Helmut Assing

Helmut Assing (born November 26, 1932 in Hanover ) is a German medieval historian and logician .

Helmut Assing passed his Abitur in 1951 and was then a primary school teacher in Erfurt until 1953 . In 1953 he began studying history and mathematics at the Pädagogische Hochschule Potsdam (PHP). Since 1958 he was a member of the SED . In the same year he first finished his studies and became a teacher in Arnstadt . A year later, Assing became a research assistant in Medieval History at PHP. In December 1965, he received his doctorate with a dissertation on the subject of ownership and rule in the villages of Teltow around 1375 .

In 1973 he switched to the philosophy section of PHP, and in 1977/78 he was full-time chairman of the university union management. In September 1978 Assing was delegated to the party college "Karl Marx" for five months , but then returned to the PHP. In December 1979 he completed his habilitation with the work Das konditionallogische System K, a contribution to the logical analysis of colloquial language at the Humboldt University in Berlin , reviewers were Horst Wessel , Karl Söder and Georg Michel .

In 1980 he became a lecturer in Medieval History in Potsdam , and in 1990 he was appointed Professor of Medieval History at the university that became a university one year later. Here he made a name for himself with new research on the establishment of the Brandenburg diocese and the Ascanians in the Mark Brandenburg . In 1998 he retired.

Publications (excerpt)

• The ownership and lordship in the villages of Teltow around 1375 ( dissertation ), University of Education, Potsdam 1965
• Introduction to formal logic. (With special consideration of the issues of historical science) , Pädagogische Hochschule, Potsdam 1969 (teaching letters for the distance learning of teachers. History)
• Study guide to the history of the Middle Ages. For distance learning , University of Education, Potsdam 1969 (teaching letters for distance learning by teachers. History)
• The conditional logic system K, a contribution to the logical analysis of colloquial language. ( Dissertation B ), Humboldt University Berlin, Berlin 1979
• Co-author: Brandenburg. City-guide. Brandenburg Museum on behalf of the Brandenburg City Council, Brandenburg (Havel), 3rd edition 1986
• Co-author: Historical Guide. Part: Sites and monuments of history in the districts of Potsdam, Frankfurt (Oder). , Urania Verlag , Leipzig / Jena / Berlin 1987, ISBN 978-3-332-00089-4 .
• Brandenburg, Anhalt and Thuringia in the Middle Ages. Ascanians and Ludovingians building princely territorial rule. Edited by Tilo Köhn on the author's 65th birthday. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 1997, ISBN 3-412-02497-X .
• Was the Diocese of Brandenburg really founded in 948? In: Yearbook for Brandenburg State History . tape 49 . Berlin 1998, p. 7-18 .
• The diocese of Brandenburg was probably only founded in 965 . In: Yearbook for Brandenburg State History . tape 51 . Berlin 2000, p. 7-29 .
• The early Ascanians and their women , Kulturstiftung Bernburg, 2002 ISBN 978-3-9805532-9-2 .
• The rise of the Ascanian Margraves of Brandenburg to the Electoral College . In: Armin Wolf (ed.): Royal daughter tribes, royal voters and electors (=  studies on European legal history . Volume 152 ). Vittorio Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 978-3-465-03200-7 , p. 317-358 .
• The way of the Saxon and Brandenburg Ascanians to electoral dignity . In: Eckardt Opitz (Hrsg.): Askanier-Studien der Lauenburgische Akademie (=  colloquium . Volume 10 ). Dr. Dieter Winkler, Bochum 2010, ISBN 978-3-89911-147-7 , p. 71-118 .
• The Potsdam castles. Errors, findings, controversial questions and new solutions . In: Yearbook for Brandenburg State History . tape 61 . Berlin 2010, p. 13-39 .

literature

• Lothar Mertens : Lexicon of the GDR historians. Biographies and bibliographies on the historians from the German Democratic Republic. Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-11673-X , pp. 108-109.

Web links

• Literature by and about Helmut Assing in the catalog of the German National Library
• own website