Rudiger Zimmermann

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Rüdiger Wolfgang Zimmermann (born October 22, 1946 in Aalborg ) is a German historian and academic librarian . From 1996 to 2011 he was the head of the library of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Bonn .

Life

Rüdiger Zimmermann studied history, political science and geography at the Technical University of Darmstadt . As a scholarship holder of the Mitbestigung Foundation (forerunner of the Hans Böckler Foundation ) Zimmermann received his doctorate in 1976 from Arcadius Gurland with a thesis on the left-communist Lenin League . From 1975 Zimmermann was a trainee librarian at the University Library in Düsseldorf and at the Librarian Training Institute in Cologne. In 1977 he passed the assessor exam . In the same year he began his work as a specialist in the library of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung . From 1996 until his retirement in October 2011, Zimmermann was head of the library. In addition, from 1998 to 2006 Zimmermann was a reviewer for the German Research Foundation (DFG) in the field of scientific literature supply and information systems and from 1998 to 2011 a board member of the International Association of Labor History Institutions (IALHI). From 2009 to 2011 he was a member of the board of trustees of the Foundation Archive of Parties and Mass Organizations of the GDR in the Federal Archives (SAPMO).

Zimmermann is married, has three children and lives in Bonn.

Act

As a historian, Zimmermann has done research on the history of the social democratic trade union and labor movement in Germany , its institutions and important personalities as well as the history of the Dietz publishing house . In his function as a scientific librarian, Zimmermann not only devoted himself to indexing and securing the sources of the printed memory of the German social democracy and the German trade unions, but also tried to popularize them with numerous exhibitions and source editions. In addition, Zimmermann was a key promoter of the international collaboration between libraries and archives on the history of the labor movement within the framework of IALHI.

Works

Editor (selection)

  • He then announced that the house had been searched by the organs of the NSDAP. Minutes of the meetings of District 1 (NW) of the Association of Berlin Book Printers and Type Founders from June 7, 1932 to March 14, 1933. A source edition of the library of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung and the Karl-Richter-Verein eV, publications of the library of Friedrich -Ebert-Stiftung Vol. 22, Bonn 2011, ISBN 978-3-86872-747-0 , PDF file of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung.
  • Fight the swastika. Political graphics of the publishing house JHW Dietz Nachf. In the anti-fascist defensive fight. An exhibition of the library of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Historical Research Center of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Bonn 2007, ISBN 978-3-89892-850-2 , online gallery of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung.
  • God greet art! Illustrations and commemorative publications by the unionized printers, typesetters and unskilled workers; an exhibition of the library of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, the ver.di department of media, art and industry, Berlin-Brandenburg and the Karl-Richter-Verein eV, Historical Research Center of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Bonn 2006, ISBN 3- 89892-493-9 , PDF file from the Friedrich Ebert Foundation.

Author (selection)

  • Friedrich Rohde (1895-1970). Gdańsk MP, fisherman and socialist. Bonn 2020.
  • The international trade union resistance group of lithographers and lithographers against National Socialism. Johannes Hass, Jacob Roelofs, Heinrich Hansen. Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Bonn 2017, ISBN 978-3-95861-759-9 .
  • Thought leaders and strategists. The trade union press in the graphic arts industry and its editors since 1863. Metropol, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-86331-302-9 .
  • Emil Kloth (1864-1943). From Marxist union leader to avowed Nazi . Beb.ra, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-95410-050-7 .
  • The Neue Gesellschaft publishing house and its books 1954–1989. Horst Heidermann on his 80th birthday , JHW ​​Dietz Nachf., Bonn 2009, ISBN 978-3-8012-0395-5 .
  • Preserving the Printed Memory of the Labor Movement: The History of the Libraries of German Social Democracy. Publications of the library of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, 3rd edition, Bonn 2008, ISBN 978-3-89892-952-3 , PDF file of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung.
  • with Angela Graf and Horst Heidermann: Up to the light! 125 years of JHW Dietz Nachf. Its history and books 1881–2006. JHW Dietz Nachf., Bonn 2006, ISBN 978-3-8012-0374-0 , pdf files from the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung.
  • with Ilse Fischer: To put our longing into words. Eugen Prager (1876–1942). The life path of a social democratic journalist. Historical research center of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Bonn 2005, ISBN 3-89892-417-3 , PDF file of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung.
  • Irish Labor Movement and Its Lore: Using Digital Technology in Archives and Libraries. 34th IALHI Conference in Dublin. In: Announcements of the Sponsorship Group Archives and Libraries on the History of the Labor Movement 2004, pp. 18–21.
  • Berlin - Offenbach - Washington - Bonn (with detours). The Offenbach Archival Depot as a transit station for the union holdings of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung library. In: Library of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (ed.), Burned, robbed, saved! Book burnings in Germany. An exhibition of the library of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung on the occasion of the 70th anniversary, Library of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Vol. 13, Bonn 2003, ISBN 3-89892-141-7 , pp. 31-46, PDF file of Friedrich -Ebert Foundation.
  • Arkadij Gurland (1904–1979): Marxist theorist and publicist. In: Jürgen Schlimper (Ed.), "Of course - the Tauchaer Straße". Contributions to the history of the "Leipziger Volkszeitung", Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung Sachsen, Schkeuditz 1997, ISBN 3-932725-34-4 , pp. 299–322
  • 100 years of ÖTV. The history of a trade union and its predecessor organizations, 1896–1996. Vol. 2: Biographies. Edited by the ÖTV trade union. Union-Druckerei und Verlagsanstalt, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-922454-44-5 , electronic publication of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung.
  • with Hermann Rösch: Helmut Schmidt as parliamentarian. A directory of his speeches and contributions , library of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Bonn 1994, ISBN 3-86077-319-4
  • The Lenin League. Left Communists in the Weimar Republic , Droste, Düsseldorf 1978, ISBN 3-7700-5096-7 , ( Review by Hermann Weber in: Francia 7 (1979), pp. 886-888. )

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personal data
SURNAME Zimmermann, Rudiger
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zimmermann, Rudiger Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH October 22, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Aalborg