Gerhard Fuchs (historian)

Gerhard Franz Fuchs (born June 30, 1928 in Pencil Town ) is a German historian .

Gerhard Fuchs comes from a German-Czech family and grew up in Pencil Town, where he first became a Hitler Youth and later was a flak helper . In the fall of 1946, his family was to Saxony resettled . Here he initially worked as an unskilled worker and then, thanks to the educational policy of the Soviet zone of occupation, he was given the opportunity to subsequently take his Abitur in Halle by participating in the people's student program and then to study with various scholarships. He wrote his thesis on the history of the Reformation , but then worked primarily on contemporary history as Leo Stern's assistant . He wrote his doctoral thesis on "Czech and German anti-fascists in CSR".

After receiving his PhD B in 1976, he received a professorship at the University of Leipzig and in the following years was significantly involved in East European research in the GDR in his field of Eastern European history, especially the "history of the socialist countries of Europe".

Since his retirement in 1991, Fuchs has been working as a freelance historian and journalist.

Fonts

• Against Hitler and Henlein. The solidarity-based struggle of Czech and German anti-fascists from 1933 to 1938 (= series of publications by the Commission of Historians of the GDR and the ČSSR. Volume 4, ZDB -ID 1074617-1 ). Rütten & Loening, Berlin 1961.
• A six-state citizen. 2 volumes in 3 parts. Leipziger Universitäts-Verlag, Leipzig 1998–2007.
  • Volume 1: Youth in Bohemia. 1998, ISBN 3-933240-19-0 .
  • Volume 2, part 1: Growing up in Saxony. New beginning. (1946-1953). 2001, ISBN 3-934565-91-3 .
  • Volume 2, Part 2: Connected to Bohemia as a German historian. (1953-2006). 2007, ISBN 978-3-86583-161-3 ( review ).

literature

• Fuchs, Gerhard. In: Collegium Politicum at the University of Hamburg, Historiography Working Group (Hrsg.): Historians in Central Germany . Ferd. Dümmlers Verlag, Bonn / Hanover / Hamburg / Munich 1965, p. 31 f.

Web links

• Literature by and about Gerhard Fuchs in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Gerhard Fuchs at Litdok East Central Europe / Herder Institute (Marburg)
• Gerhard Fuchs in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig