Peter Joachim Lapp

Peter Joachim Lapp (2019)

Peter Joachim Lapp (born October 22, 1941 in Elbing ) is a German political scientist and publicist . From 1977 to 1997 he was political editor at Deutschlandfunk and now works as a freelance writer.

Life

At the beginning of 1959, Lapp left the Federal Republic of Germany for the GDR at the age of 17 and lived there with his grandparents in Rudolstadt (Thuringia). In 1960 he was arrested as an alleged enemy of the state by the Ministry of State Security . From 1960 to 1964 Lapp was in political custody in the UHA Gera and then in Waldheim prison . In 1964 the government of the Federal Republic bought him free and made it possible for him to move to the Federal Republic of Germany. In 1965 Lapp was able to finish his commercial apprenticeship in Oldenburg and studied from 1966 to 1969 at the Hamburg Academy for Economics and Politics , a university of the second educational path. He then continued his studies at the University of Hamburg (political science, public law and sociology) and graduated in 1972 with a diploma in political science. He was then at Winfried Steffani and Hans-Peter Schwarz with a thesis on the People's Chamber of the GDR Dr. rer. pole. PhD.

From 1974 to 1976 he headed the adult education center in Papenburg (Ems) before joining Deutschlandfunk on January 1, 1977. In the 1970s he received teaching assignments at the University of Hamburg and at the University of Applied Sciences Emden and was honorary lecturer at the All-German Institute . In 1978 he became a founding member of the “Society for Research in Germany”. In 1982 Lapp supported the “Havemann Initiative” for the non-alignment of both parts of Germany and for solving the national question. In 1985 he was one of the signatories of the memorandum "Peace Treaty - German Confederation - European Security System" by Herbert Ammon and Theodor Schweisfurth . In the 1980s, Lapp was a member of the "Left Germany Discussion" (LDD) and the self-help association of former GDR citizens . During his 20 years at Deutschlandfunk, he also held a ten-year teaching position at the University of Cologne . In the 1990s he wrote expert reports for the Bundestag Enquete Commission “Coming to terms with the history and consequences of the SED dictatorship in Germany” (National People's Army and bloc parties) and took part as an expert in election fraud trials in the new federal states, including the proceedings against Hans Modrow in Dresden. He is a member of the Association of Victims of Stalinism (VOS).

Works

• The Council of State in the Political System of the GDR (1960–1971) , Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1972
• The People's Chamber of the GDR , Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1975
• The Council of Ministers of the GDR , Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1982
• Elections in the GDR , Gebr. Holzapfel, Berlin (West) 1982
• The People's Navy of the GDR (together with Siegfried Breyer), Bernard & Graefe, Koblenz 1985
• Front service in peace - The border troops of the GDR , 2nd edition, Bernard & Graefe, Bonn 1987
• Maintaining tradition in the GDR , Gebr. Holzapfel, Berlin (West) 1988
• The 'friendly parties' of the SED. GDR block parties today , Verlag Wissenschaft und Politik, Cologne 1988
• Sale. The end of the bloc parties. With a foreword by Lothar de Maizière , edition ost, Berlin 1998
• Combat service in peace. The border regime of the GDR 1945–1990 , Bernard & Graefe, Bonn 1999, ISBN 3-7637-5992-1 .
• Transit West Berlin. Experiences in between (together with Friedrich Christian Delius ). With a foreword by Egon Bahr, 2nd edition, Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-86153-198-4 .
• Ulbricht's helper. Wehrmacht officers in the service of the GDR , Bernard & Graefe, Bonn 2000, ISBN 3-7637-6209-4 .
• General with Hitler and Ulbricht. Vincenz Müller - A German Career , Links, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-86153-286-7 (about 2003 WDR-FS-Film; Editor: Heribert Schwan )
• Georg Dertinger. Journalist - Foreign Minister - Public Enemy , Herder, Freiburg 2005, ISBN 3-451-23007-0 .
• The border. A German building (together with Jürgen Ritter). With a foreword by Rainer Eppelmann and a contribution by Ulrich Schacht. 9th edition, Links, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-86153-560-7 .
• Erich Mielke's guard - the military-operational arm of the MfS. The Berlin Guard Regiment "Feliks Dzierzynski". (Together with Hagen Koch ). Helios, Aachen 2008, ISBN 978-3-938208-72-4 .
• Students in uniform. The cadets of the National People's Army . Helios, Aachen 2009, ISBN 978-3-86933-003-7 .
• From the time of the German division. An east-west biography . Helios, Aachen 2009, ISBN 978-3-938208-98-4 .
• The second chance. Wehrmacht officers in the service of Ulbricht . Helios, Aachen 2010, ISBN 978-3-86933-023-5 .
• The Wall - A Border Through Germany , ed. from the LZ for political education Thuringia, 2nd edition, Erfurt 2016, ISBN 978-3-943588-82-8
• Gerald Götting. CDU chief in the GDR. A political biography , Helios, Aachen 2011, ISBN 978-3-86933-051-8 .
• Border regime of the GDR . Helios, Aachen 2013, ISBN 978-3-86933-087-7 .
• Germany without borders. Pictures of the German-German border. Then and now (together with Jürgen Ritter). Preface by Rainer Eppelmann, 3rd edition, Links, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-86153-774-8 .
• Officers' college "Rosa Luxemburg". Kaderschmiede of the GDR border troops , Helios, Aachen 2014, ISBN 978-3-86933-113-3 .
• Runways of the class enemy. The GDR surveillance of the Berlin transit 1949–1990 , Helios, Aachen 2015, ISBN 978-3-86933-136-2 .
• The Dresden trials against Hans Modrow for “inciting electoral fraud” p. 67ff in Andreas Heyer: Discussing about the GDR. Festschrift for the 75th birthday of Siegfried Prokop , Volume 1, Norderstedt BoD, 2015, ISBN 978-3-7392-1172-5 . Cover, 2015
• Battle and fall of the 17th Army in World War II. Military-historical sketch of a large association of the Wehrmacht on the Eastern Front, Helios, Aachen 2016, ISBN 978-3-86933-154-6
• Coastal Border Brigade. GDR border security at sea, Helios, Aachen 2017, ISBN 978-3-86933-182-9
• Society for Sport and Technology - School of the soldiers of tomorrow. Military-political study of a GDR defense organization, Helios, Aachen 2018, ISBN 978-3-86933-226-0
• The GDR in 1961, ed. from the LZ for Political Education Thuringia, Erfurt 2019, ISBN 978-3-946939-64-1
• Hitler's NS leadership officers 1944/45. The last propagandists of the final victory, Helios, Aachen 2019, ISBN 978-3-86933-238-3
• Prison years. Prisoner in the GDR. A contemporary witness report. Published by the Association of Victims of Stalinism, first minute taschenbuchverlag Alexander Richter, Berlin / Emsdetten 2019, ISBN 978-3-932805-81-3
• Working group of former officers. GDR propaganda against the Bundeswehr, Helios, Aachen 2020, ISBN 978-3-86933-251-2

literature

Hans-Eberhard Zahn : Prison conditions and production of confessions in the GDR . Series of publications by the Berlin State Commissioner for the Documents of the State Security Service of the former GDR, Volume 5. Berlin 1997, ISBN 978-3-934085-01-5 . (Many more editions). Online here Volume 5, pdf, 223.9 kB

Web links

• Literature by and about Peter Joachim Lapp in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website by Peter Joachim Lapp