Karl Heinz Jahnke

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Karl Heinz Jahnke (born August 24, 1934 in Rostock ; † September 14, 2009 there ) was a German historian . From 1969 until his dismissal in 1991 because of “lack of need” he was a professor at the University of Rostock .

Life

In 1953 Jahnke passed the Abitur in Bad Doberan . From 1953 to 1957 he studied history and education at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald (EMA Greifswald), passed the state examination for high school teachers in 1957 and joined the SED . From 1957 to 1960 he had a scheduled scientific aspirant and received his doctorate in 1960 with a dissertation on "The history of the revolutionary workers' movement in Stralsund from its beginnings to the founding of the SED (1891-1946)" with Johannes Schildhauer . Subsequently, Jahnke became senior assistant at the Historical Institute of the EMA Greifswald and completed his habilitation in January 1966 on the "Participation of German youth in the anti-fascist resistance struggle with special consideration of the communist resistance movement 1933 to 1945". From September 1966, Jahnke worked in Greifswald as a lecturer for new and recent history.

In February 1969, Jahnke moved to Rostock University as a lecturer in the history of the German labor movement . There he was also secretary of the basic SED organization in the history section . From September 1973 he was full professor for the "History of the German Labor Movement" in Rostock and from 1980 to 1984 also director of the history section. In 1982 he received the National Prize of the GDR , 2nd class with the collective authors of the book History of the Free German Youth . With this publication he was completely in line with the ruling SED. From 1985 to 1989 he headed a research group on the history of the youth movement in Rostock . From 1983 to 1990 he was part of the editorial team of the magazine Contributions to the History of the German Labor Movement .

After Jahnke had received a professorship for modern German history in Rostock in 1990, he was dismissed in October 1991 due to "lack of need". In the summer of 1991 he was visiting professor at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf .

He then devoted himself increasingly to the history of National Socialism and the anti-fascist resistance as a freelancer and presented numerous, mostly biographical, writings. The aim was “to gain recognition for the 'forgotten' victims of the resistance and 'uncomfortable anti-fascists'”. Jahnke explained his biographical perspective: “I didn't want to trace large images of history or present guidelines for history. [...] Because the actual creators of the story, the living people, do not have enough space with this approach. ”He also paid attention to a“ unity of text and design ”according to the principle:“ If there are photos, there must be specific captions give. If there are people, it must be said who the people are. And if possible also the place and date. That wasn't common back then. "

After cancer was diagnosed in 2005, he began to organize his private archive in order to make the sources he had collected accessible for future research. In his last publication he dealt with the ups and downs of his biography. His memoirs and the printed documents are important contributions to the discussion about research on anti-fascist youth resistance and how to deal with GDR biographies.

Publications

  • "From the anti-fascist resistance struggle of the German students". In: Karl H. Jahnke (Ed.): Never forget. From the anti-fascist resistance struggle of Europe's students . Verlag Neues Leben, Berlin 1959, pp. 182–220.
  • The history of the revolutionary labor movement in Stralsund from its beginnings to the founding of the SED (1891–1946) . Dissertation. Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald, Greifswald 1960.
  • The share of German youth in the anti-fascist resistance struggle. With special consideration of the communist resistance movement 1933–1945 . Habilitation Greifswald 1966.
  • "On the anti-fascist resistance struggle in Mecklenburg from 1933 to 1945". In: Against Imperialism, Fascism and War. On the history of the labor movement in Mecklenburg . Edited by the district commission for research into the history of the local labor movement at the Schwerin district management of the SED and the Schwerin District Home Museum, Department of Modern History. OV, supra [1967], pp. 5-24.
  • White rose versus swastika. The resistance of the Scholl siblings and their friends (= library of resistance ). Röderberg-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1969.
  • Decisions. Youth in the Resistance 1933–1945 . Röderberg-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1970.
  • Against the abuse of the Olympic idea in 1936. Athletes in the anti-fascist resistance (= library of resistance. ). [With a foreword by Heinz Laufer.] Röderberg-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1972.
  • (with Norbert Woick): With the youth of the world. International traditions and relations of the FDJ . State Publishing House of the German Democratic Republic, Berlin 1973.
  • Author collective under the direction of Karl-Heinz Jahnke on behalf of the Central Council of the FDJ: History of the Free German Youth . New Life Publishing House, Berlin 1982.
  • Youth in the Resistance 1933–1945 . Röderberg-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1985.
  • In a front. Young Germans on the side of the Soviet Union in the Great Patriotic War (= Brief Military History. Biographies ). Military publishing house of the German Democratic Republic, Berlin 1986.
  • (with Ingo Koch, Birgit Krüger, Evelyn Schildt, Karsten Schröder): Torn from oblivion. Rostock anti-fascists and victims of the Nazi terror . OV, Rostock 1986.
  • Peace flight to the east. A documentation about the stay of the first delegation of the FDJ in the USSR from July 19 to August 5, 1947 . OV, Berlin 1987.
  • Hitler's last contingent. German youth in the sixth year of the war, 1944/45 . Klartext Verlag, Essen 1993, ISBN 3-88474-021-0 .
  • "... I have never been an enemy of the party." The tragic path of the communists Fritz and Lydia Sperling . Pahl-Rugenstein / Swiss Association for Marxist Studies, Bonn / Bern 1993, ISBN 3-89144-186-X or ISBN 3-908438-04-7 .
  • Murdered and wiped out. Twelve German anti-fascists (= unwanted books on fascism, vol. 8). With a foreword by Karl Kielhorn. Ahriman-Verlag, Freiburg im Breisgau 1995, ISBN 3-89484-553-8 .
  • Difficult years. Young workers against fascism and war 1933–1945 (= Edition Marxist papers ). Neue Impulse Verlag, Essen 1995, ISBN 3-910080-03-0 .
  • "Scholl, Hans / Scholl, Sophie". In: Manfred Asendorf, Rolf von Bockel (eds.): Democratic ways. German résumés from five centuries . Verlag JB Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 1997, ISBN 3-476-01244-1 , pp. 558-561.
  • You never gave up. Ettie and Peter Gingold. Resistance in France and Germany . Pahl-Rugenstein Verlag successor, Bonn 1998, ISBN 3-89144-255-6 .
  • “Young people's resistance to the Nazi regime and war. To the place of the Munich “White Rose” ”. In: Detlef Bald (ed.): “Against the war machine”. Experiences of war and motives for the resistance of the "White Rose" . Klartext Verlag, Essen 2005, ISBN 3-89861-488-3 , pp. 176-197.
  • Resistance to the Nazi dictatorship in Mecklenburg. In memory of the women and men who were murdered between 1933 and 1945 . BS-Verlag-Rostock, Admannshagen-Bargeshagen 2006, ISBN 978-3-89954-227-1 .
  • Against forgetting! Biographical Notes. Research on resistance against the Nazi dictatorship in Germany . Ingo Koch Verlag, Rostock 2008, ISBN 978-3-938686-83-6 .

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 .
  • Kurt Schilde : "Research on the anti-fascist resistance struggle of the German youth at the Rostock University from 1968 to 1989". In: the same: youth opposition 1933–1945 . Lukas-Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-86732-009-2 , pp. 29-35; limited preview in Google Book search

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Kurt Schilde: "Research on the anti-fascist resistance struggle of the German youth at the Rostock University from 1968 to 1989". In: the same: youth opposition 1933–1945. Berlin 2007, p. 34
  2. ↑ a b Quote n .: "Against forgetting!" Prof. Dr. Karl Heinz Jahnke in conversation with Cora Mohr and Dietrich Marquardt. In: information - scientific journal of the German Resistance Study Group 1933–1945 , No. 70, November 2009, 34th year, p. 24.
  3. ↑ Kurt Schilde: Karl Heinz Jahnke: “Against forgetting! Biographical Notes. Research on resistance against the Nazi dictatorship in Germany. Rostock: Koch 2008 " . Review in: Germany Archive Vol. 42, 2009, p. 368
personal data
SURNAME Jahnke, Karl Heinz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jahnke, Karl-Heinz; Jahnke, Karl Heinz Albert Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Rostock
DATE OF DEATH September 14, 2009
Place of death Rostock