Georg Herbstritt

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Georg Herbstritt (* 1965 in Schluchsee ) is a German historian .

Life

Herbstritt studied modern and recent history, Eastern European history and Catholic theology in Freiburg im Breisgau from 1985–1992 . From 1994 to 1998 he was a research assistant for the State Commissioner for the Stasi Records (LStU) Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

Since 1999 he has been a research assistant at the authority of the Federal Commissioner for the Records of the State Security Service of the Former German Democratic Republic (BStU), Education and Research Department.

In 2007 he was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD at the Humboldt University of Berlin .

His main research interests are the " Western work " of the Ministry for State Security (MfS), MfS and Romania and the regional and contemporary history of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania .

reception

Herbstritt's dissertation on German citizens in the service of GDR espionage was largely received positively both in the specialist public and in the daily and weekly press. The German historian Gerhard Wettig attests to the study that he “analyzed the internal working methods of East German foreign espionage precisely, comprehensively and in depth” and recommended it “not only to experts, but also to interested laypeople without reservation”. Armin Wagner describes the book as a "milestone in German-German intelligence research" and Clemens Heitmann called the work an "extremely material-rich [.], Meticulously researched [.] And excitingly written [.] Study". Detlef Kühn recognized Herbstritt's work in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung as a meritorious study, Cornelius Wüllenkemper found in the Süddeutsche Zeitung that Herbstritt had written an illuminating and interesting work and praised the author's sober and objective style. Toralf Staud described the work at the time as a kind of “collective biography of the Western IMs of the seventies and eighties, which is deepened by some exciting case studies”. Only the historian Hubertus Knabe criticized that it was incomprehensible why Herbstritt on the one hand made intensive efforts to prove that the GDR espionage was less successful than expected, but on the other hand he often proved the opposite. In the case of industrial espionage, Herbstritt partially illustrates the consequences, but underestimates them, since he excludes the economic damage that this caused the spied companies. Herbstritt also disregards the question of how the GDR economy would have been if it hadn't been for systematic technology theft in the West. On the other hand, Knabe Herbstritt's "Excursions to the SIRA registry" is "interesting" and considers "the rather casual representation of the rosewood material" to be "worth reading".

Fonts

Edited volumes and monographs

  • The German Bundestag 1949 to 1989 in the files of the Ministry for State Security (MfS) of the GDR. Expert opinion for the German Bundestag in accordance with Section 37 (3) of the Stasi Records Act. (Ed .: The Federal Commissioner for the Records of the State Security Service of the former GDR.) Berlin 2013.
  • German citizens in the service of GDR espionage. An analytical study. Göttingen 2007.
  • with Stejarel Olaru: Stasi securitatea (= Stasi and Securitate). Bucharest 2005.
  • with Stejărel Olaru: Vademekum Contemporary History Romania. A Guide through Archives, Research Institutions, Libraries, Societies, Museums and Memorial Places. Berlin, Bucharest 2004.
  • with Helmut Müller-Enbergs : The face to the West ... GDR espionage against the Federal Republic of Germany. Bremen 2003.
  • with Anne Drescher and Jörn Mothes: "Law must remain right". The justice building on Schwerin Demmlerplatz in six epochs of German history. Schwerin 1999.
  • The situation reports of the German People's Police in autumn 1989. A chronicle of the turning point in the Neubrandenburg district. With an appendix: Study on the relationship between the People's Police and State Security, illustrated using the example of the fight against the Mecklenburg regional church. Schwerin 1998.
  • "... creating the new person." School and education in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and the conflicts over the Schwerin Goetheschule from 1945 to 1953. Schwerin 1996.
  • with Anne Drescher and Jörn Mothes: Aufbruch '89. About the beginning of the change in Schwerin. Documentation. Schwerin 1994.
  • Forty years of the GDR. Small archive guide for Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. 1. Schwerin Schwerin 1994, 32 pages; 2nd extended edition Schwerin 1995, 44 pages; 3. updated Schwerin Schwerin 1996.
  • A way of understanding? The controversial Germany and Ostpolitik of the Reich Chancellor a. D. Dr. Joseph Wirth during the Cold War (1945 / 51-1955). Frankfurt / M. u. a. 1993.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gerhard Wettig : Review of: Georg Herbstritt: German citizens in the service of GDR espionage. An analytical study. Göttingen 2007, in: in: H-Soz-Kult, January 4th, 2008, www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/rezbuecher-9380.
  2. ↑ Armin Wagner: Review of: Georg Herbstritt: German citizens in the service of GDR espionage. An analytical study. Göttingen 2007. In: Zeitschrift für Geschichtswwissenschaft , 57 (2009), No. 3.
  3. ↑ Clemens Heitmann: Review by: Georg Herbstritt: German citizens in the service of GDR espionage. An analytical study. Göttingen 2007. In: Military History Journal , 68 (2009), No. 1.
  4. ↑ Brief summary of the review on perlentaucher; accessed October 23, 2016.
  5. ↑ Ibid.
  6. ↑ Toralf Staud: Review by: Georg Herbstritt: German citizens in the service of GDR espionage. An analytical study. Göttingen 2007. In: Die Zeit , No. 43/2007
  7. ^ Hubertus Knabe : Review of: Georg Herbstritt: German citizens in the service of GDR espionage. An analytical study. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Göttingen 2007. In: sehepunkte , 7, 2007, No. 10 [October 15, 2007], accessed June 19, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Autumn step, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Schluchsee