Gerd Kaiser

This article deals with the historian and sociologist Gerd Kaiser. For the Germanist see Gert Kaiser ; for other people see Gerhard Kaiser .

Gerhard Ernst Richard Kaiser (born July 29, 1933 in Dietzhausen ) is a German sociologist . He was a lieutenant colonel in the National People's Army (NVA) and is a historian and publicist researching anti-fascist resistance .

Life

Gerd Kaiser attended elementary school and then learned the trade of industrial blacksmith. On the second path of education he obtained his university entrance qualification in the workers and farmers faculty of the University of Jena and from 1951 studied history at the Lomonossow University in Moscow . After completing his studies, he undertook twelve years of military service in the NVA as an officer candidate from 1956. On the way of an unscheduled aspirant , he received his doctorate during his army service in 1964 at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig with a thesis on the development and operation of a system of political and ideological influence on the German land forces in the first decades of the 20th century in the German Empire , in the Reichswehr of the Weimar Republic and in the National Socialist Wehrmacht . 1968 ended his service in the NVA, from which he was dismissed with the rank of lieutenant colonel. Afterwards he worked as an employee of the German television broadcasting company of the GDR until its liquidation in 1990, doing sociological research and programming work. Since 1991 he has been researching the history of the German labor movement and German military history in the 20th century. He worked on integration projects in Berlin by and for migrants . He also supports Berlin and Thuringian projects to preserve memorials and traditions of the proletarian and anti-fascist resistance and to remember the persecution and victims of these clashes and struggles. For daily newspapers and magazines, etc. a. New Germany (from 1992), Junge Welt , Das Blättchen , and the Jahrbuch for research on the history of the labor movement , he wrote.

Kaiser is married and has one son.

Fonts (selection)

• With Wladislaw Hedeler and others: Torn from oblivion . State Center for Political Education Thuringia, Erfurt 2017, ISBN 978-3-946939-07-8 .
• "Here is the German soldier transmitter 935". A voice in the cold war . Edition Bodoni, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-940781-50-5 .

• With Heinz Germany : a “capable, fine person” - “unwaveringly red” . Edition Bodoni, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-940781-23-9 .
• Work has bitter roots ... but sweet fruit. Reflections on the beginnings of German students studying abroad in the USSR . 2nd, revised, corrected and significantly expanded edition, Edition Bodoni, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-940781-16-1 .
• Home in an idyllic location. From the children's home of the Red Aid in Elgersburg to the “Am Wald” hotel . Dietz, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-320-02230-3 .
• "For life and death". Silent heroes in the anti-fascist resistance (1923-1945) . Edition Bodoni, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-929390-96-4 .
• Katyn. The state crime - the state secret . Aufbau-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Berlin 2002, ISBN 978-3-7466-8078-1 .
  • Katyň. Státní zločin - státní tajemství . Translated into Czech by René J. Tesař, BB Art, Prague 2003, ISBN 80-7341-075-3 .
• With Volkhard Bode : missile tracks. Peenemünde 1936-2000 . Links, Berlin 2001, ISBN 978-3-861-53239-2 .
  • Building Hitler's Missiles. Traces of history in Peenemünde . Translated into English by Katy Derbyshire, Links, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-86153-483-9 .
• With Andrzej Leszek Szcześniak: Katyn. The mass murder of Polish officers . Links, Berlin 1992, ISBN 978-3-86153-029-9 .
• Genesis, structure and tasks of the system of political-ideological influence in the land forces of Germany from the turn of the century to the second world war . Typewritten dissertation, Leipzig 1965.

Web links

• Website of Gerd Kaiser

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gerd Kaiser website