East Academy
The East Academy Lüneburg is one of the then President of the North-East German culture plant (NOKW), founded in 1949 on October 31, 1951 Max Hildebert Boehm as Northeast German Academy in Luneburg founded Academy .
history
The Northeast German Academy was officially opened on September 8, 1952, and around 40 participants from nine countries took part in the first course. The North East German Academy (NOA) served the East research . It was supported by the state, including the Federal Ministry for Internal German Relations and the Federal Ministry for Expellees, Refugees and War Victims . In October 1954 the name was changed to East German Academy and from 1962 to East Academy and from 1965 to East Academy - Institute for All-German Studies (later also: Academy for East-West Cooperation - East Academy Lüneburg eV - Institute for East West questions at the University of Lüneburg ). From 1953 on, the historian Hanns von Krannhals was a lecturer in contemporary history of Eastern Europe at the academy. From 1963 as a registered association and member of the Working Group of German Educational Institutions (AdB) founded in 1959 . In 1961 Karl-Heinz Gehrmann took over the management of the academy. From 1963 to 2005, the Ostakademie published the quarterly journal Deutsche Studien as an educational institute . The sociologist Walter Hildebrandt was from 1963 a member of the executive committee of the Ost-Akademie and co-founder and co-editor of Deutsche Studien .
For the Ministry for State Security (Stasi) of the German Democratic Republic , the East Academy was an institution with hostile activity against the GDR . In May 1982 a process for enemy object (FO) lichen was created for this purpose . Unofficial employees collected information about the structure, tasks and employees of the facility, among other things.
In 1995 the Ost-Akademie was described in a definition by the federal government in a printed matter by the German Bundestag : “The Ost-Akademie Lüneburg e. V. is an institution of scientifically oriented political education. Her work focuses on aspects of the German question in the 20th century, in particular on history, politics, society and culture. The focus is on Germany's relations with its East-Central and Eastern European neighbors. "
The East Academy belonged to the University of Lüneburg as a private institute. The director was the historian Bernhard Schalhorn (* 1939), editor-in-chief of the journal Deutsche Studien. The historian Gerhard Doliesen (* 1946) was the deputy director. Another employee was Adalbert R. Lewandowski.
In 2004 the University of Lüneburg drastically reduced the funds for the academy. The building on Herderstrasse was sold and converted into a student residence. The academy should continue to exist.
literature
- Bernhard Schalhorn: The East Academy and the Carl Schirren Society . In: Yearbook of the Baltic Germans , ISSN 0075-2436 , vol. 44 (1996), pp. 173-179.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ German Bundestag Printed Matter 13/1630 of 6 June 1995 .
- ^ Carsten Tessmer: The Willy Brandt picture in Poland . Foreword p. 11. [1] . Series of publications of the Willy-Brandtstiftung Heft 6, Berlin 2000. In 2013, Schalhorn was no longer in office. Archived copy ( Memento of the original from April 12, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. viewed in 2015.
- ↑ http://www.nrw.vvn-bda.de/hma/an_2004_05.htm
