Joachim Streisand

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Joachim Streisand (born October 18, 1920 in Berlin , † January 6, 1980 in East Berlin ) was a German historian .

Life

Until the end of World War II

His father Hugo Streisand ran a bookstore in the west of Berlin, which was frequented by well-known personalities from the arts, the natural sciences and writing. His father was close to the Social Democrats before 1945 and knew a.o. a. Karl Kautsky , Eduard Fuchs and David Borissowitsch Rjasanow (David Borissowitsch Goldenbach). Over the years he converted his bookstore into a scientific antiquarian bookshop. His father also wrote articles on Ludwig Gall and the characters in the history of utopian social conceptions. In this environment, Joachim Streisand was influenced early on by his father's views. His sister is the church historian Rosemarie Müller-Streisand .

In 1938 Streisand obtained his Abitur. Then he mainly took up a degree in philosophy and German studies : from 1938 to 1939 in Rostock , then from 1939 to 1942 in Berlin . He also attended lectures in Romance studies , English studies , psychology, art history and history. He also developed an interest in mathematics, physics and completed additional exams in Latin and Greek. He was also interested in modern languages, so that he could speak English and French fluently. He also acquired knowledge of the Swedish, Italian and Spanish languages. Later he learned the Russian written language in order to be able to read Russian texts independently.

According to the Nuremberg Race Laws , he was expelled from the university in 1942. At Opta Radio AG he worked from 1942 to 1944 initially in Berlin, then in Goldberg in Silesia in a laboratory. In 1944 he was deported to a forced labor camp in Jena . From there he fled to Berlin in March 1945 and stayed there until May 1945.

post war period

From June to December 1945 he was able to take up employment as the deputy head of the education authority. He then moved to the Berlin-Charlottenburg Adult Education Center and held introductory lectures there from 1946 to 1948 in the subjects of philosophy, sociology and problems in social sciences. In addition, Streisand led working groups and communities on social and political movements, the French Revolution , Marxist personalities and dialectical materialism . He continued his own studies at the University of Berlin and heard lectures from Alfred Meusel and Jürgen Kuczynski . He witnessed how major political disputes arose in Meusel's seminars in 1947 and 1948. At the Institute of Contemporary History , he took on a second job from September 1947 to June 1948.

In 1946 Streisand became a member of the Kulturbund , in April 1948 he joined the SED , which led to his dismissal from the adult education center. In 1950 he was able to take up a position as a lecturer in music history at the State Conservatory, then as a teacher at the DEFA studio for contemporary studies. In 1951 he was able to hold lectures on recent German history as a research assistant at the Humboldt University, such as German unification efforts in the 19th century and later on German history from 1789 to 1871.

In 1952 he wrote his dissertation on the critical issue of German sociology , which mainly dealt with the sociologist Karl Mannheim . The reviewers for this work were Alfred Meusel and Heinz Kamnitzer . He was able to complete the thesis and the oral examination with the grade summa cum laude . Since his supervisor Meusel was appointed director of the Museum of German History , Streisand followed him in January 1952 and took over as deputy director for the historical period from 1848 to 1895. In 1953 he was appointed head of department. He also took on tasks on the scientific advisory board of the Wartburg . In 1955 he left the museum.

From 1953 to 1957 he worked in collaboration with Fritz Klein on the editing of the Zeitschrift für Geschichtswwissenschaft (ZfG), as he was one of the founders of this specialist journal. He was responsible for the publications on German and Western European history up to the end of the 19th century.

From 1956 to 1963 he worked as a scientific consultant at the Academy of Sciences . In December 1962 he had submitted his habilitation thesis on The German Historiography in the Political and Ideological Controversies of the 18th Century - From the Early Enlightenment to German Classics at the Martin Luther University in Halle . In 1963 he received a teaching position at the Humboldt University in Berlin and was appointed director of the Institute for German History. From 1969 on he taught as a full professor and took over as director of the new history section until 1974. In 1971/72 he was involved in the politically motivated expulsion and disciplinary measures of 13 students.

From 1968 on he was President of the Historians' Society of the GDR , which was previously headed by Ernst Engelberg and Gerhard Schilfert . He took this position for the next twelve years until his death. Since 1975 Streisand was a full member of the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of the GDR .

Since 1945 he was married to the actress Hildegard Lücke , who later worked as a director at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin . After the divorce in 1961, he lived in a partnership. In 1969 he was awarded the GDR National Prize.

From 1958 to 1980 he worked as an unofficial employee with the code name “Monday” for the Ministry of State Security .

Fonts

  • About the unity of Germany - the revolution of 1848/49. Berlin 1953.
  • The struggle of Marx and Engels for the democratic unification of Germany. In: ZfG. Issue 2, 1953, p. 242.
  • Bismarck and the German Unification Movement of the 19th Century in West German Historiography. In: ZfG. Volume 3, 1954, p. 349.
  • The Wartburg in German history. Berlin 1954.
  • with Fritz Klein (ed.): Contributions to a new historical image. For Alfred Meusel's 60th birthday. Berlin 1956.
  • Germany from 1789 to 1815. From the French Revolution to the Wars of Liberation and the Congress of Vienna. Berlin 1959; Reprint 1981.
  • Germany and France at the end of the 19th century. In: Historical research in the GDR. Analysis and reports. In: ZfG. Special issue 1960.
  • Germany 1789–1815 - Textbook of German History. (Contributions). Berlin 1961.
  • as publisher: Studies on German history. Volume I: German historical studies from the beginning of the 19th century to the unification of the empire from above. Berlin 1963; 2nd edition, Berlin 1969.
  • Historical thinking from the early German Enlightenment to the classical period. Berlin 1964.
  • German history in 3 volumes. Volume I: From the beginning to 1789. Volume II: From 1789 to 1917. (Head of the authors' collective), Berlin 1965.
  • as editor: The bourgeois German historiography from the unification of the empire from above to the liberation of Germany from fascism. Berlin 1965.
  • Historical Thinking - From the German Early Enlightenment to the Classical. Berlin 1967.
  • Textbook of German history. (Contributions). Volume 6: Germany 1815-1849. From the founding of the German Confederation to the bourgeois-democratic revolution. Berlin 1967.
  • German history in one volume. An overview. Berlin 1968.
  • as editor: German history. Volume 3: From 1917 to the present. Berlin 1968.
  • German History from the Beginnings to the Present - A Marxist Introduction. Cologne 1970.
  • Historical research and writing of history on the way to a socialist human community. In: Helmut Meier, Walter Schmidt (ed.): Historical consciousness and socialist society. Berlin 1970.
  • Critical studies on the legacy of German classical music. Frankfurt am Main 1971.
  • with Jürgen Kuczynski : Partiality and objectivity in history. Berlin (West) 1972 (= categories and perspectives of history. Reprint from: Zeitschrift für Geschichtswwissenschaft , Berlin 1956, 1957, 1958).
  • Alfred Meusel's path from bourgeois-democratic sociologist to Marxist-Leninist historian. In: ZfG. Volume 9, 1975, p. 1029.
  • About concept formation in the historical sciences. In: Wolfgang Küttler (Hrsg.): Problems of historical knowledge. Berlin 1977.
  • with Jürgen John and others: historical guide, sites and monuments of history in the districts of Erfurt, Gera, Suhl. Leipzig 1978.
  • France in the historical image of German fascism. In: Revue d'Allemagne. Volume 4, 1978, p. 528.
  • Herder's historical thinking. In: Walter Dietze (Ed.): Herder Colloquium 1978. Weimar 1980.
  • The historical position of Johann Gottfried Herder's theory of human culture. In: ZfG. Volume 5, 1980, p. 415.
  • Culture in the GDR. Studies on their historical foundations and their stages of development. Berlin 1981.
  • with Horst Bartel , Lothar Berthold , Helmut Bock , Ernst Diehl , Dieter Fricke , Heinz Heitzer , Joachim Hermann, Dieter Lange and Walter Schmidt: German history in twelve volumes. Berlin 1982.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hanfried Müller: Experiences - memories - thoughts. On the history of the church and society in Germany since 1945. GNN Verlag, Schkeuditz 2010, ISBN 978-3-89819-314-6 , p. 40.
  2. ↑ Registration of Joachim Streisand in the Rostock matriculation portal .
  3. ↑ See Kowalczuk: Streisand, Joachim .
personal data
SURNAME Streisand, Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH January 6, 1980
Place of death East Berlin