Armin Mitter

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Armin Mitter (born May 1, 1953 in Schönbach ) is a German historian with a focus on GDR research and German and East Central European history of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Life

Mitter studied history in East Berlin . From 1979 to 1990 he was a research assistant at the Academy of Sciences of the GDR and there he worked for the "Institute for General History" (founded in 1986) under Fritz Klein . Bilingual - having grown up German and Polish - he found his fields of work in Eastern European history and the history of Germany's relations with Eastern and Central Eastern Europe. In 1988 he received his doctorate. Since October 1991 Mitter has been an assistant at the Humboldt University in Berlin. From 1991 to 1994, Mitter represented Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen as an expert member of the German Bundestag's Enquete Commission for “coming to terms with the history and consequences of the SED dictatorship in Germany”. Mitter became known to the general public through the book published together with Stefan Wolle : “I love you all! Orders and situation reports of the MfS January-November 1989 ”, which had several editions until 2017.

Mitter is jointly responsible for the commemorative publication for the former state commissioner for the documents of the Ministry for State Security of the GDR in Berlin, Martin Gutzeit .

Dismissal by the Federal Commissioner for the Stasi Records

At the beginning of 1990 Mitter was the initiator and founder of the Independent Association of Historians together with Stefan Wolle , which was constituted in April 1990. After the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, he became an expert for the Stasi files at the round table in December 1989, an employee of the committee for the dissolution of the Ministry for State Security and the special representative for the documents of the State Security Service of the former GDR. There he and Stefan Wolle were dismissed without notice in March 1991 by the then Federal Commissioner for Stasi Records, Joachim Gauck, after they published their opinion that the IM activities of the last GDR Prime Minister Lothar de Maizière had been proven .

Fonts

  • together with Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk and Stefan Wolle: The day X - June 17, 1953. The "inner state foundation" of the GDR as a result of the crisis in 1952/54 (= research on GDR history. 3). Ch. Links, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-86153-083-X .
  • with Stefan Wolle: sinking in installments. Unknown chapter in GDR history. Bertelsmann, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-570-01216-6 .
  • as editor with Stefan Wolle: I love you all! Orders and situation reports of the MfS, January - November 1989. BasisDruck, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-86163-001-X .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martin Gutzeit. A German revolutionary. The upheaval in the GDR 1989/90 Metropol Verlag, 2017.
  2. ↑ Gauck fires critics . In: Der Spiegel . No. 10 , 1991, pp. 16 ( Online - Mar. 4, 1991 ).
personal data
SURNAME Mitter, Armin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Schönbach