Alexander Sperk

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Alexander Sperk (* 1968 ) is a German historian who specializes in regional contemporary history in what is now Saxony-Anhalt .

Life

Sperk studied history (focus on contemporary history) and political science at the University of Halle . For three years he was a research assistant to Hermann-Josef Rupieper at the chair for contemporary history at the University of Halle. In 2002 he received his doctorate with a thesis on denazification and personnel policy in the Soviet occupation zone using the example of the city of Köthen. Between 2004 and 2013 he worked as a freelance historian. During this time he was particularly involved in the creation of the new permanent exhibitions in the Roter Ochse Halle (Saale) memorial , in the traveling exhibition "Justice under National Socialism - About Crimes in the Name of the German People", in the exhibition on the history of the Magdeburg Police Headquarters, the new Permanent exhibition at the Moritzplatz Magdeburg memorial and participated in the “Anhalt international” exhibition on the occasion of the 800th anniversary of Anhalt. Since August 2013 he has been working for the Federal Commissioner for the Records of the State Security Service of the former German Democratic Republic . He was only employed in the Magdeburg branch and moved to the Halle branch in May 2015 . He is a member of the editorial board of the journals Mitteilungen of the Verein für Anhaltische Landeskunde and Jahrbuch für Halle Stadtgeschichte .

Publications (selection)

  • The MfS remand prison “Roter Ochse” Halle / Saale from 1950 to 1989. A documentation. Halle (Saale) 1998.
  • Denazification and Personnel Policy in the Soviet Occupation Zone. Koethen / Anhalt. A comparative study (1945–1948). Chimney 2003.
  • with Hermann-Josef Rupieper (ed.): The situation reports of the secret state police for the province of Saxony 1933-1936. 3 volumes. MDV, Halle (Saale) 2003–2006.
  • with Daniel Bohse (arr.): Der Rote Ochse Halle (Saale). Political Justice 1933–1945, 1945–1989. Catalog for the permanent exhibitions. Berlin 2008.
  • with Daniel Bohse and Michael Viebig (among others): Justice under National Socialism. About crimes in the name of the German people. Exhibition catalogs Magdeburg. Halle (Saale), Dessau-Roßlau, Stendal and Naumburg. Published by the Sachsen-Anhalt Memorials Foundation, Ministry of Justice of the State of Saxony-Anhalt, State Center for Political Education of the State of Saxony-Anhalt and Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung - State Office Saxony-Anhalt, Magdeburg 2008–2009.
  • with Daniel Bohse and Lutz Miehe: From the Royal Police Headquarters to the District Authority of the German People's Police. The Magdeburg police in the Halberstädter Strasse 2 building between 1913 and 1989. Halle (Saale) 2010.
  • Concentration camp Roßlau - an inventory. In: Communications from the Association for Anhalt Regional Studies . Vol. 19 (2010), pp. 169-213.
  • Anhalt under National Socialism (1932–1945). In: 800 years of Anhalt. History, culture, perspectives. Edited by Anhaltische Heimatbund e. V. Stekovics, Dößel 2012, ISBN 978-3-89923-296-7 , pp. 403-423.
  • Foreign forced laborers and foreign workers in Anhalt during the Second World War. In: Anhalt international. An exhibition by the City of Dessau-Roßlau in cooperation with the State Archives Saxony-Anhalt and the Association for Anhalt Regional Studies as part of ANHALT 800. Museum for City History, Dessau 2012, pp. 145–160.
  • State police station chief, Einsatzkommandofführer, officer in the security service of the SS - the career of Otto Sens from Dessau. In: Dessau calendar . ISSN  0420-1264 , edition 2014, pp. 68–87.
  • with Daniel Bohse: legend, opportunist, self-promoter. Felix Graf Luckner and his time in Halle (Saale) 1919–1945 , Halle (Saale) 2016.
  • Magdeburg-Neustadt and »Roter Ochse« - the pretrial detention centers of the State Security. In: Peter Boeger, Elise Catrain (ed.): Stasi in Saxony-Anhalt. The GDR secret police in the districts of Halle and Magdeburg. Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-946572-00-8 , pp. 89-92.
  • The sport of karate in Halle (Saale) in the field of vision of the Ministry for State Security. In: Discover Halle! further. New picture and reader on the city's history. Edited by the city of Halle (Saale), publications from the Stadtmuseum Halle, Volume 4, Halle (Saale) 2018, ISBN 978-3-9817366-3-2 , pp. 116–123.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Der Rote Ochse Halle (Saale), Politische Justiz, Berlin 2008, p. 576
  2. ↑ Alexander Sperk; Daniel Bohse: legend, opportunist, self-promoter, Halle (Saale) 2016, p. 104
personal data
SURNAME Sperk, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1968