Manfred Weißbecker

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Manfred Weißbecker (born February 8, 1935 in Chemnitz ) is a German Marxist historian .

Life and work

Manfred Weißbecker studied history , German language and literature and education at the Friedrich Schiller University (FSU) in Jena and after completing his studies worked there at the historical institute. In 1962 he was at the University of Jena with the work "The Communist Party of Germany in the fight against the fascist dictatorship in Thuringia 1933-1935" Dr. phil. PhD . In 1963, Weißbecker was party secretary of the basic SED organization of historians. He later became a professor nominated for history at the FSU, where he in 1967 with the work, "Studies on the effects of the Great October Socialist Revolution and the November revolution to the parties and the party system of German imperialism in the years 1917-1923" habilitation had. After the fall of the Berlin Wall , Weißbecker retired in 1992. He was one of the initiators for founding the “Jena Forum for Education and Science e. V. ”, today part of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Thuringia, of which he was chairman for many years.

Weißbecker was married to his wife Bärbel for 57 years, who died in 2013. He is the father of his daughter Ines.

Research areas

Weißbecker has published numerous studies in the field of fascism research on resistance and the history of the German labor movement . He is a proven specialist in party history and party research, which he helped shape with numerous publications and articles. He played a major role in the handbook published between 1968 and 1970: The bourgeois parties in Germany 1830–1945, as well as in the four-volume Lexicon of Party History and the first comprehensive presentation of the NSDAP in cooperation with Kurt Pätzold : Hakenkreuz und Totenkopf. The Party of Crime (1982), which was later reissued as History of the NSDAP - 1920–1945 (1998).

Publications

Monographs

  • Against fascism and the danger of war. A contribution to the history of the KPD in Thuringia 1933–1935 . Erfurt 1967.
  • Defoliation of the brown barbarism. Some recent tendencies in FRG historiography about fascism and fascist leaders . Berlin 1975.
  • Escape to Weimar 1918-1919. ( Illustrated historical booklets : Booklet 25), Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1980, DNB 820114952 .
  • with Kurt Pätzold , swastika and skull. The party of crime . Berlin 1981; also as: History of the NSDAP: 1920–1945. Pahl-Rugenstein, Cologne 1981; 3rd edition PapyRossa, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-89438-406-7 .
  • Against the war. 7 decades of socialist peace policy . Jena 1987.
  • with Kurt Pätzold, Adolf Hitler. A political biography . Militzke-Verlag, Leipzig 1995, ISBN 3-86189-162-X .
  • with Kurt Pätzold, steps to the gallows. Life paths before the Nuremberg judgments . Leipzig 1996.
  • with Kurt Pätzold, Rudolf Hess. The man at Hitler's side . Leipzig 1999.
  • The company sign: National Socialism. German fascism and its party. PapyRossa, Cologne 2011, ISBN 978-3-89438-467-8 .
  • Weimar Republic , PapyRossa, Cologne 2015, ISBN 978-3-89438-572-9 .
  • Go over the books again. Texts from a shared historical life. PapyRossa, Cologne 2020, ISBN 978-3-89438-723-5 .

Editorships

  • Power and impotence of the Weimar Republic . Berlin 1990.
  • Memories of Gerhard Riege . Memorial . Jena 1995.
  • Force, shape, memories. Contributions to the history of the FSU Jena in the first years after 1945 . Jena 2002.
  • Red-red ghosts in Thuringia. Democratic-socialist reform policy then and now . Jena 2004.
  • with Kurt Pätzold Small lexicon of historical keywords . Leipzig 2005.
  • with Kurt Pätzold: Keywords and battle calls , digital library , volume 143, digital publishing , Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-89853-843-5 .
  • Hopes, disappointments, new experiences. German university landscape in the "turning point". The example of the Friedrich Schiller University . Jena 2007.
  • November 1918. Social changes and future decisions . Jena 2009.

Articles in the scientific journal of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (social and linguistic series) (1960–1987)

Articles in the "Scientific Journal" of the University of Jena (1960–1987)
Essay title Issue row number Publishing year Year issue number Page numbers
From the first to the second world war. On some aspects of the counter-revolutionary and anti-Soviet policy of German imperialism and militarism 1917 / 18–1941 36 1987 2 Pp. 247-257
The "contemporary historical controversies" of Karl Dietrich Bracher - an anti-communist distorting mirror of the history and theory of fascism 28 1979 2 Pp. 291-303
Comments on some current lessons of the Marxist-Leninist alliance policy in the anti-fascist German resistance movement 1933 to 1945 25th 1976 4/5 Pp. 577-584
Comment on the analysis of fascism by the Communist International in the years 1922 to 1935 23 1974 6th Pp. 841-852
Humanistic commitment and active deed. On Heinrich Mann's struggle on the side of the KPD for the anti-fascist German popular front in the thirties 21st 1972 2 Pp. 321-330
On some current problems in the political and ideological confrontation with neo-Nazism and the legal cartel in the West German Federal Republic 20th 1971 6th Pp. 65-76
The 1918 November Revolution in Germany - Legacy and Lessons 19th 1970 2 Pp. 277-294
Continuity and change of the bourgeois parties in the conflict between imperialism and socialism 18th 1969 3 Pp. 25-44
Bourgeois parties and the November Revolution 17th 1968 4th Pp. 403-411
On the formation of extremely anti-communist organizations and the “anti-Bolshevik” propaganda in Germany during the first years after the Great October Socialist Revolution 16 1967 4th Pp. 491-500
The bourgeois parties and the political reaction in the Weimar Republic 14th 1965 2 Pp. 211-221
The first stage of the anti-fascist resistance struggle of the Communist Party of Germany in Thuringia (January 1933 to May 1933) 10 1960/61 4th Pp. 557-579

Articles in the journal "Jena Contributions to the History of Political Parties (JBP)" (1964–1986)

Articles in the journal "Jena Contributions to the History of Political Parties (JBP)" (1964–1986)
Essay title Issue row number Publishing year Page numbers
On the activities of the working group "History of the bourgeois parties in Germany from their beginnings to the present" 6th 1994 Pp. 80-89
First remarks on the function of political parties in the state monopoly system of rule 11 1965 Pp. 111-126 [1-10]
On the role and function of bourgeois parties and party systems under the conditions of the general crisis of capitalism 22nd 1968 Pp. 12-31
On the question of the party system and the leading bourgeois parties in the Weimar Republic 23 1968 Pp. 64-72
Methodological problems of an analysis of the relationship between the German social democracy and non-proletarian democratic forces 26-27 1970 Pp. 67-80
To research and portray the anti-fascist resistance struggle of non-proletarian democratic forces 1933–1945 28 1971 Pp. 66-82
Alliance policy and alliance partner of the revolutionary German labor movement. Comments on their development under the influence of the Great October Socialist Revolution and the Marxist-Leninist worldview up to the end of the Second World War 34-35 1973 Pp. 92-110
They fought and died, but they will never be forgotten (Thoughts on the 30th anniversary of the murder of Hans and Sophie Scholl on February 22, 1943) 36 1974 Pp. 4-27
Theses on the role and function of the NSDAP in the state monopoly system of rule of fascist German imperialism 37-38 1976 Pp. 1-39
Imperialist forms of rule and extremely reactionary organizations. Causes, possibilities, forms and limits of their influence on the working masses 42 1977 Pp. 5-39
On some problems of the anti-fascist resistance struggle of the KPD and the development tendencies in the mass base of fascist German imperialism 46 1984 Pp. 43-55
The nationalist-revanchist "German politics" in the history of German imperialism (theses) 48 1986 Pp. 6-28

literature

  • Michael Eckardt: Complete bibliography of the "Scientific Journal" of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (GS series) 1951–1990. Jena 2006, ISBN 3-935850-39-5 .
  • Michael Eckardt: Complete bibliography of the “Jena Contributions to Party History” (1963–1988) . In: Contributions to the history of the labor movement 49 (2007) 2, pp. 47–75.

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personal data
SURNAME Weißbecker, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Marxist historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Chemnitz