Lutz Heuer

Lutz Heuer (* 1943 in Berlin ) is a German historian and publicist .

Life

Lutz Heuer grew up as the eldest son of a master painter in the post-war period at the Nordbahnhof in the Berlin-Mitte district . Here he learned the profession of land surveyor at the Deutsche Reichsbahn and practiced this profession at the surveying office of the Reichsbahn and later at VEB Tiefbau Berlin. Then he worked in various activities and functions in the Berlin construction industry.

From 1970 to 1974, Heuer studied history at the Humboldt University in Berlin . After graduating as a historian, he worked in the field of education. He worked for ten years as a part-time teacher at the company academy of the VEB Housing Combine in Berlin, training skilled workers and engineers. Other areas in which he was involved were research into the regional history of Berlin, the Luisenstadt Educational Association, the Institute for Conflict and Peace Research and the Berlin Cultural Ring. Lutz Heuer has been a freelance historian and journalist since 2003.

Publications (selection)

Lutz Heuer participated with his own contributions in publications of the Heimatverein Berlin-Marzahn-Hellersdorf. In addition, he published in newspapers and magazines on the history of Berlin and the history of the Soviet occupation zone and the GDR . He is also active as a speaker on various historical topics at various registered associations.

• with Norbert Podewin : The unification process in Lichtenberg, KPD and SPD on the way to the Socialist Unity Party of Germany . Edition Luisenstadt, Berlin 1993.
• with Norbert Podewin: Operative process “Fuchsbau” 1953–1961. A story from the Cold War era in Berlin. Edition Luisenstadt, Berlin 1998.
• The municipal and prominent settlement in Berlin-Biesdorf after 1945. Kulturring in Berlin, EV Berlin 2004.
• Arthur Pieck (1899-1970). A life in the shadow of the father. Trafo, Berlin 2005.
• Fritz Reuter (1900–1968). A proletarian life. 1945–1953 trade union official, 1953–1956 mayor of Berlin-Friedrichshain. Trafo, Berlin 2007.
• Settlers joy, settlers sorrow. The history of the “Lichtenberger Gartenheim” development projected by Bruno Taut in Berlin-Mahlsdorf and its settlement cooperative from 1920 to 1979/80. Trafo, Berlin 2009.
• with Norbert Podewin: Franz Neumann (1904–1974): Frontman in Berlin during the Cold War (= Small Series Biographien BzG. Vol. 23). Trafo, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-89626-926-3
• Arthur Werner (1877-1967). Berlin's Lord Mayor at zero hour. Trafo, Berlin 2011.
• A 100-year history of tobacco smoking in Berlin, the tobacco shop of the H. Junghans company, formerly Chausseestrasse 128, Berlin-Mitte. Trafo, Berlin 2011.
• Paul Schwenk ("Paul Scherber"), * 08.08.1880, † 22.08.1960. From the barricades of the November Revolution, the struggle against fascism, from Stalin's prison to the deputy mayor of Berlin in 1945. Trafo, Berlin 2012.
• Erich Töppe (pseudonym Karl Otto Müller), * November 24th, 1910, † July 27th, 1971. In the hinterland by Richard Sorge . Trafo, Berlin 2013.
• "You the laurel, our duty". From the life of the anti-fascist and communist Ottomar Georg Alexander Geschke . * November 16, 1882, Fürstenwalde, † May 17, 1957, East Berlin. Trafo, Berlin 2014.
• The municipal housing estate in Berlin-Biesdorf after World War II (May 1945 to October 1946) (= booklets on GDR history. H. 135). 2nd expanded and updated edition. "Helle Panke" e. V. Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Berlin, Berlin 2015.
• From the life of the politician, anti-fascist and trade unionist Hans Jendretzky , (* July 20th, 1897, † July 2nd, 1992,) trafo-verlag, Berlin 2017
• Lutz Heuer, Experienced and Strived for Memories from seven decades of my life in Berlin, autobiography, trafo verlag, Berlin 2018
• From the history of the 'Villa Conrad' in Berlin-Biesdorf. Its builders, its prominent residents and guests, trafo verlag; Berlin 2018

Web links

• Literature by and about Lutz Heuer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website from Lutz Heuer