Joachim Petzold

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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
  • 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
  • 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.

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Remarks

  1. ^ Blurb of taking sides for what? GDR historian in the field of tension between politics and science. Potsdam 2000.
  2. ↑ 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
SURNAME Petzold, Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 5, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Weixdorf (district)
DATE OF DEATH April 21, 1999