Jens Gieseke

The title of this article is ambiguous. For the German politician see Jens Gieseke (politician) .

Jens Gieseke (* 1964 in Langenhagen ) is a German historian . The focus of his research is the history of the GDR and the Ministry for State Security .

Life

Jens Gieseke was born in Langenhagen in 1964. After graduating from high school , he studied history , political science and law at the universities of Hanover and Potsdam since 1984 . In 1990 he completed his master's degree in Hanover. 2000 doctorate Gieseke in Christopher Kleßmann at the University of Potsdam Dr. phil. From 1993 to 2008 he was a research assistant in the Education and Research Department of the Gauck Authority . Since 2008 he has been the project manager of the “Communism and Society” department at the Center for Contemporary Research in Potsdam .

Works

• Doctors of Chekistics. The doctoral candidates of the “Law School” of the MfS , 1994, ISBN 978-3-942130-54-7
• (with Stephan Fingerle) Partisans of the Cold War. The underground troops of the National People's Army from 1957 to 1962 and their takeover by the State Security . Ed. BStU. Berlin, 1996, ISBN 978-3-942130-57-8 .
• (with Doris Hubert) The GDR State Security: Shield and Sword of the Party , Federal Center for Political Education , Bonn 2000, ISBN 3-89331-402-4 .
• The full-time employees of the State Security: Personnel structure and living environment 1950–1989 / 90 , Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-86153-227-1 .
• The Mielke Group ( Memento of December 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 806 kB) , Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-421-05481-9 . Extended and updated new edition, Munich 2006.
• [Ed.] State Security and Society. Studies on everyday rule in the GDR. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-525-35083-6 .
• (with Lukasz Kaminski, Krzysztof Persak [Hrsg.]) Handbook of the communist secret services in Eastern Europe 1944–1991 , Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-525-35100-0 .
• The Stasi 1945–1990. Pantheon, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-570-55161-5 . 4th edition 2016.
• Collaboration on Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
• (with Klaus Gestwa, Jan-Holger Kirsch [Hrsg.]) Zeithistorische Forschungen 10 (2013), Volume 2: Social inequality in state socialism .
• (with Andrea Bahr) The State Security and the Greens. Between SED-West politics and East-West contacts . Ch.links, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-86153-842-4 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Jens Gieseke in the catalog of the German National Library
• Vita at the Center for Contemporary History Research
• Contributions by Jens Gieseke in contemporary historical research
• Author profile at the Federal Foundation for Coming to terms with the SED dictatorship
• Author portrait at Ch. Links Verlag
• Short biography and reviews of works by Jens Gieseke at perlentaucher.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The book is based on The Mielke Group (2001). It has been translated into several languages, e.g. B. An English translation was published in 2014 ( The History of the Stasi. East Germany's Secret Police, 1945–1990 , New York 2014).
2. ↑ [biography_author [0] = JeG contributions by Jens Gieseke]
3. ^ Mitteldeutsche Zeitung online, October 11, 2016: State Security - This is how the Greens were spied on in the GDR