Ludwig Elm

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Ludwig Elm (born August 10, 1934 in Greußen ) is a former German politician ( SED , PDS ). Until 1990 he was a university professor for Scientific Socialism .

Life and work

After attending school, Elm first completed an apprenticeship as an agricultural assistant. He then studied agriculture , history and philosophy at the Humboldt University in Berlin and the Karl Marx University in Leipzig . In 1956 he finished his studies as a graduate teacher for Marxism-Leninism . He then worked as a research assistant at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena , where he also worked in 1964 with the work “On the History of Left Liberalism in the Early Period of German Imperialism (1897/98 to 1907) - A Contribution to the Development and Crisis of Liberalism in Germany " for Dr. phil. received his doctorate. In 1971 his doctorate B to Dr. sc. phil. with the work "University and Neo-Fascism - Contemporary History Studies on University Policy in the FRG" . He then worked at the university until 1990 as a professor of scientific socialism . From 1990 to 1991 the department he headed was called “Comparative History of Ideas”.

Ludwig Elm is married and has three daughters.

Political party

Elm joined the SED in 1952. From 1964 to 1978 he was a member of the SED party leadership at the University of Jena and from 1967 to 1978 of the SED district leadership of the city of Jena . After the renaming, he remained a member of the PDS.

MP

Elm was a member of the People's Chamber of the GDR from 1971 to 1981 and belonged there to the parliamentary group of the Kulturbund .

From 1994 to 1998 he was a member of the German Bundestag and during this time headed Working Group IV Internal, Legal, Foreigners, Science and Education Policy of the PDS group.

Ludwig Elm was drawn into the Bundestag via the Thuringian state list.

Social offices

From 1958 to 1990, Elm was primarily involved in the GDR cultural association, where he held various functions at the district, district and central level. In 1994 he was elected first state spokesman for the Association of Antifascists (BdA) in Thuringia.

Fonts

  • Story of a historian. Memories from three German states , Cologne: PapyRossa 2018, ISBN 978-3-89438-685-6
  • German Conservatism after Auschwitz - From Adenauer and Strauss to Merkel and Stoiber , Cologne: PapyRossa 2007, ISBN 9783894383534 .
  • The ordained enemy image - New German historical ideology and “anti-totalitarian consensus” , Cologne: PapyRossa 2001, ISBN 3-89438-218-X .
  • Füxe, Burschen, Alte Herren - Student corporations from the Wartburg Festival to today , Cologne: PapyRossa 1992, ISBN 3-89438-050-0 .
  • After Hitler. According to Honecker - On the struggle of Germans about their own past , Berlin: Dietz 1991, ISBN 9783320017613 .
  • On the results and trends of conservatism in the FRG. In: Conservatism Research, Vol. 11 (1990), pp. 16-32.
  • Confrontational forces in the conservative camp of the FRG on the path of armament and peace threat . In: Pro Pace Mundi (1987), 2, pp. 164-174.
  • Historical place and social nature of conservatism in the eighties (theses) - In: Konservatismus-Forschung, Vol. 7 (1987), pp. 9-16.
  • Seminar of the BdWi “New Right, Neoconservatism and Science” . In: Conservatism Research, Vol. 7 (1987), pp. 165-166.
  • Conference of the IMSF on conservatism in the FRG . In: Conservatism Research, Vol. 7 (1987), pp. 179-180.
  • Theses on the lecture: Conservative ideology and politics in the FRG - starting positions and perspectives at the beginning of the 80s . In: Scientific journal of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (GSR), vol. 31 (1982), issue 4/5, pp. 401–408.
  • A “coalition of the middle?” On the assessment of the CDU / CSU / FDP government from October 1982 . In: Conservatism Research, Vol. 4 (1983), pp. 45-57.
  • The FRG - four decades after May 8, 1945. Historical-political and ideological aspects of the conservative turnaround . In: Conservatism Research, Vol. 6 (1986), pp. 7-17.
  • Departure for the Fourth Reich? - On the origin and nature of a conservative utopia , Berlin: Dietz 1981.
  • Conservative conception of socialism - an extreme variety of the totalitarian doctrine . In: Conservatism Research, Vol. 2 (1981), pp. 101-113.
  • May 8, 1975 in the FRG . In: Scientific journal of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (GSR), vol. 25, (1976), issue 4/5, pp. 623–627.
  • On the ideology and program of the Christian Social Union (CSU) 1945-1976 . In: Conservatism Research, Vol. 1 (1976), pp. 9-44.
  • The new conservatism - on the ideology and politics of a reactionary current in the FRG . Berlin. Akademie-Verlag 1974.
  • University and neo-Nazism - A contribution to the balance sheet of a quarter of a century of West German university policy from 1945 to 1970 . In: Scientific journal of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (GSR), vol. 19 (1970), issue 3, pp. 337–364.
  • Ideology and political tactics of the ruling class of West Germany and West Berlin in the fight against the democratic student movement . In: Scientific journal of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (GSR), vol. 18 (1969), issue 3, pp. 65–78.
  • The national responsibility of German student youth in the past and present . In: Scientific journal of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (GSR), vol. 15 (1966), issue 2, pp. 175–181.
  • The German Burschenschaft (DB) in 1965 - against honor, freedom, fatherland . In: Scientific journal of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (GSR), vol. 15 (1966), issue 2, pp. 307-316.
  • Liberalism and Imperialism. On the historical assessment of the "crisis of liberalism" in Germany . In: Scientific journal of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (GSR), vol. 14 (1965), issue 2, pp. 247–250.
  • The active support of Bonn neocolonialism by the leadership of the SPD and the DGB as part of their imperialist and anti-communist ideology and politics . In: Scientific journal of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (GSR), vol. 11 (1962), issue 3, pp. 343–367.
  • On the psychological warfare among the West German students and their fight by oppositional student groups . In: Scientific journal of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (GSR), vol. 10 (1960/61), issue 1, pp. 35–38.
  • The Social Democratic Party of Germany and the anti-imperialist popular uprising (Boxer Rebellion) in China in 1900. A contribution to the history of the struggle of the German working class against the imperialist colonial policy . In: Scientific journal of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (GSR), vol. 7 (1957/58), issue 2/3, pp. 307-316.

literature

  • Eckardt, Michael (2007): The publication series "Pro pace mundi" of the FSU Jena 1985–1990 . In: RLS-Thüringen (Ed.) (2007): Science in motion: Results and experiences of social science research in the 1970s and 1980s at the Friedrich Schiller University. Jena, 107-114.
  • Eckardt, Michael (2007): The publication series "Conservatism Research" of the FSU Jena 1976–1990; in: Weissbecker, M. (Ed.) (2007): Hopes, disappointments, new experiences. German university landscape in the "turning point". The example of the Friedrich Schiller University. Jena, 153-174.

Web links

Commons : Ludwig Elm  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Ploenus: How Marxism-Leninism disappeared from the universities of the GDR. The example of Jena. In: Hallische Contributions to Contemporary History 2006/1 (Issue 16), pp. 66–89, here especially pp. 78, 82f, 85.
personal data
SURNAME Elm, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (PDS), MdV, MdB
DATE OF BIRTH August 10, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Greetings