Jochen Böhler

Jochen Böhler
Böhler, 2009
Born	1969 Rheinfelden (Baden)
Nationality	German
Education	University of Cologne
Occupation	Historian
Known for	World War II research

Jochen Böhler listen

. His main thesis on the beginning of WWII and the end of WWI in Eastern Europe has been discussed vividly in German, English, and Polish academic circles.

Childhood

Böhler grew up in

Professional career

Böhler obtained a

for educational purposes.

He is a member of the German Committee for the History of the Second World War and of the Working Group on Military History. From 2000 to 2010 he has worked in the

Böhler also worked from 2006 to 2009 as a historical expert for the State Social Court of North Rhine-Westphalia on cases concerning the Ghetto Pension Act and was a co-signatory of the Historians' Appeal,[5] which warned of "worrying misguided developments" with regard to the interpretation of the law by German pension funds.^[6] In 2008/2009 he was a consulting historian for the ARD production Der Überfall^[7] and in 2009/2010 he was a research assistant at the Independent Commission of Historians for the Investigation of the History of the Foreign Office during the National Socialist Era and in the Federal Republic of Germany as well as co-author of the corresponding research volume Das Amt und die Vergangenheit.^[8]

As research associate at the Imre Kertész Kolleg, Jochen Böhler headed (since 2010) the research area “War, Violence and Oppression”, and co-headed (with Robert Gerwarth, University College Dublin) the research project “The Waffen-SS: A European History”, which focused on the non-German ‘volunteers’ this paramilitary ‘Nazi elite formation’ recruited – often by force – in whole Europe from Spain to the Soviet Union and from Norway to Italy. An expert in Shoah and perpetrator studies, from 2010 onwards he extended his expertise to the First World War and its violent aftermath in Central and Eastern Europe. In Winter 2017/18, he taught these combined fields of knowledge as Invited Professor at the Chaire d’excellence, LabEx EHNE (“Writing a New History of Europe”), Research strand 5: The Europe of Wars and the Traces of War, at Sorbonne University, Paris. Several of his books have been translated into English and Polish, thus popularizing the violent history of Central Europe in the 20th century for a broader Western and Eastern European audience. From 2019 to 2022, Jochen Böhler was acting chair (chair holder: Prof. Joachim von Puttkamer) for Eastern European History at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena.^[9] Since October 2022, he is the director of the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies.^[10]

Books and publications

• Böhler, Jochen (2020), (ed. with
  ISBN 978-1-78920-939-6
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• Böhler, Jochen (2020), (ed. with
  ISBN 978-3-11-067213-8
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• Böhler, Jochen (2020), (ed. with
  ISBN 978-3-86331-523-8
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• Böhler, Jochen (2018), Civil War in Central Europe: The Reconstruction of Poland, 1918-1921. Oxford: Oxford University Press,
  ISBN 978-0-19-879448-6
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• Böhler, Jochen (2018), (ed. with
  ISBN 9781580469296
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• Böhler, Jochen (2017), (ed. with
  ISBN 9781580469296
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• Böhler, Jochen (2013), (ed. with
  ISBN 978-3863311384
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• Böhler, Jochen (2012), (ed. with
  ISBN 978-3-938400-70-8
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• Böhler, Jochen (2010), (ed. with
  ISBN 978-3-938400-51-7
  .
• Böhler, Jochen (2009), Der Überfall. Deutschlands Krieg gegen Polen. Frankfurt: Eichborn,
  ISBN 3-821-85706-4
  .
• Böhler, Jochen (2008), (with
  ISBN 978-3-534-21353-5
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• Böhler, Jochen (2006), Auftakt zum Vernichtungskrieg. Die Wehrmacht in Polen 1939, Schriftenreihe der
  ISBN 3-596-16307-2
  .
• Böhler, Jochen (2005), "Größte Härte…" Verbrechen der Wehrmacht in Polen September–Oktober 1939. Ausstellungskatalog, Hamburg: Fibre,
  ISBN 3-938400-07-2
  .

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