Heinz Kühnrich

Heinz Kühnrich (* 1935 ; † September 2002 ) was a German Marxist historian .

Life

He attended the workers and farmers faculty at the University of Leipzig and then studied history there. From 1958 he worked at the Institute for Marxism-Leninism at the Central Committee of the SED as a research assistant and sector leader. In doing so, he set up fundamental research and definitions on fascism and its relation to anti-Semitism on behalf of the SED .

He obtained the two doctorates A and B with two theses . One dealt with the history of the partisan movement in Europe and the other with the politics of the KPD in the initial phase of the Second World War . This work was followed by some topics on which he published books and magazine articles.

In 1985 he received the National Prize of the GDR, 2nd class for science and technology.

According to Jörg Osterloh and Kim Wünschmann, his study Der KZ-Staat 1933–1945 is mainly based on already published material and is permeated by the guidelines of Marxist-Leninist politics, which saw Hitler as only a puppet of monopoly capital. Kühnrich only just touched on the history of the concentration camps, the prisoners only played a subordinate role in his presentation.

Kühnrich died at the end of September 2002 after a brief, serious illness.

Fonts

The representation of the partisan movement in West German historiography. On some questions of partisan struggle during the Second World War . in: Zeitschrift für Geschichtswwissenschaft , Issue 8 (1960), p. 7.
Eichmann's murderer - not a case in the past . Berlin 1961.
The partisan war in Europe 1939-1945 . Berlin 1965.
Historiography of the German Democratic Republic on the German anti-fascist resistance struggle from 1933 to 1945 (overview of publications from 1960 to 1965) . Berlin 1965, (with Karl Heinz Biernat, Klaus Mammach, Gerhard Nitzsche)
SS in action - a documentary about the crimes of the SS . Berlin 1967.
In the forests of Belarus . as publisher, Berlin 1976.
New, significant material on the political-theoretical activities of the illegal operational leadership of the KPD in Germany in 1944 . in: Contributions to the history of the labor movement, Heft 1 (1979), p. 38.
Some questions of the struggle of the KPD in the first period of the second world war . in: Contributions to the history of the labor movement, issue 1/1982, p. 26.
The KPD in the fight against the fascist dictatorship 1933-1945 . Berlin 1983.
The Concentration Camp State - The Fascist Concentration Camps 1933-1945 . 5th edition, Berlin 1988.
The German-Soviet non-aggression pact of August 23, 1939 from the KPD's contemporary perspective . in: Dietrich Eichholtz , Kurt Pätzold (ed.): The way to war . Berlin 1989.
Stalinism: the author in conversation with Jürgen Weidlich . Berlin 1990.
'Prescribed' - and nothing more? Thinking about anti-fascism in the GDR . in: Zeitschrift für Geschichtswwissenschaft, Issue 9, 1992, pp. 819–833.
In league with the enemy - Germans on the Allied side . Berlin 1995. (with Stefan Doernberg )
Germans with Tito's partisans 1941-1945. The fortunes of the war in the Balkans in eyewitness reports and documents . Berlin 1997. (with Franz-Karl Wärme)
Work sets you free . in: Kurt Pätzold, Manfred Weißbecker (Ed.): Historical key words . Cologne 2006.

Web links

Constanze Kutschker, Wiebke Them: The weakness of memory gives people strength (B. Brecht): On the anti-fascism of the GDR. (pdf, 800 kB) Diploma thesis at the educational science department of the Technical University of Berlin, September 2000 .; accessed on December 12, 2019
Literature by and about Heinz Kühnrich in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

↑ Jörg Osterloh, Kim Wünschmann: Caught in the terror of National Socialism. Introduction to the history of the prisoners of the early concentration camps 1933 to 1936/37. In: Jörg Osterloh, Kim Wünschmann (eds.): "... at the mercy of the most unrestrained arbitrariness": Prisoners of the early concentration camps 1933-1936 / 37. Campus Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-593-50702-6 , p. 19.

personal data
SURNAME	Kühnrich, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Marxist historian
DATE OF BIRTH	1935
DATE OF DEATH	September 2002

[1] Jörg Osterloh, Kim Wünschmann: Caught in the terror of National Socialism. Introduction to the history of the prisoners of the early concentration camps 1933 to 1936/37. In: Jörg Osterloh, Kim Wünschmann (eds.): "... at the mercy of the most unrestrained arbitrariness": Prisoners of the early concentration camps 1933-1936 / 37. Campus Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-593-50702-6 , p. 19.