Clemens Vollnhals (born 26 January 1956) is a German contemporary historian and a specialist of the

Conservative Revolution The Conservative Revolution (german: Konservative Revolution), also known as the German neoconservative movement or new nationalism, was a German national-conservative movement prominent during the Weimar Republic, in the years 1918–1933 (betw ...

denazification Denazification (german: link=yes, Entnazifizierung) was an Allied initiative to rid German and Austrian society, culture, press, economy, judiciary, and politics of the Nazi ideology following the Second World War. It was carried out by remov ...

, State security and

political justice ''Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and its Influence on Morals and Happiness'' is a 1793 book by the philosopher William Godwin, in which the author outlines his political philosophy. It is the first modern work to expound anarchism. Backg ...

Life and career

From 1976 to 1981, Vollnhals studied modern and contemporary history, social and economic history, as well as political science at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. He earned a PhD in

contemporary history Contemporary history, in English-language historiography, is a subset of modern history that describes the historical period from approximately 1945 to the present. Contemporary history is either a subset of the late modern period, or it is ...

in 1987 in the same university, after a doctoral thesis under the supervision of Friedrich Prinz on the

of the

Protestant Church Protestantism is a branch of Christianity that follows the theological tenets of the Protestant Reformation, a movement that began seeking to reform the Catholic Church from within in the 16th century against what its followers perceived to b ...

after

WWII World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

. Since 1996, he has been Deputy Director of the

Hannah Arendt Institute for the Research on Totalitarianism The Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarianism Studies (German: ''Hannah-Arendt-Institut für Totalitarismusforschung'', abbreviated HAIT) is a research institute hosted by Dresden University of Technology and devoted to the comparative analysis ...

Dresden Dresden (, ; Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; wen, label=Upper Sorbian, Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and its second most populous city, after Leipzig. It is the 12th most populous city of Germany, the fourth larg ...

. From 2003 to 2006, he was a lecturer at

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, and then until 2009 at

Sofia University Sofia University, "St. Kliment Ohridski" at the University of Sofia, ( bg, Софийски университет „Св. Климент Охридски“, ''Sofijski universitet „Sv. Kliment Ohridski“'') is the oldest higher education i ...

Works

* ''Evangelische Kirche und Entnazifizierung 1945–1949. Die Last der nationalsozialistischen Vergangenheit'' (= ''Studien zur Zeitgeschichte.'' Band 36). München 1989 iss. München 1986 * ''Entnazifizierung und Selbstreinigung im Urteil der evangelischen Kirche. Dokumente und Reflexionen 1945-1949'' (= ''Studienbücher zur kirchlichen Zeitgeschichte.'' Band 8). München 1989. * ''Entnazifizierung. Politische Säuberung und Rehabilitierung in den vier Besatzungszonen 1945–1949.'' München 1991. * ''„In der DDR gibt es keine Zensur“.

Evangelische Verlagsanstalt The Evangelische Verlagsanstalt (EVA) is a denominational media company founded in Berlin in 1946. Its shareholders are the and the Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Saxony. The managing director is Sebastian Knöfel. Book publisher The range inc ...

und die Praxis der Druckgenehmigung 1954–1989.'' Leipzig 1995 (with Siegfried Bräuer). * ''Der Fall Havemann. Ein Lehrstück politischer Justiz.'' Berlin 1998 (Leseprobe
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References

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