Heinz Vosske

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Heinz Voßke (born May 8, 1929 in Anklam ) is a German Marxist-Leninist archivist and historian .

Life

Vosske took part in the Second World War as a young soldier and was taken prisoner by the Soviets. After his release in 1949 he became a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) and in 1951 a teacher at the SED state party school in Mecklenburg. After studying at the party college "Karl Marx" , he worked at the Institute for Marxism-Leninism at the Central Committee of the SED .

Vosske most recently worked as senior archivist in the central party archive of the SED in Berlin and was awarded the academic title of Prof. Dr. In 1963 he took over the management of this archive, where he worked until it was dissolved in 1990.

He published several works on the history of the SED and some of its leading representatives.

His scientific legacy of two running meters with archival material from the period 1905 to 1995 is now managed in the Federal Archives.

Works (selection)

  • The union of the KPD and the SPD to form the SED in Mecklenburg / Western Pomerania . District cabinet for further training of teachers and educators, Rostock 1966
  • with Willy Sägebrecht , Fanny Rosner: Don't be an anvil, but a hammer . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1968
  • (Ed.): Proven in combat. Memories of German comrades of the anti-fascist resistance from 1933 to 1945 . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1969; 2., revised. Berlin 1977 edition
  • Biographical notes on merited archivists. Margarete Hoffmann . Archvarin in the Central Party Archives department of the Institute for Marxism-Leninism at the Central Committee of the SED . In: Archivmitteilungen , 19, 1969, No. 4, pp. 163-164
  • On some problems of the ideological clarification process in the struggle to found the SED and its development into a new type of party . Dissertation A, Berlin 1970
  • with Gerhard Nitzsche: Wilhelm Pieck. Biographical summary. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1975
  • Otto Grotewohl. Biographical summary . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1979
  • History of the socialist memorial in Berlin-Friedrichsfelde. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1982
  • Walter Ulbricht. Biographical summary . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1983
  • Friedrich Ebert. A picture of life . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-320-00835-8

Honors

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andreas Herbst :  Vosske, Heinz . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
  2. ^ Entry in the database of the German Federal Archives, Central Estates. Retrieved July 11, 2016.
  3. ↑ Awards . In: Archive Messages 39, 1989, No. 3, p. 96
personal data
SURNAME Vosske, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German archivist, head of the Central Party Archives of the SED in Berlin
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Anklam