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Volker Ullrich (born 21 June 1943) is a German historian, journalist and author.
Career
Volker Ullrich was born in
Celle
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,
Lower Saxony
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,
Germany
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.
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(PDF; 124 kB), University of Jena
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, 8 December 2008. Retrieved 22 April 2013. He studied history, literature, philosophy and education at the
University of Hamburg
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. From 1966 to 1969 he was assistant to the Egmont Zechlin Professor. He graduated in 1975 after a
dissertation on the
Hamburg
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labour movement
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of the early 20th Century, after which he worked as a school teacher in Hamburg. He was, for a time, a lecturer in politics at the
Lüneburg University
Lüneburg (officially the ''Hanseatic City of Lüneburg'', German: ''Hansestadt Lüneburg'', , Low German ''Lümborg'', Latin ''Luneburgum'' or ''Lunaburgum'', Old High German ''Luneburc'', Old Saxon ''Hliuni'', Polabian ''Glain''), also called ...
, and in 1988 he became a
research fellow
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at Hamburg's Foundation for 20th-Century Social History.
In 1990 Ullrich became the head of the political section of the weekly newspaper ''
Die Zeit
''Die Zeit'' (, "The Time") is a German national weekly newspaper published in Hamburg in Germany. The newspaper is generally considered to be among the German newspapers of record and is known for its long and extensive articles.
History
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''Zeit Online
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History
Th ...
''. Retrieved 22 April 2013.
Ullrich has published articles and books on 19th- and 20th-century history. In 1996 he reviewed the
thesis
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postulated in
Daniel Goldhagen
Daniel Jonah Goldhagen (born June 30, 1959) is an American author, and former associate professor of government and social studies at Harvard University. Goldhagen reached international attention and broad criticism as the author of two controver ...
's book ''
Hitler's Willing Executioners
''Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust'' is a 1996 book by American writer Daniel Goldhagen, in which he argues that the vast majority of ordinary Germans were "willing executioners" in the Holocaust because of a uniq ...
'' that provoked fresh debate among historians.
[Schneider, Michael: ''The Goldhagen Debate – an historical dispute in the media''. Discussion group history vol. 17, ]Bonn
The federal city of Bonn ( lat, Bonna) is a city on the banks of the Rhine in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, with a population of over 300,000. About south-southeast of Cologne, Bonn is in the southernmost part of the Rhine-Ruhr r ...
, 1997.
German text online
.
In 1992 he was awarded the
Alfred Kerr Prize for
literary criticism
Literary criticism (or literary studies) is the study, evaluation, and interpretation of literature. Modern literary criticism is often influenced by literary theory, which is the philosophical discussion of literature's goals and methods. Th ...
,
and, in 2008, received an
honorary doctorate
An honorary degree is an academic degree for which a university (or other degree-awarding institution) has waived all of the usual requirements. It is also known by the Latin phrases ''honoris causa'' ("for the sake of the honour") or ''ad hon ...
from the
University of Jena
The University of Jena, officially the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (german: Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, abbreviated FSU, shortened form ''Uni Jena''), is a public research university located in Jena, Thuringia, Germany.
The un ...
.
Publications (selection)
*''The Hamburg labour movement from the eve of the First World War to the
Revolution of 1918''. Luedke, University of Hamburg, dissertation 1976
*''The Nervous Superpower: the rise and fall of the
German Empire
The German Empire (),Herbert Tuttle wrote in September 1881 that the term "Reich" does not literally connote an empire as has been commonly assumed by English-speaking people. The term literally denotes an empire – particularly a hereditary ...
from 1871 to 1918''.
S. Fischer,
Frankfurt
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1997,
*''
Napoleon
Napoleon Bonaparte ; it, Napoleone Bonaparte, ; co, Napulione Buonaparte. (born Napoleone Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French military commander and political leader who ...
. A biography''.
Rowohlt Verlag
Rowohlt Verlag is a German publishing house based in Hamburg, with offices in Reinbek and Berlin. It has been part of the Georg von Holtzbrinck Group since 1982. The company was created in 1908 in Leipzig by Ernst Rowohlt.
Divisions
* Kinder
* ...
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Reinbek
Reinbek (; probably from "Rainbek" = brook at the field margin; Northern Low Saxon: ''Reinbeek'') is a town located in Stormarn (district), Stormarn district in the northern Germany, German state of Schleswig-Holstein within the metropolitan regio ...
2004,
*''Bismarck (Life & Times)''.
Haus Publishing
Haus Publishing is a London-based publishing company which was established in 2002.
History
Haus Publishing was founded in 2002 by Barbara Schwepcke, the former publisher of '' Prospect'' magazine. The publisher has a book shop, BookHaus, on th ...
2008,
*''The
Kreisauer Circle''. Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek 2008,
*''
Hitler - A Biography, Volume 1: Ascent 1889-1939''.
S. Fischer Verlag 2013, (German edition). English translation: London
The Bodley Head
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2016,
*''
Hitler - A Biography, Volume 2: Downfall 1939-45'' London
The Bodley Head
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2020,
* ''Eight Days in May: The Final Collapse of the Third Reich'', Liveright, 2021
References
External links
"Volker Ullrich" German National Library
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1943 births
Living people
People from Celle
German journalists
German male journalists
German newspaper journalists
University of Hamburg alumni
German male writers
20th-century German historians
21st-century German historians
Historians of Germany
Die Zeit people