Bernd Florath

Bernd Florath (* 1954 in Berlin ) is a German historian.

Florath graduated from high school in 1973 and then did military service in the NVA . From the subsequent study of history in East Berlin, he was de-registered because of protests against Biermann's expatriation in 1976 and had to “go into production” for probation. From 1978 to 1981 he studied history again at the Humboldt University in Berlin and from 1981 to 1991 he was a research assistant at the Academy of Sciences of the GDR . In 1986 he joined the SED . He received his doctorate in 1987 with a dissertation on Karl August Wittfogel . After leaving the SED, he was the Berlin spokesman and national spokesman for the New Forum from 1990 to 1993 . From 1992 to 1996 he worked as a research assistant at the Humboldt University in Berlin, from 1997 to 2002 as a research assistant at the German Resistance Memorial Center , from 2005 to 2007 as a research assistant for the Robert Havemann Society and since 2007 as a research assistant or Project manager in the Education and Research Department of the Stasi Records Authority . From 1990 he worked for the Independent Association of Historians . He worked as a designer on many exhibitions.

Publications

• The GDR in view of the Stasi 1968: The secret reports to the SED leadership , Göttingen 2018 ISBN 978-3525370797
• The GDR in view of the Stasi 1964: The secret reports to the SED leadership , Göttingen 2017 ISBN 978-3525375082
• (Ed.): Approaches to Robert Havemann . (= Analyzes and documents, scientific series of the BStU; Bd. 43) Göttingen 2016.
• The GDR in view of the Stasi 1965: The secret reports to the SED leadership , Göttingen 2014 ISBN 978-3525375044
• (Ed.): The year of the revolution 1989: the democratic revolution in Eastern Europe as a transnational turning point , Göttingen 2011 ISBN 9783525350454 .
• with Werner Theuer: Robert Havemann. Biography. Timeline. Documents . Berlin 2007.
• Opposition and resistance. A historical consideration of political opposition in Germany since 1945 . Berlin 2006 (booklets on gdr history; 100).
• with Silvia Müller: The dismissal. Robert Havemann and the Academy of Sciences 1965/66. Berlin 1996 (series of publications by the Robert Havemann Archive; 1).
• Edited with Armin Mitter and Stefan Wolle : The powerlessness of the Almighty. Secret Services and Police in Modern Society. Berlin 1992.
• The development of Karl August Wittfogel's views on the history of the Asian world. A contribution to dealing with a reactionary theory of society and history , Berlin 1987 [= Diss.]

Web links

• Vita on bstu.de