Götz Dieckmann

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Götz Dieckmann (born August 27, 1941 in Wiesenburg ) is a German Marxist modern historian who taught in a leading position at the SED party college "Karl Marx" .

Life

Götz Dieckmann graduated from high school in 1959, joined the NVA as an officer student and left it in 1961 as a sergeant. From 1961 he studied history and art history at the Humboldt University in Berlin . In 1965 Dieckmann was awarded the Karl Marx Scholarship , and in 1966 he graduated as a historian. From 1966 to 1968 he was the GDR's first research student at the HUB. The doctorate took place in February 1968 with Walter Bartel with a thesis on the subject of living conditions and resistance in the concentration camp Dora-Mittelbau under the aspect of the functional inclusion of the SS in the system of the fascist war economy .

Dieckmann then became a research assistant at the party college "Karl Marx" at the Central Committee of the SED in Berlin , where in 1971 he became head of the foreign studies department. From 1973 to 1976 he was deputy director of the university and head of the institute for foreign studies. The PhD B took place in 1977 with a paper on the subject of the history of the theory of scientific communism. The establishment and development of the theory of the socialist revolution by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels and Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (up to the Great October Socialist Revolution) . Dieckmann has been a full professor since 1978, where he also became director of the history department in 1979. From 1982 he was also Vice Rector for International Cooperation.

In November 1989 he became the first freely elected rector of the university in the course of the fall of the Berlin Wall and remained in this position until its dissolution in July 1990. He was also a member of the Presidium of the Historians' Society of the GDR . Dieckmann is deputy chairman of the “ RotFuchs ” support association and belongs to the Buchenwald-Dora camp community . Dieckmann has been concerned with the history of the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp since he was a student. In 1976 he was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze .

Fonts

  • On some questions of the Marxist-Leninist theory of the socialist revolution , Karl Marx Party College at the Central Committee of the SED, Berlin 1978
  • Introduction to Lenin's work “Two Tactics of Social Democracy in the Democratic Revolution” (together with Brunow Mahlow), Dietz-Verlag, Berlin 1980
  • The "Manifesto of the Communist Party" - the birth certificate of scientific communism. The SED program , Berlin 1980
  • The socialist revolution - theory-historical outline , Dietz-Verlag, Berlin 1985
  • Introduction to Lenin's work “Left radicalism, the childhood disease in communism” , Dietz-Verlag, Berlin 1987

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  1. ↑ Neues Deutschland , October 7, 1976, p. 5
personal data
SURNAME Dieckmann, Götz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Marxist modern historian
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiesenburg