Friedrich-Martin Balzer

Friedrich-Martin Balzer (born November 24, 1940 in Iserlohn ) is a German teacher , non-fiction author and editor .

biography

Friedrich-Martin Balzer was born in 1940 to a Protestant pastor. After graduating from the Märkisches Gymnasium in Iserlohn in 1960 , he began to study German , English and politics and finished with the second state examination in Marburg in 1969 . There he worked as a teacher from 1968 to 1997.

In 1966 he began the preparatory work for his political science doctorate: “Class Contrasts in the Church. Erwin Eckert and the Association of Religious Socialists ”. The study was published as a book in 1973.

As a student he worked in Clausthaler Wingolf, the Humanist Student Union (HSU), the Socialist German Student Union (SDS) and in the Marburg “Working Group Socialist Opposition”. He campaigned against the emergency legislation , against the so-called "professional bans" and the missile stationing. He was a founding member and spokesman of the Marburg Forum Peace Initiative from 1981 to 1994 and a member of the Krefeld Circle as part of the “ Krefeld Initiative ”. Today he works on the board of the Marburg Forum.

Balzer published on various left intellectuals of the 20th century z. B. Wolfgang Abendroth , Heinz Düx , Erwin Eckert , Emil Fuchs , Klaus Fuchs , Kurt Goldstein , Hans Heinz Holz , Heinz Kappes , Karl Kleinschmidt , Hanfried Müller , Helmut Ridder , Wolfgang Ruge and Gert Wendelborn .

Publications (1972-2015)

• Friedrich-Martin Balzer: Class contrasts in the church. Erwin Eckert and the Association of Religious Socialists in Germany. With a foreword by Wolfgang Abendroth; Bonn 1993³ [Phil. Diss. V. 1972; First edition 1973], ISBN 3-89144-166-5 .
• Friedrich-Martin Balzer, Ulrich Schnell: The Erwin Eckert case. On the relationship between Protestantism and fascism at the end of the Weimar Republic. With a foreword by Hans Prolingheuer, Bonn 1993², ISBN 3-89144-167-3 .
• Friedrich-Martin Balzer: Miscommunication on the history of German Protestantism. - Against the current. With an afterword by Gert Wendelborn. Marburg 1990, ISBN 3-89419-018-3 .
• Friedrich-Martin Balzer (Ed.): You of little faith, why are you so scared? Statements by Erwin Eckert and Heinz Kappes; Bonn 1993, ISBN 3-89144-187-8 .
• Friedrich-Martin Balzer (ed.): Annoyance and signs. Erwin Eckert - Socialist revolutionary from the Christian faith (with contributions by Friedrich-Martin Balzer, Hans-Werner Bartsch, Frank Deppe, Walter Ebert, Erwin Eckert, Emil Fuchs, Georg Fülberth, Günter Giesenfeld , Hans Heinz Holz, Wolfgang Langhoff, Hanfried Müller, Helmut Ridder, Jürgen Scheele, Marie Veit, Manfred Weißbecker, Gert Wendelborn), Bonn 1993, ISBN 3-89144-168-1 .
• Friedrich-Martin Balzer, Gert Wendelborn: We are not mute dogs. Heinz Kappes (1893-1988). Christian and socialist in the Weimar Republic. Bonn 1994, hardcover, ISBN 3-89144-197-5 .
• Reinhard Huebsch / Friedrich-Martin Balzer (eds.): Operation Wall perforation , Robert Neumann and the German-German dialogue. Bonn 1994, ISBN 3-89144-189-4 .
• Ingrid Strobl: Forward and don't forget. Kurt Goldstein. A portrait. Video film, VHS, 56 minutes, production, rental and sales by Friedrich-Martin Balzer 1994
• Friedrich-Martin Balzer, Christian Stappenbeck (Ed.): You have affirmed the right to revolution. Christians in the GDR. A contribution to 50 years of “Darmstädter Wort” (with contributions by Karl Kleinschmidt, Hanfried Müller and Gert Wendelborn), Bonn 1997, ISBN 3-89144-225-4 .
• Friedrich-Martin Balzer: Times change ... , speeches, essays, lectures, letters from a 68-year-old from four decades (1958–1998), with a preface by Manfred Weißbecker, Bonn 1998, ISBN 3-89144-259- 9 .
• Friedrich-Martin Balzer, Hans Manfred Bock / Uli Schöler (eds.): Wolfgang Abendroth. Scientific politician. Bio-bibliographical contributions. Opladen 2001, ISBN 3-8100-3135-6 .
• Friedrich-Martin Balzer (Ed.): Wolfgang Abendroth for beginners and advanced users , CD-Rom, 2nd reviewed and considerably expanded edition, Bonn 2006
• Friedrich-Martin Balzer, Helge Speith (Hrsg.): Deutsche Misere. The disputes about the Marxist philosopher Hans Heinz Holz (1970-1974). revised and significantly expanded version, Marburg 2006 (private print).
• Erwin Eckert, Emil Fuchs: Looking into the Abyss. The end of the Weimar Republic as reflected in contemporary reports and interpretations. Edited by Friedrich-Martin Balzer and Manfred Weißbecker. With reflections by Georg Fülberth , Reinhard Kühnl , Gert Meyer , Kurt Pätzold and Wolfgang Ruge . Bonn 2002, ISBN 3-89144-298-X .
• Friedrich-Martin Balzer (Ed.): Wolfgang Ruge for beginners and advanced users. Bonn 2003 and 2011, CD-ROM
• Friedrich-Martin Balzer (Ed.): Helmut Ridder. The complete work. , Edition of works in six volumes for beginners and advanced users, 3rd, considerably expanded edition, Bonn 2010.
• Friedrich-Martin Balzer, Werner Renz (ed.): The judgment in the Frankfurt Auschwitz trial. with contributions by the editors, selected bibliography, list of abbreviations, register of persons, Bonn 2004, ISBN 3-89144-354-4 .
• Friedrich-Martin Balzer (Ed.): The Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial (1963-1965). Bonn 2004, CD-Rom
• Heinz Düx: The protectors of the willing executors. Personal inside views of the Federal German judiciary. Edited by Friedrich-Martin Balzer, Bonn 2004, ISBN 3-89144-355-2 .
• Friedrich-Martin Balzer (Ed.): Wolfgang Ruge: Arnold Ruge (1802-1880). Fragments of an image of life. Bonn 2004, ISBN 3-89144-359-5 .
• Friedrich-Martin Balzer (Ed.): We are the last - ask us. Kurt Goldstein. Spain fighters, Auschwitz and Buchenwald prisoners. 2nd revised and greatly expanded edition. Bonn 2005, ISBN 3-89144-362-5 .
• Friedrich-Martin Balzer (Ed.): Gert Wendelborn for beginners and advanced users. CD-Rom, Bonn 2005.
• Friedrich-Martin Balzer (Ed.) Justice injustice in the Cold War. The criminalization of the West German peace movement in the Düsseldorf trial in 1959/60. Introduction by Heinrich Hannover. Contributions by Walther Ammann, Friedrich-Martin Balzer, Walter Diehl, Heinrich Hannover, Rudolf Hirsch, Karl Friedrich Kaul, Diether Posser, Denis Noel Pritt. Cologne 2006, ISBN 3-89438-341-0 .
• Friedrich-Martin Balzer (Ed.): Hans Heinz wood for beginners and advanced. First complete bibliography with 2550 titles and 500 journalistic articles in full text on the fields of art and culture, theater and literature, philosophy and history, politics and current affairs, 1959 pages, CD-Rom, Bonn 2007, 4th expanded edition 2011.
• Friedrich-Martin Balzer (Ed.): Wolfgang Ruge. Persist, surrender or rethink. Collected Writings 1989-1999. Berlin 2007, 2nd edition 2011, ISBN 978-3-89793-149-7 .
• Friedrich-Martin Balzer (Ed.): Kurt Finker. The demon came upon us. Fascism and anti-fascism in the historical image and in the historiography of West Germany (1945-1955). With a foreword by Otto Köhler, Bonn 2008, ISBN 978-3-89144-403-0 .
• Friedrich-Martin Balzer: And the cock crowed again. Essays on Political Ideology and Church History , Verlag Traugott Bautz, Nordhausen 2008, ISBN 978-3-88309-474-8 .
• Friedrich-Martin Balzer, Georg Fülberth (Eds.): Eric Hobsbawm. Between worlds and transition times. Interventions and requests to speak. 2nd Edition. Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-89438-405-0 .
• Friedrich-Martin Balzer: Check everything that keeps the good. Bonn 2010, 2nd edition 2011, ISBN 978-3-89144-433-7 .
• Friedrich-Martin Balzer (Ed.): Protestantism and anti-fascism before 1933. The case of Pastor Erwin Eckert , Bonn 2011, ISBN 978-3-89144-443-6 .
• Friedrich-Martin Balzer (Ed.): Düx, Heinz: Justice and Democracy. Claims and Reality in West Germany after 1945 , Bonn 2013, ISBN 978-3-89144-467-2 .
• Manfred Weißbecker (ed.), Impulses. Income. Reflections. A reading book by and for Friedrich-Martin Balzer. With texts by Wolfgang Abendroth, Erwin Eckert, Heinrich Fink, Georg Fülberth, Eric Hobsbawm, Hans Heinz Holz, Dieter Kraft, Eckehard Lieberam, Thomas Metscher, Hanfried Müller, Herbert Münchow, Kurt Pätzold, Helmut Ridder, Renate Riemeck , Werner Röhr, Peter Römer, Walter Ruge, Hans See, Robert Steigerwald, Manfred Weißbecker and Gert Wendelborn. Marburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-00-051009-0 .

Web links

• Friedrich-Martin Balzer's homepage with a detailed, essay-like curriculum vitae
• Literature by and about Friedrich-Martin Balzer in the catalog of the German National Library