Herbert Schäwel

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Herbert Schäwel (born August 13, 1924 in Granskevitz / Rügen , † April 17, 2015 in Greifswald ) was a German Marxist historian and university professor.

Life

Schäwel attended elementary school and was accepted into new teacher training in the Soviet occupation zone in 1947 after the Second World War . As a new teacher, he joined the SED in 1949 . He passed the 1st and 2nd teacher exams in 1951 and 1952 and began a distance learning course in history for middle school teachers (1952-1954), which was followed by a study of history for the upper school (1955-1960) at the University of Education " Karl Liebknecht ” in Potsdam. As early as 1959, Schäwel began working as a research assistant at the Historical Institute of the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald , and received his doctorate in 1965. phil. and moved in 1970 to the Division of Marxism-Leninism , where he from 1972 to 1977 as a university lecturer in the history of the German labor movement was active and in 1976 his dissertation B presented. From 1977 to 1985 he held the full professorship for the history of the German labor movement in the Marxism-Leninism section at the University of Greifswald until his early retirement.

Fonts

  • The preparation and implementation of the democratic land reform in the Rügen district , Dissertation A, Greifswald 1965
  • Collection of regional historical sources for the districts of Rostock-Ost and Neubrandenburg , part 3, 1. The struggle for the creation of the anti-fascist-democratic order in Germany , district cabinet for further training of teachers and educators, 1970
  • Collection of regional historical sources for the districts of Rostock-Ost and Neubrandenburg , / Part 3, 2. From the founding of the GDR to the referendum on the socialist constitution , district cabinet for further training of teachers and educators, 1971
  • The struggle of the Spartakusbund and the KPD for the alliance with the agricultural workers and peasants (from the November Revolution to the Unification Party Congress 1918 to 1920) , Dissertation B, Greifswald 1976

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 , p. 525.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.oz-trauer.de/trauerbeispiel/herbert-schawel/42044738
  2. ^ On the new teachers among the GDR historians in general: Lothar Mertens : Priest of the Klio or court chronicler of the party? Collective biographical analyzes of the GDR historians. V and R Unipress, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-89971-307-9 (Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarian Research eV at the TU Dresden. Reports and studies. No. 52) p. 71 (table).
personal data
SURNAME Schäwel, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Granskevitz
DATE OF DEATH 17th April 2015
Place of death Greifswald