Joachim Petzold
Joachim Petzold (born June 5, 1933 in Weixdorf ; † April 21, 1999 ) was a Marxist German historian .
Life
In 1951 he graduated from high school . He then studied history from 1951 to 1955 at the Humboldt University in Berlin . After completing his studies, he first worked as Albert Schreiner's assistant and later as a research group leader at the Institute for History of the Academy of Sciences . In 1962 he received his doctorate and in 1969 he completed his habilitation . In 1983 he became a professor . From 1992 to 1998 worked on the research focus on contemporary history studies in Potsdam .
As a historian, Petzold was best known for his work on the Weimar Republic and the Nazi era and as a chess historian . As a member of the SED, he also helped to develop the history of the GDR into a history of domination, that is, to develop it into a pillar of the party dictatorship in East Germany.
Works (selection)
- The stab in the back legend . A falsification of history in the service of German imperialism and militarism. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1963. (Dissertation)
- with Willibald Gutsche and Fritz Klein : From Sarajevo to Versailles. Germany in World War I , Berlin 1974
- also as: The First World War. Causes and course. Ruling politics and anti-war movement in Germany , Cologne 1985
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Conservative theorists of German fascism. Young conservative ideologues in the Weimar Republic as intellectual pioneers of the fascist dictatorship. VEB Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1978
- 2nd, revised and expanded edition ibid 1982
- identical to: pioneer of German fascism. The Young Conservatives in the Weimar Republic , Pahl-Rugenstein, Cologne 1978. (Here, too, a second revised edition was made, namely 1983)
- Dress rehearsal for Hitler. ( Illustrated historical booklets : Booklet 24), Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1980, DNB 830055703 .
- The demagogy of Hitler's fascism , Berlin 1982
- Fascism. Regime of Crime , Berlin 1984
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Chess. A cultural history , Leipzig 1986
- also as: The Royal Game. The cultural history of chess , Stuttgart 1987
- ed. with Otto Borik among others: Meyers Schachlexikon. Chess knowledge for everyone , Mannheim 1993
- Franz von Papen . A German fate. , Buchverlag Union, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-372-00432-9 .
- Ideals and idols in the shadow of Hitler and Stalin , 1997.
- Taking sides for what? GDR historian in the field of tension between politics and science , Potsdam 2000
- Dresden high school students protest against Stalinism. The example of the Dresden-Nord Oberschule 1948-1951. In Ullrich Hermann Hrsg: Protestierende Jugend. Youth Opposition and Political Protest in Post-War German History. Juventa, Weinheim 2002, ISBN 978-3-7799-1132-6 .
literature
- Mario Keßler : Obituary for Prof. Dr. Joachim Petzold . In: Potsdamer Bulletin for Contemporary History Studies , No. 16, October 1999, ISSN 1432-4881 , pp. 58-60.
Web links
- Literature by and about Joachim Petzold in the catalog of the German National Library
- Short biography and reviews of works by Joachim Petzold at perlentaucher.de
Remarks
- ^ Blurb of taking sides for what? GDR historian in the field of tension between politics and science. Potsdam 2000.
- ↑ The foreword to the 2nd edition goes into detail on the extensive changes that were made possible in particular by opening the archive.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Petzold, Joachim |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German historian |
DATE OF BIRTH | June 5, 1933 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Weixdorf (district) |
DATE OF DEATH | April 21, 1999 |