Clemens Heitmann (historian)

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Clemens Heitmann (* 1969 in Hamburg ) is a German officer , historian and archivist .

Life

After graduating from school, Heitmann completed vocational training in Hamburg. In 1992 he became an officer candidate for the military police in his hometown. With the rank of captain , Heitmann resigned from the army service of the Bundeswehr and studied history, economics and social sciences as well as constitutional law at the Helmut Schmidt University of the Bundeswehr in Hamburg and the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz from 1994 to 1998 . He graduated with a Magister Artium . In 2000 he became a research associate in the research department of the Military History Research Officein Potsdam. At the same time he was the managing editor of the magazine military history . In 2005, he was at Manfred Görtemaker at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Potsdam with a dissertation on air protection and civil defense in the GDR to Dr. phil. PhD.

He then completed his training as a senior archive service in the Saxon State Archives. He attended the Marburg Archive School (member of the 43rd University of Applied Sciences course 2005-2007), he completed the practical part at the Main State Archives in Dresden . After graduating as a certified archivist, Heitmann worked as an archivist, most recently as deputy head of the Freiberg mountain archive department at the Saxon State Archives . From 2010 to 2013, he succeeded Martin Böttger as head of the Chemnitz branch of the Federal Commissioner for Stasi Records (BStU). From 2017 to 2019 Heitmann worked at the Sorbian Institute . He has been head of the Meiningen State Archives since 2019 .

In November 2011, Heitmann founding member was of Learning and Remembrance Kaßberg Prison eV as the first chairman of the club, he was involved in the establishment of a place of remembrance on the site of the advertised by the Free State of Saxony for sale former prison Chemnitz , also from the State Security had been used . After the end of his term of office as chairman of the learning and memorial site, Heitmann resigned from the association's board in 2014.

Heitmann is the author of several publications on German political and social history in the 20th century.

He is the father of two daughters.

Publications (selection)

  • Protect and help ?. Air defense and civil defense in the GDR 1955 to 1989/90 (= military history of the GDR . Vol. 12). Links, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-86153-400-2 (= also dissertation, University of Potsdam, 2005).
  • with Thomas Schubert (Ed.): June 17, 1953 in Saxony. Causes, event, effect and reception . Links, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-86153-747-2 .
  • with Nancy Aris (Ed.): Via Knast to the West. The Kaßberg prison and its history (= series of publications by the Saxon State Commissioner for the records of the State Security Service of the former GDR . Vol. 12). Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2013, ISBN 978-3-374-03010-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.radiochemnitz.de/nachrichten/hamburger-historiker-wird-neuer-stasi-unerlagenchef-403747/
  2. ^ Staatsarchiv Düsseldorf, on behalf of the Association of German Archivists (ed.): The archivist - information sheet for German archives . Volume 58, 2005, p. 321 .
  3. ↑ http://www.bstu.bund.de/DE/Presse/Pressemitteilungen/Archiv/Pressemitteilungen-2010/2010-11-29_neue%20_Leitung_Chemnitz.html
  4. ↑ https://www.radiodresden.de/nachrichten/lokalnachrichten/personalwechsel-bei-stasi-unterlagen-behoerde-1014969/
  5. ↑ https://www.serbski-institut.de/de/Dr.-Clemens-Heitmann/
  6. ↑ https://www.thueringen.de/th1/staatsarchive/standorte/meiningen/aktuelles/index.aspx
  7. ↑ http://www.gedenkort-kassberg.de/images/presseecho/fp_2012_01_17.jpg
  8. ↑ http://www.hanka-kliese.de/uploads/media/Newsletter_H.Kliese_Feb-Mrz_01.pdf
personal data
SURNAME Heitmann, Clemens
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and archivist
DATE OF BIRTH 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg