Siegfried Prokop

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Siegfried Prokop (born February 22, 1940 ) is a German historian .

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Prokop, a native of the Sudetenland , grew up in Mecklenburg and obtained the Abitur in Neubrandenburg in 1958. He then studied history and German at the Humboldt University in Berlin and at the State University in Leningrad from 1958 to 1963 . On June 26, 1967, he received his doctorate on the subject of the interrelationship between the bourgeois university reform efforts and the state monopoly reorganization measures in the West German higher education system .

As a lecturer in the 1970s, he dealt with topics relating to German history and undertook initial research into the history of the GDR . From 1979 he held a position as a university lecturer at Humboldt University. From 1983 to 1996 he taught as a professor of contemporary history at the Berlin Humboldt University.

Since the 1980s, Prokop turned to a new research topic, the social history of the intelligentsia in the GDR.

Prokop received a notice of termination on December 31, 1991 for “reasons of need” and “lack of personal aptitude”. He was accused of having been involved in exclusion proceedings ("relegations") against students as a section head. Prokop won the labor court case in the first instance, the appeal was rejected by the regional labor court. Therefore, he became a full professor again against the will of the senator and university president. In 1994 the university withdrew the allegations in a settlement.

After 1996 he became a project manager at the research center of the Association for Applied Conflict Research .

From 2006 to 2012, Prokop headed the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung Brandenburg as chairman of the board .

Functions and trips abroad

Prokop published numerous writings on the history of the GDR. Several trips abroad took him as a visiting professor to Paris in 1987, to Lomonossow University in Moscow in 1988 and to Concordia University in Montreal in 1991. From 1994 to 1996 he succeeded Wolfgang Harich as chairman of the alternative inquiry -Commission of German Contemporary History. Since 2019 he has been a member of the advisory board of the "Funding Group Archives and Libraries for the History of the Labor Movement eV"

Fonts

  • Students on the move: to the student opposition in the FRG , East Berlin 1974
  • Transition to socialism in the GDR: Lines of development and problems in the history of the GDR in the final phase of the transition period from capitalism to socialism and in the comprehensive socialist construction (1958–1963) , 3rd edition, East Berlin 1986
  • German contemporary history questioned anew. Soviet occupation zone of Germany - German Democratic Republic (1945 to the beginning of the 1960s) , East Berlin 1990
  • Company "Chinese Wall": the GDR in the twilight of the wall , Berlin 1992, 2nd edition Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-89406-929-5
  • Social history of the East German intellectuals, 1945–1961: Timeline with index , Berlin 1993
  • The short time of utopia: the "second" GDR in the forgotten year 1989/1990 , Berlin 1994
  • The last year of the GDR: implosion, unification treaty, "distinct society" with Horsta Malinowski-Krum, Berlin 1994
  • Social democracy as an idea and tradition in the GDR: attempt to outline the problem with H. Niemann, Berlin 1995
  • Poltergeist in the Politburo: Siegfried Prokop in conversation with Alfred Neumann , Frankfurt / Oder 1996
  • The SED Politburo: Rise and End (1949–1989) , Berlin 1996
  • A contender for Germany: the Wolfgang Harich Memorial Colloquium on March 21, 1996 in the Ribbeck House in Berlin , Berlin 1996
  • From Authoritarianism to a Democratic German Republic (1989/1990) , Schkeuditz 1996
  • Fanal and Trauma: Contributions to the history and impact of the Russian Revolution of 1917 with Wolfgang Ruge and Klaus Kinner , Leipzig 1997
  • I was born too early: on the trail of Wolfgang Harich , Berlin 1997
  • The historic square of the GDR: Contributions from two debates in the Marxist Forum (January and February 1999) , Schkeuditz 1999
  • Intellectuals in the crisis year 1953: Enquéte on the situation of the intelligentsia in the GDR: analysis and documentation , Schkeuditz 2003
  • How did June 17, 1953 come about? , Berlin 2003
  • June 17, 1953 - History myths and historical process. Concepts - contemporary witnesses - chronicle of events with Herbert Mayer, Berlin 2003
  • Research on contemporary history in the GDR - Walter Bartel (1904–1992) - A threatened life; Contributions to the 100th birthday of Walter Bartel , Schkeuditz 2005
  • Between departure and demolition: the GDR in 1956 , Berlin 2006
  • The unfinished unit: Colloquium on the 15th anniversary of the accession of the GDR to the Federal Republic , Berlin 2006
  • Lost dreams: on the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Kulturbund with Dieter Zanker, Berlin 2006
  • 1956 - GDR at the crossroads: Opposition and new concepts of intelligence , Berlin 2006
  • Where are GDR memories drifting? Documentation of a debate with Martin Sabrow, in: Zeitschrift für Geschichtswwissenschaft. Vol. 56, issue 4, (2008), p. 391
  • with Rainer Holze (ed.): Basic democracy and the labor movement. Günter Benser on his 80th birthday . Berlin 2012
  • "The GDR never existed". Studies on the history of the GDR 1945-1990 , Neuruppin 2017
  • Life paths in the GDR. Sketches and articles on personalities from culture, politics and science , Neuruppin 2019 *
  • Deceived by the "turning point". My life in Bohemia, the Soviet Zone / GDR and in the accession area . Daily Notes from 1983 to 2003, Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3-947094-57-8

literature

  • Andreas Heyer: Discussing the GDR. Festschrift for Siegfried Prokop. Volume 1. Books on Demand. Norderstedt 2015, ISBN 9783739211725 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Siegfried Prokop, "Chinese Wall" company. The GDR in the twilight of the wall, Frankfurt / Main, 1992, p. 219
  2. ↑ a b On the way , new Germany, February 21, 2020 (link for a fee)
  3. ↑ https://www.focus.de/politik/deutschland/humboldt-uni-berlin-die-beinahe-gelungene-ernerung_aid_141843.html
  4. ↑ Neues Deutschland , May 20, 1994, p. 12, Dieter Becker / Siegfried Mechler (eds.): Priester der Klio? Stand up to neo-conservative historical misrepresentation. Berlin 2007, p. 243. In a sheet of amendment published by the KG Saur publishing house, Prokop said: “Was not involved in relegations; from 1986-1990 not been section director. "
  5. ↑ Siegfried Prokop, ibid, p. 219
  6. ↑ Communication No. 56 (September 2019), p. 73. ISSN  1869-3709
personal data
SURNAME Prokop, Siegfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1940