Dr. Niklas Krawinkel

Research Associate, Chair on the History and Impact of the Holocaust

Niklas Krawinkel has been a Research Associate at the Chair for Research on the History and Impact of the Holocaust at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main since 2018. At the Fritz Bauer Institute, he is working on a research project on the history of right-wing radicalism in Germany since 1945.

He studied modern and contemporary history, medieval history and sociology at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Humboldt University Berlin and the University of Potsdam. From 2013 to 2018, he worked on a research project funded by the city of Tübingen on Hans Gmelin, the postwar mayor of Tübingen and former »SA Standartenführer«, Nazi diplomat and legal advisor dispatched to Slovakia. In 2018, he received his doctorate from Philipps University Marburg with his thesis Hans Gmelin 1911–1991. Betrachtungen zu Nationalsozialismus und Demokratie, Gemeinschaft und Ausgrenzung.

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Research Interests

• History of racism and right-wing radicalism in Germany
• History of National Socialism and its aftermath
• History of German foreign policy and »Volkstumspolitik« (ethnopolicy) in East Central Europe under National Socialism

Current Research Project

• »Alien to the community« in Germany after 1945. Population policy ideas of the extreme right and violence against the marginalized
• Right-wing extremism in Germany after 1945

Selected Publications

• Belastung als Chance. Hans Gmelins politische Karriere im Nationalsozialismus und in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Göttingen 2020.
• »Opfer und Überlebende sind keine Statisten«. Das Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt/M. thematisiert die Perspektive von Betroffenen rassistischer Gewalt, in: Zeitgeschichte-online, February 2019, https://zeitgeschichte-online.de/geschichtskultur/opfer-und-ueberlebende-sind-keine-statisten.
• »Rassismus und Gemeinschaftserfahrung. Biographische Einblicke in die Juden- und Volkstumspolitik in der Slowakei 1941–1945«, in: Jörg Osterloh, Katharina Rauschenberger (Eds.), Der Holocaust. Neue Studien zu Tathergängen, Reaktionen und Aufarbeitungen, Frankfurt am Main 2017, pp. 121–139.