Horst Bednareck

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Horst Bednareck (born March 18, 1930 in Berlin ; † June 19, 2015 there ) was a German graduate social scientist.

Life

Bednareck was the oldest of six children in a Berlin working-class family.

He was involved in the Free German Youth (FDJ), was a transport worker and, after the Second World War, was active in the Free German Trade Union Federation (FDGB) in Greater Berlin and in the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED).

He was co-author and editor of publications on German social and trade union policy and the history of the GDR. Among other things, in 2007 he was the founding chairman of the Free German Trade Unions Association for the History of the German Trade Union Movement (VFDG), which is a member of the East German Board of Trustees of Associations .

Bednareck was, among other things, a member of the Society for the Protection of Civil Rights and Human Dignity and the Association of Those Persecuted by the Nazi Regime - Association of Antifascists (VVN-BdA). For the website of the Bund der Antifaschisten-Köpenick he determined around a thousand names of persecuted Köpenick Nazi victims and their fates (see also the list of stumbling blocks in Berlin-Köpenick ).

Bednareck was a member of the Die Linke party . He last lived in the Bethel retirement home in Köpenick and died at the age of 85. From his marriage to Christel Bednareck (1933-2013), who was a member of the People's Chamber as an FDGB member , two sons emerged.

The journalist Wolfram Adolphi received it with reference to Bednareck's essay From Breakup to Breakdown . Possibilities, chances and limits of the democratic bloc and the National Front of the GDR , which was published in Volume 4 of Views on the History of the GDR in 1994, with the words: “Horst Bednareck is also one of the GDR historians who, after 1989 ( Deutsche Reunification ) interfered in the dispute over the interpretation of GDR history with critical and self-critical works. "

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Death of VFDG. In: Neues Deutschland , 4./5. July 2015, p. 6. ( online )
  2. ↑ a b We mourn our deceased members. In: akzente - monthly newspaper of the society for the protection of civil rights and human dignity e. V., edition September 2015, p. 5. ( online )
  3. ↑ Horst Bednareck (Ed.) ( Memento from February 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) , Eulenspiegel-Verlag .
  4. ↑ a b c Hanna Wichmann: Prof. Dr. Horst Bednarek 1930-2015. In: leaflets. Issue No. 214, Die Linke Bezirksverband Treptow-Köpenick, July 2015, p. 3. ( online )
  5. ↑ Handed over materials from the estate of Theodor Leipart. On: Johannes Sassenbach Society, 2013.
  6. ↑ Founding Protocol, VFDG, 2007.
  7. ↑ Congratulations! In: Unser Blatt, No. 58, VVN-BdA, p. 13. ( online )
  8. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Imprint@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / bda-koepenick.de , BDA Köpenick.
  9. ↑ Horst Bednareck: From departure to collapse. Possibilities, chances and limits of the democratic bloc and the National Front of the GDR. In: Dietmar Keller , Hans Modrow , Herbert Wolf (eds.): Views on the history of the GDR. Volume 4. Bonn-Berlin 1994, pp. 225-238.
  10. ^ Wolfram Adolphi: About hegemony and violence in the GDR. In: The argument . 288/2010, p. 576, footnote No. 4.
personal data
SURNAME Bednareck, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German university professor, professor of Marxism-Leninism
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 19th June 2015
Place of death Berlin