories. 2010, ISBN 978-3-598-24074-4.
  • Volume 4: events, decrees, controversy. 2011, ISBN 978-3-598-24076-8.
  • Volume 5: Organizations. 2012, ISBN 978-3-598-24078-2.
  • Volume 6: Fonts and periodicals. 2013, ISBN 978-3-11-025872-1.
  • With Hermann Graml: Aspects of German foreign policy in the 20th century. Essays Hans Rothfels to memory. German publishing house, Stuttgart 1976, ISBN 3-421-01783-2.
  • With Hermann Graml, Hermann White: Encyclopedia of National Socialism German Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 1997; 5th edition, Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart / dtv, München 2007, ISBN 978-3-423-34408-1.
  • With Barbara Distel and Angelika Königseder ( editors ): The place of terror. History of the Nazi concentration camp. 9 volumes. Beck, Munich 2005-2009, ISBN 978-3-406-52960-3 ( review; Content tab ). 1: The organization of terror. Co-editor Angelika Königseder. 2005; Second edition 2006, ISBN 3-406-52961-5, 394 pages.
  • 2: Early camp, Dachau, Emslandlager. 2005, ISBN 3-406-52962-3, 607 pages.
  • 3: Sachsenhausen, Buchenwald. 2006, ISBN 3-406-52963-1, 660 pages.
  • 4: Flossenbiirg, Mauthausen, Ravensbruck. 2006, ISBN 3-406-52964- X, 644 pages.
  • 5: Hinzert, Auschwitz, Neuengamme. 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-52965-8, 591 pages.
  • 6: Stutthof, Gross-Rosen, Natzweiler. 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-52966-5, 840 pages.
  • 7: Wewelsburg, Majdanek, working village, Duke (Vught ), Bergen- Belsen, Mittelbau- Dora. 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-52967-2, 360 pages.
  • 8: Riga, Warsaw, Kaunas, Vaivara, Plaszów, Klooga, Chelmno, Belzec, Treblinka, Sobibor. 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-57237-1, 576 pages.
  • 9: labor education camps, transit camps, ghettos, detention camp, special bearing, gypsy camps, forced labor camps. 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-57238-8, 656 pages.
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