Hergart Wilmanns

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Hergart Wilmanns (born August 5, 1928 in Bonn ; † May 25, 2007 in Munich ) was a German Eastern Europe researcher, sociologist and writer .

Life

Hergart Wilmanns was born as the daughter of the agricultural scientist Wolfgang Wilmanns ; the medical historian Juliane C. Wilmanns was her sister. Wilmanns grew up in Bonn and Leipzig . Even as a teenager she turned against xenophobia and intolerance under the National Socialist regime. During the war she learned Russian through contact with prisoners of war and experienced the end of the war in Saxony.

In 1947 she was sentenced by the Soviet military administration in Berlin for spying for Great Britain to ten years in a labor education camp and deported to the Russian coalfield of Vorkuta in the polar region north of the Urals, where she was forced to perform forced labor. In 1953 Hergart Wilmanns was released from the Soviet Union.

After her return she graduated from high school in 1954 and studied Slavic studies , economics and social sciences at the universities of Marburg , Göttingen and Kiel . She received her doctorate in Kiel in 1959. After a one-year research stay at Harvard University , from 1961 she worked at the universities of Frankfurt , Freiburg and Munich , where she devoted herself to research on Eastern Europe. In addition, she was invited to research stays at the Universities of Warsaw , Moscow and Leningrad in the 1960s . Most recently she taught Polish and Soviet sociology at the University of Munich. From 1971 to 1992 worked in the Bavarian State Ministry for environmental issues .

After her retirement, she wrote down her experiences in Soviet captivity in her book Flowers in Concrete , to which Rita Süssmuth wrote a foreword.

Hergart Wilmanns was married and had one daughter.

Fonts (selection)

  • Investigation of the news about the old Russian basic education system up to 1500. Dissertation, University of Kiel, July 24, 1959.
  • Dirigism or promotion? Leisure education in the light of school reform in the Soviet Union and Poland. In: Yearbook of Psychology, Psychotherapy, and Medical Anthropology. Vol. 13 (1965), H. 1/2, pp. 10-42.
  • The socio-economic problem of leisure time in the Soviet Union. In: Yearbook for Social Science: Journal for Economics. Vol. 18 (1967), H. 3, pp. 273-315 ( JSTOR 20714007 at JSTOR ).
  • For structural and factor analysis in economic regionalization in the Soviet Union and the socio-economic labor problem. In: Eastern Europe . Vol. 14 (1969), H. 3, pp. 161-182.
  • Spatial problem analysis and knowledge value of information in regional development. In: Austrian Institute for Spatial Planning: Communications. 1978, H. 3, pp. 95-117.
  • Flowers in concrete: travel to Russia with and without a passport. With a foreword by Rita Süssmuth. Late harvest, Nuremberg 2001, ISBN 3-924461-21-X .

literature

  • Eva Donga-Sylvester, Günter Czernetzky, Hildegard Toma: You will die here with honest work! Germans in the Gulag 1936–1956. Anthology of remembering. Stocker, Graz 2000, ISBN 3-7020-0896-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Short biography on the website of the exhibition From Potsdam to Vorkuta , accessed on September 4, 2013.
  2. ↑ a b Remembering happier times: A headscarf helped Hergart Wilmanns about imprisonment , Potsdamer Latest News , April 12, 2012, accessed on September 4, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Wilmanns, Hergart
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Eastern Europe researcher and writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 5, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn
DATE OF DEATH May 25, 2007
Place of death Munich