Hans Piazza

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Hans Günter Piazza (born December 27, 1932 in Chemnitz , † November 27, 2017 in Leipzig ) was a German historian . He mainly worked in the field of the German and international labor movement .

Live and act

Hans Piazza attended elementary school from 1939 to 1943 and high school in Chemnitz from 1943 to 1951 . From 1951 to 1957 he studied history at the universities of Leipzig and Leningrad and then worked as a teacher at the SED district party school in Magdeburg .

From 1958 to 1962 he was a research assistant and from 1962 to 1965 senior research assistant at the Department of Modern History of the Institute for General History at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig. In 1963 he was with the work of the London dock strike of 1889 to the Dr. phil. PhD . From 1965 to 1969 he was a lecturer in general history of modern times at the Karl Marx University. In 1971 the doctorate B to Dr. sc. phil. with the work The Communist International and the National Liberation Movement. In 1970 he was appointed professor for the history of the international labor movement at the history section of the Karl Marx University. From 1969 to 1973 he was director of the history section and from 1976 to 1986 prorector for social sciences at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig. In 1992 he retired .

Memberships

Hans Piazza was a member of the SED from 1952 to 1990 . From 1964 he was a member of the university party leadership and from 1971 to 1989 a member of the SED district leadership of the Karl Marx University in Leipzig.

From 1977 to 1990 he was a member of the Presidium of the Historians' Society of the GDR . He was also a member of several central scientific state and academic bodies, including:

  • 1967–1990: Scientific Advisory Board for History of the Ministry for Higher and Technical Schools in the GDR
  • 1969–1990: Council for History of the GDR
  • 1971–1990: Central Council for Asian, African and Latin American Studies of the GDR
  • 1972–1990: Commission of Historians of the GDR and USSR
  • 1973–1990: National Committee of Historians of the GDR at the Academy of Sciences of the GDR in Berlin
  • 1974–1990: Problem Council General History of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR in Berlin
  • 1979–1990: National Committee for Asian, African and Latin American Studies of the GDR

He was a member of the scientific advisory board of the social and linguistic series of the scientific journal of the Karl Marx University in Leipzig.

Awards

Fonts

  • Iwan Michailowitsch Maiski : Modern history of Spain 1808-1917. Translated from the Russian by Hans Piazza. Edited by Manfred Kossok . Rütten & Loening, Berlin 1961.
  • To the general history of the most recent times. 1918-1939. People and Knowledge, Berlin 1962.
  • The London dockworkers strike of 1889. Dissertation. University of Leipzig, 1963.
  • Georgij I. Levinson: The Philippines, yesterday and today. German by Willy Steltner. German edition provided by Hans Piazza. Academy, Berlin 1966.
  • The Communist International and the National Liberation Movement. Dissertation B. In: Studies on the History of the Communist International. Anthology. Berlin 1974, pp. 181-230 and pp. 415-426.
  • (Ed.): Party, Tradition, Science. German Science Publishing House, Berlin 1976.
  • (Ed.): Famous Leipzig students. Urania, Leipzig 1984.
  • (Red.): The league against imperialism and for national independence. Rector of the Karl Marx University, Leipzig 1987.
  • Manfred Kossok (ed.): General history of the newest time. By a collective of authors led by Hans Piazza and Hella Kaeselitz. Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-326-00288-2 .

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 , pp. 485-486.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mario Keßler : Comintern and anti-colonialism: To the death of the historian Hans Piazza. Association of Left Education and Culture for Saxony, December 29, 2017, accessed on January 3, 2018 .
  2. ^ Contributions to a chronicle of the University of Leipzig ( Memento from March 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ Annual table of contents 1982 of the scientific journal of the Karl Marx University Leipzig
personal data
SURNAME Piazza, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Piazza, Hans Günter (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH December 27, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Chemnitz
DATE OF DEATH November 27, 2017
Place of death Leipzig