Martin Menzel

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Martin Menzel (born January 11, 1932 in Seifersbach ; † November 18, 2017 ) was a German historian .

Life

He was the son of the shunting worker Karl Menzel and the farm worker Elsa Menzel nee Leiteritz. After attending elementary schools in Altmittweida and Erlau (Saxony) , he went to secondary school in Mittweida, where he graduated from high school in 1950. He then received a place at the Karl Marx University of Leipzig (KMU), where he studied history at the pedagogical faculty. In 1953 he passed the state examination as a middle school teacher. He then became a research assistant at the Institute for Marxism-Leninism of SMEs. His appointment as senior assistant with teaching assignment took place in 1958. The focus of his research was the history of the German labor movement and scientific socialism.

After 1963, the Facultas Docendi had taken, he was in January 1964 when Lothar Mosler at the Faculty of SMEs to Dr. phil. PhD. The topic of his dissertation is: The support of the foreign policy of German imperialism by the leadership of the SPD in the years 1925-1926 . In the following year Martin Menzel became a lecturer for the history of the German labor movement and scientific socialism at the Institute for Marxism-Leninism of the SMEs. From 1964 to 1969 he was deputy director of the Institute for Marxism-Leninism.

In 1970 he received the professorship for Scientific Socialism and History of the German Labor Movement at the Marxism-Leninism section of the SMEs. After 17 years of teaching as a professor, he presented his doctorate B in 1987 , which thematically built on his dissertation. The topic was: The Reichstag faction of the SPD in the III. Election period (December 1924 – March 1928) and its work between bourgeois coalition politics and the advocacy of the working people.

During the time of political change in the GDR he was secretary of the basic SED organization of the Marxism-Leninism section. At the age of 59, he retired early in September 1991 after having become Professor of German History from 1918 a few years earlier.

Fonts (selection)

  • On the position of the SPD parliamentary group in the Reichstag in 1931 . In: Workers' Movement and Parliamentarism, Issue 12, Halle / Saale: Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Dept. of Science Journalism, 1984.
  • On the presentation of the politics of the social democratic parliamentary group in the bourgeois and social democratic historiography . In: Hallesche Studien zur Geschichte der Sozialdemokratie, Issue 13, Halle / Saale: Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Dept. Science Journalism, 1985, pp. 46–53.
  • Review "Saxony - then and now" . In the reprint of the 3rd edition of the publication by Karl Jakob and Max Wagner: Our fatherland Saxony in map and picture , Leipzig, Sachsenbuch, 1990 and 1991.

Honors (selection)

  • Badge of Honor for SMEs
  • Medal for excellent performance
  • Pestalozzi Medal (all levels)

literature

  • Manfred Hötzel (ed.): The Left and the Traditions of Social Democracy. Research on the history of social democracy in Leipzig. (= Texts on political education. Issue 40), pp. 208–209.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice , in: Leipziger Volkszeitung from December 2, 2017.
  2. ↑ Information in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig
personal data
SURNAME Menzel, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 11, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Seifersbach
DATE OF DEATH 18th November 2017