Otto Rückert

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Otto Rückert (born October 21, 1927 in Wittenberg , Lauenburg district ; † June 15, 2002 in Cottbus ) was a German historian who primarily dealt with German history in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Otto Rückert was born the fourth of seven children to a farm worker and drafted into the Wehrmacht in 1944 at the age of 17 . In 1945 he was taken prisoner by the Soviets on the Eastern Front . In 1948 he attended the Pedagogical College in Drei 30acker and then became a new teacher in Ichtershausen and then a high school teacher in Arnstadt . In 1953, Rückert, now a member of the SED , began studying history at the Potsdam University of Education and then became a research assistant there. He received his doctorate in June 1965 under Walther Eckermann and Fritz Klein with a thesis on the history of the workers' movement in the Reichstag constituency Potsdam-Spandau-Osthavelland (1871-1917). With special consideration of the activities of Karl Liebknecht . He then worked as a research assistant at the Potsdam University of Education and chairman of the Potsdam district commission for research into the local labor movement . The PhD B took place in January 1970 on the subject of the Potsdam University of Education. A teacher training center of the socialist German Democratic Republic (1948–1956) . In 1975 he switched to the Cottbus engineering school as a lecturer . From 1977 he headed the Niederlausitz working group for regional research at the Cottbus District Council , which he also headed until 1992 under the new name Niederlausitzer Gesellschaft für Geschichte und Landeskunde . In 1978 he also became chairman of the commission for research into the history of the labor movement at the Cottbus district leadership of the SED. In the four-volume project, however, only several brochures were published. In 1985, Rückert was appointed to a professorship for the history of the German labor movement at the Cottbus engineering school.

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  • On the history of the workers' movement in the Reichstag constituency Potsdam-Spandau-Osthavelland. With special consideration of the activities of Karl Liebknecht. Dissertation, University of Education Potsdam, Faculty of History and Philology, June 24, 1965.
  • with Rudolf Knaack : documents and materials on the social and political conditions in the province of Brandenburg from 1871 to 1917. Institute for History at the Pedagogical University, Potsdam 1968.
  • with Rudolf Knaack: Documents and materials on the social and political conditions in the province of Brandenburg from 1917 to 1923. Institute for History at the Pedagogical University, Potsdam 1968.
  • The Potsdam University of Education. A teacher training center of the socialist German Democratic Republic. Habilitation thesis, University of Education Potsdam, Faculty of History and Philology, January 29, 1970.
  • Karl Liebknecht. Leader of the party organization in the constituency of Potsdam-Spandau-Osthavelland. SED district leadership, Potsdam 1971.
  • Karl Liebknecht - Struggle and Legacy. For his 100th birthday. SED, Commission for Research into the History of the Local Labor Movement, Potsdam 1971.
  • Potsdam during the November Revolution. SED district leadership, Potsdam 1973.
  • On the history of the first Cottbus communist trial . Committee of the Antifascist Resistance Fighters of the German Democratic Republic, District Committee Cottbus City and Country, Cottbus.

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personal data
SURNAME Rückert, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH October 21, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Wittenberg , Lauenburg district
DATE OF DEATH June 15, 2002
Place of death cottbus