Heinz Brahm

Heinz Brahm (* 1935 in Viersen ) is a German political scientist and historian. He was head of the research department and senior scientific director at the former Federal Institute for Eastern and International Studies in Cologne , the predecessor authority of today's Science and Politics Foundation in Berlin . He was one of the longest employees there, who directly experienced the conceptual changes at the institute and had to implement them in their work.

Career

Brahm studied history, political science, German and Slavic studies in Marburg and Kiel . In 1963 he received his doctorate from the University of Kiel with a thesis on the Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky .

After completing his doctorate from 1963 to 2000, worked at the Federal Institute for Eastern and International Studies in Cologne. From 1973 he was head of the department for domestic politics, from 1989 for east-central and south-east Europe. He retired in 2000 when the Federal Institute was closed.

On April 6, 1961, the Federal Institute for the Study of Marxism-Leninism (Institute for Sovietology) was officially founded. Heinz Brahm joined in 1963 as a research assistant. He then also took part in the conversion of the institute, which was originally focused on ideological questions, to the investigation of domestic and foreign policy processes in the countries of Eastern Europe. At that time he was responsible for the society, ideology and domestic politics of the countries of the Eastern Bloc. His department followed the changes in the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc from the Stalin era through Khrushchev and Brezhnev to the reform period of Gorbachev . However, the experts at the Federal Institute could not foresee the collapse of the Soviet Union and communism.

As a historian and political scientist, he has also observed and researched the development of Bulgaria since the fall of the Wall in Eastern Europe . He did not shy away from critically assessing developments in Bulgaria, in particular the lack of addressing communism and state security, corruption and crime and irresponsible populism from both the left and the right.

Publications

He is the author of around 80 articles in magazines and anthologies, some of which have also been published in English, French, Russian, Japanese, Czech and other languages. Articles by him also appeared in major daily newspapers such as Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , Neue Zürcher Zeitung , Die Zeit , Rheinischer Merkur . Around 100 articles appeared in Bulgarian newspapers and websites.

Publications (selection)

• Trotsky's ideological struggle to succeed Lenin (dissertation), Verlag Wissenschaft und Politik, Cologne 1964
• Beijing's grab for supremacy, Verlag Wissenschaft und Politik, Cologne 1966
• Russian Revolution and World Revolution, Federal Agency for Civic Education, Bonn 1967
• The Kremlin and the CSSR 1968-1969, Stuttgart, Verlag Kohlhammer, 1970
• The Soviet Union in the transition from Brezhnev to Andropow, Berlin, Duncker and Humblot, 1984.
• The new political landscape in Eastern Europe, reports of the Federal Institute for Eastern and International Studies, 1993.
• “Sin'oto pravitelstvo na Filip Dimitrov” (The blue government of Filip Dimitrov, in Bulgarian), Sofia 1998.
• The first anti-communist government in Bulgaria, reports of the Federal Institute for Eastern and International Studies, 1998.
• Glasnost - the spirit out of the bottle, reports of the Federal Institute for Eastern and International Studies, 1990.
• "Lenin writer", in: Eastern Europe , 50th year, 10/2000, pages 1115–1122.
• "Hub of Eastern European Studies: Federal Institute for Eastern and International Studies", in: Eastern Europe , 55th year, 12/2005, pages 163–175.
• Heinz Brahm, Valerij Ljubin: An unknown Adenauer, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, No. 213, September 13, 2005, page 10.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Trotsky's ideological struggle to succeed Lenin 1922-1926, University of Kiel, Phil. Faculty, dissertation of February 6, 1963.
2. ↑ "Heinz Brahm:" Drehscheibe der Osteuropaforschung ( Memento of the original from April 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. : Federal Institute for Eastern and International Studies, in: Eastern Europe, 55 (2005), 12.  
3. ↑ Bulgaria: The Chancellor is not one heart and soul with populist politicians . November 2, 2010.

Web links

• Literature by and about Heinz Brahm in the catalog of the German National Library
• Heinz Brahm at Worldcat literature by and about Heinz Brahm in the bibliographic database WorldCat