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Search Holocaust Denial on Trial HOME ABOUT RESOURCES CONTACT US FUNKE: DAVID IRVING, HOLOCAUST DENIAL, AND HIS CONNECTIONS TO RIGHT WING EXTREMISTS AND NEO-NATIONAL SOCIALISM (NEO-NAZISM) IN GERMANY SEND TO VOYANT 1. Introduction Back to Table of Contents Next Chapter Jump to Chapter Section 1.1 Professional qualifications of the author 1.1.1 I am professor of politics and culture at the Political Science Institute [Otto-Suhr Institute] of the Free University of Berlin. 1.1.2 I was born in 1944 in Guhrau in Silesia. High school completed in 1964, I served my military service from 1964 to 1966. In 1971 I gained my diploma in political science at the Free University, where I became a part-time teaching assistant at the Political Science Institute from 1971 to 1976. I gained my Ph. D. on the political sociology of work-conditions, with special reference to Frederic W. Taylor [summa cum laude]. From 1977 to 1983 I was awarded a research fellowship at the Science Centre, Berlin to undertake empirical research on industrial relations. 1.1.3 In 1984 I took the German postdoctoral thesis [‘Habilitation’], with a lecture on the theory and history of German anti-Semitism.. From 1983 to 1986 I undertook further research and held guest-professorships at the Technical University of Copenhagen [Tekniske Hojskole], the University of Linz in Austria, and the Darmstadt College [Fachhochschule]. From 1986 to 1988 I researched the conditions of Jewish emigration from Nazi-Germany. From 1988 to 1989 I held a guest-professorship [Vertretungsprofessur] of the Alexander Schwan chair of political philosophy, the Free University Berlin. From 1989 to 1992 I was the German Academic Exchange Service [Deutsche Akademische Austausch Dienst] professor of German Area Studies at University College Berkeley, California, specialising on modern history, German literature, and politics. 1.1.4 Since 1993 I have held my current chair as professor of political science (politics and culture) at Free University Berlin. My main fields of interest are right-wing extremism, ethno-centric nationalism, and social prejudice with case-studies of Bosnia and Kosovo, Southeast Europe. 1.1.5 I reconstructed and analysed the ideology of the right-wing oriented German political party the ‘Republicans’ particularly in reference to its hatred of foreigners, its anti-Semitism, and its ultra-nationalism. I have also analysed the ideas and roots of ethno-centricity within German nationalism. Since 1993 I have been engaged in researching the sociological, ideological, and political dynamics of right-wing extremism following German unification. I have also examined the ideological roots of right-wing extremism, for instance the anti-democratic ‘conservative revolution’of the Weimar Republic. Since 1995 My research and published work has concentrated on the sociological and ideological aspects of violence within right-wing and left-wing extremist movements, especially amongst the younger generation in east-Germany. I have written on the neo-Nazi network, and the role played in them by radical revisionism and social prejudices, especially anti-Semitism and a hatred of foreigners. My most recent publication examines the Southeast European crisis and the ideology and the political causes of ultra-nationalism in that region. 1.1.6 I am author or co-author of Hajo Funke, Die Republikaner. (Berlin, 1989). Hajo Funke,“Jetzt sind wir dran” – Nationalismus im gecinten Deutschland. Aspekte der Enigunspolitik und nationalistische Potentiale in Deutschland (Berlin, 1991). Hajo Funke, Brandstifter (Göttingen, 1993). Hajo Funke, Markus Kemper, and Harald Klier, “Ich kann mich nicht daran gewöhnen” – Fremdenfeindlichkeit in Oranienburg (Berlin, 1998). Hajo Funke and Alexander Rhotert, Unter unseren Augen. Ethnische Reinheit: Die Politik des Milosevic-Regimes und die Rolle des Westens (Berlin, 1999). 1.1.7 I am the editor or contributor to the following: Hajo Funke (ed.), Von der Gnade der geschenkten Nation. Über die politische Kultur (1988). Hajo Funke, Die andere Erinnerung (Frankfurt, 1989). Hajo Funke, ‘Rechtsextremismus – Zeitgeist, Politik und Gewalt. Eine Zwischenbilanz’, in Richard Faber, Hajo Funke, and Gerhard Schönberner (eds.), Rechtsextremismus, Ideologie und Gewalt (Berlin, 1995). Hajo Funke, ‘Die Republikaner’, in Jens Mecklenburg (ed.), Die braune Gefahr (Berlin, 1999). 1.1.8 I am likewise the author of various articles on nationalism, RWE, right-wing extremism including: Hajo Funke and Elliot Neaman, ‘Germany -the Nationalist Backlash’, dissent, winter 1993. Hajo Funke and Lars Rensmann, ‘”Out of a German soul”. Why Martin Walser can’t understand Ignatz Bubis’, Allgemeine Jüdische Wochenzeitung, 24 December 1998. Hajo Funke, ‘”When memory comes”. On solidarity with the unknown. On the debate of the Berlin-holocaust-Mahnmal,’ Freitag, 27 February 1998. 1.2 Scope of the report. 1.2.1 The following expert opinion is given in the suit David Irving has brought against De...

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