Martin Sabrow

Martin Sabrow (born April 6, 1954 in Kiel ) is a German historian . He is Director of the Leibniz Center for Contemporary History Research in Potsdam and Professor of Modern History and Contemporary History at the Humboldt University in Berlin .

Life

After graduating from the Hebbelschule in Kiel , Sabrow studied history , German and political science in Kiel and Marburg from 1972 to 1977 . He received his doctorate in 1993 from the University of Freiburg with an investigation into the murder of Walther Rathenau . In 2000 , he completed his habilitation with a paper on GDR history from 1949–1969. From 1994 he taught at various universities - including the Free University of Berlin , the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and the Technical University of Braunschweig , and as a visiting professor at the University of London and the University of Bologna . From 1996 to 2004 Sabrow was project division manager at the Leibniz Center for Contemporary History Research (ZZF). In December 2004 he was appointed director of the ZZF and professor for modern history and contemporary history at the University of Potsdam . In May 2009 he accepted an appointment at the Humboldt University in Berlin.

In the spring of 2005, Sabrow was appointed chairman of the commission of experts set up by the federal government, which was tasked with developing a concept for a decentrally organized historical network to come to terms with the SED dictatorship. The recommendations presented to the public on May 15, 2006 and discussed in a public hearing on June 6, 2006 sparked an intense debate about how to deal with the GDR's past in the future.

Awards

• 2017: Golo-Mann-Preis for historiography for Erich Honecker - Life before that

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

• The Rathenaumord. Reconstruction of a conspiracy against the Republic of Weimar . Oldenbourg, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-486-64569-2 (dissertation, University of Freiburg, 1992).
• The power of myth. Walther Rathenau in public memory. Six essays. Das Arsenal, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-931109-11-9 .
• The suppressed conspiracy. The Rathenau murder and the German counter-revolution . Fischer Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-596-14302-0 .
• Mr. and Hanswurst. The tragic fate of the court scholar Jacob Paul von Gundling . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart / Munich 2001, ISBN 3-421-05512-2 .
• The dictate of consensus. History in the GDR 1949–1969 . Oldenbourg, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-486-56559-1 (habilitation thesis, FU Berlin, 2000).
• The time of contemporary history. Wallstein, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8353-1035-3 .
• Erich Honecker. The life before. 1912-1945 . CH Beck, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-406-69809-5 .
• with Matthias Berg , Olaf Blaschke , Jens Thiel, Krijn Thijs: The assembled guild. Association of Historians and Historians' Days in Germany. 2 volumes. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2018, ISBN 3-8353-3294-5 .

Editing

• with Jörg Baberowski , Eckart Conze and Philipp Gassert : History is always present. Four theses on contemporary history . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart / Munich 2001, ISBN 3-421-05564-5 .
• Scandal and dictatorship. Forms of public outrage in the Nazi state and in the GDR . Wallstein, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89244-791-8 .
• with Rainer Eckert , Monika Flacke, Klaus-Dietmar Henke and Roland Jahn : Where are GDR memories drifting? Documentation of a debate . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 3-525-36299-4 ( review on H-Soz-u-Kult ).
• Places of remembrance of the GDR . Beck, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-59045-0 .
• 1989 and the role of violence . Wallstein, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8353-1059-9 .
• with Stefanie Eisenhuth and Hanno Hochmuth: Zeithistorische Forschungen 11 (2014), Issue 2: West Berlin .

Essays

• The town courtyard of the Cistercian monastery Salem in Constance from its foundation until the 15th century . In: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings , 94th year 1976, pp. 93–124 ( digitized version ).
• The German University under National Socialism . In: Christoph Cornelißen , Carsten Mish (ed.): Science at the limit. The University of Kiel under National Socialism. Klartext, Essen 2009, ISBN 978-3-8375-0240-4 (= communications from the Society for Kiel City History. Vol. 86), pp. 379–404.
• Caesuras in contemporary history , Version: 1.0. In: Docupedia-Zeitgeschichte , published on June 3, 2013.

Web links

• Literature by and about Martin Sabrow in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Martin Sabrow  in the German Digital Library
• Search for Martin Sabrow in the SPK digital portal of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation
• Martin Sabrow on the website of the Center for Contemporary History
• Short biography and reviews of works by Martin Sabrow at perlentaucher.de
• Martin Sabrow: After the Pyrrhic victory. Remarks on the contemporary history of history didactics. In: Contemporary historical research . Online edition, Vol. 2 (2005), Issue 2.
• Martin Sabrow: The GDR in the history of the 20th century . Introductory lecture to the conference of researchers on Germany “The GDR in the history of the 20th century”, Wittenberg, November 2007 (PDF file; 95 kB).

Remarks

1. ↑ See in particular Martin Sabrow et al. a. (Ed.): Where are GDR memories drifting? Documentation of a debate . 2007 as well as the material collection on the topic on contemporary history online .