Georg Sacke

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Georg-Sacke-bust in the former Georg-Sacke-Klinikum Prager Straße 224 in Leipzig

Georg Friedrich sack (also Sakke written; * December 20, 1901 . Jul / 2. January  1902 greg. In Kishinev , Bessarabia (now Chisinau); † 26. April 1945 on the death march to Lübeck ) was a German historian focusing Eastern European History . He was active in the anti-fascist resistance.

Life

Sacke grew up as the son of a Latvian father who was a high school professor and a German-Baltic mother in Kishinev in Bessarabia , which was then part of the Russian Empire . As a high school student, he witnessed the February Revolution in 1917 and the civil war that followed .

Sacke emigrated to Germany and from 1921 studied history at the University of Leipzig . He became a member of the Socialist Student Union and in 1922 helped found a local group for the union of Russian students in Germany. In 1925 he moved to the Karl Ferdinand University in Prague, where he specialized in Eastern European history, but returned to Leipzig the following year. In addition to his studies, he worked in 1926/27 as a stoker, gardener, caretaker and craftsman in what was then the "Krüppelheim Humanitas".

From 1927 to 1933 he was a research assistant , assistant and finally private lecturer at the Eastern European department of the Institute for Cultural and Universal History at Friedrich Braun in Leipzig. Sack his doctorate in 1929 for Dr. phil. , his dissertation dealt with the philosophy of history Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov . Then he acquired German citizenship. He taught from 1929 to 1933 as a lecturer at the Volkshochschule Leipzig, where he gave lectures on politics, economics and culture in the Soviet Union and led Russian courses. He completed his habilitation in 1932 with a thesis on the Legislative Commission of Catherine II in absolutist Russia. In the same year he married Rosemarie Gaudig (1904–1997), the youngest daughter of the reform pedagogue Hugo Gaudig . The marriage remained childless.

During the National Socialist dictatorship Georg Sacke and his wife were actively involved in the resistance against the Nazi regime in Leipzig and later in Hamburg . Together they supported political prisoners and their families. He was expelled from the university on April 1, 1933 because of his “Marxist view of historical problems and a positive attitude towards the Soviet Union”. In April 1934 he was arrested and taken to Sachsenburg concentration camp . After he was acquitted of the charge of high treason , he was released from custody in December 1935 and his German citizenship was revoked. Back in Leipzig he joined the resistance group around Alfred Frank . In 1940 he got a job as a representative for Eastern Europe at the Hamburg World Economic Institute. He was arrested again on August 15, 1944 and deported to the Fuhlsbüttel concentration camp , and later to the Neuengamme concentration camp . In 1945 he was driven on the death march to Lübeck and murdered there.

Honors

The Leipzig Humanitas home for frail children , in which Sacke did auxiliary work during his studies, was named "Dr.-Georg-Sacke-Heim" in 1949. In 1953, the Municipal Clinic for Orthopedics and Rehabilitation “Dr. Georg Sacke ” . Until 2002 this was located at Prager Straße 224 in the Leipzig district of Probstheida . In 1970 a monument with a bronze bust of Georg Sackes, designed by Hanna Studnitzka , was erected in the park of the Sacke Clinic .

The clinic for orthopedics and rehabilitation was replaced by the orthopedic-traumatological center of the Park Clinic Leipzig, which opened in 2002 . Its clinic school is called "Dr.-Georg-Sacke-Schule". Since then, the Humanitas Association has been operating residential homes for physically and multiply disabled adults as well as physically disabled children and young people on the former site of the Sacke Clinic.

Works

  • WS Soloviev's philosophy of history. A contribution to the characteristics of the Russian worldview. Berlin: Ost-Europa-Verlag, 1929.
  • The Legislative Commission of Catherine II. A Contribution to the History of Absolutism in Russia. Breslau: Priebatsch, 1940.

literature

  • Dietrich Geyer : Georg Sacke . In: Hans-Ulrich Wehler : Deutsche Historiker , Volume 5, Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1972, pp. 117–129.
  • Volker Hölzer: Georg and Rosemarie Sacke. Two Leipzig intellectuals and anti-fascists. Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Saxony, Leipzig 2004, ISBN 3-89819-184-2 .
  • Ronald Lambrecht: Political dismissals in the Nazi era. Forty-four biographical sketches by professors at the University of Leipzig. (= Contributions to the history of universities and science in Leipzig , series B, vol. 11), Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2006, ISBN 978-3-374-02397-4 , pp. 160–162.
  • Horst Riedel: Stadtlexikon Leipzig from A to Z , second, revised and expanded edition, published by PRO LEIPZIG, Leipzig 2012, ISBN 978-3936508031 , p. 519 f.
  • Harald Vieth: From Hallerstraße 6/8 to Isebek and Dammtor - Jewish fates and everyday things from Harvestehude - Rotherbaum in Hamburg since the turn of the century. Self-published by Vieth, Hamburg 1990.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Horst Riedel: Stadtlexikon Leipzig from A to Z . Ed .: PRO LEIPZIG. 2nd Edition. Leipzig 2012, ISBN 978-3-936508-03-1 , pp. 520 .
  2. ↑ Volker Hölzer: Dr. Georg Sacke. Life and resistance. Leipzig 2002, p. 16.
  3. ^ Rita Jorek: Studnitzka, Hanna. In: Women make history - Leipzig portraits of women , 2015.
  4. ↑ Dr.-Georg-Sacke-Schule , Helios Park-Klinikum Leipzig, accessed on June 4, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Sacke, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sacke, Georg Friedrich (full name); Sakke Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and resistance fighter
DATE OF BIRTH January 2, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Kishinev
DATE OF DEATH April 26, 1945
Place of death between Neuengamme concentration camp and Lübeck