Detlev Brunner

Detlev Brunner (born September 14, 1959 in Weißenburg in Bavaria ) is a German historian .

Life

From 1978 to 1985 Brunner studied modern and medieval history and sociology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and the Free University of Berlin . In 1991 he was at the Institute of History of the Technical University of Berlin with a thesis on bureaucracy and politics of the General German Trade Union Federation 1918/19 until 1933 to Dr. phil. PhD .

He then worked at the Institute for Research into the European Labor Movement at the Ruhr University in Bochum and was a lecturer at the TU Berlin. In 1998 he moved to the Historical Institute of the University of Rostock and completed his habilitation in 2004 with Werner Müller at the Philosophical Faculty there with the thesis The Schein der Souveränität. State government and occupation policy in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania 1945-1949 . Then he taught as a private lecturer in Rostock. From 2007 to 2009 he was a research assistant at the Institute for Contemporary History in Berlin. Since 2010 he has been a deputy chair for modern and contemporary history (Professorship Günther Heydemann ) at the University of Leipzig . His main research interests are the history of social movements and the history of East Germany after the Second World War.

Brunner is a liaison professor of the DGB-affiliated Hans Böckler Foundation , a member of the discussion group on social and economic history at the chairman of the German Federation of Trade Unions and chairman of the Johannes Sassenbach Society .

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

• Union history sources. Inventory registers East Berlin archives on the history of the trade union movement from its beginnings to 1933 (= publications of the Institute for Research on the European Labor Movement / Series B, Sources and Documents. Vol. 2). Klartext-Verlag, Essen 1992, ISBN 3-88474-022-9
• Bureaucracy and politics of the General German Trade Union Federation 1918/19 to 1933 (= series of publications by the Otto Brenner Foundation . Vol. 55). Bund-Verlag, Cologne 1992, ISBN 3-7663-2392-X .
• with Frank Heidenreich , Dieter Langewiesche , Hans Joachim Teichler , Horst Ueberhorst : Social Democratic Party and Social Democratic Associations. SPD - Workers' Sports - People's Houses . With a foreword by Inge Wettig-Danielmeier , Schüren, Marburg 1995, ISBN 3-89472-135-9 .
• 50 years of concentration GmbH. The story of a social democratic company 1946–1996 . Metropol, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-926893-09-5 .
• Social Democrats in the FDGB. From trade union to mass organization, 1945 to the early 1950s (= publications of the Institute for Social Movements . Volume 12). Klartext-Verlag, Essen 2000, ISBN 3-88474-863-7 .
• Inventory of the orders of the Soviet military administration Mecklenburg (-Vorpommern) 1945–1949 (= texts and materials on contemporary history . Volume 12). Saur, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-598-11621-7 .
• Murderers, gangs, thieves. Post-war crime. Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania 1945/46 . Helms, Schwerin 2005, ISBN 3-935749-65-1 .
• The appearance of sovereignty. State government and occupation policy in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania 1945–1949 . Böhlau, Cologne 2006, ISBN 978-3-412-06806-6 .
• Stralsund. A city in system change from the end of the German Empire to the 1960s. Publications on SBZ / GDR research in the Institute for Contemporary History (= sources and representations on contemporary history . Volume 80). Oldenbourg, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-486-59805-6 .
• Revolution, upheaval, rebuilding. Memories of trade union witnesses of the GDR . be.bra verlag, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-95410-051-4 .

Editorships

• The change of the FDGB to a communist mass organization. The minutes of the Bitterfeld conference of the FDGB on 25./26. November 1948 (= publications of the Institute for Research into the European Workers' Movement / Series B, Sources and Documents. Vol. 4). Klartext-Verlag, Essen 1996, ISBN 3-88474-479-8 .
• with Werner Müller , Andreas Röpcke : Land - Headquarters - Occupying Power. State administration and government in the Soviet zone of occupation . On behalf of the Society for Research into Contemporary History of the State of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 2003, ISBN 3-631-50665-1 .
• with Mario Niemann : The GDR - a German story. Effect and perception . Schöningh, Paderborn u. a. 2011, ISBN 978-3-506-77195-7 .
• with Andreas Kötzing , Udo Grashoff : Asymmetrically intertwined? New research on all-German post-war history (= research on GDR society ). Links, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-86153-748-9 .
• with Elke Scherstjanoi : Traces of Moscow in East Germany 1945 to 1949. File indexing and research plans (= contemporary history in conversation . Vol. 22). De Gruyter Oldenbourg, Berlin a. a. 2015, ISBN 978-3-11-040253-7 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Detlev Brunner in the catalog of the German National Library
• Detlev Brunner at the University of Leipzig