Ottokar Luban
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
- Ottokar Luban's website
- Works by Ottokar Luban in English on workerscontrol.net
- “Bread and Peace” - article by Ottokar Luban on the occasion of the 90th anniversary of the November Revolution in the Frankfurter Rundschau.
- Review by Ralf Hoffrogge of Ottokar Luban's “Rosa Luxemburg's Concept of Democracy”.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Biographical information from the Ottokar Luban website
- ↑ See the following review of Ottokar Luban's "Rosa Luxemburg's Concept of Democracy"
- ^ Frankfurter Rundschau, online edition from February 1, 2008.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Luban, Ottokar |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German historian and secretary of the international Rosa Luxemburg Society |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1937 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin-Kreuzberg |