Horst Schneider (historian)

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Horst Schneider (born October 25, 1927 in Penzig ; † May 23, 2018 ) was a German historian , author and SED functionary. Schneider was a city ​​councilor for the PDS in Dresden .

Life

Schneider was born as the son of a glassmaker in Penzig, not far from Görlitz . He spent his childhood and youth in Görlitz. In the Second World War he was deployed as an air force helper from September 1943 , and from December 1944 to April 1945 he was a soldier. He returned home in December 1945.

Schneider joined the KPD in March 1946 and became a member of the SED the following month after it was forced to merge with the SPD . He was also a member of the FDJ . He attended a new teacher training course in 1946 and was until 1953 new teacher , teacher and finally director of a school in Niesky . In 1954 he took part in a one-year course at the central school of the SED central committee in Erfurt .

From 1955 to 1990 Schneider worked intermittently at the "Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Wander" College of Education in Dresden (PH), which was a pedagogical institute until 1967. He worked from 1955 to 1957 and from 1963 to 1967 as full-time SED party secretary . From 1957 to 1961 he had a scheduled scientific traineeship at the Institute for Social Sciences at the Central Committee of the SED in East Berlin . From 1961 to 1963 he taught as a teacher at the Pedagogical Institute in Dresden. In 1963 he did his doctorate under Horst Lehfeld and Gerhard Liebig on the actions of the British peace movement in the struggle for general disarmament and a peace treaty with Germany, against the nuclear strategy of NATO and the foreign military bases .

From 1964 to 1990, Schneider was a member of the Executive Committee of the League for the United Nations of the GDR.

From September 1967 Schneider was a lecturer for the "History of the Socialist World System" at the PH Dresden. In 1970 he took over the management of the diplomatic mission of the GDR in Tanzania - Zanzibar as consul . In 1973 he returned to the PH Dresden as a lecturer. In 1977 he received his PhD B there on the subject of the imperialist character and the aggressive objectives of the policy of the FRG towards the ČSSR at the end of the sixties, with special consideration of the content and methods of ideological diversion.

From September 1980 to 1984 Schneider was initially an associate professor, and from September 1984 a full professor for “General History of the Latest Times”. From 1978 to 1985 he was also director of the section Friendship Pioneer / History and German Studies / History / Art Education. From 1986 to 1989 he was director of the Marxism-Leninism section at the PH Dresden. In 1984 he received the Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold . In 1990 he was released.

From 1990 to 1994, Schneider was a member of the Dresden city ​​council for the PDS and was the senior president there. From 1997 he belonged to the "Council of Elders" at the chairman of the PDS and from 1999 on the board of the Marxist Forum Saxony at the PDS.

His book The Horror Cabinet of Dr. Knabe (lari) was referred to by Karl Wilhelm Fricke as a "denunciating diatribe", which " demands the Stasi historical revisionism with remarkable openness".

Information provided by Schneider revealed the historian Michael Richter to be a Stasi IM . In addition, Schneider took a critical look at the Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarian Research in Dresden.

Schneider was one of the permanent authors of the communist-socialist monthly " RotFuchs ".

Fonts

  • Action unit beat Kapp. The Dresden workers in the fight against the Kapp Putsch in March 1920 . (= Contributions to the history of the Dresdner Arbeiterbwegung issue 6). Museum for the History of the Dresden Labor Movement, Dresden 1960.
  • with Thilo Fischer: What the people's hands should create should be the people's own. The referendum on the expropriation of war and Nazi criminals on June 30, 1946 in Saxony. Part 2: Chronicle and documents. (Ed.) Dresdener Studiengemeinschaft Sicherheitsppolitik (DSS) e. V .: DSS working papers , Dresden 1996, issue 24.
  • Death sentences on Münchner Platz. Facts, consequences and questions about the Dresden district court . Verlag am Park, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-932180-35-6 .
  • You "overtook" an order. Richter / Schmeitzner's "state-ordered" story of the poisoning of Prime Minister Dr. Rudolf Friedrichs. "Coping with history" 1999 made in Saxony . Self-published, o. O. [1999].
  • There are certainties for opponents of war that arise from history. In: Opportunities and obstacles on the way to a peaceful Europe. Contributions to the ninth Dresden Peace Symposium on February 10, 2001. (Ed.) Dresdener Studiengemeinschaft Sicherheitsppolitik (DSS) e. V .: DSS working papers, Dresden 2001, issue 58, pp. 35–37.
  • Thoughts on the “Appeal from Dresden”. With attachment: Berlin Appeal. In: Against terror (ism) and war. For common security and a just world. Contributions to the Tenth Dresden Peace Symposium on February 16, 2002. (Ed.) Dresdener Studiengemeinschaft Sicherheitsppolitik (DSS) e. V .: DSS working papers, Dresden 2002, issue 61, pp. 33–36. urn : nbn: de: bsz: 14-qucosa2-340191
  • Image of history and duty of peace. In: Violent peace according to the will of the only world power? Ways out of danger. Contributions to the 11th Dresden Peace Symposium on February 22, 2003. (Ed.) Dresdener Studiengemeinschaft Sicherheitspektiven (DSS) e. V .: DSS working papers, Dresden 2003, issue 65, pp. 80–81.
  • The Hannah Arendt Institute in a conflict of political interests. Spotless, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-933544-96-3 .
  • Reason to peace. In: Does the West still exist on the question of war or peace? Contributions to the 12th Dresden Peace Symposium on February 14, 2004. (Ed.) Dresdener Studiengemeinschaft Sicherheitsppolitik (DSS) e. V .: DSS working papers, Dresden 2004, issue 69, pp. 38–40.
  • Notes on the role of Dresden in war planning and psychological warfare in recent German history. In: The planning of worldwide wars of intervention, international law and the future of humanity. Contributions to the 13th Dresden Peace Symposium on February 12, 2005. (Ed.) Dresdener Studiengemeinschaft Sicherheitspektiven (DSS) e. V .: DSS working papers, Dresden 2005, issue 79, pp. 39–47.
  • Israeli Politics and International Law. In: Peace diplomacy instead of military intervention. For peace in the Middle East along the lines of the CSCE. Contributions to the 15th Dresden Peace Symposium on February 17, 2007. (Ed.) Dresdener Studiengemeinschaft Sicherheitsppolitik (DSS) e. V .: DSS working papers, Dresden 2007, issue 85, pp. 13-19.
  • Hysterical historians: the sense and nonsense of a prescribed historical image; a pamphlet against certain totalitarianism researchers, DDRologists and renegades , Verlag Wiljo Heinen, Böklund 2007, ISBN 978-3-939828-14-3 .
  • Checkpoint Charlie horror story. "The woman from Checkpoint Charlie" - painful truth or a story of lies? (= Red paperbacks Volume 4). Verlag Wiljo Heinen, Böklund 2008, ISBN 978-3-939828-22-8 .
  • Thoughts on the topic of the colloquium. In: Germany - European civil power or global military power? Contributions to the 16th Dresden Peace Symposium on February 16, 2008. (Ed.) Dresdener Studiengemeinschaft Sicherheitspektiven (DSS) e. V .: DSS working papers, Dresden 2008, issue 90, pp. 30–32.
  • Thoughts on the topic of the colloquium. In: Equal security for all instead of NATO domination. Contributions to the 17th Dresden Peace Symposium on February 21, 2009. (Ed.) Dresdener Studiengemeinschaft Sicherheitsppolitik (DSS) e. V .: DSS working papers, Dresden 2009, issue 94, pp. 53–54. urn : nbn: de: bsz: 14-qucosa2-339884
  • Black-red-golden words: what politicians of “reunification” wanted and promised , Berlin 2009, Verlag Wiljo Heinen, ISBN 978-3-939828-50-1 .
  • Under the roof of the church: "Civil rights activists" in the GDR , Wiljo Heinen publishing house, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-939828-59-4 .
  • Article 23: no connection under this number Dresden, Auruspress 2011, ISBN 978-3-940183-07-1 .
  • The horror cabinet of Dr. Knabe (lari) , with an introduction by Klaus Huhn , Berlin: Spotless 2011 (2nd edition), ISBN 978-3-360-02046-8 . (Book about the Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial )
  • Arguable. In the fight for peace, human rights and social progress. Texts from five decades , Verlag Wiljo Heinen, Berlin / Böklund 2012, ISBN 978-3-95514-001-4

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 , pp. 542-543.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice , in: Sächsische Zeitung from June 16, 2018.
  2. ↑ Obituary notice in Neues Deutschland from June 16, 2018
  3. ^ Karl Wilhelm Fricke : Historical revisionism from an MfS perspective ( Memento from June 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 132 kB)
  4. ^ Alan Posener: Research on totalitarianism: The Hannah Arendt Institute should be abolished. In: Welt online . November 30, 2010, accessed June 10, 2014 .
  5. ↑ On the place of the Hannah Arendt Institute in the »memory battle« , announcements of the communist platform in the party Die Linke , August 9, 2018, accessed on March 16, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Schneider, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Marxist historian, SED functionary
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Penzig
DATE OF DEATH 23 May 2018