Helmut Neef

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Helmut Neef (born July 3, 1920 in Griesbach ) is a German historian.

Career

The working-class son was trained as a chemist. During the Second World War he did military service in the Wehrmacht and was seriously wounded as a Soviet prisoner of war. He spent two years in the hospital, and it was there that he had his first contact with Marxism.

Immediately after his return in 1945, the then chemistry volunteer started working on the Antifa committee in Affalter in the Ore Mountains . He became a member of the KPD in 1945 and with the compulsory unification of the SPD and KPD in 1946 he became a member of the SED . Neef attended a teacher training course and from November 1945 worked as a new teacher in Affalter. On the side he studied to take the teacher examination in geography and history. At the beginning of the 1950s he was appointed director of an extended secondary school in Aue in the Saxon Ore Mountains . In 1953 he was delegated to the party college "Karl Marx" at the Central Committee of the SED , where he worked as a lecturer from 1954 after completing his studies.

He received his doctorate there in 1959 to Dr. phil. and in 1958 became a full professor with the chair of history at the SED . In 1964 Neef took over the chair for the history of the German labor movement. As deputy director he stood by the then director of the party university, Hanna Wolf . His area of ​​responsibility was research, the next generation of academics and the school's publication activities. Until 1989 he worked at the party college "Karl Marx".

He researched and published on the history of the German labor movement and the history of the GDR, including decisive days in October 1949. The founding of the GDR , Berlin 1979. Neef was Vice President of the GDR Historians' Society and was a member of the editorial board of the Zeitschrift für Geschichtswwissenschaft .

In Aue he was u. a. Author or co-author of the following publications: Revolutionary Traditions of the Struggle of Workers in Aue and Surroundings (1971, printed in the Sächsische Heimatbl Blätter ), 1173–1973 Aue. A city and its citizens.

Awards

Fonts

  • Four days of red flags in the streets of Paris. The struggles of the Paris proletariat in 1848 in the mirror of the German-language press , Berlin 1983.

literature

  • Short biography in: Regional historical contributions from the Karl-Marx-Stadt district, issue 8, Karl-Marx-Stadt 1987, p. 98.
  • Helmut Neef 65 years. In: ZfG 33, 1985, p. 466.
  • Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990. Volume 2: Maassen - Zylla. KG Saur, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-598-11177-0 , p. 586.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Our portrait: Prof. Dr. Helmut Neef . In: Neues Deutschland , August 15, 1964, p. 10.
  2. ↑ Aue. Mosaic stones of history , Stadtverwaltung Aue (Ed.), Verlag Mike Rockstroh, Aue, 1997; P. 222.
  3. ↑ Honored educators . In: Neues Deutschland , May 5, 1965, p. 2.
  4. ^ Karl Marx Days at the party college . In: Neues Deutschland , May 5, 1988, p. 2.
personal data
SURNAME Neef, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd July 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Griesbach