Alfred Schickel is a German revisionist

Historical revisionism

In historiography, historical revisionism is the reinterpretation of orthodox views on evidence, motivations, and decision-making processes surrounding a historical event...

 historian and Scientific Director of the Zeitgeschichtliche Forschungsstelle Ingolstadt

Zeitgeschichtliche Forschungsstelle Ingolstadt

The Zeitgeschichtliche Forschungsstelle Ingolstadt e. V. is a historical revisionist association located in Dunsdorf, Bavaria.-Political orientation:The ZFI was founded in 1981 and shaped by Alfred Schickel, Hellmut...

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Life

Schickel attended Kolleg St. Blasien

Kolleg St. Blasien

The Kolleg St. Blasien is a state-recognised private Gymnasium and Catholic school with boarding facilities for boys and girls. It is situated in the town of St. Blasien in the German Black Forest. The school has 850 students, 300 of whom are boarders, and is led by members of the Jesuit order...

, a Jesuit school, from 1947 till graduating in 1954 and studied history and philosophy in Munich

Munich

Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...

. After finishing his studies he taught at a private school in Ingolstadt

Ingolstadt

Ingolstadt is a city in the Free State of Bavaria, in the Federal Republic of Germany. It is located along the banks of the Danube River, in the center of Bavaria. As at 31 March 2011, Ingolstadt had 125.407 residents...

. In 1966 Schickel earned a doctorate in Ancient History

Ancient history

Ancient history is the study of the written past from the beginning of recorded human history to the Early Middle Ages. The span of recorded history is roughly 5,000 years, with Cuneiform script, the oldest discovered form of coherent writing, from the protoliterate period around the 30th century BC...

 with a dissertation on Roman legal history

Roman law

Roman law is the legal system of ancient Rome, and the legal developments which occurred before the 7th century AD — when the Roman–Byzantine state adopted Greek as the language of government. The development of Roman law comprises more than a thousand years of jurisprudence — from the Twelve...

. His research has since focused on contemporary history

Contemporary history

Contemporary history describes the period timeframe that is without any intervening time closely connected to the present and is a certain perspective of modern history. The term "contemporary history" has been in use at least by the early 19th century. In the widest context of this use,...

, particularly the history of Central Europe. From 1974 till 1995 he was head of a Catholic

Catholic

The word catholic comes from the Greek phrase , meaning "on the whole," "according to the whole" or "in general", and is a combination of the Greek words meaning "about" and meaning "whole"...

 educational institution, the Katholisches Bildungswerk Ingolstadt.

Schickel, a Sudeten German, experienced the expulsion of Germans after World War II

Expulsion of Germans after World War II

The later stages of World War II, and the period after the end of that war, saw the forced migration of millions of German nationals and ethnic Germans from various European states and territories, mostly into the areas which would become post-war Germany and post-war Austria...

 and came as a refugee to West Germany. Nominated by the Bavarian government he was decorated with the Federal Cross of Merit in 1989. The award was criticized by the leading German newsmagazine "Der Spiegel

Der Spiegel

Der Spiegel is a German weekly news magazine published in Hamburg. It is one of Europe's largest publications of its kind, with a weekly circulation of more than one million.-Overview:...

" as Schickel was allegedly working towards an exculpation of Nazism. Heinz Nawratil

Heinz Nawratil

Heinz Nawratil is a German lawyer, legal author and human rights activist.After World War II Nawratil settled in Bavaria, West Germany, where he grew up in Miesbach. He studied law, earned a doctorate and worked as a civil law notary. He has written legal textbooks which have been printed in over...

 wrote a "A 'Diatribe' in Honor of Dr. Alfred Schickel" published in the Journal of Historical Review

Journal of Historical Review

The Journal of Historical Review is a non-peer reviewed serial, periodical, or journal published by the Institute for Historical Review in Torrance, California. Its subject is primarily Holocaust denial...

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Schickel has written an obituary

Obituary

An obituary is a news article that reports the recent death of a person, typically along with an account of the person's life and information about the upcoming funeral. In large cities and larger newspapers, obituaries are written only for people considered significant...

 for Hellmut Diwald

Hellmut Diwald

Hellmut Diwald was a German historian and Professor of Medieval and Modern History at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg from 1965 to 1985....

, published in the far-right National Zeitung

National Zeitung

The National Zeitung - Deutsche Wochen Zeitung is a weekly newspaper, published by Gerhard Frey, who also founded the far right Deutsche Volksunion in 1971....

 and Criticon.

Honours

• Egon-Schwarz-Preis für Publizistik (1986)
• Dr. Walter-Eckhardt-Ehrengabe für Zeitgeschichtsforschung (1986)
• Kulturpreis für Wissenschaft der Sudetendeutschen Landsmannschaft (1989)
• Bismarck-Medaille
• Federal Cross of Merit (1989).

External links

• Heinz Nawratil
  Heinz Nawratil
  Heinz Nawratil is a German lawyer, legal author and human rights activist.After World War II Nawratil settled in Bavaria, West Germany, where he grew up in Miesbach. He studied law, earned a doctorate and worked as a civil law notary. He has written legal textbooks which have been printed in over...
  
  : A "Diatribe" in Honor of Dr. Alfred Schickel, in: The Journal of Historical Review
  Journal of Historical Review
  The Journal of Historical Review is a non-peer reviewed serial, periodical, or journal published by the Institute for Historical Review in Torrance, California. Its subject is primarily Holocaust denial...
  
  , vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 118–122.