Gerhard Feldbauer

Gerhard Feldbauer (born March 29, 1933 ) is a German journalist , historian and diplomat of the GDR .

Life

The qualified journalist Feldbauer worked for ADN and Neues Deutschland as a foreign correspondent in Hanoi (1967–1973) and Rome (1973–1983). He received his doctorate in Potsdam in 1972 on the "Role of the Vietnamese Councils in the National Liberation Struggle". He completed his habilitation in 1981 with a thesis on Italian fascism . From 1981 to 1983 he was counselor in Algeria, from November 1983 ambassador in Zaire.

Feldbauer has written books on the history of Italy and writes about Italy for the newspapers Neues Deutschland, Junge Welt and Unser Zeit . In analyse & kritik he is certified to pursue “a continuation of his old GDR journalism” there and reports on the “grotesquely twisted representations that do not shy away from open falsification of quotations” on certain topics. His books are based on an unbroken communist worldview and, according to various reviewers, take up conspiracy theories .

Fonts

• The historical significance of the Vietnamese Soviets (1930–31) for the successful course of the national liberation struggle of the Vietnamese people under the leadership of the party of the working class , Potsdam 1972.
• Neo-fascism in Italy , 1981.
• From Mussolini to Fini: the extreme right in Italy , Elefanten-Press, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-88520-575-0 . Full version available online (PDF; 1.0 MB)
• Agents, terror, state conspiracy. Papyrossa, Cologne 2000, ISBN 3-89438-207-4 .
• Will Berlusconi be a new Mussolini? , Neue-Impulse, Essen 2001, ISBN 3-910080-29-4 .
• March on Rome , Papyrossa, Cologne 2002, ISBN 3-89438-248-1 .
• Aldo Moro and the Alliance of Christian Democrats and Communists in Italy in the 1970s , Essen 2003 full version available online (PDF; 512 kB)
• with Irene Feldbauer : Victory in Saigon. Pahl-Rugenstein, Bonn 2005, ISBN 3-89144-366-8 .
• Mussolini's attack on Ethiopia , Pahl-Rugenstein, Bonn 2006, ISBN 3-89144-372-2 .
• The National Liberation Revolution of Vietnam. Pahl-Rugenstein, Bonn 2007, ISBN 978-3-89144-379-8 .
• History of Italy , Papyrossa, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-89438-386-2
• The Holy Father. Benedict XVI: a Pope and his tradition. Papyrossa-Verlag, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-89438-415-9 .
• In 1945 the revolution failed in Italy . 2012 online
• The Resistance: Italy in World War II , Papyrossa, Cologne, 2014, ISBN 978-3-89438-559-0

Awards

• Franz Mehring Badge of Honor (1969)

Web links

• Literature by and about Gerhard Feldbauer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Feldbauers article at Linksnet

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Henning Böke: Almost an obituary. The DKP is fighting for the survival of its central organ. In: analysis & criticism . No. 466, October 18, 2002.
2. ↑ Volker Reinhardt : Review of: Feldbauer, Gerhard: Geschichte Italiens. From the Risorgimento to today. Cologne 2008. In: H-Soz-Kult , June 30, 2009; Ralf Mattes: Review of: Agents, Terror, State Plot: The Murder of Aldo Moro, Red Brigades, and CIA. PapyRossa, Cologne 2000. In: Archivio900.it ; Rainer Behring: Italy in the mirror of German-language contemporary history research. A literature review (2006–2013). In: Archives for Social History . Volume 54, 2014, pp. 345–394, here p. 354 f. (PDF).
3. ↑ Review