Gerhard Zschäbitz

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Gerhard Ewald Zschäbitz (born November 19, 1920 in Riesa ; † June 15, 1970 in Leipzig ) was a German Marxist historian and editor .

Life

Gerhard Zschäbitz joined the Reich Labor Service and the NSDAP at the beginning of the Second World War (1939) . From 1940 until the end of the war in 1945 he served in the Air Force and in 1945 was a US prisoner of war near Mühldorf am Inn . In the same year he was released from captivity and became a new teacher at the Pestalozzi School in Riesa. In the following year he became headmaster at the Max Planck Oberschule Riesa and until 1947 temporarily deputy director at this school. From 1947 to 1951 he studied history , German and geography at the University of Leipzig . From 1947 to 1950 he was a member of the Liberal Democratic Party of Germany . From 1952 to 1959 he was a research assistant or senior assistant at the Institute for "History of the German People" at the University of Leipzig . Between 1959 and 1965 he was a lecturer in “German History” at the Philosophical Faculty of the Karl Marx University in Leipzig. He received his doctorate in 1956 with the thesis The revolutionary potencies of the Central German Anabaptist movement in the years after the Peasants' War . In 1964 Gerhard Zschäbitz became a member of the SED . In 1964 he completed his habilitation on the subject of "The Book of Hundred Chapters and the Forty Statutes of the so-called Upper Rhine Revolutionary". In 1965 he became acting head of the Feudalism Department at the Institute for History of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR in Berlin . With the award of the title of professor, he received the Venia legendi for Middle and Modern History . On June 15, 1970, he committed suicide .

Honors

  • 1952 "Medal for Excellent Achievement"
  • 1959 "Badge of Honor of the Karl Marx University Leipzig"
  • 1962 “Pestalozzi Medal” in silver

Works

  • The revolutionary potencies of the Central German Anabaptist movement in the years after the Peasants' War . Leipzig 1956.
  • About the Central German Anabaptist movement after the great peasant war . Foreword by Ernst Engelberg . Rütten & Loening, Berlin 1958.
  • The holy rock of Trier . Urania-Verlag, Jena, Leipzig 1959 (= pamphlets of the Institute for German History of the Karl Marx University Leipzig )
  • "From the new change of a Christian life" - an often misinterpreted text from the time after the great German peasant war . In: Zeitschrift für Geschichtswwissenschaft 8 (1960); ISSN  0044-2828 ; Pp. 908-918.
  • Gerhard Zschäbitz, Johannes Kalisch , Günther Krüger (Ed.): Dream and Action. Fights of the popular masses in history . Urania-Verlag, Leipzig, Jena 1962. (2nd, revised edition Leipzig, Jena, Berlin 1964)
  • About the character and historical tasks of the Reformation and the Peasants' War . Zeitschrift für Geschichtswwissenschaft 12 (1964), Issue 2, pp. 277–288. ISSN  0044-2828
  • The effects of the teachings of Philipp Melanchthon on princely politics in the second half of the 16th century . Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1963.
  • Joachim Camerarius . In: Max Steinmetz (Ed.): Important scholars in Leipzig. On the 800th anniversary of the city of Leipzig , Volume 1. Karl Marx University, Leipzig 1965, pp. 1–6.
  • Martin Luther . Size and limit , 2 parts (part 1: 1483–1526; part 2: not published). German Science Publishing House, Berlin 1967.
  • The book of one hundred chapters and forty statutes of the so-called Upper Rhine revolutionary . Historical analysis by Gerhard Zschäbitz. Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1967 (= Leipzig translations and treatises on the Middle Ages . Series A. 4)
  • (Head): The Reformation in Germany. Materials on the history of the early bourgeois revolution . German Academy of Sciences, Lutherstadt 1967
  • To the Marxist image of Luther . In: History lessons and citizenship 9 (1967) People and Knowledge, Berlin; Pp. 752-758. ISSN  0016-9072
  • Karl Obermann , Heinrich Scheel , Helmuth Stoecker , Bernhard Töpfer , Gerhard Zschäbitz (Ed.): Biographical Lexicon for German History. From the beginning until 1917 . German Science Publishing House, Berlin 1967

literature

  • Zschäbitz, Gerhard . In: Collegium Politicum at the University of Hamburg, AG Historiographie (ed.), Historian in Central Germany . Ferd. Dümmler, Bonn-Hanover-Hamburg 1965, p. 99.
  • Gerhard Zschäbitz in memory . In: Zeitschrift für Geschichtswwissenschaft , 18, vol., 1970. Issue 9, p. 1202 f.
  • Heinz Heitzer (Ed.): Pioneer of the GDR historical science. Biographies . Berlin 1989, pp. 386-393.
  • Siegfried Hoyer : Gerhard Zschäbitz (1920-1970) . In: Well-known professors at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig . Volume 7, Leipzig 1985, pp. 40-45.
  • Lothar Mertens : Gerhard Zschäbitz, in: Lexicon of GDR historians . Saur, Munich 2006, p. 666.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Phil. F., diss. From January 13, 1956
  2. ↑ Articles by G. Zschäbitz identified by name therein: August I. , p. 26; Erasmus Desiderius , pp. 110-111; Nikolaus Krell , p. 269; Martin Luther , pp. 300-302 and Philipp Melanchton , pp. 324-325.
  3. ↑ The "1956 Habilitation for the History of Eastern Europe at the University of Leipzig" listed under "Qualification". Title of the work: Great Poland in the January Uprising. The Grand Duchy of Poznan 1858-1864. ”Is erroneous. See Felix-Heinrich Gentzen : Greater Poland in the January Uprising. The Grand Duchy of Poznan, 1858-1864 . Rütten & Loening 1958 (Zugl. Phil. Habil. -schrift Leipzig). Retrieved September 19, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Zschäbitz, Gerhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zschäbitz, Gerhard Ewald (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Marxist historian
DATE OF BIRTH November 19, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Riesa
DATE OF DEATH June 15, 1970
Place of death Leipzig