Dieter Schuster (historian)
Dieter Schuster (born November 22, 1927 in Leipzig ; † January 14, 2019 in Düsseldorf ) was a German archivist , librarian and historian .
Life
As a student, he was deployed as an air force helper in 1943/44 before he was drafted into the army in 1945 . Towards the end of the war he was taken prisoner by the Soviets. After his release, he finished school with a high school diploma.
In 1948 he was a volunteer at the City History Museum in Leipzig . He left the GDR and studied history , German and philosophy in Bonn until 1958 . As a student trainee, he worked in the SPD party archive . In 1958 he did his doctorate under Max Braubach with the thesis The Prussian three-class suffrage, the political strike and the German social democracy until 1914 to the Dr. phil.
As a scientific librarian and archivist, he and others recorded the central holdings of the German labor movement at the International Institute for Social History in Amsterdam between 1960 and 1965 . He then headed the library and archive of the German trade union federation in Düsseldorf from 1966 .
He published numerous papers on the German and international trade union movement. His 1971 book The German Trade Union Movement achieved several editions. Together with Franz Osterroth , he wrote the three-volume chronicle of German social democracy. His chronology of the German trade union movement from its beginnings to 1918 did not appear in print . This was published electronically by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation .
Dieter Schuster died on January 14, 2019 in Düsseldorf.
Fonts (selection)
- Chronology of the German trade union movement from its beginnings to 1918. Electronic ed. - Bonn: FES Library, 2000 online version
- Chronicle of the German Social Democracy (with Franz Osterroth). 3 vols., Berlin [u. a.] 1975-1978, Zusatzbd. electronically 2003 ff. ( online )
- On the history of May Day in Germany. Düsseldorf 1991
Web links
- Rüdiger Zimmermann : Preface to the chronology of the German trade union movement from its beginnings to 1918. Online version
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schuster, Dieter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German archivist, librarian and historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 22, 1927 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leipzig |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 14, 2019 |
| Place of death | Dusseldorf |