Johannes Tuchel (born 20 December 1957) is a German
political scientist
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. He is currently head of the
German Resistance Memorial Centre
The German Resistance Memorial Center (german: Gedenkstätte Deutscher Widerstand) is a memorial and museum in Berlin, capital of Germany. History
It was opened in 1980 in part of the Bendlerblock, a complex of offices in Stauffenbergstrasse (fo ...
(''"Gedenkstätte Deutscher Widerstand"'') museum
and chief executive of the foundation responsible for it.
Life
Tuchel was born in
Hamburg
(male), (female) en, Hamburger(s),
Hamburgian(s)
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. Between 1977 and 1981 he studied
political science
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at
University of Hamburg
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and at the
Free University of Berlin
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where in 1989 he received his doctorate in political science. His dissertation "Concentration Camps: Organisational and Operational History of the Concentration Camp Inspectorate 1934-1938" ''"Konzentrationslager: Organisationsgeschichte und Funktion der "Inspektion der Konzentrationslager" 1934-1938"'') formed the basis for what became a standard work on
concentration camps
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in
Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany (lit. "National Socialist State"), ' (lit. "Nazi State") for short; also ' (lit. "National Socialist Germany") (officially known as the German Reich from 1933 until 1943, and the Greater German Reich from 1943 to 1945) was ...
.
While preparing to submit his dissertation, Tuchel worked as a research assistant at the
German Resistance Memorial Centre
The German Resistance Memorial Center (german: Gedenkstätte Deutscher Widerstand) is a memorial and museum in Berlin, capital of Germany. History
It was opened in 1980 in part of the Bendlerblock, a complex of offices in Stauffenbergstrasse (fo ...
from 1983 to 1987. Between 1988 and 1991 he was employed on memorial presentation by the
Berlin senate
The Senate of Berlin (german: Berliner Senat) is the executive body governing the city of Berlin, which at the same time is a state of Germany. According to the the Senate consists of the Governing Mayor of Berlin and up to ten senators appoin ...
.
Since 1991 he has headed up the
German Resistance Memorial Centre
The German Resistance Memorial Center (german: Gedenkstätte Deutscher Widerstand) is a memorial and museum in Berlin, capital of Germany. History
It was opened in 1980 in part of the Bendlerblock, a complex of offices in Stauffenbergstrasse (fo ...
.
[ Since 1992 he has simultaneously held a teaching post at the Otto Suhr Political Sciences Institute at the ]Free University of Berlin
The Free University of Berlin (, often abbreviated as FU Berlin or simply FU) is a public research university in Berlin, Germany. It is consistently ranked among Germany's best universities, with particular strengths in political science and t ...
, being promoted to the status of Privatdozent
''Privatdozent'' (for men) or ''Privatdozentin'' (for women), abbreviated PD, P.D. or Priv.-Doz., is an academic title conferred at some European universities, especially in German-speaking countries, to someone who holds certain formal qualific ...
in 2001, and becoming Professor for Political and Social Sciences at the Free University in 2007.
As both an author and as editor-compiler, Tuchel has published various books and other contributions on the resistance to National Socialism and the Nazi concentration camp network.
References
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German political scientists
Historians of the Holocaust
Academic staff of the Free University of Berlin
1957 births
20th-century German historians
21st-century German historians
Writers from Hamburg
University of Hamburg alumni
Free University of Berlin alumni
German male non-fiction writers
Living people