Helmut Anders

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Helmut Bruno Anders (born April 29, 1928 in Deutsch-Ossig ; † April 23, 1985 in Leipzig ) was a German legal scholar , historian and professor of scientific communism.

Life

Helmut Bruno Anders went to Görlitz in 1942 to complete a two-year training course as a typesetter . The following year he took over as gunner and later as a tank grenadier on World War II in part. Until 1949 he was a prisoner of war in Kharkiv , where he was also allowed to attend school. He then became a member of the SED and used as a propagandist . In 1950 he returned to Görlitz to continue his apprenticeship as typesetter, but also to become a teacher and director of a school of the Society for German-Soviet Friendship . At the same time he began studying agriculture at the University of Leipzig .

Anders studied history there from 1952 to 1956 and then became a research assistant at the law faculty. In 1961 he was senior assistant to Doctor of Law graduated and received the Medal for Excellence . From 1965 he was a lecturer in German state and legal history and at the same time, until 1969, head of the department for state and legal history at the institute for constitutional law. In 1966 he received the NVA Medal of Merit in bronze, in 1968 in silver and in 1976 the Order of Labor Banner (Level II) .

Anders was a lecturer in scientific socialism since 1970 . A year later he became head of the Scientific Communism Department and in 1974 a full professor . Two years earlier he had with the B-promotion the title Dr. sc. acquired. He held both positions at the university until his death. From 1976 to 1980 he was also Deputy Research Director.

Publications

  • The struggle of the working class for freedom of association in Prussia in the 1860s (dissertation)
  • The democratization of the judiciary during the establishment of the anti-fascist-democratic order in the area of ​​the GDR (1945-1949) (dissertation)

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