Maria Anders (historian)

Maria Anders (born November 9, 1926 in Cologne , † February 9, 1997 in Apolda ) was a German historian .

Life

Maria Anders was as Maria Rockenfelder born on November 9, 1926 in Cologne, and from 1933 to 1941 at the primary school foreshadowed ibid. When Cologne was bombed out in 1943 , Anders was evacuated to Jannowitz . The next year she started a two-year apprenticeship as a clerk in Bautzen . In 1946 she was finally hired there as an office assistant, two years later as an employee in the Bautzen district office of the German People's Police and from 1950 to 1952 she attended the agricultural faculty of the University of Leipzig . In 1952, she finally began a four-year history course at the university. She then worked for five years as a research assistant at the Franz-Mehring-Institut and, from 1961, for four years at the historical institute of Leipzig University. To the doctor phil. She received her doctorate in 1965 and for the next two years she was the director of the history of the USSR at the same institute. At the same time, she was hired again to work at the historical institute, where she stayed a year longer, until 1968, when she started teaching history in that year . In 1977 she received her doctorate in history as well as an extraordinary history professor in Leipzig.

Moreover, joined Anders 1941 the German Bund girl when, resigned two years later, however, in 1945 she became a member of the Free German Trade Union Federation , three years later the Free German Youth , the following year, 1949, she joined the Society for German-Soviet Friendship at and in 1952 the Socialist Unity Party of Germany . She also received several awards: in 1967 Anders was awarded the badge of honor from the University of Leipzig, four years later the silver badge of honor from the Society for German-Soviet Friendship, in 1973 the bronze Pestalozzi Medal for loyal service and in 1977 the golden badge of honor from the Society for German-Soviet Soviet friendship.

She died on February 9, 1997 in Apolda at the age of 70.

Works

• The peace movement on the eve of the Second World War (1935–1939). Leipzig 1965 (dissertation, University of Leipzig, 1965).
• Lenin and the Communist International. Leipzig 1973.
• The Policy of the Communist International on War and Peace (1933–1943). 1977 ( Dissertation B , University of Leipzig, 1977).

Web links

• Literature by and about Maria Anders in the catalog of the German National Library
• Maria Anders in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig
• Maria Anders, professors at the University of Leipzig 1945–1993 , accessed on November 15, 2017