Gustav Seeber

Gustav Seeber (born August 23, 1933 in Nordhausen , † June 16, 1992 in Leipzig ) was a German historian .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1952 , Seeber began studying history and education at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (FSU Jena). He passed his state examination in 1956 and became a research assistant at the Historical Institute of the FSU Jena. In 1958 he switched to the Leipzig branch of the Institute for History of the German Academy of Sciences as a research assistant .

From 1960 to 1963, Seeber held an unscheduled scientific aspiration. He received his doctorate in August 1963 under Ernst Engelberg and Rolf Weber on the history of left-wing liberalism in Germany from 1877/78 to 1893 . In 1969 he became department head at the Institute for History. In February 1972 there was a cumulative doctorate B at the German Academy of Sciences. In September 1972 he was appointed professor there. Until 1991 he was head of the “German History 1789–1917” department at the Central Institute for History .

From 1981 to 1989 Seeber published the study library of GDR history. In 1983 he worked in the GDR-Hungary historians' commission as chairman of the GDR section. From 1988 to 1990 he was a member of the editorial board of the Jahrbuch für Geschichte . From 1991 to 1992 he was also chairman of the Rosa-Luxemburg-Verein Leipzig.

Gustav Seeber was married to the historian Eva Seeber since 1957 .

Fonts

• The German social democracy and the development of its revolutionary parliamentary tactics from 1867 to 1893. Introduction to the faithful reproduction of the book "Die Sozialdemokratie im Deutschen Reichstag". Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1966.
• Gustav Seeber, Walter Wittwer: Petty bourgeois democracy in the Bismarck state. Development tendencies and problems. Book publisher Der Morgen, Berlin 1971.
• (Ed.): Monarchs and Ministers. Social democratic journalism against monarchism and popular fraud. German Verl. D. Wiss, Berlin 1974.
• Horst Bartel, Wolfgang Schröder, Gustav Seeber, Heinz Wolter: The Social Democrat 1879 - 1890. A contribution to the role of the central organ in the struggle of the revolutionary workers' movement against the socialist law . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1975.
• Friedrich Hammacher's notes on the miners' strike of 1889 . In: Jahrbuch für Geschichte , Volume 16, 1977, pp. 403–458.
• (Ed.): Bismarck's fall. On the role of classes in the final phase of Prussian-German Bonapartism, 1884/85 - 1890. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1977.
• (Ed.): Shaping the Bismarckian Age. 2 volumes. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1978/1986.
• Horst Bartel , Wolfgang Schröder , Gustav Seeber: The Socialist Law 1878 1890. Illustrated history of the struggle of the working class against the exceptional law . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1980.
• Gustav Seeber, Heinz Wolter: With iron and blood. The establishment of the Prussian-German Empire in 1870/71. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1981. ( History series )
• Prussia in German history after 1789 . Akademie-Verlag 1983 ( study library GDR history 3)
• Gustav Seeber, Walter Schmidt : German history . Volume 5. The capitalism of free competition and the transition to monopoly capitalism in the German Empire from 1871 to 1897. Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1988. ISBN 3326003110 .
• Bismarckian period. Historical highlights of an era. 1871-1895. Urania-Verlag, Leipzig 1991, ISBN 3332003283 .

literature

• In memoriam. Prof. Dr. sc. phil. Gustav Seeber. 23 August 1933 - 16 June 1992 , Leipzig 1992 (= Rosa-Luxemburg-Verein e.V. Communication 10)
• Lothar Mertens : Lexicon of the GDR historians. Biographies and bibliographies on the historians from the German Democratic Republic. Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-11673-X .