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Christian Halbrock (born October 24, 1963 in Crivitz ) is a German historian and research assistant at the Federal Commissioner for the Records of the State Security Service of the Former German Democratic Republic (BStU) . He was a civil rights activist and opposition activist in the GDR.

Life

The Berlin Environmental Library in January 1990

Christian Halbrock grew up in a Mecklenburg pastor family . He was denied access to the extended high school and thus admission to the Abitur . He therefore did an apprenticeship at VEB Schiffselektronik Rostock , where he got into trouble because of carrying swords to ploughshare patches. After he was still able to finish his apprenticeship, he was unable to get a job and therefore went to work as an assistant nurse at the Hope Valley Institutions in Lobetal near Berlin. Active in church youth work and the environmental movement in the GDR, he moved to Prenzlauer Berg in 1983 and in 1985, with Wolfgang Rüddenklau and others, belonged to the initiative group in which the plan to found the environmental library emerged, which was then launched on September 2, 1986 in Basement of the parish hall of the Zionskirchengemeinde in Berlin's Mitte district . It quickly became an important meeting point for the opposition environmental , peace and third world movements in the GDR . Whitsun 1987 he was one of those who documented the attacks by the People's Police against young people in East Berlin at the Concert for Berlin .

After the peaceful revolution in the GDR , Halbrock was able to start studying modern history, medieval history and European ethnology at the Humboldt University in Berlin with a grant from the Hans Böckler Foundation . In 2003 he received his doctorate here with a dissertation on pastors of the Evangelical Church in Berlin-Brandenburg from 1945 to 1961. phil. PhD .

He has been a research assistant at the Stasi Records Authority since 2007. His main research interests are the GDR church history, the history of the independent peace and environmental groups and GDR espionage in Sweden . In 2008, a special issue of the magazine Horch und Guck published his study on the demolition of the Berlin Church of Reconciliation .

Halbrock examined the urban space around the Stasi headquarters in Berlin, of which he was one of the occupiers in January 1990, as well as "the various forms of contradiction, refusal, rebellion and resistance" in the Rostock Baltic Sea district .

Fonts

  • Evangelical Pastors of the Berlin-Brandenburg Church 1945–1961: Official Autonomy in the Guardian State? Berlin: Lukas-Verlag 2004, zugl .: Berlin, Humboldt-Univ., Diss., 2003 ISBN 3-936872-18-X
  • Blown away. The Church of Reconciliation in the death strip of the Berlin Wall 1961–1985. In: Listen and Look. Journal for the critical processing of the SED dictatorship. 17 (2008) special issue ISSN  1437-6164 ( full text )
  • Stasi City - the MfS headquarters in Berlin-Lichtenberg: a historical tour around the former headquarters of the GDR State Security Service. With a foreword by Marianne Birthler , Berlin: Links 2009 ISBN 978-3-86153-520-1
  • Mielkes Revier: urban space and everyday life around the MfS headquarters in Berlin-Lichtenberg. Berlin: Lukas-Verlag 2010 ISBN 978-3-86732-073-3
  • "Freedom means losing fear": Refusal, resistance and opposition in the GDR: the Baltic Sea district of Rostock. Göttingen; Bristol, Conn .: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2014 ISBN 978-3-525-35114-7 (Federal Commissioner for the Records of the State Security Service of the Former German Democratic Republic: Analyzes and Documents; Vol. 40) ( Review in the Annotated Bibliography of Political Science )

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christian Halbrock on  jugendopposition.de  ( Federal Agency for Civic Education  /  Robert Havemann Society  eV), viewed on March 13, 2017.
  2. ↑ Christian Halbrock on  jugendopposition.de  ( Federal Agency for Civic Education  /  Robert Havemann Society  eV), viewed on March 13, 2017.
  3. ^ Whitsun riots 1987: Weather lights at the Brandenburg Gate , Der Spiegel from July 16, 2014, accessed on October 19, 2014
  4. ↑ Abstract on freedom means losing fear ". Refusal, resistance and opposition in the GDR: Der Ostseebezirk Rostock. Göttingen 2015 , archive version from 2015, accessed on September 4, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Half-skirt, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and research assistant at the Federal Commissioner for Stasi Records
DATE OF BIRTH October 24, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Crivitz