Edgar Hartwig

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Edgar Hartwig (born February 22, 1928 in Ichstedt ) is a German historian . In the GDR he taught until 1989 scientific communism at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt and put under the "Working Group on the history of the bourgeois parties" at the University of Jena works on the history of the Pan-German League and the Union of Farmers ago .

Life

Hartwig passed his Abitur in 1946 and joined the SED in the same year . He first attended the pedagogical college in Nordhausen and worked from 1947 to 1950 as a primary school teacher. After taking part in a course for the qualification of high school teachers, he took up a position as a teacher at the Institute for Teacher Training in Nordhausen in 1951 .

From 1952 to 1953 Hartwig worked full-time as a party instructor in the SED state leadership in Thuringia . 1954/55 he acted as secretary of the SED district leadership Weimar -Stadt.

From 1956 to 1958 Hartwig studied social sciences at the Karl Marx party college with the central committee of the SED in East Berlin . He completed his studies in 1958 as a social scientist and then worked again as secretary of the SED district leadership in Weimar-Stadt.

From 1962 to 1965 Hartwig worked as a senior academic assistant for scientific socialism at the Liszt School of Music Weimar . In 1962 he also received an unscheduled scientific traineeship at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena . While he was Vice-Rector for Social Sciences at the Weimar University of Music from 1965, he received his doctorate in July 1966 under Dieter Fricke and Heinz Herz "On the politics and development of the Pan-German Association from its foundation to the beginning of the First World War (1891-1914)" . In September 1967 he became a lecturer in the history of the German labor movement in the Marxism-Leninism department in Weimar . In 1972 he was given a full professorship for Scientific Communism. In January 1980 he received his PhD B in Jena with Dieter Fricke, Manfred Weißbecker and Annelies Laschitza on "The 'medium-sized business policy' of the Federation of Farmers 1893 to 1914".

With effect from November 10, 1989, Hartwig was relieved of his functions as prorector for social sciences and sent on "one year 's working leave".

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Hartwig's scientific work was created within the framework of the Jena “Working Group on the History of the Bourgeois Parties”, headed by Dieter Fricke. Hartwig contributed to the handbook of the history of the bourgeois parties and other bourgeois interest organizations from Vormärz to 1945 (1968 and 1970) and the follow-up project, the four-volume encyclopedia of party history (1983–1986). It was based on the Marxist-Leninist theories of monopoly capitalism . In his work on the Pan-German Association (AV) he advocated the thesis that the association was “the spokesman, the ideological and political pacemaker of German monopoly capital, who with considerable success represented the goals of the most aggressive and reactionary sections of monopoly capital for the purpose of to make these the political program of the government, all social institutions of the ruling classes and a part of the people who are subservient to monopoly capital ”. As evidence, Hartwig referred to the funding of the association by heavy industry and the growing influence of the group around Heinrich Claß and Alfred Hugenberg , which brought the AV completely under the control of the Ruhr monopolies.

The musicologist and former Rector (1993-2001) of the University of Music Franz List Weimar , Wolfram Huschke, criticizes Hartwig's efforts as Vice-Rector for Social Sciences at the University of Music to give political and ideological education priority over musical education. Even if the Marxist-Leninist basic course was officially given the same importance as the main subject, the success was only very relative and was whitewashed. In the commemorative publication for the 100th anniversary of the university, for which Hartwig was responsible as the head of the editorial collective, reality was deliberately adapted to the desires and doctrines.

Fonts

  • On the politics and development of the Pan-German Association from its foundation to the beginning of the First World War. [Sn], Jena 1966.
  • The Pan-German Association and Poland. In: Scientific journal // Friedrich Schiller University Jena. 19, No. 2 1970, pp. 251-276.
  • (Ed.): Festschrift of the "Franz Liszt" Weimar University of Music. For the centenary of its founding as an orchestral school: 1872-1972. "Franz Liszt" University of Music, Weimar 1972.
  • On the way to the socialist city. In: The people; 1975 BC Sept. 27, 19, 382 1975.
  • Weimar on the way to socialism. April 1945 to April 1946. Stadtmuseum, Weimar 1976.
  • The "middle class policy" of the Federation of Farmers 1893 to 1914. 1980.

literature

  • Lothar Mertens : Lexicon of the GDR historians. Biographies and bibliographies on the historians from the German Democratic Republic. Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-11673-X .

Individual evidence

  1. Wolfram Huschke: Future Music. A history of the Liszt School of Music Weimar. Böhlau, Cologne 2006, ISBN 9783412309053 , p. 418.
  2. Stig Förster: Imperialism, Militarism and the German Empire. Basic tendencies in the historiography of the GDR on German history from 1897/98 to 1914. In: Alexander Fischer u. Günther Heydemann (Ed.): History in the GDR . Vol. 2. Prehistory and early history to modern history. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1990, p. 732.
  3. Wolfram Huschke: Future Music. A history of the Liszt School of Music Weimar. Böhlau, Cologne 2006, ISBN 9783412309053 , p. 438.
  4. Wolfram Huschke: Future Music. A history of the Liszt School of Music Weimar. Böhlau, Cologne 2006, ISBN 9783412309053 , p. 404.