Klaus Schroeder

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Klaus Schroeder (2004)

Klaus Schroeder (* 16th October 1949 in Lübeck - Travemünde ) is a German political scientist and historian , who at the Free University of Berlin the research association SED state directs and workplace policies and Technology and a professor at the Otto Suhr Institute teaches.

Life

After graduating from the Katharineum in Lübeck , Schroeder studied biology , economics and political science at the Free University of Berlin from 1969 to 1975 . He finished his studies with a diploma in political science. He then received a doctoral scholarship . From the winter semester 1975/76 he held teaching assignments at the Free University of Berlin. From 1978 to 1982 he worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Sociology at the Free University of Berlin, focusing on the state, organization and planning. His theoretically guided empirical study “The road to stagnation. An empirical study on economic development and economic policy in the Federal Republic from 1967 to 1982 ” was accepted as a dissertation at the Free University of Berlin in 1982 and published in 1984 by Westdeutscher Verlag . In 1994 Schroeder completed his habilitation in the Department of Political Science. His courses deal with contemporary historical topics, but also with the welfare state, extremist movements, processes of social modernization , social movements and generally with the political and social system of Germany and the GDR .

From 1982 to 1987 Schroeder worked in the presidential office of the FU as a consultant for the first vice-president Johann Wilhelm Gerlach and then for the vice-president Bütow. He was responsible for the presidential supervision of the social sciences at the FU. In 1987 he switched to the political science department and became the managing project manager at the Politics and Technology department, which he took over as head in 1995.

In 1992, together with Manfred Wilke , Manfred Görtemaker , Bernd Rabehl and Siegward Lönnendonker , Schroeder founded the research association SED-Staat , which has since dealt with the history of German division and the reunification process , largely financed by third parties . Since then, he has been in charge of the research network, which was entrusted to him by the President of the Freie Universität Berlin.

As part of his work at the Politics and Technology department and the SED State research association, Schroeder solicited a large number of research projects. As an expert nominated by the CDU, he was a member of the "Enquete Commission for the processing of the post-reunification period in Brandenburg " set up in 2010 . In June 2013 he announced his resignation from the commission. In addition, since 2012 he has been a member of the scientific advisory board of the Federal Commissioner for Stasi Records .

Schroeder is a guest author of the Axis of the Good .

Research priorities

Schroeder's focus areas are:

  • History and structures of the GDR;
  • the history of German division 1945–1990;
  • German reunification and the transformation process since 1989/90;
  • Social modernization processes and their consequences.
  • Right and left extremism.

His research results have been the basis of many books, essays and articles. In 1998 he published a comprehensive account of the history and structures of the GDR ( "The SED State. Party, State and Society 1949–1990" , Carl Hanser Verlag , Munich 1998). Two years later, “The Unity Price. A balance sheet ” , a consideration of the different developments in East and West Germany before and after reunification. In his 2004 book “Right-wing extremism and youth violence in Germany. An East-West Comparison ” , he critically examined the previous right-wing extremism research and presented the results of an empirical study together with the project team. In December 2006 he published an extensive study entitled "The changed republic" on the German reunification process . Together with Monika Deutz-Schroeder, he published several case studies at the end of 2007 on the GDR image of schoolchildren in East and West Germany. Her book “Social Paradise or Stasi State? The GDR Image of Schoolchildren - An East-West Comparison ” was widely and controversially discussed in the political and academic public. They then published a selection of the approx. 5000 comments, letters to the editor, etc. to the results of the study in the volume "Oh, how beautiful is the GDR" . The results of the follow-up study appeared in 2012 under the title “Later victory of the dictatorships?”. With the transformation process, especially in East Germany, Schroeder again sat down in his book “Das neue Deutschland. Why not together what belongs together " apart. In the summer of 2013 a revised and expanded version of his book "The SED State" was published .

Schroeder published the series “Studies of the SED State Research Association” together with Manfred Wilke in the Akademie-Verlag until 2002 . In this series, in which the research association presented its results, 15 books have appeared. After a break of several years, the series has been continued by Verlag Peter Lang since 2010. The editors are Klaus Schroeder and Jochen Staadt. From 2004, Schroeder and Peter März published the book series “Berlin and Munich. Studies on politics and history " in the publisher Ernst birds out two appeared in the year to four new books. The series was discontinued in 2012.

Together with Peter Massing , Schroeder developed a master’s degree in Politics and Contemporary History, which began in January 2008 and has been carried out annually since then.

According to the magazine Cicero, Schroeder is one of the 500 most cited German intellectuals in the past ten years. In the 2013 list, he was in 254th place.

Fonts (selection)

  • The DDR. History and structures. 2nd updated and supplemented edition, Reclam, Stuttgart 2019.
  • with Monika Deutz-Schroeder: The fight is not over. History and topicality of left violence. Herder, Freiburg 2019.
  • with Jochen Staadt (ed.): The limit of socialism in Germany. Everyday life in no man's land. Peter Lang, Berlin 2018.
  • with Jochen Staadt (ed.): The victims of the GDR border regime on the inner-German border 1949–1989: A biographical handbook (=  studies by the SED State research association at the Free University of Berlin ). Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2017, ISBN 978-3-631-72594-8 .
  • with Monika Deutz-Schroeder: Left-wing extremist attitudes and enemy images. Surveys, statistics and analyzes. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2016, ISBN 978-3-653-07032-3 .
  • with Monika Deutz-Schroeder: Against the state and capital - for the revolution! Left-Wing Extremism in Germany - an Empirical Study. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2015, ISBN 978-3-631-66283-0 .
  • The SED state. History and structures of the GDR 1949–1990. completely revised and greatly expanded new edition. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2013, ISBN 978-3-412-21109-7 .
  • with Monika Deutz-Schroeder, Rita Quasten and Dagmar Schulze Heuling: Later victory of the dictatorships? Knowledge of contemporary history and judgments of young people. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2012, ISBN 978-3-631-63741-8 .
  • The DDR. History and structures. Reclam, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-15-015233-1 .
  • The new Germany. Why doesn't what belongs together grow together? wjs, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-937989-66-2 .
  • with Monika Deutz-Schroeder: Oh, how beautiful is the GDR. Comments and materials on the results of a study. Wochenschauverlag, Schwalbach / Ts. 2009.
  • with Monika Deutz-Schroeder: Social paradise or Stasi state? The GDR Image of Schoolchildren - An East-West Comparison. Verlag Ernst Vögel, Munich, Stamsried 2008.
  • The changed republic. Germany after reunification. Ernst Vögel, Munich / Stamsried 2006.
  • with Monika Deutz-Schroeder and Uwe Hillmer: Right-wing extremism and youth violence in Germany. An east-west comparison. Schöningh, Paderborn 2004.
  • Michael Behnen (Ed.): Lexicon of German History 1945–1990. Events, institutions, people in divided Germany. Kröner, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-520-83401-4 (collaboration on 134 material and personal articles, including "German Democratic Republic", "Unification Treaty", "Socialist Unity Party Germany", "Constitutions of the GDR", "Collapse of the GDR") , "Berlin").
  • with Anneli Ute Gabanyi: From the Baltic to the Black Sea. Transformation in Eastern Europe. Bavarian State Center for Political Education, Munich 2002, OCLC 53001009 .
  • The price of the unit. A balance sheet. Hanser, Munich / Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-446-19940-3 .
  • The SED state. Party, State and Society 1949–1990. Propylaea paperback, Munich 2000.
  • with Hannelore Offner: Limited - excluded. Fine arts and party rule in the GDR 1961–1989. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2000.
  • The SED state. Party, State and Society 1949–1990. Hanser-Verlag, Munich 1998.
  • with Ulrich Hartmann and Stefan Herten: Land in Sight. The merger of Berlin and Brandenburg. Structure, Berlin 1996.
  • with Walter Heering: Transformation processes in East German companies. Actor-related studies on economic and social development in the new federal states. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1995.
  • History and Transformation of the SED State. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1994.
  • with Frank-Uwe Fuhrmann and Walter Heering: Knowledge and technology transfer. Significance and perspectives of a regional technology policy strategy using the example of Berlin. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1991.
  • with Werner Süß: Technology and the future. 2nd Edition. Dietz-Verlag Berlin (GDR), Berlin 1990.
  • with Manfred Görtemaker: Documentation of the FU Berlin. Part VI: 1969–1973 University reform and student protest. Berlin 1990.
  • with Werner Süß: Technology and the future. New technologies and their significance for society. Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1988.
  • with Dieter Grühn and Werner Suess: Why still sociology? Bielefeld 1985.
  • The way to stagnation. An empirical study on the economic development and economic policy in the Federal Republic of 1967–1982 . Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1984.
  • Documentation from the Free University of Berlin. Part V: Violence and Counterviolence. 1967-1969. Berlin 1983, OCLC 632384776 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of January 21, 2011, accessed on March 11, 2014
  2. ^ Articles by and about Klaus Schroeder on the Axis of the Good .
  3. ↑ Cicero 1/2013, p. 24.

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personal data
SURNAME Schroeder, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist and contemporary historian
DATE OF BIRTH October 16, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck - Travemünde