German Greif ( 1902 - 1945 ) - German historian and intellectual, one of the prominent Nazi Soviet scholars .
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Content
- 1 Biography
- 2 Career under the Nazis
- 3 During the war
- 4 Works
- 5 notes
Biography
He graduated from high school in Moscow and in 1921 moved to Germany . Until 1925 he studied agriculture , which he defended his diploma [1] . In 1932 he joined the NSDAP (party ticket 290,444).
In 1933, Greif defended his Ph.D. thesis (in dairy farming), and in June 1938 he defended his doctoral dissertation at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Königsberg on the topic of “The Scientific Study of Marxism and Bolshevism,” and Bolko von became a consultant to his doctoral dissertation. Richthofen .
Nazi Career
Since 1933, assistant professor at the Higher German School of Politics in Berlin . With the name of Greif, an adherent of National Socialist ideology, there are permutations in German higher education and the expert community. So Greif took the university place of the most prominent specialist in Eastern Europe and Russia, Otto Götzsch (1876–1946), a liberal who was forcibly dismissed from his post. This story began with the scandal that Greif created by submitting to the Dean of Berlin University a statement stating that, under the leadership of Goetzsch, the Polish Jew Haller writes a paper on the situation of Jews in the USSR, which clearly does not correspond to the NSDAP line [2] .
Greifé's career, meanwhile, was developing. Starting to collaborate in the Anti-Comintern (a propaganda structure under the auspices of the Imperial Ministry of Propaganda ) as an assistant to the head of the organization, Adolf Erth , Greif was a member of the Board of Trustees from July 1934, and from November 1934 to November 1936. - Head of the Institute for Scientific Research of the USSR . From there he moved to the Wannsee Institute , where in 1936-1937 he was was the manager of affairs [3] , and from September 1938 to 1940. - Deputy Scientific Director of the Institute Mikhail Akhmeteli .
During his work in these think tanks Greif created a number of works devoted to the ideology and political philosophy of the Soviet Union, as well as the history of Soviet statehood and a number of plots of contemporary Soviet reality.
On September 11, 1938, he joined the SS (number 997 868) as an Untersturmführer , and by the end of his life he had the rank of Obersturmbannführer .
In the years 1940-1943. Associate Professor of Ethnology and Regional Studies at the Faculty of Foreign Studies of the University of Berlin , also led a seminar on the USSR.
During the war
During the war years, he was a consultant to the Dabendorf propaganda training camp , which worked with prisoners of war and defectors in order to attract them to the ranks of the so-called. Russian liberation movement.
At the end of the war, he led the Vineta propaganda service of the East Division of the Imperial Ministry of Propaganda
Compositions
- Die Verschleißspanne bei Trinkmilch unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Einwirkungsmöglichkeiten des Reichsmilchgesetzes. Berlin, 1933.
- Sowjetforschung. Berlin: Nibelungen-Verl., 1936.
- Zwangsarbeit in der Sowjetunion. Berlin: Nibelungen-Verl., 1936 (brochure, reprinted many times) -> Slave labor in Soviet Russia, 1937. Russian translation: June 2015, PDF .
- Die Klassenkampfpolitik der Sowjetregierung. Berlin: Nibelungen-Verl., 1937 (reprinted) .
- Ist eine Entwicklung der Sowjetunion zum nationalen Staat möglich? Berlin: Junker und Dünnhaupt, 1939.
- Bolschewismus und Staat. Berlin: Junker und Dünnhaupt, 1942.
Notes
- ↑ Botsch G. Politische Wissenschaft "im Zweiten Weltkrieg. Paderborn, 2006. S. 285.
- ↑ Laqueur W. Russia and Germany: A Century of Conflict. New Brunswick (New Jersey), 1990.P. 191-192.
- ↑ Die Berliner Universität in der NS-Zeit: Fachbereiche und Fakultäten. Wiesbaden, 2005.S. 294.