Horst Thieme

Horst Thieme (born March 27, 1931 in Molmeck ; † August 23, 1986 in Leipzig ) was a German archivist and historian .

Life

Horst Thieme, son of a working-class family, began studying history at the University of Leipzig in 1950 after working as a vocational school teacher in Mansfeld and Hettstedt . From 1954 to 1955 he qualified as a qualified archivist at the Institute for Archival Science . From 1955 he worked in the Merseburg department of the German Central Archives. In 1957 Thieme received his doctorate with a thesis on Prussian economic history under Ernst Engelberg in Leipzig.

In Merseburg, Thieme most recently headed the information and evaluation department. In 1972 he was appointed head of the Leipzig City Archives . He held this office until he left in 1983 due to illness. Thieme wrote numerous articles on the history of Leipzig , published source editions in the sense of Marxist historiography . a. on the history of the local labor movement and promoted the reorganization of the archives. In addition, he was involved in teacher training at Leipzig University and participated in various commissions of the State Archives Administration .

Fonts (selection)

• The economic and political contradictions in the granting of concessions to found stock companies in Prussia from 1850–1857 . Leipzig, Phil. F., Diss. 1957. DNB 480701695 .
• Leipzig. History of the city in words and pictures . Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1978. (Management of the collective of authors together with Karl Czok )
• For peace and socialism - against imperialism and war! A documentary about the struggle of the Leipzig communists between 1919 and 1933 . Come to explore d. Story d. Local Labor movement at d. City management Leipzig d. SED, Leipzig 1983. (Head of the collective of authors)
• The Leipzig oath of 1590 . VEB Fachbuchverlag, Leipzig 1986. ISBN 3-343-00186-4 . (Editor and editor)

literature

• Waldemar Künn: Horst Thieme † 1931–1986 . In: Yearbook for Regional History . Volume 14, 1987, pp. 531-532.

Web links

• Literature by and about Horst Thieme in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Horst Thieme in the Saxon Bibliography