Günter Benser

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Günter Benser (born January 12, 1931 in Heidenau ) is a German Marxist historian .

Life

Benser comes from a working-class family that was very involved in the Heidenau amateur theater , the “Heidenau Volksbühne”. He completed an apprenticeship as an industrial clerk in the Elbe Valley Works , then attended the workers and farmers faculty and then studied history in Leipzig . He worked as a research assistant and professor at the Institute for Marxism-Leninism at the Central Committee of the SED (IML), most recently as deputy head of department and member of the Council for Historical Studies and the National Committee of Historians of the GDR . Among other things, Benser is a national prize winner of the GDR . In 1989, when the IML was transformed into the Institute for the History of the Labor Movement (IfGA), he was elected almost unanimously as its director until the institute was dissolved in 1992.

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Benser published articles in particular on the history of the SED, the GDR and communism as well as the dramaturgical association of the Volksbühne Heidenau. His works before 1989 were part of the standard history literature in the GDR and essentially established the SED's self-understanding of history. Later, Benser also dealt with his own work. Benser is a member of the Leibniz Society .

Publications

  • On the formation of the Eisenach party. An investigation of the development of the labor movement in the Saxon textile industry area Glauchau-Meerane . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1956.
  • (Mithrsg.): The union of KPD and SPD to form the Socialist Unity Party of Germany. In pictures and documents. Ed .: Inst. For Marxism-Leninism at the Central Committee of the SED. Dietz, Berlin 1976.
  • Call of the KPD from June 11, 1945. ( Illustrated historical booklets : Issue 19), Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1980, DNB 810288281 .
  • The KPD in the year of liberation. Berlin 1985.
  • How the SED came about. ( Illustrated historical booklets : Booklet 40), Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1986, DNB 860419894 .
  • with Hans-Joachim Krusch (ed.): Documents on the history of the communist movement in Germany. 1945/1946 series. Volumes 1-5, Reg. Volume. Munich / New Providence / London / Paris 1993–1997.
    Volume 2: Minutes of the extended meetings of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the KPD July 1945 to February 1946. 1994.
    Volume 5: Minutes of the 15th party congress of the KPD 19/20. April 1946. 1996.
  • (Ed.): Announcements of the sponsorship group archives and libraries on the history of the labor movement. Since 1996.
  • GDR - remember them with indulgence. Dietz, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-32001-984-8 .
  • GDR and the workers' movement (= Helle Panke (Hrsg.): Booklets on the East German history. 67). Berlin 2001.
  • When the building of socialism was announced. A review of the 2nd party conference of the SED with documents attached (= booklets on the gdr history. 75). Berlin 2002.
  • Merger of the KPD and SPD in 1946. Attempts to explain beyond jubilation and condemnation (= booklets on the gdr history. 27). 2. through u. supplementary edition. Berlin 2006.
  • Volksbühne Heidenau 1906 to 1939 - 1945 to 1949. The eventful history of an amateur theater. edition bodoni, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-929390-95-7 .
  • What happened to the archives and libraries of parties and organizations in the GDR? (= Helle Panke (Hrsg.): Hefte zur DDR-Geschichte. 113). Berlin 2008.
  • The special German way to socialism. Concept and Reality (= Helle Panke (Hrsg.): "Hefte zur ddr-geschichte", Issue 115), Berlin 2009.
  • Made by trust notification. The struggle for survival of the Institute for the History of the Labor Movement. edition bodoni, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-940781-34-5 .

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SURNAME Benser, Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Marxist historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidenau (Saxony)