Peter Maser

Peter Maser (born August 3, 1943 in Berlin ) is a German Protestant church historian . He is committed to coming to terms with the SED dictatorship.

Life

After attending the Pforta state school , Maser studied Protestant theology at the University of Halle from 1962 until his diploma in 1968 . From 1969 to 1976 he was a research assistant to Konrad Onasch in Halle and received his doctorate there in 1971. He lost his job in 1976 because he had applied for an exit visa . After moving to the Federal Republic of Germany , from 1977 he was a research assistant at the EKD Church Office in Hanover and a lecturer at the University of Münster . There he received his habilitation in church history in 1988 . In 1993 he was appointed adjunct professor for church history and Christian archeology. From 2001 he was director of the Eastern Churches Institute and head of the department for Christian archeology and the history of church art in the Protestant theological faculty of the University of Münster. In 2008 he retired.

From 1992 to 1994 he was a theological consultant in the secretariat of the German Bundestag's Enquete Commission “ Coming to terms with the history and consequences of the SED dictatorship in Germany”, and from 1995 to 1998 he was an expert member of the German Bundestag's Enquete Commission “Overcoming the Consequences of the SED -Dictatorship in the process of German unity ". Since 1998 he has been a member of the board of trustees of the Foundation Archives of the parties and mass organizations of the former GDR in the Federal Archives , since 1999 chairman of the scientific advisory board of the Federal Foundation for the Study of the SED dictatorship , since 2013 chairman of the scientific advisory board of the Ettersberg Foundation and member of the scientific advisory board of Luther decade. In June 1998 he received the Order of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany .

Since 1995 Maser has been co-editor of the international half-yearly publication Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte .

Publications

On the creation of the crucifixion picture. Halle 1971 (dissertation).
Hans Ernst von Kottwitz. Studies on the awakening movement of the early 19th century in Silesia and Berlin. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1990, ISBN 3-525-56439-2 ( habilitation thesis ).
"Advising Poverty". The social work of Baron Hans Ernst von Kottwitz between the Enlightenment and the awakening movement in Berlin and Silesia . Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1991, ISBN 3-631-43679-3 .
Churches and religious communities in the GDR 1949−1989. A review of forty years in data, facts and opinions . Christian publishing house, Konstanz 1992, ISBN 3-7673-7641-5 .
On the way to German unity: Comments on the new Enquete Commission of the German Bundestag (PDF; 330 kB) overcoming injustice - SED dictatorship and resistance , 1996
Facets of Judaism. Selected essays on the encounter between Christians and Jews and on Jewish history and art . Verlag Traugott Bautz, Nordhausen 2009, ISBN 978-3-88309-535-6 ( table of contents ).
Never fully integrated into the regime: churches in the GDR . State Center for Political Education, Erfurt 2013, ISBN 978-3-943588-10-1 .
"Everything in butter with Luther?" The Luther year 1983 in the mirror of selected files. Metropol, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-86331-158-2 .

literature

Christian-Erdmann Schott (Ed.): Live within limits - overcome limits: On the church history of the 20th century in East-Central Europe. Festschrift for Peter Maser on his 65th birthday. Lit, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-8258-1265-2 (with a list of writings by Peter Maser on pp. 297-309).

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personal data
SURNAME	Maser, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Protestant church historian
DATE OF BIRTH	August 3, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin