Rainer Karlsch (born 3 April 1957) is a German historian and author.
Karlsch was born in Stendal. He studied economic history at the Humboldt University of Berlin. He graduated in 1986 as a Doctor of Economics.
From 1992-1994, assistant to the Historical commission on Berlin (Historischen Kommission zu Berlin).
From 1995-1998, assistant to a key DFG [Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft German Research Foundation program.
Since 1999, assistant to Institute for economic policy and economic history of the Free University of Berlin.
Together with the TV journalist Heiko Petermann, he investigated intensively the four-year history of German atomic research. They were supported by international historians, physicists and radio chemists. In 2005, he published his controversial book Hitlers Bombe, in which he argued Nazi Germany may have secretly developed and tested a nuclear weapon. Other historians [who?] have disputed his claims.
He is a winner of the Stinnes Award.
Bibliography:
- Sowjetische Demontagen in Deutschland 1944-1949. Hintergründe, Ziele und Wirkungen. (Zeitgeschichtliche Forschungen; ZFF 17) - ISBN 3-428-10739-X
- Allein bezahlt? Die Reparationsleistungen der SBZ/DDR 1945-53, Ch. Links Verlag 1993 - ISBN 3-86153-054-6, reprint: Elbe-Dnepr Verlag 2004 ISBN 3-933395-51-8
- Faktor Öl: Die Mineralölwirtschaft in Deutschland 1859-1974 - ISBN 3-406-50276-8
- Urangeheimnisse (Uranium secrets) - ISBN 3-86153-276-X
- Hitlers Bombe (Hitler's Bomb) - ISBN 3-421-05809-1, released on March 14, 2005
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainer_Karlsch
Rainer Karlsch
Institute of Contemporary History Munich-Berlin
Valik teadusartikleid ja publikatsioone 1999-2018:
- Comparaison de la reconstruction de l'industrie chimique en Allemagne de l'Ouest et de l'Est, 1945-1949
Article Jan 1999
- Vom „Karthago-Frieden” zum Besatzungspragmatismus Wandlungen der sowjetischen Reparationspolitik und ihre Umsetzung 1945/46: Deutschland im internationalen Kräftefeld und die Sowjetische Besatzungszone (1945/46) Dec 1999
- Capacity losses, reconstruction, and unfinished modernization: The chemical industry in the Soviet Zone of Occupation (SBZ)/GDR, 1945–1965
Jan 2000
- The Chemistry Must Be Right: 1990-2000: The Privatization of Buna Sow Leuna Olefinverbund GmbH
Article May 2003
- New light on Hitler's bomb
Article Jun 2005
-Kurt Starke und das Element 93: Wurde die Suche nach den Transuranen verzögert?
Jan 2007
- Stalin, the bluff and the bomb - The confusion surrounding the first Soviet atomic test
Article Dec 2007
- Uranium matters: Central European uranium in international politics, 1900-1960
Book Jan 2008
- Red Prometheus. Engineering and Dictatorship in East Germany 1945–1990 by Dolores L. Augustine
Article Jan 2009
- Die Außenstelle Oberschlema und die Kriegsforschungsaufträge des KWI für Biophysik
Mar 2011
- Sowjetische Missionen auf der Suche nach den Hinterlassenschaften der österreichischen Kernphysik
Dec 2012
- A staged suicide: Did Hitler's "last great white hope", SS Lieutenant General Hans Kammler, survive the war?
Article Jan 2014
- Das Milliardengeschäft der Hoechst AG mit der DDR-Chemieindustrie von 1976
Article Sep 2018
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