Gerd Dietrich

Gerd Dietrich (* 1945 in Rudolstadt ) is a retired German historian and university professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin .

In 1963 he passed the Abitur at EOS Rudolstadt and then in 1963/64 he became auxiliary electrician at EKB Bitterfeld, 1964/65 spinner at the Schwarza man-made fiber factory, before studying history / sport at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg from 1965 to 1969 . From 1969 to 1987 he was a research fellow at the Institute for Marxism-Leninism at the Central Committee of the SED (IML) in Berlin, Department of History after 1945, Sector 1945-1949. In 1970/71 he did basic military service. In 1978 the doctorate to Dr. phil., the dissertation B there in 1987 for Dr. sc. phil. This work was still strongly committed to SED history propaganda. From 1987 to 1991 Dietrich was a research assistant at the Academy of Sciences of the GDR , Central Institute for History, cultural history / folklore research area; 1990 founding member of the board of directors of the Independent Historians Association from 1992 to 2010, he was able to work as a professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin, Institute for History, Chair of Contemporary History. In 1997 he was appointed private lecturer and senior assistant , and in 2005 he was appointed associate professor. In 2010 he retired.

The main work is the three-volume cultural history of the GDR , which was written in retirement .

Fonts

• Cultural history of the GDR , Volume I "Transitional Society " from 1945 to 1957, Volume II "Education Society" from 1958 to 1976, Volume III "Consumer Society" from 1977 to 1990, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2018, ISBN 978-3-525-30192- 0 (2494 pp.).
• About the renewal of German culture. Documents on cultural policy 1945–1949 , compiled and introduced by Gerd Dietrich, Berlin 1983
• Publication list PDF file

literature

• Jana Hensel : It's amazing how long this country has existed , Die Zeit No. 53, December 19, 2018, p. 10ff. on-line
• Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk : Review of the cultural history of the GDR, in: H-Soz-Kult, December 19, 2018, [1] .

Web links

• Literature by and about Gerd Dietrich in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website at the Humboldt-Uni Berlin CV