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Reiner Zilkenat (born May 20, 1950 - February 26, 2020 in Berlin ) was a German historian .

Life

Reiner Zilkenat studied history and political science at the Free University of Berlin from 1970 to 1976 . In 1981, together with Peter Brandt , he published an accompanying source volume on the social history of Prussia ("Preußen-Lesebuch") as part of the much-discussed West Berlin exhibition Prussia - An Attempt at a Balance Sheet . He was a member of the Socialist Unity Party of West Berlin and an employee of its theory magazine Konsequent . Zilkenat received his doctorate in 1989 at the Academy for Social Sciences at the Central Committee of the SED in East Berlin with a thesis on the Berlin metal workers' strike in 1930.

His research focused on the history of the German labor movement as well as the final phase of the Weimar Republic and the rise of the NSDAP . From 2001 onwards, Zilkenat was the editor of the “circular of the Federal Working Group on Right-Wing Extremism / Antifascism on the board of the Left Party ”. He was a member of the Archives and Libraries Association for the History of the Labor Movement and was its chairman from 2011 to 2018.

Zilkenat was one of the regular authors of the Marxist-oriented media RotFuchs , Z. Magazine for Marxist Renewal and Young World .

Publications (selection)

Monographs

  • Prussia, on the social history of a state. A representation in sources. Hamburg 1981
  • The Berlin metalworkers strike in 1930 and the founding of the Union of Metalworkers in Berlin (EVMB). Berlin (GDR) 1989

Editorships

  • Germany in the 20th century: from the estate of Rolf Richter. Reiner Zilkenat (Ed.), Berlin 2007
  • Anti-Semitism and anti-democracy in Germany in the 20th century . Berlin 2011
  • Civil War Army. Research on the National Socialist Sturmabteilung (SA). Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2013, together with Yves Müller, ISBN 978-3-631-63130-0 .
  • Henryk Skrzypczak: When it was “about the whole thing”. Trade unions between revolution and surrender. 1918-1933 . edition bodoni, Neuruppin 2014, together with Marga Voigt
  • "... All power to the councils!" The German Revolution 1918/19 and its councils. Neuruppin 2018
  • Germany twice. Social policy in two German states - challenges, similarities, separate ways. Conference volume on a German political public symposium on November 4, 2019 in Berlin-Marzahn . edition bodoni, Neuruppin 2020, together with Stefan Bollinger

literature

  • Günter Benser , Holger Czitrich-Stahl : Dr. Reiner Zilkenat (May 20, 1950 - February 26, 2020). A historian and anti-fascist heart and soul has passed away. In: Communications sponsorship group archives and libraries on the history of the labor movement . No. 57 (March 2020), pp. 46–47. ISSN  1869-3709

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.jungewelt.de/artikel/373576.nachruf-immer-an-bord.html
  2. ^ Olav Teichert: The Socialist Unity Party of West Berlin. Investigation of the control of SEW by the SED . (PDF; 9.3 MB) Kassel 2011, ISBN 978-3-89958-994-8 (Zugl .: Kassel, Univ., Diss., 2010), p. 18.
  3. ↑ Horst Helas: Laudation. In: Europe in the "interwar period" of the 20th century. Festschrift for the 60th birthday of Dr. Pure cilkenat. Berlin 2011, pp. 9–13.
  4. ↑ Always on board. Anti-fascists with body and soul. On the death of the communist historian Reiner Zilkenat, in: Junge Welt, March 29, 2020, p. 11.
personal data
SURNAME Zilkenat, Reiner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1950
DATE OF DEATH February 26, 2020
Place of death Berlin