Ottokar Luban

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Ottokar Luban (* 1937 in Berlin-Kreuzberg ) is a German historian and secretary of the international Rosa Luxemburg Society.

Ottokar Luban studied history at the Pädagogische Hochschule (PH) Berlin-Lankwitz between 1956 and 1960 ; he financed his studies by working at the same time as a post office worker. From 1960 he worked as a history teacher in Berlin-Wedding , from 1966 to 1968 he completed an additional course in special education at the PH Berlin-Lankwitz. He then worked as a special school teacher at schools in Berlin-Wedding and Berlin-Tempelhof .

From 1969 to 1971 he completed part-time studies at the Free University of Berlin in the subjects of modern history, political science and education.

In addition to his work as a teacher, Luban has devoted himself to researching the history of the labor movement , in particular the November Revolution and the work of the Spartacus group, since the 1970s . In numerous essays published in German and English, he repeatedly devoted himself to the biography of Rosa Luxemburg . Together with the Luxembourg biographer Annelies Laschitza , Luban is now considered the greatest connoisseur of Luxembourg biography, and for several years he has also been the secretary of the International Rosa Luxemburg Society .

Ottokar Luban is a member of the historical commission of the Berlin SPD .

Works (selection)

Books

  • Rosa Luxemburg's concept of democracy. Her criticism of Lenin and her political work 1913-1919 , Rosa Luxemburg Research Reports, no.6, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Saxony, Leipzig 2008
  • The perplexed Rosa: The KPD leadership in the Berlin January uprising in 1919. Legend and reality. Supplement 1 on socialism (journal) , Hamburg 2001 ISBN 387975960X

editor

  • with Nahiriko Ito and Annelies Laschitza, eds .: Rosa Luxemburg. Economic and historical-political aspects of your work . International Rosa Luxemburg Society in Tokyo, April 2007, and Berlin January 2009; Berlin 2010

Articles (chronological, selection)

  • The Role of the Spartacist Group after 9 November 1918 and the Formation of the KPD , in: Ralf Hoffrogge and Norman LaPorte (eds.): Weimar Communism as Mass Movement 1918-1933 , Lawrence & Wishart, London 2017, pp. 45–65 .
  • The struggle of the Berlin SPD base in the first year of the war against the war loan approval , in: Year Book for Research on the History of the Labor Movement , Issue II / 2014.
  • The Spartacus leader Hugo Eberlein and the brief sovereignty in Berlin-Mariendorf. Notes on an unpublished speech by Eberlein from November 19, 1918 , in: Jahrbuch für Historische Kommunismusforschung 2011, pp. 311–322.
  • Rosi Wolfstein's anti-militarist activities 1916/17: New sources , in: Bulletin of the Institute for Social Movements at the Ruhr University Bochum , No. 44, 2010
  • The October 1918 conference of the Spartacus group. New research results , in: Ulla Plener (Ed.): The November Revolution 1918/19 in Germany. For bourgeois and socialist democracy. General, regional and biographical aspects. Contributions to the 90th anniversary of the revolution, Berlin 2009, pp. 68–78.
  • The 1918 November Revolution in Berlin. A necessary revision of the previous image of history , in: Year Book for Research on the History of the Labor Movement , Issue I / 2009, pp. 55–78.
  • Russian Bolsheviks and German Left Socialists on the eve of the German November Revolution. Relationships and influence , in: Yearbook for historical communism research 2009, pp. 283–298.
  • Mathilde Jacob : More than Rosa Luxemburg's secretary. With the text of M. Jacobs' only public speech , in: Jahrbuch für Forschungen zur Geschichte der Arbeiterbew Movement , No. 3, 2002, pp. 110–128.
  • Rosa Luxemburg - Democratic Socialist or Bolshevik? in: Yearbook for Historical Research on Communism, 2000/2001, pp. 409-420.
  • The "inner need to be able to help". On the role of Mathilde Jacobs as assistant to the Spartakusführung or the KPD headquarters , in: IWK , vol. 29, 1993, no. 4, pp. 421-470.
  • The effects of the Jena Youth Conference in 1916 and the relationships between the headquarters of the revolutionary working-class youth and the leadership of the Spartacus group , in: Archive for Social History , 11, 1971, pp. 185-223.
  • Rosa Luxemburg, Spartacus and the masses. Four examples of the tactics of the Spartakusgruppe or the Spartakusbund , presentation at the 8th conference of the International Rosa Luxemburg Society in September 1996 in Warsaw, in: Theodor Bergmann , Wolfgang Haible Ed .: Reform, Demokratie, Revolution. On the topicality of R. Luxemburg. Supplement to socialism (journal) , 5, Hamburg 1997 ISBN 3879759219 , pp. 11-27.
  • The agitation for peace and democracy by the left-wing socialists Carl Minster and Wilhelm Pieck who deserted to Holland in World War I and their collaboration with the French secret service . In: Communications sponsorship group archives and libraries on the history of the labor movement . No. 57 (March 2020), pp. 38–40. ISSN  1869-3709

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biographical information from the Ottokar Luban website
  2. ↑ See the following review of Ottokar Luban's "Rosa Luxemburg's Concept of Democracy"
  3. ^ Frankfurter Rundschau, online edition from February 1, 2008.
personal data
SURNAME Luban, Ottokar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and secretary of the international Rosa Luxemburg Society
DATE OF BIRTH 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin-Kreuzberg