Gerhard Engel (historian)

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Gerhard Engel (* 19th June 1934 in Prenzlau ) is a German SED - historian with the professional focus history of Bremen SPD and former Deputy Minister of the GDR.

Life

Gerhard Engel graduated from high school in 1952 and began studying history that same year , which he completed in 1956 as a graduate historian. From 1956 to 1972 he worked initially as a research assistant and later as a senior assistant at the Institute for German History at the Humboldt University of Berlin (HUB). In 1957 he became secretary of the basic organization of the SED in the field of history. Between 1962 and 1966 he belonged to a collective of authors who wrote the eight-volume history of the German labor movement . The work became the official GDR standard work on the history of the workers' movement. In 1961 Gerhard Engel and Evamaria Raschke married .

In January 1967, he completed his doctorate at the HUB with a thesis on the political-ideological development of Johann Knief (1880-1919). Investigations into the history of the left radicals in Bremen. The reviewers were Erich Paterna and Joachim Streisand . 1967–1970 Engel was secretary of the SED district leadership at the university. In February 1972 he became a university lecturer, twelve months later full professor of German history at the HUB. Also in 1973 Engel became Vice Rector for Social Sciences. 1977–1989 he was one of the deputies of the Minister for Higher and Technical Education, Hans-Joachim Böhme . 1989 to May 1990 Head of Department in the Ministry of Education. Engel was listed as an unofficial employee of the Ministry for State Security under the name IM Stern .

After 1990 he devoted himself to an edition of field post letters from social democratic soldiers as well as an edition of the sources on the minutes of the Berlin Executive Council of Workers 'and Soldiers' Councils in the November Revolution.

Monographs

  • Publisher: Great Berlin Workers 'and Soldiers' Councils in the Revolution 1918/19. Documents of the plenary meetings and the executive council. 3 volumes, Akademie, Berlin 1993/1997/2002, ISBN 3-05-002247-7 , ISBN 3-05-003061-5 , ISBN 3-05-003665-6 .
  • Red in field gray. War and field post letters from young left-wing Social Democratic soldiers of the First World War. (= Feldpostbriefe. Volume 2). Trafo, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-89626-784-9 .
  • Johann Knief - an unfinished life. Dietz, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-320-02249-5 .
  • Dr. Rudolf Franz 1882–1956. Between all stools - a life in the labor movement. edition bodoni, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-940781-46-8

Essays

  • The worker poet Werner Möller (1888–1919) , in: Work - Movement - History , Issue III / 2016.
  • Radical, moderate, forgotten: Alfred Henke (1868–1946). In: Yearbook for research on the history of the labor movement . Part 1 in volume II / 2015, pp. 44–66; Part 2 in volume III / 2015.
  • The International Communists of Germany 1916-1919 , in: Ralf Hoffrogge / Norman LaPorte: Weimar Communism as Mass Movement 1918-1933 . Lawrence & Wishart, London 2017, pp. 25–45.
  • The International Communists of Germany (IKD) and the founding of the KPD during the German Revolution 1918/19. In: Marxist Renewal Issue 115, September 2018

literature

  • Lothar Mertens : Lexicon of the GDR historians. Biographies and bibliographies on the historians from the German Democratic Republic. Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-11673-X , p. 200.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Georg G. Iggers: The GDR historical science as a research problem. Walter de Gruyter, 1998, ISBN 9783486644265 , p. 97. Restricted preview in Google book search