Benno Ennker

Benno Ennker (born September 12, 1944 in Nordhausen ) is a German Eastern European historian with lectureships at the University of St. Gallen and at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen .

Benno Ennker did not complete his first studies at the University of Göttingen after completing his Abitur in 1965 . From the beginning of the 1970s he was politically active in the Maoist Communist Bund Göttingen , from which the Communist Bund West Germany (KBW) emerged in 1973 . Ennker took a leading role in the program discussion and was a member of the Central Committee for a time and was a substitute member of the KBW's standing committee.

After ending his political career, Ennker began a new course in history in 1982 with a focus on Eastern European history , which he completed in 1987. In 1994 he received his doctorate from the University of Tübingen with a thesis on The Beginnings of the Lenin Cult, Causes and Development in the Soviet Union in the Twenties , which was published in 1997.

Benno Ennker's research focuses on Soviet history , political culture in Russia and leadership cults .

He is married to the historian Bianka Pietrow-Ennker .

Publications

• The beginnings of the Lenin cult in the Soviet Union. Böhlau, Cologne 1997 (contributions to the history of Eastern Europe; 22) ISBN 3-412-10996-7
• (as ed.): The leader in Europe in the 20th century. Verlag Herder-Institut, Marburg 2010 (Conferences on East Central Europe Research; 27) ISBN 978-3-87969-359-7

Individual evidence

1. ^ Gerd Langguth : The Protest Movement in the Federal Republic of Germany 1968-1976. Cologne 1976, p. 167
2. ↑ Communist People's Newspaper , Volume 1, 1973, No. 1, pp. 8–9
3. ^ Andreas Kühn: Stalin's grandsons, Mao's sons. Frankfurt am Main 2005
4. ↑ Gerd Koenen : The red decade. Our little German cultural revolution 1967–1977. Cologne 2001, p. 439f. ("Comrade E.")

Web links

• CV with publications