Lothar Mosler (historian)

Lothar Gerhard Mosler (born March 2, 1913 in Ziegenhals , † November 28, 1995 in Leipzig ) was a German historian. From 1953 to 1961 he was director of the Franz Mehring Institute at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig . After receiving his doctorate on the Hamburg dockworkers strike in 1896/97 in 1958, he taught the history of the German labor movement at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig until his retirement in 1978 .

Life

The son of a master carpenter and war pensioner attended the elementary school in Ziegenhals from 1919 to 1923 and then the advanced school in Breslau , where he graduated from high school in 1933. Since 1928 Mosler was a member of the Socialist Student Union. From 1930 to 1933 he was a member of the Communist Youth Association and was district leader in Wroclaw. By 1936 he completed a commercial apprenticeship in the Wroclaw department store in Wertheim and until 1939 worked as a cloth salesman in various department stores, most recently in Braunschweig .

In 1939 Mosler was drafted into the Wehrmacht . He did his military service in the supply troop section of Infantry Regiment 17 and took part in the attack on Poland . With the rank of private , he was used as an administrative assistant in the army clothing warehouse in France and the Soviet Union in the further course of the Second World War . In 1942 he received the Eastern Medal and in 1943 the War Merit Cross, Second Class. In May 1945 he was taken prisoner by the Soviets near Teplice , from which he was released on June 13, 1945 to Dresden .

Mosler was trained as a new teacher in the home school for teacher training in Dresden-Wachwitz in autumn 1945 and took over the management of the Obercunewalde elementary school . From 1946 to 1949 he was a member of the Löbau district council and headed the culture department at the Löbau district council in 1946/47. He had been a member of the KPD since 1945 , the SED and the FDGB since 1946, and attended the SED state party school in Ottendorf from January to March 1947 . From 1947 to 1949 he was also a member of the Löbau SED district leadership and headed the district party school in Kleindehsa . From October 1948 to April 1949 he attended the SED party college "Karl-Marx" in Kleinmachnow (Hakeburg). From 1949 Mosler was SED party secretary and lecturer at the German Academy for Political Science and Law "Walter Ulbricht" in Forst Zinna . In 1951 he completed the three-month lecturer course of the State Secretariat for Higher Education to introduce the Marxist-Leninist basic course in Eberswalde and then became a lecturer for the social science basic course at the Institute for Journalism and Newspaper Studies of the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Leipzig . At the same time he was a member of the SED party leadership of the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Leipzig. From 1953 he worked as director and lecturer for the history of the German labor movement at the Franz-Mehring-Institut of the University of Leipzig and was a member of the local SED party leadership. On March 22, 1958 he received his doctorate under Ernst Engelberg and Walter Markov with the thesis "The strike of the dock workers and seamen in Hamburg-Altona in 1896/97".

In 1958, Mosler took over a professorship with a teaching position for the history of the German labor movement at the Franz-Mehring-Institut . From 1959 to 1964 he was Vice Rector for Basic Social Science Studies and First Deputy Rector. While Mosler gave up the management of the Franz-Mehring-Institut in 1961, he became a member of the Senate Commission for Social Sciences in the same year. In 1966 he became a professor with a teaching position for the history of the German labor movement at the Institute for Marxism-Leninism. In 1969 he went for a five-month additional studies on the history of the CPSU at the University of Kiev . From 1959 to 1968 he was also a member of the SED district leadership of the Karl Marx University in Leipzig and from 1958 to 1970 a member of the Leipzig district assembly and chairman of the popular education commission. From 1971 to 1978 he was a member of the commission for the theology sections at the Ministry of Higher and Technical Schools of the GDR. Since 1965 he was a member of the Kulturbund and a member of the Leipzig district management and since 1959 a member of the Society for the Dissemination of Scientific Knowledge (Urania). On September 1, 1978, Mosler retired as professor.

In 1954 Mosler received the medal for excellent performance , in 1961 the GDR Medal of Merit and the Badge of Honor of the KMU Leipzig, in 1971 the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze and in 1978 the Johannes R. Becher Medal in gold. In 1974 he was honored as an Honored University Professor. In 1979 he was awarded the Gold Pin of Honor of the National Front and in 1989 the Medal of Honor on the 40th anniversary of the German Democratic Republic .

Fonts

• The strike of the dock workers and seamen in Hamburg-Altona in 1896/97 . Diss. Phil. Karl Marx University, 1958.

• On the development and work of the Franz-Mehring-Institut. Contributions to university history . Publishing house encyclopedia, Leipzig 1959.

• The democratic movements of the present and the socialist revolution. Special edition by the State Secretariat for Higher Education . Berlin 1961.

• The right-wing leaders of the SPD and neocolonialism . In: National Liberation Struggle and Neocolonialism. Papers and selected contributions (Scientific conference from April 5 to 8, 1961 in Leipzig) . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1962.

• Some issues of development of revisionism in the German Social Democracy before the first world war . In: Contributions to the social sciences foundation course , 1963 (2) no. 3, pp. 33–41.

literature

• Lothar Mertens : Lexicon of the GDR historians. Biographies and bibliographies on the historians in the GDR. KG Saur Verlag, Munich 2006, p. 436.
• Article: Lothar Gerhard Mosler . In: Professor catalog of the University of Leipzig / Catalogus Professorum Lipsiensium . Published by the Chair of Modern and Contemporary History, Historical Seminar of the University of Leipzig. (accessed: June 22, 2018).

Web links

• Mosler, Lothar . In: AG “Seniors and Internet”: Professors at the University of Leipzig 1945–1993 . (accessed June 23, 2018).