Heinrich Scheel

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Heinrich Scheel (born December 11, 1915 in Berlin-Kreuzberg ; † January 7, 1996 in Berlin ) was a German historian and longtime Vice President of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR .

Life

Heinrich Scheel grew up in a social democratic family and attended the school farm Insel Scharfenberg from 1929 to 1934 . He became an opponent of National Socialism , which was expressed in the resistance after the seizure of power as a high school student (together with his classmates Hans Coppi and Hans Lautenschläger ), student (from 1935 to 1940 studied at Berlin's Friedrich Wilhelms University ) and member of the Wehrmacht .

From 1941 onwards, Scheel was stationed as a weather service inspector with the Air Force in Berlin-Tempelhof , later in Rangsdorf . In contact with the group around Harro Schulze-Boysen since the beginning of the war , he was arrested on September 16, 1942 in Berlin - together with the Berlin group of the Rote Kapelle . Scheel lived through imprisonment in the penitentiary , was taken to the Aschendorfer Moorlager , in mid-July 1944 for “ frontline probation ” in a probation battalion and at the end of 1944 in American captivity .

After his return he worked as a teacher and from 1947 to 1949 as director of the school farm Insel Scharfenberg. After the division of Berlin, he saw himself as a survivor of the resistance group "Red Orchestra" unable to Scharfenberg, now the separate West Berlin to remain subordinate administration in office and self-initiated, along with school farm founder William Blume and main school superintendents Ernst Wildangel the Transfer of the school management to his former schoolmate Wolfgang Pewesin. Initially head of a youth center in Weißensee (house of the children), he later returned to the Humboldt University as a doctoral student and received his doctorate in 1956. After his habilitation in 1960, he became a lecturer in German history and continued his research on the German Jacobins and the Mainz Republic at the Academy of Sciences of the GDR . From 1960 to 1964 he acted there as secretary of the SED party leadership. In 1969 he became a full member of the academy, and since 1972 he has been its vice-president. From 1980 until the self-dissolution in 1990 he was President of the Historians' Society of the GDR .

Awards

Fonts

  • The revolutionary-democratic popular movements in south-west Germany from 1795 to 1801 . Berlin, Humboldt University, Phil. Faculty, dissertation from March 21, 1956.
  • South German Jacobins. Class struggles and republican aspirations in the German south at the end of the 18th century . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1962.
  • Jacobean pamphlets from southern Germany at the end of the 18th century . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1965.
  • German Jacobinism and German Nation. A contribution to the national question in the age of the Great French Revolution . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1966.
  • Biographical lexicon on German history. From the beginning until 1917 . Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1967 (with Karl Obermann ).
  • Scharfenberg Island School Farm . Volk u. Knowledge, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-06-204136-6 .
  • Before the barriers of the Imperial Court Martial. My way into the resistance . Edition q, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-86124-147-1 .
  • From head of the Berlin school farm Scharfenberg to historian of German Jacobinism (1946–1956). Autobiographical records . Becker, Velten 1996, ISBN 3-89597-313-0 . On-line
  • A Jewish teacher to his former student. Hans Gaertner's letters from the years 1946-1950 , in: Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte , Vol. 43, No. 1 (1991), pp. 18-29

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ The morning of December 14, 1982.
  2. ^ New Germany from February 1, 1966.
  3. ↑ Neues Deutschland , October 8, 1980, p. 4.
  4. ↑ Neues Deutschland , October 3, 1985, p. 4.
personal data
SURNAME Scheel, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin-Kreuzberg
DATE OF DEATH January 7, 1996
Place of death Berlin