Heinz Niemann (historian)

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Heinz Fritz Niemann (born December 15, 1936 in Magdeburg ) is a German historian . As a professor of the history of the German labor movement, he taught first at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig and then at the Humboldt University in Berlin, and in 1978 was one of the authors of the manifesto of the Federation of Democratic Communists of Germany , which was published in Spiegel .

Life

Heinz Niemann was the son of the locksmith and engineer Ernst Niemann and the tailor Gertrud Niemann. From 1943 to 1944 he attended primary school in Magdeburg and from 1944 to 1945 that in Biere . This was followed by school attendance at the primary schools in Magdeburg, Blankenburg (Harz) , Quedlinburg and Bischofswerda . In Bischofswerda, Niemann switched to the Goethe High School, where he graduated from high school in 1955.

From 1955 to 1959 he studied history , philosophy and political science at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig (KMU) and graduated with a diploma (rer. Pol.). From 1959 to 1961 he was a research assistant at the Institute for Social Sciences at the University of Electrical Engineering in Ilmenau . In the following two years, Niemann was a scientific aspirant at the Institute for Social Sciences at the Central Committee of the SED . There he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD. At the same time, Niemann was from 1961 to 1970 an employee of the science department in the Central Committee of the SED . After teaching at the SME for almost a year, he became full professor for the history of the German labor movement there on September 1, 1971. Niemann headed the Leipzig authors' collective that presented the history of German social democracy from 1917 to 1945 in 1982 . In 1983 he moved to Berlin's Humboldt University, where he also taught as a professor for the history of the German labor movement until 1989. From 1990 to 1992, Niemann was elected founding director of the Institute for Political Science at Humboldt University. On December 31, 1992, a termination agreement came into force and Niemann received retirement benefit until the regular start of retirement in 1997. The premature end of his academic activity is variously referred to as a "teaching ban". Niemann has been a freelance historian and publicist since 1992.

It was only in May 1995 that it became known that Niemann was one of the co-authors of the 1978 manifesto of the Association of Democratic Communists in Germany . Although he confirmed his co-authorship of the manifesto to the Berliner Zeitung , he did not confirm the existence of a Federation of Democratic Communists in Germany .

Fonts (selection)

  • Little history of the SED. a reading book , Verlag am Park, Berlin, 2020, ISBN 978-3-947094-55-4 .
  • When do we argue side by side. Marginal glosses on the crisis of the SPD and the situation on the left . Verlag am park, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-947094-30-1 .
  • History of the German Social Democracy. 1914-1945 . Edition Ost, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-89793-159-6 .
  • The red bastard. Historical novel . Trafo-Verlag, Berlin 2001, ISBN 978-3-89626-255-4 .
  • Lectures on the history of Stalinism . Dietz, Berlin 1991, ISBN 978-3-320-01728-6 .
  • With Helmut Arndt: Lost? On the history of the Socialist Workers' Party. Two contributions to left socialism in Germany . Dietz, Berlin 1991, ISBN 978-3-320-01699-9 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Unless otherwise stated, biographical information is based on: Heinz Niemann Entry in: AGSI - AG “Seniors and Internet” Professors at the University of Leipzig 1945 - 1993 , an addition to the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig.
  2. ↑ The Wrong Man , Junge Welt , August 17, 2020
  3. ↑ Heinz Niemann , author portrait of the Eulenspiegel publishing group , accessed on April 27, 2019.
  4. ↑ Information on Heinz Niemann in an interview with him: “Of course leftists have to ask the system question” , Junge Welt , 27./28. April 2019, accessed April 27, 2019.
  5. ↑ Contemporary history: Uprising against Honecker , Der Spiegel 38/1996, accessed on April 27, 2019.
  6. ^ Andreas Förster: Spiegel Manifesto of the BDKD. The mysterious opposition in the SED , Berliner Zeitung , March 5, 2015, accessed on April 27, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Niemann, Heinz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Niemann, Heinz Fritz (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH December 15, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg