Helmut Arndt (historian)

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Helmut Arndt (born June 11, 1928 in Patschkau ; † January 15, 2016 in Leipzig ) was a German historian .

Life

Helmut Arndt was born in Patschkau in 1928. In 1942 he began a three-year apprenticeship as a salesman. He then moved to Görlitz , where he worked as a transport worker. In 1945 he joined the SPD , from 1946 onwards he was a member of the SED due to the forced unification of the SPD and KPD . He worked for an insurance company in 1946/1947 and for the next two years worked for the Görlitz city management of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany .

He began studying social sciences in 1950 at the University of Leipzig ; it lasted until 1953. During his studies he worked as an assistant at the medical faculty. For the next two years he worked as a research assistant in the philosophical faculty, and in 1954 he also held a teaching position on the history of the German labor movement.

Arndt accepted a position as senior assistant at the philosophical faculty in 1955. In 1961 he gave up the position and received his doctorate in philosophy , at the same time he was also appointed deputy chairman of the district committee of the science union, which he remained for three years. In 1963 he was appointed as a lecturer at the German University of Physical Culture .

In 1971 he left the University of Physical Culture and qualified as a Dr. sc. of philosophy, lectured on scientific socialism and the history of the labor movement at Leipzig University and also became a teaching group leader. Promoted to full professor in 1975, he became research director for Marxism / Leninism the following year. Arndt joined the historical and philosophical faculties as well as the scientific university council in 1981, in 1983 he also became head of the history of the labor movement, and in 1985 head of another research group.

Arndt retired in 1990. He was the holder of the GDR Medal of Merit and the University Badge of Honor, and he also received the medal for excellent performance , the banner of work and the golden Pestalozzi medal .

Works

  • The position of the German social democracy on the economic crisis and fascism and the politics and tactics of the party in the phase of the immediate preparation and establishment of the Hitler dictatorship. Dissertation.
  • On the image of fascism in German social democracy (1922–1939). A treatise on the history of ideas. Leipzig 1971.
  • as editor: Vivant Denon : With Napoleon in Egypt . Edition Erdmann, Tübingen 1982, ISBN 3-7711-0288-X .
    • as paperback: Vivant Denon: With Napoleon in Egypt, 1798–1799 . Knaur Stuttgart / Zurich 1987, ISBN 3-426-03687-8 .
  • At a loss? On the history of the Socialist Workers' Party. Two contributions to left socialism in Germany. Berlin 1991.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice in the Leipziger Volkszeitung
personal data
SURNAME Arndt, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 11, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Patschkau
DATE OF DEATH 15th January 2016
Place of death Leipzig