Gerhart Hass

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Gerhart Hass (born March 29, 1931 in Berlin ; † May 3, 2008 ) was a German historian . He worked in the GDR at the Institute for History at the Academy of Sciences of the GDR and worked primarily on fascism and World War II in Europe.

Live and act

After graduating from high school in 1949 , Hass initially worked as a full-time FDJ district secretary. He began studying history at the Humboldt University in Berlin in 1950 and was delegated to study abroad in 1951, which he completed until 1956 at the Shdanov University in Leningrad . In 1956 he graduated as a historian.

From 1956 to 1957 Hass worked as a consultant in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the GDR . From 1957 he worked first as a research assistant, later as a research manager in the department “1917–1945” at the Institute for History of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin . Until 1962 he also held an unscheduled academic post and received his doctorate in April 1962 under Leo Stern and Werner Basler at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg on "The development of the contradictions between American and German imperialism on the eve of the Second World War ( 1938–1939) ".

From 1965 Hass headed the research group “Fascism and World War II”. In 1970 he received his PhD B on "The Second World War in the Confrontation Between Both Social Systems". From September 1974 to 1991 Hass held a professorship at the Academy of Sciences of the GDR . He participated in the major project "Germany in World War II", which, in addition to military activities, also dealt with German domestic policy, war economy, resistance , foreign policy and occupation policy and interpreted German politics based on Lenin's theory of imperialism and the Dimitrov thesis . Volumes of documents were also edited.

Hass was secretary of the German section of the Commission of Historians of the GDR and the USSR . From 1991 to May 1995 he was employed in the framework of the scientist integration program of the coordination and development initiative in Berlin.

In 1965, Hass signed up to the GDR Ministry for State Security as an unofficial employee. After his engagement he signed with the code name "Rolf". According to Martin Sabrow , Hass embodied “the type of specialist scientist who only participated peripherally in the administrative management of the institute and who, after the failure of several attempts at advancement […], was mainly devoted to research. [...] The decisive factor for the rapid success of the MfS was apparently that the candidate, who had the reputation of a scheming careerist in the Academy Institute and was avoided by many, wanted to increase his personal influence by working with the MfS and to expand his travel opportunities to the Federal Republic . "

In 1985, Hass was expelled from the SED for evading party contributions . The MfS cut the connection in August 1985. Hass last lived in Rangsdorf .

Publications (selection)

  • with Siegfried Thomas : Our history studies at Leningrad University . In: Zeitschrift für Geschichtswwissenschaft 2 (1954), pp. 162–166.
  • with Stefan Doernberg (Ed.): German Imperialism and the Second World War… . Rütten and Loening, Berlin 1960.
  • The comical war in Western Europe, September 1939 to May 1940. Deutscher Militärverlag, Berlin 1961.
  • Ostland rider without a chance. Contributions to the history of the fascist attack on the Soviet Union. Akademie-Verl., Berlin 1963.
  • From Munich to Pearl Harbor. On the history of German-American relations 1938-1941. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1965.
  • and Peter Hoffmann: History of International Relations. German publisher d. Sciences VEB, Berlin 1965.
  • with Dietrich Eichholtz : On the causes of the second world war and the war aims of German imperialism. In: Zeitschrift für Geschichtswwissenschaft 15, No. 7 (1967), pp. 1148–1170.
  • with Wolfgang Bleyer et al. (Ed.): Germany from 1939 to 1945. Germany during the Second World War. 1st edition. German Science Publishing House, Berlin 1969.
  • with Karl Obermann (Ed.): Biographical Lexicon on German History. 2nd Edition. German publisher d. Wiss, Berlin 1970.
  • with Wolfgang Schumann (Ed.): Germany in the First World War. 2nd Edition. Academy of Sciences of the GDR, Berlin 1970.
  • with Karl Drechsler and Hans Dress: European plans of German imperialism in World War II. In: Zeitschrift für Geschichtswwissenschaft 19, No. 7 (1971), pp. 916-931.
  • with Wolfgang Schumann (Ed.): Anatomie der Aggression ;. New documents on the war aims of fascist German imperialism in World War II. German Science Publishing House, Berlin 1972.
  • with Wolfgang Schumann and Karl Drechsler (eds.): Germany in World War II. From an author collective under the direction of Wolfgang Schumann, Gerhart Hass u. a., ed. Academy of Sciences of the GDR, Central Institute for History in cooperation with the Military History Institute of the GDR a. the Institute for Marxism-Leninism at the Central Committee of the SED. Akademie Verlag Berlin, at the same time also Pahl-Rugenstein Cologne 1974–1985. Here in particular the management of Volume 1, Gerhart Hass, Lothar Berthold and others: Preparation, unleashing and course of the war until June 22, 1941. Berlin 1974.
  • Hermann Goering. The Reichstag is on fire. In: Fall into the Third Reich: histor. Miniatures and Portraits 1933/35. 1983, pp. 102-108.
  • Bankruptcy of Munich politics. The smashing of Czechoslovakia in 1939. ( Illustrated historical booklets : Issue 50), Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-326-00322-6 .
  • Munich dictation 1938. Plot for war. Dietz, Berlin 1988, ISBN 9783320010676 .
  • August 23, 1939. The Hitler-Stalin Pact; Documentation. Dietz Verl, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-320-01555-9
  • with Dietrich Eichholtz, Wolfgang Wippermann : Fascism and Racism. Controversies over ideology and sacrifice. Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-050-01852-6
  • World power goals - European strategy - occupation policy. Aspects of a comparative occupation research. In: Zeitschrift für Sozialgeschichte 7 (1992), No. 2, pp. 12-30
  • To the SS picture of Russia . In: Hans-Erich Volkmann (ed.): The image of Russia in the Third Reich. Cologne [u. a.] 1994, ISBN 3-412-15793-7 , pp. 201-224.
  • and Klaus Scheel: Europe under the swastika. Occupation and collaboration. In: Zeitschrift für Geschichtswwissenschaft 40 (1992), pp. 1063-1065.
  • Possibilities and limits of comparative consideration of the history of the Second World War. Mobilization and radicalization. In: Zeitschrift für Geschichtswwissenschaft 42 (1994), pp. 56–59.
  • Joachim von Ribbentrop. "... rubbed between the millstones of world history". In: Manfred Weissbecker , Kurt Pätzold ed. with Peter Black: steps to the gallows. Life paths before the Nuremberg judgments. Militzke 1996, pp. 55-87.
  • Reply. In: 1999: Journal for Social History of the 20th and 21st Century. Vol. 15, No. 2 (2000), pp. 157-163.
  • Hitler's war and Stalin's intentions. June 22, 1941: political, social and military background to the confrontation between National Socialism and Stalinism. In: Zeitschrift für Geschichtswwissenschaft 48 (2000), pp. 257–260. ISSN  0044-2828
  • The war before the war. Politics and economics of "peaceful" aggression Germany 1938/39. In: Bulletin for Fascism and World War Research: scientific half-yearly publication. No. 19 2002, pp. 70-74.
  • German occupation policy in the Leningrad region 1941 - 1944. In: "We are the masters of this country": causes, course and consequences of the German attack on the Soviet Union. 2002, pp. 64-81.
  • Life, death and survival in besieged Leningrad (1941-1944). In: Journal of History (2002).
  • Nazi crimes before East German courts. One edition. Ed. Organon, Berlin 2002.
  • Cultural "synchronization" in fascist Germany as part of war preparation and rearmament. In: Bulletin for Fascism and World War Research: scientific half-yearly publication. No. 24 2005, pp. 58-78.
  • The German historiography of the siege of Leningrad (1941-1944). In: Zeitschrift für Geschichtswwissenschaft 54, No. 2 (2006), pp. 139–162. ISSN  1434-5781
  • German exile in the Soviet Union 1933-1945. In: Handbook on Resistance to National Socialism and Fascism in Europe 1933/39 to 1945. 2011, pp. 311–323. ISBN 3-598-11767-1

literature

  • Lothar Mertens : Lexicon of the GDR historians. Biographies and bibliographies on the historians from the German Democratic Republic . KG Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-11673-X .
  • Obituary in Bulletin for Research on Fascism and World War II. ISSN  1434-5781 , double issue 31/32 (2008).
  • Obituary in: Märkische Allgemeine, Zossener Rundschau. May 8, 2008.
  • Martin Sabrow : The Dictation of Consensus: Historical Studies in the GDR 1949-1969. Oldenbourg, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-486-56559-1 , p. 172.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Martin Sabrow: The dictate of consensus: History in the GDR 1949-1969 . Oldenbourg, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-486-56559-1 , p. 172.
  2. ^ Martin Sabrow: The dictate of consensus: History in the GDR 1949-1969 . Oldenbourg, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-486-56559-1 , p. 173.
personal data
SURNAME Hate, Gerhart
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH May 3, 2008