Klaus Kinner

Klaus Christian Kinner (born September 1, 1946 in Pötzschau ) is a German historian.

Kinner studied history from 1965 to 1969 at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig . In 1969 he became a research student there and in January 1973 he submitted his doctorate A “On the development of the Marxist-Leninist image of history in the KPD during the Weimar Republic” with Werner Berthold . From 1973 to 1975 he was the full-time secretary of the FDJ district leadership at KMU Leipzig and at the same time worked as a research assistant in the history section of the research group “History of Marxist-Leninist History in Germany (1918 / 19-1946 / 46)”. From 1975 he had a scheduled academic traineeship at the chair for the history of the German labor movement at the Academy for Social Sciences at the Central Committee of the SED in Berlin. In December 1977 he received his PhD B “On the history of Marxist-Leninist historiography in Germany 1917–1933”.

Kinner was then senior assistant at the KMU Leipzig and from September 1978 university assistant for scientific communism at the Franz-Mehring-Institut of the KMU Leipzig until he was appointed full professor for the history of the German labor movement in September 1981. In 1986 he was deputy director and from 1987 to 1989 head of the history department at the Franz-Mehring-Institut.

In 1979, Kinner served as party secretary of the SED basic organization and from 1984 as chairman of the district leadership of the Kulturbund at KMU Leipzig. In 1988/89 he was a member of the SED district leadership at KMU Leipzig and in 1989/90 he was a member of the Presidium of the Historians' Society of the GDR .

After his dismissal in 1990, Kinner's professorship was wound up in 1992. Kinner, who worked on the editing of the Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe (MEGA) from 1990 to 1992 , has since worked as a freelance historian in teaching and research as well as as a publicist. In 1997 he became a member of the Leibniz Society . V. Berlin and 1998 managing director of the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung Sachsen e. V. in Leipzig . Since 2002 he has been a member of the spokesman's council of the Historical Commission of the PDS / Die Linke party executive . In 2004 he was Deputy Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation.

Fonts (selection)

• The emergence of the KPD in the historical self-image of the German communists during the Weimar Republic. In: Journal for Historical Science <Berlin>: ZfG. 26, No. 11 1978, pp. 972-982.
• Beginning of the central training work of the KPD. The party school from 1922. In: Scientific journal of the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald. 29, No. 1 1980, pp. 49-55.
• Marxist German history 1917 to 1933. History and politics in the struggle of the KPD. Akad.-Verl, Berlin 1982.
• with Elke Reuter and Günter Benser: The German Communism. Self-image and reality. Volume 1: The Weimar Period. Dietz, Berlin 1999, ISBN 9783320019792 .
• Ernst Thalmann. Myth and Reality. In: Ernst Thälmann: Man and Myth. 2000, pp. 31-39.
• Thälmann and Stalinism. The end of independent German party communism in 1928/1929. In: Ernst Thälmann: Man and Myth. 2000, pp. 59-80.
• Kinner (Ed.): Rosa Luxemburg. Historical and current dimensions of your theoretical work. Dietz, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3320020315 .
• (Ed.): Between the camps. Left Socialists in Germany, 1918–1933. Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Saxony, Leipzig 2003, ISBN 3898191478 .
• (Ed.): Topicality of the history of philosophy. Helmut Seidel on his 75th birthday. Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Saxony, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3898192016 .
• (Ed.): The extreme right in the east - counter-strategies. Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Saxony; Municipal Political Forum Saxony, Leipzig, Meißen 2005, ISBN 3898192121 .
• and Elke Reuter: Against Fascism and War (1933 to 1939). Dietz, Berlin 2005, ISBN 9783320020620 .
• The year of the crisis 1956. Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung Sachsen, Leipzig 2006, ISBN 3898192458 .
• The Chances of the Popular Front. Historical alternatives to the Stalinization of communism. Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Saxony, Leipzig 2006.
• Ways out of the disaster. Debates about a post-war Germany and national paths to socialism in a European comparison. , Leipzig 2006, ISBN 3898192296 .
• Left, home, fatherland. Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Saxony; GNN-Verl., Leipzig, Schkeuditz 2007, ISBN 9783898192590 .
• The Left - Heritage and Tradition. Dietz, Berlin 2010, ISBN 9783320022136 .
• Left between the Orthodoxies. From Havemann to Dutschke . Dietz, Berlin 2011, ISBN 9783320022679 .

literature

• Lothar Mertens : Lexicon of the GDR historians. Biographies and bibliographies on the historians from the German Democratic Republic. Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-11673-X .

Web links

• Klaus Kinner in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig