Herbert Gottwald

Herbert Gottwald (born January 5, 1937 in Bad Flinsberg , Löwenberg district , Lower Silesia province , † May 17, 2009 in Jena ) was a German historian .

Gottwald was resettled from Lower Silesia in 1945 . He passed his Abitur in 1955 and began studying history, German and pedagogy at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena . In 1960 he passed the state examination for high school teachers and became a research assistant in the historical institute of the University of Jena. In March 1966 he received his doctorate under Dieter Fricke and Heinz Herz on the history of the center during the transition to imperialism and then a senior academic assistant at the History and Philosophy Section in Jena.

In May 1982, Gottwald received his PhD B on Political Catholicism . In September 1987 he received an extraordinary professorship for modern history in Jena. In 1988 he received the Order of the Banner of Labor , level I. In 1990 he became director of the newly founded Historical Institute of the University of Jena. In 1992 and 1995 he was visiting professor in political science at the University of Freiburg . In 1993 he held a chair at the University of Erlangen . In 1993 he was reappointed full professor for modern history at the University of Jena. In 2002 he retired.

His main areas of work were German political and social Catholicism during the 19th and 20th centuries, the history of Thuringian parliamentarism and the history of the university .

Fonts (selection)

• Center and imperialism. Jena 1965.
• The position of the Center Party on the naval submission of 1897. In: Studies on German Imperialism before 1914. 1976, pp. 181–223.
• with Manfred Weißbecker : On the role of the leaders of bourgeois parties. Biographical aspects in the history of the political parties of German imperialism before the turn of the century until 1945. In: Zeitschrift für Geschichtswwissenschaft <Berlin> 27, No. 4, 1979, pp. 299–315.
• as publisher: University on the move. The Alma mater Jenensis as mediator between East and West; unifying past and European future of a German university; International conference of the Collegium Europaeum Jenense and the Historical Institute of the Friedrich Schiller University from June 5 to 7, 1991 in Jena. academica & studentica Jenensia, Jena 1992.
• 1891, Rerum novarum. The social conscience of the Holy See. Brandenburgisches Verlags-Haus, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-89488-068-6 .
• The Thuringian Parliament 1946–1952. A political breakdown. Wartburg-Verlag, Jena 1994, ISBN 3-86160-505-8 .
• An imperial monument in socialism. The Kyffhäuser Monument in the Soviet Zone and GDR. In: The Kyffhäuser Monument 1896–1996: a national monument in a European context. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 1997, ISBN 3-412-02397-3 , pp. 235-261.
• with Matthias Steinbach (ed.): Between science and politics. Studies at Jena University in the 20th century. Bussert & Stadeler, Jena 2000, ISBN 3-932906-11-X .
• with Michael Ploenus and Katja Rauchfuß: departure - change - new beginning. The turning point at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena from 1988 to 1991. Hain-Verlag, Rudolstadt 2002, ISBN 3-930215-75-6 .
• The history of Jena in the time of National Socialism. In: "Combative Science". Studies at the University of Jena under National Socialism. 2003, pp. 913-942.
• A regional history institute for Thuringia. Günther Franz, the establishment of the "Institute for historical regional studies" and the Thuringian regional historiography 1937–1941. In: In the field of tension between science and politics: 150 years of regional historical research in Thuringia. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2005, ISBN 3-412-17303-7 , pp. 163–190.
• Heinrich Hofmann and the State Security. A contribution to the history of the Jena Pharmacological Institute. In: College in Socialism. Volume 2, Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2007, ISBN 978-3-412-34505-1 , pp. 2106-2132.

literature

• 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 . Pp. 240-241.