Manfred Hagen

Manfred Hagen (born April 2, 1934 in Dresden ) is a German historian .

Life

Hagen completed a degree in history in Halle and Göttingen, which he completed in 1959 with the 1st state examination. Afterwards he entered the school service as a trainee lawyer. The second state examination followed in 1961, and in the following year Hagen was awarded a doctorate in Göttingen with a study on “The problem of nationalities in Russia in the 3rd Duma from 1907 to 1911”. phil. PhD. Hagen stayed in school for almost ten years before he switched to the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen as a professor in 1968 . In 1980, Hagen completed his habilitation with a study on the “Development of the Political Public in Russia”. Until his retirement he taught in Göttingen as a professor of modern and Russian history.

Hagen's main research interests include Russian history, especially in the period before the rule of the Bolsheviks and Germany after 1945.He also participated in various attempts at school and university reform and worked on the editing of film source editions in cooperation with the Institute for Scientific Research Film in Göttingen.

Fonts (selection)

• The nationality problem of Russia in the negotiations of the 3rd Duma from 1907 to 1911. Dissertation. Goettingen 1964
• The development of the political public in Russia. 1906-1914. Steiner, Wiesbaden 1982, ISBN 3-515-03600-8
• GDR: June '53. The first popular uprising in Stalinism. Steiner, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-515-06007-3
• with Joachim Wendorf: film, photo and sound sources on June 17, 1953 in Berlin. IWF, Göttingen 1992, ISBN 3-88222-047-3
• “We're not defeated, are we ?!” First reactions of the SED leadership to the popular uprising in 1953. Hannah Arendt Institute , Dresden 1993, ISBN 3-929048-61-2 (28 pages, series: lectures from the HAIT)
• with Sergej Drobaschenko: Soviet film propaganda on the western expansion of the USSR 1939–1940. Selected reports from the state weekly show “Soyuskinoschurnal”. Accompanying publication to the film edition of the same name G 258 – G 260. Institute for Scientific Film, Göttingen 1999, ISBN 3-88222-077-5
• with Susanna Vida: With the amateur camera behind the front. Private recordings by Rittmeister Harald von Vietinghoff-Riesch 1938–1942. Accompanying publication to the film edition of the same name G 242. Institute for Scientific Film, Göttingen 1999, ISBN 3-88222-076-7
• Russian freedom. Paths to a paradoxical topic. Steiner, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-515-07902-5

Web links

• Literature by and about Manfred Hagen in the catalog of the German National Library