Stefan Heinz

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Stefan Heinz (born February 11, 1979 in Berlin ) is a German political scientist and historian .

Life

Heinz studied political science and history at the Free University of Berlin . In 2005 he graduated with a diploma in political science. In 2009, Heinz received his doctorate with Siegfried Mielke with a study on historical trade union and KPD research . Heinz initially worked as Mielke's assistant and was a lecturer at the Otto Suhr Institute at the Free University of Berlin from 2007 to 2010 . From 2010 to the beginning of 2019 he worked as a research assistant in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the Free University of Berlin at the Otto Suhr Institute. Heinz has been working as a research assistant at the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe at the German Resistance Memorial Center since April 2019 .

Heinz deals with the history of National Socialism and the two German states. His main research interests are associations, trade union and resistance research. Above all, he researches persecution and resistance in the Nazi state. Heinz is committed to greater consideration and appreciation of the trade union resistance to National Socialism in the German culture of remembrance, including in connection with the commemorative events on the occasion of the anniversary of the failed assassination attempt against Hitler on July 20, 1944 .

Since 2012, Heinz has been co-editor of the academic book series “Unionists in National Socialism. Persecution - Resistance - Emigration ”, published by Metropol Verlag in Berlin .

The book “The Forgotten Resistance of Workers”, published in 2012 together with the historian Hans Coppi . Unionists, Communists, Social Democrats, Trotskyists, Anarchists, Forced Laborers ”received the“ Honorable Mention Award ”from the International Labor History Association in early 2013.

Fonts (selection)

As an author

  • Moscow's mercenaries? “The Unified Association of Berlin Metal Workers”: Development and failure of a communist union , Hamburg 2010: VSA-Verlag (plus dissertation, FU Berlin), ISBN 978-3-89965-406-6
  • Railway trade unionists in the Nazi state: Persecution - Resistance - Emigration (1933–1945) (= trade unionists under National Socialism. Persecution - Resistance - Emigration, Vol. 7), together with Siegfried Mielke as author, Berlin 2017: Metropol Verlag, ISBN 978- 3-86331-353-1
  • Alwin Brandes (1866-1949). Opposition - reformer - resistance fighter . With a foreword by Jörg Hofmann (= trade unionist in National Socialism. Persecution - Resistance - Emigration, Vol. 9), together with Siegfried Mielke as author, Berlin 2019: Metropol Verlag, ISBN 978-3-86331-486-6

As editor

  • Functionaries of the German Metalworkers Association in the Nazi state. Resistance and persecution (= trade unionists under National Socialism. Persecution - Resistance - Emigration, Vol. 1), ed. with Siegfried Mielke, Berlin 2012: Metropol Verlag, ISBN 978-3-86331-059-2
  • Functionaries of the unified association of metal workers in Berlin in the Nazi state. Resistance and persecution (= trade unionists under National Socialism. Persecution - Resistance - Emigration, Volume 2), ed. with Siegfried Mielke, Berlin 2012: Metropol Verlag, ISBN 978-3-86331-062-2
  • The forgotten resistance of the workers. Trade unionists, communists, social democrats, Trotskyists, anarchists and forced laborers (= History of Communism and Left Socialism, Volume XVI), ed. with Hans Coppi junior , Berlin 2012: dietz-Verlag, ISBN 978-3-320-02264-8
  • Trade unionists in the Oranienburg and Sachsenhausen concentration camps. Biographisches Handbuch , Vol. 4, ed. with Siegfried Mielke, Berlin 2013: Metropol Verlag, ISBN 978-3-86331-148-3
  • Emigrated metal trade unionists in the fight against the Nazi regime (= trade unionists under National Socialism. Persecution - Resistance - Emigration, Vol. 3), ed. with Siegfried Mielke, Berlin 2014: Metropol Verlag, ISBN 978-3-86331-210-7
  • Trade unionist in the Osthofen concentration camp in 1933/34. Biographical manual (= trade unionists under National Socialism. Persecution - Resistance - Emigration, vol. 8), ed. with Angelika Arenz-Morch, Berlin 2019: Metropol Verlag, ISBN 978-3-86331-439-2

As an employee at exhibitions and academic accompanying volumes

  • Collaboration: Günter Morsch (ed.): Murder and mass murder in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp 1936–1945 (= series of publications by the Brandenburg Memorials Foundation, vol. 13), Berlin 2005: Metropol Verlag, ISBN 978-3-93641-193-5
  • Collaboration: Astrid Ley, Günter Morsch (ed.): Medicine and crime. The sick bay of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp 1936–1945 (= series of publications by the Brandenburg Memorials Foundation, vol. 21), Berlin 2007: Metropol Verlag, ISBN 978-3-93869-012-3
  • Collaboration: Unique - lecturers, students and representatives of the German University of Politics (1920–1933) in the resistance against National Socialism , ed. on behalf of the Free University of Berlin and the German Resistance Memorial Center with Siegfried Mielke et al., Berlin 2008: Lukas Verlag, ISBN 978-3-86732-032-0
  • Collaboration: Siegfried Mielke, Günter Morsch (eds.): "Be vigilant that night never falls over Germany again." Trade unionists in concentration camps 1933–1945 , Berlin 2011: Metropol Verlag, ISBN 978-3-86331-031-8
  • Collaboration: United service trade union (ed.): From the German book printer association to the unified trade union ver.di: 150 years. Solidarity, emancipation, collective bargaining , Berlin 2016: Heenemann

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Short biography of Stefan Heinz on the website of the LISA portal of the Gerda Henkel Foundation
  2. ↑ Gerda Henkel Foundation: Dr. Stefan Heinz. Retrieved June 26, 2019 .
  3. ^ "Workers' resistance suffered the greatest losses" - On the trade union resistance against the Nazi regime. Interview with Stefan Heinz, FU Berlin and address by Reiner Hoffmann , Federal Chairman of the DGB, wreath-laying ceremony of the federal government on the occasion of the 71st anniversary of July 20, 1944 and Siegfried Mielke / Stefan Heinz, railway unionist in the Nazi state: Persecution - Resistance - Emigration (1933 –1945) , Berlin 2017, p. 13 ff.
  4. ↑ Book series "Unionists in National Socialism. Persecution - Resistance - Emigration ” , ed. by Siegfried Mielke and Stefan Heinz
  5. ↑ Interview with Stefan Heinz: "NS-ZEIT: A book informs about the refusal to work by forced laborers in Berlin" (taz, July 7, 2012, p. 44)
  6. ^ "Honorable Mention Award" from the International Labor History Association for a publication by Hans Coppi and Stefan Heinz and a series of lectures on resistance against the Nazi system
personal data
SURNAME Heinz, Stefan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin