Ernst Laboor

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Ernst Laboor (born March 2, 1927 in Leipzig ) is a retired German professor for the history of the German labor movement .

Life

Laboor attended elementary school in Leipzig and then completed a three-year commercial apprenticeship. As a member of the Wehrmacht , he took part in the Second World War and became a prisoner of war . After his release, he became politically active in the Free German Youth and the SED . He made up his Abitur and studied history and political economy at the University of Leipzig from 1948 to 1952 . From 1955 he had a scheduled traineeship at the Institute for Social Sciences at the Central Committee of the SED (IfG), which he completed in October 1958 with a doctorate on "The struggle of the German working class against militarism and war (1927/29)".

From 1958 to 1965 Laboor worked as a scientific assistant or lecturer at the IfG. In 1963 Ernst Engelberg appointed him secretary of the Presidium of the German Society of Historians . In 1965 he switched to the Institute for History at the German Academy of Sciences as a research assistant . At the end of the 1960s he was given the task of establishing and managing the “General History” department.

In 1971/72 Laboor worked as part of a scientist exchange at the Academy of Sciences of the USSR . Here he began researching the history of Soviet foreign policy after the Second World War. From 1970 to 1989 he was a member of the editorial board for the yearbook for the history of the socialist countries of Europe . In June 1977 he received his PhD B with a thesis "The Foreign Policy of the Soviet Union in the Struggle for the Collective Securing of Peace in Europe 1954/55". In 1987 he received an honorary professorship for the history of the labor movement at the Marxism-Leninism section of the Humboldt University in Berlin.

In the 1970s and 1980s, Ernst Laboor was a research assistant at the Central Institute for History, and from 1986 to the newly founded Institute for General History of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR. During this time he was also responsible for the work of the German side in the historians' commission GDR – USSR: since 1976 as secretary, since 1979 as deputy chairman. After the reunification in the GDR , he was retired in 1991.

Fonts

  • The struggle of the German working class against militarism and the threat of war (1927–1929). Berlin 1961.
  • Peaceful coexistence and class struggle. Leipzig 1961.
  • Lenin and the founding of the USSR. With a document attachment. Berlin 1972
  • On the way to Helsinki 1954–1975. The Berlin Foreign Ministers' Conference in 1954. Beginning of the Soviet Union's struggle for the pan-European conference for security and cooperation in Europe . Berlin 1977.
  • Six decades of struggle for peace and security in Europe. A documentation on the initiatives of the Soviet Union and the other participating states of the Warsaw Treaty for the collective guarantee of European security . Compiled and introduced by Ernst Laboor. Berlin 1977.
  • Cold War or Relaxation? The foreign policy of the Soviet Union in the struggle for the collective security of peace in Europe 1954/55. Berlin 1983.
  • Soviet Union and Socialist Community in the Struggle for Disarmament in Europe 1917–1985. Berlin 1986.
  • The Rapacki Plan. Realistic peace idea or battle plan against Bonn? The view of Warsaw, Moscow and Berlin . Issues on GDR history, No. 11, ed. v. H. Meier, D. Nakath, P. Welker. Berlin undated (1993).
  • How many parties does Russia need? Parties and political organizations from the end of the 1980s to the Duma elections in December 1995. Berlin 1996.

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 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helmut Meier (Ed.): Eastern Europe in Transition. On developments in Russia and its neighbors. Contributions to a colloquium on the occasion of the 70th birthday of Prof. Dr. Ernst Laboor on March 22, 1997 in Berlin. Trafo Verlag Dr. Wolfgang Weist. Berlin 1998, p. 10
personal data
SURNAME Laboor, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig