09 Philosophisch-historische Fakultät

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    World chess champion and favourite of Hans Frank? : assessing Alexander Alekhine’s closeness to the National Socialist regime
    (Berlin : Christian Rohrer, 2021) Rohrer, Christian; Pickerill, Emily (Übersetzerin)
    Whether Alexander Alekhine (1892-1946) was a “Nazi” is a question the chess community has been asking for decades. This historiographical study examines the closeness of the fourth world chess champion in history to the National Socialist regime. New archival evidence leads directly to the Generalgouvernement, where Alekhine had a dubious connection to the Generalgouverneur Hans Frank: a chess lover and war criminal at the same time. Relegating Alekhine to one side or the other is misleading, since the contextual, causal, logical and chronological connections are far more complex. In the present study, Alekhine’s steps through Europe during the Second World War are brought into a sufficiently coherent sequence and placed in the relevant, equally specific chess-historical and general historical contexts. The result is a new, highly differentiated view of the last years of Alexander Alekhine’s life.
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    Schachweltmeister und Günstling von Hans Frank? : über die Nähe Alexander Aljechins zum NS-Regime
    (Berlin : Christian Rohrer, 2021) Rohrer, Christian
    Ob Alexander Aljechin (1892-1946) ein „Nazi“ war, fragt sich die Schachcommunity seit Jahrzehnten. Diese geschichtswissenschaftliche Studie untersucht die Nähe des vierten Schachweltmeisters der Geschichte zum NS-Regime. Bislang ungenutzte Archivalia führen direkt ins Generalgouvernement, wo Aljechin in zweifelhafter Verbindung zum Generalgouverneur Hans Frank - ein Schachliebhaber und Kriegsverbrecher gleichermaßen - stand. Eine schlichte Verortung Aljechins auf dieser oder jener Seite jedoch führt in die Irre, die kontextuellen, kausalen, logischen und chronologischen Zusammenhänge sind weitaus vielschichtiger. In der vorliegenden Studie werden Aljechins Spuren durch Europa während des Zweiten Weltkrieges in eine hinreichend schlüssige Abfolge gebracht und in die relevanten, ebenso spezifisch schachgeschichtlichen wie allgemeinen historischen Kontexte eingeordnet. Es entsteht so ein neuer, hochdifferenzierter Blick auf die letzten Lebensjahre von Alexander Aljechin.
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    Uncanny friends : what connected the chess world in the German Reich with the Nazi Regime
    (2024) Rohrer, Christian
    This article asks what connected the Nazi regime and the world of chess in the German Reich. There appeared to be a large distance between the two realms, yet strong links, both direct and mediated, existed between, on the one hand, the Nazi state and the NSDAP, and the Greater German Chess Federation and the Kraft durch Freude chess department. The royal game was transformed from an end in itself into a means to an end, and in return enjoyed manifold support from the National Socialist regime. Nevertheless, it was not possible to turn chess into a quasi-National Socialist game – the significance of Jews in chess could not be erased. With the cultural practice of individual appropriation, however, chess was indeed charged with content that was also highly valued by the National Socialist regime. And it was precisely the rich chess culture that made it susceptible to enrichment with such content.