Friedrich Zipfel

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Friedrich Zipfel (* May 21, 1920 Oberfrankenhain , Amtshauptmannschaft Borna, today: district of Frohburg , Saxony, † February 25, 1978 in Berlin ) was a German historian.

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Zipfel was the son of a Protestant pastor. He spent most of his youth in Schwarzenberg in the Ore Mountains, where he attended elementary school and a Reform Realgymnasium, which he left in 1938 with the school leaving certificate. After his labor service, Zipfel took part in World War II as a soldier, in which he - most recently as an officer - was deployed in the attack on Poland , France, Russia and North Africa and was seriously wounded.

After his release from captivity, Zipfel studied history and geography at the University of Göttingen from the winter semester of 1946/1947 and at the Free University of Berlin from the summer semester of 1949 . In 1952 he received his doctorate with a thesis on the criticism of the German public to the person and to the monarchy of Wilhelm II. Until the outbreak of World War II for Dr. phil . In 1953 he became a research assistant to Carl Hinrichs at the Friedrich Meinecke Institute (FMI) at the Free University of Berlin .

Grave of Friedrich Zipfel in the Heerstrasse cemetery in Berlin-Westend

From 1956 to 1959, Zipfel headed the Berlin Resistance research group as a representative of the Berlin Senate . In the 1960s, Zipfel, who by now also belonged to the Historical Commission of the City of Berlin , designed the first permanent exhibition in the Stauffenbergstrasse Memorial and Educational Center (today the German Resistance Memorial Center ).

After completing his habilitation in 1971, Zipfel was appointed professor of modern history at the Meinecke Institute at the Free University of Berlin, where he taught until his death.

Shortly before the start of a course at the FMI, Friedrich Zipfel suffered a serious heart attack on February 3, 1978, from the consequences of which he died on February 25, 1978 at the age of 57. His grave is in the Heerstraße cemetery in Berlin-Westend (grave location: II-W-7-6).

Fonts

  • Criticism of the German public against the person and the monarchy of Wilhelm II until the outbreak of the world war , 1954.
  • Extermination and expulsion of the Germans from the areas east of the Oder-Neisse Line , 1955.
  • Gestapo and Security Service , 1960.
  • Gestapo and SD in Berlin , in: Yearbook for the History of Central and Eastern Germany , Vol. 9/10, 1961, pp. 263-292.
  • War and collapse , 1962.
  • Plötzensee memorial . State Center for Political Education Berlin, 1964.
  • Resistance in contemporary history research and presentation , 1965.
  • Church struggle in Germany, 1933–1945. Persecution of religion and self-assertion by the churches during the National Socialist era , Berlin 1965.
  • Power without morality. Documentation about Heinrich Himmler and the SS , 1973.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see Plötzensee Memorial (revised version), published by the Berlin State Center for Political Education, Colloquium Verlag Berlin 1972, p. 33
  2. ^ Richard Dietrich: Friedrich Zipfel to the memory . In: Friedrich Benninghoven , Cécile Lowenthal-Hensel (ed.): New research on the Brandenburg-Prussian history . Volume 1. Böhlau, Cologne and Vienna 1979, ISBN 3-412-05179-9 . Pp. 361-364, here p. 364.
  3. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 . P. 497.
  4. ↑ The data carrier produced is cataloged as a voice record for the Ariola company in Gütersloh; a text supplement was handed over to this. Compare the information in the catalog of the German National Library

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SURNAME Zipfel, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 21, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Upper Franconia
DATE OF DEATH February 25, 1978
Place of death Berlin