Horst Bartel

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Horst Bartel (born January 16, 1928 in Cottbus ; † June 22, 1984 in Berlin ) was a German historian and university professor in the GDR . He was involved in most of the central GDR historical studies . His work on the history of the German labor movement in the 19th century follows the tradition of the Marxist-Leninist view of history.

Life

The son of a road builder and a worker attended a teacher training college in Orlau in Upper Silesia after primary school , but left it in 1944 without a qualification. Bartel joined the Hitler Youth in 1943 and was drafted into the Reich Labor Service that same year . In May 1945 he became an American prisoner of war and was interned in Heilbronn and Linz until September .

From September 1945 to 1946 Bartel worked as a messenger in a Cottbus hospital. In April 1946 he joined the SED and completed a new teacher training course in the same year . He began teaching as a new teacher at a primary school in Peitz , but in 1946 he began studying history , German and pedagogy at the Humboldt University in Berlin .

In 1949 Bartel became a teacher and boarding school director in Wandlitz . From July to September 1950 he took part in a course at the state party school of the SED in Schmerwitz and was appointed city school council in Potsdam in 1951 . In the same year he received a scheduled academic traineeship at the Institute for Social Sciences at the Central Committee of the SED (IfG) and received his doctorate in February 1956 with a study of the activities of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels for the newspaper Der Sozialdemokrat during the time of the Socialist Law .

From 1956 to 1960 Bartel was a lecturer and head of the IFG teaching department at the SED Central Committee. In 1960 he was appointed deputy director of the Institute for History at the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin through the advocacy of Ernst Engelberg , who also took over the post of director, and against opposition from Jürgen Kuczynskis, for example . From 1966 Bartel was also a part-time professor with a teaching position for the history of the German labor movement at the chair for the history of the labor movement of the IfG.

Bartel was a member of the editorial board of the Zeitschrift für Geschichtswwissenschaft from 1956 to 1959 and from 1959 until his death to the editorial board of the journal Contributions to the History of the German Labor Movement . From 1967 to 1973 Bartel published the yearbook for history . He was then a member of the editorial board until 1984. He was involved in the eight-volume history of the German labor movement and completed his habilitation in 1969 with the study Contributions to the history of the implementation of Marxism in the German labor movement in the last third of the 19th century . In the same year he became, against objections from Kuczynski and others, as successor to Engelberg, director of the Central Institute for History of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR . Bartel remained in this position until his death in 1984.

The Ministry for State Security led Bartel as a social security employee . At the same time he was deputy chairman of the Council for Historical Studies. From 1969 he was also a corresponding and from 1972 a full member of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR. From 1975 Bartel was also chairman of the GDR section of the German-Soviet historians' commission. In this position he stayed in Moscow in 1977 for a study visit and in 1982 became a foreign member of the USSR Academy of Sciences . From 1982 he was an associate professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin.

Horst Bartel is considered to be part of an initially small minority of staunch communists who, after the end of the war, not only helped to set up the historical seminars and institutes, but also contributed to the ideological transformation of historical studies according to the SED's guidelines. Lothar Mertens attests that Bartel, like Walter Bartel , Karl Bittel , Rudolf Lindau and Albert Schreiner, did not have the necessary technical competence. Even within the party, they were seen as pure propagandists.

Honors

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Monographs and Articles

  • Friedrich Engels 'struggle for the creation of a Marxist workers' party in Germany. Engels Conference Berlin 1955. Dietz, Berlin 1956.
  • The trend-setting help from Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels for the newspaper “ Der Sozialdemokrat ” in the struggle for the revolutionary unity of the party during the period of the Socialist Law. Dissertation, Institute for Social Sciences at the Central Committee of the SED, Berlin 1956.
  • Marx and Engels in the struggle for a revolutionary German party organ. On some problems of the help of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels for the struggle of the “social democrat” against the socialist law. Dietz, Berlin 1961 (table of contents) .
  • in the collective of authors: August Bebel. A biography. Dietz, Berlin 1963.
  • August Bebel - a life dedicated to the struggle for socialism. In: unity . Vol. 8, 1963, p. 105 ff.
  • The implementation of Marxism in the German labor movement in the last third of the 19th century. Problems of the Second Main Period in the History of the German Labor Movement. In: Journal of History . Vol. 14, 1966, pp. 1334-1371.
  • The internal June draft for the Erfurt program . In: International Review of Social History. Edited by the Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis . Vol. 12, 1967, pp. 292-302, ISSN  0020-8590 .
  • Labor movement and establishment of an empire. Academy, Berlin 1971.
  • Karl Kautsky . His part in the creation and propagation of the Erfurt program. In: Gustav Seeber : Shaping the Bismarckian Age. Vol. 1. Akademie, Berlin 1978, pp. 426–453.
  • with Wolfgang Schröder and Gustav Seeber : The Socialist Law 1878–1890. Illustrated history of the struggle of the working class against the exceptional law. Dietz, Berlin 1980.
  • with Dieter Fricke and Peter Bachmann: Dictionary of History. Dietz, Berlin 1983.

editor

  • German history in data. German Science Publishing House, Berlin 1967.
  • Non-fiction dictionary of the history of Germany and the German labor movement. 2 vols. Dietz, Berlin 1969–1970.
  • History. High school textbook. People and Knowledge, Berlin 1969.
  • Marxism and the German Labor Movement. Studies on the socialist movement in the last third of the 19th century. Dietz, Berlin 1970.
  • Labor movement and establishment of an empire. Academy, Berlin 1971.
  • with Ernst Engelberg : The Great Prussian militaristic founding of the empire in 1871. Requirements and consequences. 2 vols., Academy, Berlin 1971.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk:  Horst Bartel . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
  2. ^ Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk : Legitimation of a new state. Party workers on the historical front. History in the Soviet Zone / GDR 1945 to 1961. Ch. Links, Berlin 1997, p. 250.
  3. ^ Lothar Mertens : Lexicon of the GDR historians. Biographies and bibliographies on the historians from the German Democratic Republic . KG Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-11673-X , p. 114 .
  4. ^ Lothar Mertens: Priest of the Klio or court chronicler of the party? Collective biographical analyzes of the GDR historians. V & R unipress, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-89971-307-9 , p. 125.
personal data
SURNAME Bartel, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and university professor in the GDR
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH cottbus
DATE OF DEATH June 22, 1984
Place of death Berlin