Günter Heidorn

Günter Heidorn (born August 23, 1925 in Hamburg , † September 23, 2010 in Kritzmow near Rostock ) was a German historian .

Life

Günter Heidorn passed the Abitur in Kaiserslautern in 1943 and became a member of the NSDAP in 1943 . He took part in the Second World War as a marine and was a prisoner of war after the end of the war.

In 1946 he began studying law at the University of Cologne , where he joined the FDP . In 1947 he continued his studies in the Soviet occupation zone at the newly founded Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Rostock , where he received a position as a scientific assistant to Heinz Herz at the Faculty of Philosophy in 1951 . Since 1949 he was a member of the SED . After completing his doctorate at the Humboldt University in Berlin , he was appointed lecturer for the history of the labor movement at the University of Rostock in 1952 , where he completed his habilitation in 1959. He received a professorship and since 1964 has held the chair for the history of the labor movement . From September 1965 to 1976 he was also rector of the University of Rostock (successor to Rudolf Schick ). In 1976 he was appointed professor for general history of modern times at Humboldt University and from 1976 to 1988 he was Deputy Minister for higher education and technical schools in the GDR . The University of Gothenburg invited him in 1989/90 to a visiting professorship. Heidorn retired on September 1, 1990 .

Awards

Medal of Merit of the GDR (1960)
Patriotic Order of Merit in Silver (1969) and Gold (1985)
Order Banner of Labor Stage I (1976)

Fonts (selection)

On the relationship between spirit and power in socialist society . Rostock: Univ., 1969
Red October and us . Rostock: Univ. Rostock, 1967
May 8, 1945 . Rostock: University, 1962
A world war is being prepared . Berlin: Dietz, 1962
Studies on German foreign policy in the period from the formation of the Entente to the Agadir crisis. With special consideration of the support of this foreign policy by the German press, illustrated by a few typical examples. , Habil. Rostock 1959
The development of the German newspaper type from the Weimar Republic to the present with special consideration of the new type of press in the GDR. , Diss. HU Berlin 1952

literature

Günther Buch: names and dates. Biographies of important people in the GDR. Dietz, Berlin (West) / Bonn-Bad Godesberg 1973, ISBN 3-8012-0020-5 , p. 102.
Harry Waibel : Servant of many masters. Former Nazi functionaries in the Soviet Zone / GDR. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-63542-1 .
Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk : Heidorn, Günter . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Web links

Literature by and about Günter Heidorn in the catalog of the German National Library
Entry on Günter Heidorn in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium

Individual evidence

↑ Harry Waibel : Servants of many masters. Former Nazi functionaries in the Soviet Zone / GDR. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-63542-1 , p. 127.

personal data
SURNAME	Heidorn, Günter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Heidorn, Günther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German historian
DATE OF BIRTH	August 23, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH	September 23, 2010
Place of death	Kritzmow

[1] Harry Waibel : Servants of many masters. Former Nazi functionaries in the Soviet Zone / GDR. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-63542-1 , p. 127.