Peter Rentsch (historian, November 1937)

This article deals with the contemporary historian Peter Rentsch. For the historian and museum director, see Peter Rentsch (Historiker, June 1937) .

Peter Rentsch (born November 12, 1937 in Lausa ; † January 11, 2008 in Sitzenroda ) was a German historian and university professor.

Life

After attending elementary and elementary school in Lausa, Peter Rentsch passed his Abitur at the secondary school in Torgau in 1955 . From 1956 to 1960 he studied at the Philosophical Faculty of the Karl Marx University in Leipzig.

In 1966, Peter Rentsch received his doctorate from the Karl Marx University in Leipzig with a dissertation on the strategy and tactics of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany and the German Democratic Republic in the struggle for a solution to the national question from 1949 to 1952 . In 1982 he successfully defended his dissertation B in Leipzig on the subject of the nation and the national-specific in the program and strategy of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany .

On September 1, 1983, he was appointed full professor for Scientific Communism at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig. With effect from January 15, 1991, he was recalled as a university professor.

He was involved as a board member in the Leisniger History and Local History Association and published, among other things, research results on the Buch monastery .

Works (selection)

• On the strategy and tactics of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany and the German Democratic Republic in the struggle for a solution to the national question from 1949 to 1952 , Leipzig, 1966
• On the social determination of today's moral requirements for internationalist patriotic behavior. In: International Symposium on Socialist Morals and Students, May 30 and 31, 1978 in Leipzig, Part 2. Leipzig, Karl Marx University, 1978, pp. 16-20.
• The nation and the national-specific in the program and strategy of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany , Leipzig 1982
• On the connection between the general and the national-specific in the strategy and tactics of Marxist-Leninist parties in shaping the developed socialist society . In: Ernstgert Kalbe (ed.): Socialist construction in Europe - results and experiences . (= Contributions from the scientific conference of the interdisciplinary working group Socialist World System on the 40th anniversary of liberation, Leipzig, May 15-17, 1985). Leipzig: Karl Marx University, 1986, pp. 247-251.

Awards

• 1962 and 1968 medals for excellent performance
• 1971 Artur Becker Medal in silver
• 1972 Bronze Pestalozzi Medal for Loyal Service
• 1980 Silver Pestalozzi Medal for loyal service

literature

• Lothar Mertens : Lexicon of the GDR historians. Biographies and bibliographies on the historians in the GDR , Munich, Saur Verlag, 2006, p. 503f.

Web links

• Entry in the university catalog of the University of Leipzig
• Literature by and about Peter Rentsch in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Peter Rentsch in the Saxon Bibliography