Rolf Rudolph

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Rolf Rudolph (born April 21, 1930 in Zwickau ; † January 12, 1963 ) was a German historian. He belonged to the second generation of historians in the GDR who tried to implement the SED's claim to the historical sciences, to convey a Marxist-Leninist view of history and to contribute to national awareness.

Rudolph became a member of the FDJ in 1946 and joined the SED in April 1946. He completed a corresponding training course in the summer of 1948 and became a new teacher . In the same year he also attended a SED district party school. From the winter semester of 1948 he studied history, philosophy and German at the University of Jena . In 1950 he attended the SED state party school in Saxony and moved his place of study to the University of Leipzig . There he worked from autumn 1951 as an assistant at the Institute for German History under Ernst Engelberg . Rudolph was also secretary of the SED basic organization and the FDJ basic organization in the field of history in Leipzig. From 1951 to 1953 he worked as a lecturer in history at the workers and farmers faculty at the University of Leipzig.

Rudolph graduated as a historian in 1952. In 1953 he received a scheduled scientific aspirant and was from 1954 to 1957 as a research assistant and lecturer at the Institute for German History at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig. From 1956 he worked as a guest lecturer at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and at the Institute for Social Sciences at the Central Committee of the SED in East Berlin . From 1956 to 1958 he was also secretary of the SED party organizations at the historical institutes of Leipzig University. From 1957 he was a member of the editorial board of the Zeitschrift für Geschichtswwissenschaft . In 1961 he took over the editor-in-chief of the magazine. From 1958 to 1963 he was also secretary of the executive committee of the German Historical Society . He died after a long and serious illness. His dissertation on the character of the Brüning -Regierung and the united front policy of the KPD remained unfinished.

Fonts

  • with Ernst Engelberg: On the history of the German Democratic Republic. In: Historical research in the GDR: analyzes and reports; to the XI. International Congress of Historians in Stockholm, August 1960. 1960, pp. 7–21.
  • 11th International Congress of Historians in Stockholm. In: Journal for Historical Science <Berlin>: ZfG. 8, No. 8 1960, pp. 1789-1810.
  • et al .: On the history of colonialism and national liberation. Rütten and Loening, Berlin 1961.
  • with Ernst Engelberg: Contributions to the national history of the German working class. Rütten & Loening, Berlin 1962.

literature

  • Lothar Mertens : Lexicon of the GDR historians. Biographies and bibliographies on the historians from the German Democratic Republic . KG Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-11673-X . .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk: Legitimation of a new state. Party workers on the historical front: History in the Soviet Zone / GDR 1945 to 1961. 1st edition. Links, Berlin 1997, ISBN 978-3861531302 , pp. 184-193; Peter Segl: Medieval research in the history of the GDR. In: Alexander Fischer (ed.). History in the GDR. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3428065603 ( series of publications by the Society for Research in Germany . 25), p. 106.
personal data
SURNAME Rudolph, Rolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Zwickau
DATE OF DEATH January 12, 1963