Rüdiger Bergien

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Rüdiger Bergien (* 1977 in Bad Karlshafen ) is a German historian and professor for the history of intelligence (Intelligence History) at the intelligence department of the Federal University of Public Administration .

Life

Bergien studied history and German literature from 1997 to 2003 at the Georg-August University in Göttingen , the Distance University in Hagen and the Free University of Berlin . In 2005 he became a research assistant for the chair of military history at the University of Potsdam ; In 2006 he was a visiting lecturer at the University of Chicago ( Illinois , USA). In 2008 he was with Bernhard R. Kroener with the dissertation Die Bellizistische Republik. Military consensus and "military detention" in Germany 1918–1933 for Dr. phil. PhD. From 2009 to 2019 he was a research associate at the Center for Contemporary History Research (ZZF) in Potsdam, where he worked on the project "The apparatus of the Central Committee of the SED as the government center of the GDR, 1961–1989" until 2014. Since 2014 he has been researching a. a. on the topic of computer introduction and information processing in secret intelligence services and police authorities. In 2017 he completed his habilitation at the Professorship for Modern and Contemporary History ( Martin Sabrow ) at the Institute for Historical Studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin for the subject of Modern and Contemporary History.

His main research interests are German military history, the history of the GDR and communism, and the history of the secret intelligence services. Articles published u. a. in Journal of Contemporary History , Central European History , Quarterly Issues for Contemporary History , History in Science and Education , Journal of History and Military History .

reception

Bergien's dissertation from 2008 was widely discussed. The reviewer wrote in Die Welt : “Bergien's thesis of the cross-camp consensus is convincing. This book shows the potential of an extended military history. ”The Mannheim historian Gottfried Niedhart ( Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ) criticized:“ As impressive as the findings are, there is still reason to doubt Bergien's deterministic interpretation of social and state development. ”His habilitation thesis was also published in many places reviewed. A FAZ reviewer expressed doubts about Bergien's thesis that the central SED apparatus had adapted over the decades to the state and society of the GDR and had lost its original role as a strictly ideological body to enforce power. Nonetheless, no one who deals with the SED and its apparatus will [...] be able to bypass reading the work ".

Awards

Rüdiger Bergien's dissertation was awarded the Werner Hahlweg Prize for Military History and Defense Sciences (2nd prize) in 2010 .

2018 he was awarded for his book "The General Staff of the party" the Carl Erdmann Award for the Association of Historians of Germany (VHD) and the Translation Prize Humanities International of the Booksellers Association of the German Book Trade .

Fonts (selection)

  • Programming with the class enemy. The Stasi, Siemens and the transfer of IT knowledge in the Cold War, in Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte 67 (2019), 1, pp. 1–30
  • with Jens Gieseke (Ed.): Communist Parties Revisited. Socio-Cultural Approaches to Party Rule in the Soviet Bloc 1956-1991. Berghahn, New York 2018.
  • “Big Data” as a vision. Introduction of computers and organizational change in the BKA and State Security (1967–1989). In: Contemporary historical research . 14, 2017, pp. 258-285.
  • In the "General Staff of the Party". Organizational culture and rulership practice in the SED headquarters 1946–1989. Ch.links, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-86153-932-2 . (plus habilitation)
  • The silence of the cadres. Former National Socialists in the central SED party apparatus - an investigation. In: Birte Kundrus, Sybille Steinbacher (ed.): Continuities and discontinuities. National Socialism in the History of the 20th Century (= Contributions to the History of National Socialism . Volume 29). Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-8353-1302-6 , pp. 134–153.
  • Activating the 'Apparatchik.' Brigade Deployment in the SED Central Committee and Performative Communist Party Rule, in: Journal of Contemporary History 47 (2012), 4, 793-811
  • The bellicist republic. Defense consensus and "military detention" in Germany 1918–1933 (= Ordnungssysteme . Volume 35). Oldenbourg, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-486-59181-1 . (also dissertation)
  • Prelude to the "War of Extermination"? The Eastern Front of World War I and the problem of continuity. In: Gerhard P. Groß (ed.): The forgotten front - the east 1914/15. Event, effect, aftermath (= age of world wars . Volume 1). Schöningh, Paderborn 2006, ISBN 3-506-75655-9 , pp. 393-408.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Personal website on the HS Bund website. Retrieved December 11, 2019 .
  2. ^ Rüdiger Bergien: The bellicist republic. 2012, p. 9.
  3. ↑ Computerization and knowledge production in East and West German security authorities, 1960–1990. December 13, 2017. Retrieved April 19, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Directory of persons: Rüdiger Bergien , uni-potsdam.dem, accessed on June 18, 2017.
  5. ^ Rüdiger Bergien qualified as a professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin . In: Center for Contemporary History Research Potsdam . March 16, 2017 ( zzf-potsdam.de [accessed March 17, 2017]).
  6. ^ Daniel Siemens: Against the myth of the defenseless republic (review). In: The world . July 21, 2012.
  7. ↑ Gottfried Niedhart: Bergien, Rüdiger: The Belliziste Republic (review). In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . No. 175, July 30, 2012, p. 6.
  8. ↑ Petra Weber: Relationship between the SED and the state: the secretary usually knows more. . . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed April 19, 2019]).
  9. ^ Rüdiger Bergien was awarded the Carl Erdmann Prize. Retrieved April 19, 2019 .
  10. ^ Humanities International / Special Prize for Fabian Krämer's research history. Retrieved April 19, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Bergien, Rudiger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German military historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Karlshafen