Elisabeth Giersiepen

Elisabeth Giersiepen , b. Way , use. Todt (born March 18, 1920 in Berlin ; † September 6, 1962 ) was a German economic historian .

Life

After graduating from high school, Giersiepen studied economics , history, philosophy, psychology and newspaper studies from 1940 to 1942 . After a break due to motherhood from 1942 to 1945, she continued her economics studies in 1946 and graduated in 1947 with a degree in economics . From 1947 to 1949 she worked as a research assistant at the seminar for economic history at the Humboldt University in East Berlin and received her doctorate in 1949 under Jürgen Kuczynski on “Trade Union Activities in Germany 1850–1859”. In 1948 she joined the SED .

Giersiepen then became a senior research assistant and lecturer at the seminar for economic history and, in the spring of 1951, a lecturer there. In November 1951 she received a professorship with a teaching position in economic history. From October 1953 to August 1954, at the request of the SED university party leadership , she worked in the VEB Secura in East Berlin to gain practical experience. From September 1954 she held a professorship for economic history at the Institute for Economic History at Humboldt University and, from 1956, was also a research assistant in the economic history department at the Institute for History at the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin . From 1957 she was chairwoman of the Greater Berlin district committee of the science union .

In 1960 Giersiepen completed his habilitation on “The trade union activity in Germany from 1860 to 1869”. In September 1960 she switched to a professorship with a teaching position for economic history at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena . She died as a result of a car accident. Her grave is in the Friedrichsfelde Central Cemetery.

Fonts

• as Elisabeth Todt: The trade union confirmation in Germany from 1850 to 1859. The Free Trade Union, Berlin 1950.
• as Elisabeth Todt with Hans Radandt and Jürgen Kuczynski: On the early history of the German trade union movement 1800-1849. The Free Trade Union, Berlin 1950.
• The German economic and social history of the 19th century in the research work of the economic historians of the GDR. In: Historical research in the GDR: analyzes and reports; to the XI. International Congress of Historians in Stockholm, August 1960. 1960, pp. 229–244.

literature

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