Lukas Hennies, M.A.

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Lukas Hennies, M.A. is a research associate and assistant at the Chair of Modern History and Historical Migration Research, Department of History, Osnabrück University.

Main research: Historical migration research, conflict and violence research in the 20th century, conflict landscape research, digital methods of data modeling and evaluation as well as the processing of historical data in geoinformation systems

PhD project "Negotiation processes of subsequent migration of violence-induced mobility using the example of the aid and resettlement programs of the International Refugee Organization (IRO)" (working title)

In his doctoral project, Lukas Hennies has been investigating the negotiation processes between the Eligibility Officers of the IRO and so-called displaced persons (DPs) since 2018. The focus is on the negotiation of mobility options for DPs after the Second World War, which, in addition to the UNRRA repatriation programs, consisted primarily of resettlement or settlement in the FRG. For the first time, the negotiation of migration will be examined from a micro-perspective by compiling applications for admission to the Care & Maintenance Program, the personal files of IRO officers and the framework conditions of an international refugee regime after the Second World War.

Vita

since 2024
Research associate and assistant to the Chair of Modern History and Historical Migration Research, Department of History at Osnabrück University.

2023

Assistant to the Chair of Modern History and Historical Migration Research, replacement of PD. Dr. Frank Wolff

Project coordination  "Deadly Forced Labor in Karya. German occupation and the Holocaust in Greece"

2022

Cooperation project "Preserving Memory" in collaboration with Netzwerk Erinnerung / Foundation Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe

since 2020

In cooperation with the Institute of Historical Research/NHRF Athens:  German Occupation Database - Database of German military and paramilitary units in Greece 1941-1944/45

2019

Doctoral scholarship holder of the Hans Boeckler Foundation

Research assistant in the DFG-funded project  "Surveillance, power, regulation. Personal and case files as a Gestapo instrument of power"

2018 - 2019

Research assistant in  the project "Transnational remembrance of Nazi forced labor and migration" at the Institute for Modern History and Historical Migration Research, Osnabrück University

2015 - 2018

Studies in the specialist Master's degree in History at Osnabrück University, Master of Arts degree (with distinction)

2014

Degree in dual-subject Bachelor of History/Music

Publications

[with Fabian Wolf, Oliver Tüselmann, Arthur Matei, Christoph Rass and Gernot A. Fink: CM1 - A Dataset for Evaluating Few-Shot Information Extraction with Large Vision Language Models, in: Yin, XC., Karatzas, D., Lopresti, D. (eds) Document Analysis and Recognition - ICDAR 2025. ICDAR 2025. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 16024. Springer, Cham 2025.  doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-04617-8_2.

[with Aliaksandr Dalhouski and Christoph Rass]: The exiled villages of Belarus 1941-1944. Dekoder Specials.  Dekoder, November 12, 2024.

[with Aliaksandr Dalhouski and Christoph Rass]: "Bandenbekämpfung" and "Verbrannte Dörfer". Perspectives of digital historiography on the war of extermination and occupation in Belarus 1941-1944, in: Verbrannte Dörfer. National Socialist crimes against the rural population in Poland and the Soviet Union during the Second World War, edited by Florian Wieler and Frédéric Bonnesoeur, Berlin 2024, pp. 101-140.

[with Henning Borggräfe and Christoph Rass]: Geoinformation systems in historical research. Praxisbeispiele aus der Untersuchung von Flucht, Verfolgung und Migration in den 1930er- bis 1950er-Jahren, in: Zeithistorische Forschungen/Studies in Contemporary History, Online-Ausgabe, 19 (2022), Heft 1, URL: https:  //zeithistorische-forschungen.de/1-2022/6027, DOI: https:  //doi.org/10.14765/zzf.dok-2404, Druckausgabe: S. 148-169.
[with Sebastian Bondzio, Linda Ennen-Lange, Sebastian Huhn, Max Pochadt, Christoph Rass & Janine Wasmuth]: Die Osnabrücker Ausländermeldekartei 1930-1980. Potenziale als Quelle der Stadt- und Migrationsgeschichte, in: Osnabrücker Mitteilungen (126/2021), pp. 137-194.
[with Christoph Rass]: Wiedergänger: Wahlerfolge rechtsradikaler Parteien in Niedersachsen 1951 - 1967 - 2017, in: Perspektiven der Landesgeschichte, Festschrift für Thomas Vogtherr, edited by Christine van den Heuvel et al, Göttingen 2020.
[with Sebastian Huhn and Christoph Rass]: Violence-induced mobility and its consequences: "Displaced Persons" in Osnabrück and the refugee crisis after the Second World War, in: Osnabrücker Mitteilungen (123) 2018, pp. 183-232.