Hartmut Zwahr

Hartmut Christian Johannes Zwahr (born August 28, 1936 in Bautzen ) is a German historian of Sorbian nationality. From 1978 to 1992 he was professor for the history of the German labor movement at the then Karl Marx University Leipzig (KMU) and then until his retirement in 2001 professor for social and economic history at the University of Leipzig.

Life

After attending elementary school or elementary school in his hometown of Bautzen, Zwahr completed an apprenticeship as a library technician in the General Public Library in Bautzen from 1950. He then attended from 1953 to 1956 the college for librarians named after Erich Weinert in Leipzig . From 1955 to 1960 he devoted himself to studying history, adult education and German studies at Leipzig University. Then he was until 1963 the owner of a scientific postgraduate at the Sorbian Institute of the Faculty of Arts of SMEs. He did his doctorate under Paul Nedo with a thesis on the subject of anti-Sorbian state policy in imperialist Germany and the struggle of the Sorbian people's movement in Upper Lusatia against social exploitation and national oppression. This was followed by assistant positions in the departments for German national and regional history at the Institute for German History there. From 1969 to 1971 he was senior research assistant in the teaching group “Local Labor Movement” within the academic field “German History and the History of the German Labor Movement 1789 to 1945”. In 1974 he completed his dissertation B. , with which he received the title of Dr. sc. phil. obtained, with the habilitation thesis on the constitution of the proletariat as a class - structural study of the Leipzig proletariat during the industrial revolution .

From 1971 to 1978, Zwahr was a lecturer in the history of the German labor movement at the SME. After completing additional studies at the historical institutes of the universities in Leningrad and Moscow , he was appointed full professor for the aforementioned subject in 1978. From 1985 to 1990 he was a member of the Scientific Council of the History Section. In 1987 he was given the opportunity to visit the Center for Interdisciplinary Research at Bielefeld University as part of the research project Citizenship in 19th Century Germany in European Comparison . He was a member of the SED from 1967 to 1990 .

After the political change he held the Leipzig Professorship for Social and Economic History from 1992 until his retirement in 2001. From 1996 to 1999 he was a member of the council of Leipzig University, from 2002 to 2004 a member of the board of trustees of the Hannah Arendt Institute in Dresden and from 2002 to 2008 a member of the board of trustees of Leipzig University.

Sorabija has been a member since 1953 and was chairman of it from 1963/64. Since 1997 he has been a member of the Upper Lusatian Society of Sciences in Görlitz . Since 1984 he has also been a member of the historical commission of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig.

He is married to the historian Annette Zwahr .

Honors

• 1971 Literarne myto Domowiny ( Domowina Literature Prize )
• 1979 Labor Banner (Level I)
• 1986 Domowina Literature Prize
• 1987 3rd prize from the Fritz Thyssen Foundation

Works

• Proletariat and bourgeoisie in Germany. Studies on class dialectics . Cologne, 1980.
• The constitution of the German working class from the thirties to the seventies of the 19th century. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1981.
• My compatriots: the Sorbs and Lausitz in the testimony of German contemporaries - from Spener and Lessing to Pieck. Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 1984.
• Master and servant. Pairs of figures in the story . Leipzig-Jena-Berlin 1990.
• End of a self-destruction. Leipzig and the revolution in the GDR . Göttingen 1993.
• Revolutions in Saxony. Contributions to social and cultural history . Cologne-Weimar-Vienna 1996.
• The frozen wings of the swallow: GDR and “Prager Frühling” - diary of a crisis, 1968 - 1970. Bonn: Dietz, 2007. ISBN 978-3-8012-4182-7
• Atlas of the history and regional studies of Saxony. Peaceful Revolution 1989/90 in Saxony . Dresden 2009. ISBN 978-3-89679-599-1

literature

• Michael Martischnig: Folklorist in the German Democratic Republic today. (= Communications of the Institute for Contemporary Folklore, Special Volume 4) Self-published by the Austrian Museum for Folklore, Vienna 1990, pp. 174–175 ISBN 3-900359-46-6
• Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk:  Yes, Hartmut . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Hartmut Zwahr in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Hartmut Zwahr in the Saxon Bibliography
• Hartmut Zwahr in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig