Jürgen Matthäus Explained

Birth Place:	Dortmund, West Germany
Workplaces:	United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Era:	20th century
Occupation:	Historian, author, editor
Main Interests:	Modern European history, history of the Holocaust
Alma Mater:	University of Bochum

Jürgen Matthäus (born 1959) is a German historian and head of the research department of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. He is an author and editor of multiple works on the history of World War II and the Holocaust. Matthäus was a contributor to Christopher Browning's 2004 work The Origins of the Final Solution.

Education and career

Matthäus studied history and philosophy at the University of Bochum (Germany) where he earned his PhD in 1992. His first book on nation building in Australia before the First World War came out in 1993.^[1] Afterwards, he was senior historian at the Australian Department of Justice in Sydney. Since 1994, he has worked at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., where he currently serves as director of the research department at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies. He has held several guest professorships in the USA, Australia and Germany. He is a member of the international advisory board of the Topography of Terror Foundation (Berlin).

Together with Frank Bajohr, Matthäus edited the political diary of Alfred Rosenberg (English^[2] and German edition^[3]).

Selected works

In English

• Matthäus . Jürgen . Jürgen Matthäus . 0 . 22 December 2023 . 'The last Jew in Vinnitsa': Reframing an Iconic Holocaust Photograph . Holocaust and Genocide Studies . 10.1093/hgs/dcad053.
• Christopher Browning, with contribution by Jürgen Matthäus: The Origins of the Final Solution: The Evolution of Nazi Jewish Policy, September 1939 – March 1942 Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004. .
• Book: Atrocities on Trial: Historical Perspectives on the Politics of Prosecuting War Crimes . Patricia Heberer . Jürgen Matthäus . . 2008 . 978-0-8032-1084-4 . registration .
• Approaching an Auschwitz Survivor: Holocaust Testimony and its Transformations, Oxford University Press, Oxford; New York, NY 2009 (as editor of The Oxford Oral History series).
• Contemporary Responses to the Holocaust, Praeger/Greenwood, 2004, . With Konrad Kwiet.

In German

• Totenkopf und Zebrakleid: ein Berliner Jude in Auschwitz / Erwin R. Tichauer. Bearb. und mit einem Nachw. vers. von Jürgen Matthäus, Metropol, Berlin 2000 (gehört zu: Bibliothek der Erinnerung; Bd. 5)
• Ausbildungsziel Judenmord? : "Weltanschauliche Erziehung" von SS, Polizei und Waffen-SS im Rahmen der "Endlösung", Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verl., Frankfurt am Main 2003
• Deutsche, Juden, Völkermord: der Holocaust als Geschichte und Gegenwart, WBG, Darmstadt 2006 (Editor with Klaus-Michael Mallmann)
• Einsatzgruppen in Polen: Darstellung und Dokumentation, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Stuttgart 2008, (with Klaus-Michael Mallmann und Jochen Böhler)
• Die "Ereignismeldungen UdSSR" 1941. Dokumente der Einsatzgruppen in der Sowjetunion, Edited by Klaus-Michael Mallmann,, Jürgen Matthäus und Martin Cüppers. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 2011,
• Naziverbrechen. Täter, Taten, Bewältigungsversuche, WBG Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 2013 (Editor with Martin Cüppers und Andrej Angrick)

External links

• Web site: Advisory Board. 2016. Topography of Terror. 22 December 2016. .
• Web site: . Profile . 2016 . 22 December 2016 . .
• (In German)

Notes and References

1. Book: Matthäus, Jürgen. Nationsbildung in Australien von den Anfängen weißer Besiedlung bis zum Ersten Weltkrieg (1788-1914). Lang. 1993. 3631464738. Frankfurt am Main; Berlin. 470917597.
2. Book: Bajohr, Frank. The political diary of Alfred Rosenberg and the onset of the Holocaust. Matthäus. Jürgen. Rowman & Littlefield. 2015. 9781442251687. Lanham, Maryland. 920465814.
3. Book: Bajohr, Frank. Alfred Rosenberg. Die Tagebücher von 1934 bis 1944. Matthäus. Jürgen. S. Fischer. 2015. 9783100023872. Frankfurt am Main. 908802181.