Heinz Germany

Heinz Germany (born June 29, 1934 in Bernau near Berlin ) is a German historian and former diplomat . He was the GDR's ambassador to the Central African Republic (ZAR). Germany deals in particular with the history of the German and international trade union movement, the building monument of the Bundesschule Bernau as well as life and the like. Work of Käte Duncker u. Hermann Duncker.

Life

Germany, son of a working-class family, graduated from the Geschwister-Scholl-Oberschule in Bernau in 1952. He became a member of the SED . From 1952 to 1958 he studied economics and history in Berlin and Moscow , graduating as a historian. From 1959 to 1960 he was a research assistant at the university of the trade unions in Bernau near Berlin and at the same time an employee of Hermann Duncker and, after his death, head of the Duncker archive / memorial. From 1961 to 1967 he headed the Institute for International Trade Union Policy there. In 1967 he received his doctorate with Walter Markov about the beginnings of African labor and trade union movement to Dr. phil. In the same year he became a member of the diplomatic service of the GDR.

From 1967 to 1970 he was first secretary and deputy head of the GDR trade agency in Algiers and from 1970/1971 he was the GDR's ambassador in Bangui (ZAR). In 1972 he worked at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of the GDR (MfAA) a. a. since 1973 as deputy head of the Department of International Economic Organizations at the MfAA.

From 1977 he headed the history research group of the FDGB at the trade union college "Fritz Heckert". In 1980 he was appointed professor and, in 1982, at the Academy of Social Sciences with a thesis on Herbert Warnke, he received the Dr. sc. phil.

Germany was also a member of the Presidium of the Historians' Society of the GDR , the Council for History and the like. the editorial team of the magazine "Contributions to the History of the Labor Movement".

1990 co-founder and until 2007 honorary chairman of the association “Baudenkmal bundesschule bernau e. V. ”for the preservation of the Hannes Meyer u. Hans Wittwer built the ADGB federal school building.

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

• (Ed., Together with Karl Dröll): Everyone can learn anything! Hermann Duncker's thoughts on studies and teaching . University of the German trade unions "Fritz Heckert", Bernau 1961.
• (together with Wilhelm Wilke and Gerhard Powik): Africa's workers in combat. The trade unions of Africa in the struggle for national independence . Verlag Tribüne, Berlin 1964.
• Hermann Duncker and the Russian Revolutionary Movement . Verlag Tribüne, Berlin 1964.
• The beginnings of the African labor and trade union movement 1918–1945 . Leipzig, Philosophical Faculty, dissertation of March 20, 1967.
  • (English translation): Trailblazers. Struggles and organizations of African workers before 1945 . Verlag Tribüne, Berlin 1970.
  • (French translation): Pioneers. Luttes et organizations des travailleurs africains avant 1945 . Verlag Tribüne, Berlin 1970.
• (together with Ruth Germany, ed.): The international labor organization . State Publishing House of the GDR, Berlin 1981.
• (together with Alfred Förster and Ernst Egon Lange): shop steward in his class - Herbert Warnke, a biographical sketch . Verlag Tribüne, Berlin 1982 (2nd, revised edition, 1983).
• (Head of the collective of authors): History of the Free German Trade Union Federation . Verlag Tribüne, Berlin 1982 (3rd edition, 1985).
• (together with Hans Polzin) The smashing of the free trade unions on May 2, 1933. Background and historical lessons. Bernau 1983.
• (together with Karl Wille, ed.): Hermann Duncker. Selected writings and speeches from six decades . Verlag Tribüne, Berlin 1984.
• (Head of the collective of authors) History of the FDGB - Chronicle 1945-1982. Verlag Tribüne, Berlin 1985 (3rd expanded edition (1945 to 1986) 1987). 
• (together with Ernst Egon Lange, ed.): Wegbereiter. 32 portrait sketches . Verlag Tribüne, Berlin 1987.
• (together with Wolfgang Heyn, ed.) August Bebel. About unions. Verlag Tribüne, Berlin 1988.
• Union history - results and tasks. Bernau 1988.
• (together with Jonas Geist): Max Taut . Architect and teacher (1884–1967) . Press office of the University of the Arts, Berlin 1999.
• (together with Mario Keßler ): Hermann Duncker. Social democratic "itinerant preacher", Spartakist, trade union teacher . VSA-Verlag, Hamburg 2001.
• (Ed.) The federal school of the trade unions in Bernau near Berlin. Documents on the history of construction and use from 1927 to 1933. Verein Baudenkmal Bundesschule Bernau, Issue 1, Bernau 2003.
• (together with Wolfgang Heyn and Günter Thoms, eds.) The association Baudenkmal bundesschule Bernau 1990-2005. A chronicle. Building Monument Association of the Federal School Bernau, Issue 5, Bernau 2005.
• (Ed.): "I cannot save my life by killing". Correspondence between Käte and Hermann Duncker from 1915 to 1917 . Pahl-Rugenstein, Bonn 2005.
• (together with Wolfgang Benz , ed.): The fate of the ADGB federal school in the Third Reich. Reichsführer school, school of the SS security service, branch of the Reich Main Security Office . Association Baudenkmal Bundesschule Bernau, issue 6, Bernau 2007, (2nd edition 2016).
• (together with Gerd Kaiser ): A “capable, fine person” - “unwaveringly red” . Edition Bodoni, Berlin 2011 (Biographical sketch about Edda Tennenbaum , 1878–1952).
• (Ed., Together with Ruth Germany) Käte and Hermann Duncker. A diary in letters (1894–1953) with a USB card (5722 pages). Karl Dietz Verlag, Berlin 2016.

Essays

• On the development of the African workers and trade union movement from 1918 to 1945. Historiography - sources - theses. In: Zeitschrift für Geschichtswwissenschaft (ZfG), XV (1967) 8, pp. 1422–1435.
• (together with Georg Richter) The role of the ILO in the international class conflict. In: Deutsche Außenpolitik, 22 (1977) 5, pp. 80–96.
• On the relations between the RGI and the unions that are being formed in Tropical Africa. (16th Linz Conference 1890). In: The international trade union movement between the two world wars. Vienna 1982, pp. 138-147. 
• Theodor Leipart on the unity of the labor movement 1945–1947 (documentation) . In: Contributions to the history of the labor movement BzG , 29 (1987), pp. 350–362.
• To the anti-fascist foundations of the unified union. In: classes. Parties. Society. Jena 1987, pp. 127-149.
• The beginnings of the trade union movement [in Tropical Africa] (1917-1945) . In: Annemarie Hafner, Jürgen Herzog: slave - coolie - wage worker. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1988, pp. 196-226.
• Heritage and tradition in the FDGB . In: Helmut Meier, Walter Schmidt (ed.): Heritage and tradition in the GDR . The discussion of historians. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1988, pp. 364-377.
• Hermann Duncker (1874-1960). In: Heinz Heitzer, Karl-Heinz Nowak, Walter Schmidt: Trailblazers of GDR history. Biographies. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1989, pp. 27-50.
• Trade unions in the area of ​​tension between revolution and parliamentary democracy in the first years of the Weimar Republic. In: Perspective and Action. Experiences of the German labor movement. Jena 1989, pp. 75-83.
• Hannes Meyer and the trade unions. In: Hannes Meyer. Contributions to the 100th birthday in 1989. Weimar 1990, pp. 191–222.
• The Bernau Trade Union School through the ages . In: BzG , 32 (1990), pp. 673-686.
• Heritage and tradition in the FDGB . In: Helmut Meier, Walter Schmidt (ed.): Heritage and tradition in the GDR . The discussion of historians. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1988, pp. 364-377.
• The library of the Federal School of the General German Trade Union Federation (ADGB) in Bernau (1930–1933). History, existence, whereabouts, tradition . In: Yearbook for Research on the History of the Labor Movement (2003), Volume II, pp. 84-100.
• Teacher and member of parliament. Kate Duncker (1871-1953). In: Lived Ideas. Socialists in Thuringia. Biographical sketches. Jena 2006, pp. 123-133.
• Hermann Duncker as editor. On the 90th anniversary of the publication of the first volumes of the “Elementary Books of Communism” . In: Yearbook for Research on the History of the Labor Movement (2013).

Translations

• Ivan I. Potechin: Africa looks to the future . Verlag Tribüne, Berlin 1961.
• (together with Ruth Germany) Wassili Grossman, Ilja Ehrenburg (Hrsg.) Das Schwarzbuch. The genocide of the Soviet Jews. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1994.
• (together with Ruth Germany) Oleg W. Chlewnjuk. The Politburo. Mechanisms of Political Power in the Soviet Union of the 1930s. Hamburger Edition, Hamburg 1998.
• (Ed., Together with Ruth Germany) Alexandra Kollontai. My life in diplomacy. Records from the years 1922 to 1945. Karl Dietz Verlag, Berlin 2003.

Awards

• Banner of Labor III. Class (1976)
• National Prize of the GDR 2nd class for science and technology (in a collective) (1982).

literature

• Günther Buch: Names and dates of important people in the GDR. 4th, revised and expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin (West) / Bonn 1987, ISBN 3-8012-0121-X , p. 47.
• Hella Karden: Germany, Heinz . In: Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990 . Volume 1: Abendroth - Lyr . KG Saur, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-598-11176-2 , p. 119.
• Siegfried Bock , Ingrid Muth , Hermann Schwiesau: The GDR foreign policy, an overview. Data, facts, people (III) . LIT Verlag Dr. W. Hopf, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-643-10559-2 , p. 297.