Joachim Heise

Joachim Heise (* 1946 ) is a German historian specializing in GDR history and director of the Berlin Institute for Comparative State-Church Research .

Life

Heise studied history and German at the Potsdam University of Education. He then worked as a graduate teacher. 1979-82 he received a scheduled academic traineeship in the research area "History of Alliance Policy" at the Institute for the History of the German Labor Movement of the Academy for Social Sciences at the Central Committee of the SED .

Heise was in 1980 a member of the Institute party leadership and deputy SED - party secretary . In 1983 he received his doctorate A on the history of the church policy of the SED. From 1983 to 1986 he was senior scientific assistant and head of the rectorate department for training and further education in the four-person rectorate of the Academy for Social Sciences at the SED Central Committee. In 1986, the Promotion B . Between 1986 and 1990 he was a lecturer at the Institute for the History of the German Labor Movement. In 1993 he was co-founder and until 2007 deputy director of the institute for comparative state-church research in Berlin, which is funded with public funds . Heise has been the head of the institute with equal rights since 2007.

Heise is the author and editor of publications on GDR history.

Publications (selection)

• Joachim Heise, Zum Platz der fifties in the continuous struggle of the party of the working class for the inclusion of believers in the socialist construction and in the struggle for peace , contribution to the discussion at the 7th Congress of Historians of the GDR from December 6 to 9, 1982 in Berlin , in: Thematic information and documentation - Series B of the Academy for Social Sciences at the Central Committee of the SED, Issue 36, Berlin, 1983.
• together with Jürgen Hofmann: Questions about the history of the GDR . Young World Publishing House, Berlin 1988.
• Joachim Heise, March 6, 1978 and the joint struggle of Marxists and Christians for peace and social progress , contribution to the discussion at the 8th Historians' Congress of the GDR from January 31 to February 3, 1989 in Berlin, in: Thematic information and documentation - series B of the Academy for Social Sciences at the Central Committee of the SED, Issue 78, Berlin 1989.
• Horst Dohle / Joachim Heise (eds.), Klaus Gysi. State Secretary for Church Affairs 1979–1988 , edition ost, Berlin 2002.
• Horst Dähn / Joachim Heise (eds.), State and Churches in the GDR. On the status of contemporary historical and social science research , Peter Lang, Frankfurt 2003.
• Joachim Heise (ed.), Christa Lewek. Competent and inconvenient. A woman in the Federation of Evangelical Churches in the GDR , edition ost, Berlin 2007
• Hans Raab, Nothing comes from nothing - A German entrepreneur talks about his life. Recorded by Joachim Heise , Verlag am Park, Berlin 2007.

literature

• Lothar Mertens : Red think tank? The Academy for Social Sciences at the Central Committee of the SED (Studies on GDR Society), Münster-Hamburg-Berlin-Vienna-London-Zurich 2004
• Ellen Ueberschär: Review by “Horst Dähn, Joachim Heise (Ed.): State and Churches in the GDR. On the status of contemporary historical and social science research, Frankfurt 2003 ”, in: H-Soz-u-Kult July 29, 2003
• Konrad Weiß: Weißwaschliteratur , review v. “Horst Dohle, Joachim Heise (Ed.): Klaus Gysi. State Secretary for Church Issues 1979–1988, Berlin 2002 ”, in: Die Politische Demokratie, Sankt Augustin, September 2002

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ellen Ueberschär: Review of . “Horst Dähn, Joachim Heise (Ed.): State and Churches in the GDR. On the status of contemporary historical and social science research, Frankfurt 2003 "
2. ↑ Konrad Weiß: Weißwaschliteratur , review of. "Horst Dohle

Web links

• Literature by and about Joachim Heise in the catalog of the German National Library