Falco worker

Falco Werkentin (* 1944 in Tangermünde ) is a German sociologist and historian . His research focuses on the police history of the Federal Republic and the political criminal justice system in the GDR .

Life

Born in Tangermünde in 1944, Falco Werkentin moved with his family to Berlin-Weißensee in 1960 . In 1961 he finished the polytechnic high school and began an apprenticeship at VEB Funkwerk Köpenick . Later he switched to the extended high school . In November 1961 he fled to West Berlin with a friend . Here he continued to attend school and graduated from high school in 1964 . He then took up a sociology degree at the Free University of Berlin and interrupted this for a year as a home educator. In 1972 he completed his studies with a degree in sociology and then worked for a year as an assistant at a chair for criminal law at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . In the following years he took on various teaching positions at various universities with a focus on education and criminology / criminal sociology. Between 1975 and 1991 he worked on various third-party funded research projects at the Political Science Department of the Free University of Berlin. There he mainly dealt with the function and role of the state monopoly on the use of force in the Federal Republic. In 1982 he did his doctorate with a thesis on the police history of the Federal Republic and worked as an editor of the journal Bürgerrechte & Polizei / CILIP . Since 1991 he has been engaged in research and publications on the history of justice and rule in the GDR and has meanwhile worked as a freelancer (teaching, journalism, participation in the exhibition of the Federal Ministry of Justice "In the name of the people? About justice in the state of the SED" ). From June 1993 to 2007 he was Deputy Commissioner of the State of Berlin for the documents of the State Security Service of the former GDR and until March 2010 was a member of the Archive Advisory Board of the Federal Foundation for the Processing of the SED Dictatorship .

Fonts (selection)

• The restoration of the German police - internal armament from 1945 to the emergency legislation , Frankfurt / Main 1984, ISBN 3-593-33426-7 .
• Political criminal justice in the Ulbricht era - From avowed terror to hidden repression , Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-86153-150-X .
• Law and Justice in the SED State , Bonn 2000, ISBN 3-89331-344-3 .
• (with Jens Schöne): June 17, 1953 - Places and Events in East Berlin , Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-934085-16-4 .
• (as editor): The structure of the "foundations of socialism" in the GDR 1952/53 , Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-934085-13-8 .
• Political criminal justice after the popular uprising of June 17 in The Backstage Political Criminal Justice in the Early Years of the Soviet Zone / GDR , series of publications by the Berlin State Commissioner for the Records of the State Security Service of the former GDR, Volume 4, 2006, ISBN 978-3-934085-00- 8 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Falco Werkentin in the catalog of the German National Library
• Author portrait at Ch. Links Verlag