Siegfried Jenkner

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Siegfried Jenkner (born November 14, 1930 in Frankfurt am Main ; † June 20, 2018 in Hanover ) was a German political scientist and professor emeritus at the University of Hanover . In 1951 he was sentenced to a prison term in the Gulag as a GDR opposition member .

Life

After graduating from the Leibniz School in Leipzig , Jenkner began studying in 1949 at the cultural policy department of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Leipzig . There he joined the opposition Belter group . In October 1950, he was arrested along with the other members of the group and handed over to the Soviet military authorities. In January 1951, his trial took place in the Soviet military court in Dresden . He was found guilty of anti-Soviet agitation, illegal group formation and - because of his contacts with RIAS University Radio - of political espionage and was sentenced to twice 25 years of forced labor.

He served his sentence in the Soviet Union, first in the Vorkuta labor camp and from spring 1955 in the DubrawLag camp in the Mordovian Potma. In October 1955 he was given an amnesty . Shortly after his return he fled to the Federal Republic of Germany, where he studied from 1956 to 1960 at the University of Social Sciences in Wilhelmshaven-Rustersiel and the University of Kiel . From 1965 he worked at the University of Göttingen as an assistant to Bruno Seidel . In 1969 he was appointed to the chair of political science at the Lower Saxony University of Education (later University of Hanover ), where he worked until his retirement in 1996.

Since 1990 Jenkner has worked for the European Forum for Freedom in Education , an international non-governmental organization for educational East-West cooperation. From 1994 to 1997 he was honorary professor at the University of Saint Petersburg . He was also a member of the German branch of the Russian prisoner and human rights organization Memorial .

After the Peaceful Revolution in the GDR , Jenkner applied for his rehabilitation . This took place in May 1994. In June 2007 he was honored together with the four other surviving members of the Belter group with the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon.

Publications

  • On the way to a liberal school constitution. Comparative analysis in Western and Eastern Europe. In: Didactics under the sign of east-west rapprochement. On didactics in the context of (post-) modern pedagogy and concepts for the humanization of education (= historical-comparative studies on international educational dialogue. Volume 1). Edited by Rudolf W. Keck . LIT Verlag, Münster 1999, ISBN 3-8258-4054-9 , pp. 257-265 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  • The Right to Education and the Freedom of Education in European Constitutions / The Right to Education and the Freedom of Education in European Constitutions (= series of publications by the European Forum for Freedom in Education. Volume 7). Edited by the European Forum for Freedom in Education. Info3-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-924391-18-1 .
  • Memories of political prisoners of the GULAG. An annotated bibliography (= Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarianism Research (Ed.): Reports and Studies. No. 41). Edited by the Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarian Research e. V. at the Technical University of Dresden. Dresden 2003, ISBN 3-931648-45-1 ( PDF; 382 kB ) (on the author p. 53 [PDF-p. 55]).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice from the University of Hanover. In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung / [[Neue Presse (Hanover) |]]. July 7, 2018 ( trauer-anzeigen.de accessed on 9 July 2018).
personal data
SURNAME Jenkner, Siegfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist, GDR oppositionist
DATE OF BIRTH November 14, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH 20th June 2018
Place of death Hanover