Ingrid Mittenzwei

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Ingrid Mittenzwei (2001)

Ingrid Mittenzwei (born May 14, 1929 in Bochum ; † August 4, 2012 ) was a German historian .

biography

Ingrid Mittenzwei did a commercial apprenticeship after elementary school . From 1945 to 1947 she worked as a stenographer . In 1945 she joined the KPD and became a member of the SED in 1946 through the compulsory merger of the SPD and KPD into the SED . In 1946 she also became a member of the FDJ , which she delegated to study in 1947. Ingrid Mittenzwei first attended the preparatory college ( workers and farmers faculty ) in Halle (Saale) from 1947 to 1950 , where she graduated from high school in 1950 . In the same year she began to study history at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and in 1951 was delegated to study abroad at the Zhdanov University in Leningrad . There she finished her studies in 1956 as a graduate historian and became a research assistant at the Institute for Social Sciences at the Central Committee of the SED (IfG) in Berlin , where she primarily researched the history of the peasant war and the history of absolutism . There he received his doctorate in February 1963 with a dissertation on the subject of The Joachimsthal Uprising of 1525. Its causes and consequences . After completing her doctorate, Ingrid Mittenzwei became a research assistant at the Central Institute for History at the Academy of Sciences in the GDR , where from 1971 to 1989 she headed the German History Research Group 1648–1789 . At the academy in 1976 a paper on the subject of the bourgeoisie and the state in Prussia took place after the Seven Years' War. Disputes over economic policy , the promotion B . From 1977 to 1990 she was a member of the editorial board of the yearbook for the history of feudalism . From 1980 until her retirement with her 60th birthday in 1989, she was a professor at the academy.

Mittenzwei's most important achievement was the re-evaluation of the person of the king and the entire Prussian history, which was stimulated by her biography of Friedrich II.

Ingrid Mittenzwei was awarded the Order Banner of Labor in 1982 and the National Prize of the GDR III in 1989 . Class excellent. She was married to the literary scholar Werner Mittenzwei and lived in Bernau near Berlin .

Fonts

Monographs

  • The Joachimsthal uprising in 1525. Its causes and consequences. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1968. (Writings of the Institute for History. Volume 6.)
  • Prussia after the Seven Years' War. Confrontation between the bourgeoisie and the state. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1979. (Writings of the Central Institute for History. Volume 62.)
  • Friedrich II of Prussia. A biography. Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften , Berlin 1979 (in West Germany in Pahl-Rugenstein Verlag , Cologne 1980, ISBN 3-7609-0512-9 ).
  • Brandenburg-Prussia 1648–1789. The age of absolutism in text and image. Verlag der Nation, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-373-00004-1 . Pahl-Rugenstein, Cologne 1987, ISBN 3-7609-1161-7 .
  • Between yesterday and tomorrow. Vienna's early bourgeoisie at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries. Böhlau, Vienna, Cologne, Weimar 1998, ISBN 3-205-98872-8 . (Bourgeoisie in the Habsburg Monarchy. Volume 7.)

Editorships

  • Friedrich II of Prussia. Writings and letters. Reclam, Leipzig 1985.

literature

  • Helmut Reinalter , Karlheinz Gerlach (ed.): State and bourgeoisie in the 18th and early 19th centuries. Studies on France, Germany and Austria. Ingrid Mittenzwei on her 65th birthday. Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 1996, ISBN 3-631-49231-6 ( series of publications by the International Research Center “Democratic Movements in Central Europe 1770–1850”. Vol. 17).
  • 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 , p. 429.

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Ingrid Mittenzwei dead ; in Junge Welt , August 8, 2012
  2. ^ Friedrich: A monument returns . In: Der Spiegel 32/1986 of August 4, 1986; Pp. 142-145
personal data
SURNAME Middle two, Ingrid
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 14, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Bochum
DATE OF DEATH 4th August 2012