Siegward Lönnendonker

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Siegward Lönnendonker

Siegward Lönnendonker (born April 18, 1939 in Rheydt ) is a German sociologist and expert on the history of the extra-parliamentary opposition .

Life

Lönnendonker's family moved to Bielefeld in 1942 , where his father Karl Lönnendonker worked in the armaments industry. After heavy bombing, he was evacuated to Halle (Westphalia) with his mother Maria and sister Hiltrud . In autumn 1945 he started school in Bielefeld, attended a Catholic denominational school there from 1947 and then from 1949 to 1958 the state-municipal high school in Bielefeld, where he passed the Abitur. From 1958 he first studied physics and mathematics , from 1963 then sociology , political science and psychology at the Free University of Berlin .

In 1963 he became an assistant at what was then the "Institute for Political Science" (later: "Central Institute for Social Science Research") at Freie Universität and collected - initially privately - materials from the developing student revolt. In 1963 he became a member of the German-Israeli Study Group (DIS), chairman of the FU group and worked in the Israeli kibbutz Nachal-Oz. Since 1962 he was in the SDS .

In 1970 Lönnendonker completed his diploma in sociology with a thesis on the Berlin SDS. From 1970 to 1977 he was an assistant at the Central Institute for Social Science Research (ZI 6, formerly the Institute for Political Science) at the Free University of Berlin, from 1978 a scientific employee and at the same time founder and head of the archive “APO and social movements”, today “APO archive of the Free University ”. In 1987 he received his doctorate with a thesis on the history of the Free University of Berlin. For a long time he was a member of the Board of Trustees of the FU.

Lönnendonker was a member of the Malteser Kreis, which formed the editorial board of "Contributions to the History of Science of the Free University of Berlin".

In 1998/99 Lönnendonker and Karol Kubicki organized a university lecture on the FU's political history with participating contemporary witnesses for the 50th anniversary of the FU.

In view of the abundance of presentations about the “Rote Kaderschmiede FU”, he - himself co-author of books about the student movement - saw his primary task in working with the other members of the Malteser Circle on a previously unavailable documentation on the scientific work of the Free University create: the "Contributions to the History of Science of the Free University of Berlin", which ended in 2015 with the seventh volume.

Lönnendonker was critical of the " Humboldt University " during the GDR era : The renaming of the old "Friedrich Wilhelms University" in 1949 to "Humboldt University" was one of "the greatest fraudulent labeling in the history of the German university" been. As a new legal foundation by the Communists with the aim of transforming it into a “Soviet-style party college”, the HU “had nothing to do with Humboldt's ideas”. According to Lönnendonker, the result was "the suppression and persecution of all opposition through arrest and deportation, spying and terrorism right into the lecture halls". With its foundation, the Free University saved the ideals of the Humboldts. After the FU was awarded in the elite competition, Kubicki and Lönnendonker sums up: "Only the continuation of the Berlin Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in the Humboldtian spirit of freedom of teaching and research could guarantee the continuation of the scientific tradition with its top achievements."

Siegward Lönnendonker has been an "active retiree" since July 2004 and is still a volunteer in the APO archive for the FU.

Monographs (selection)

  • (with Tilman Fichter ): Brief history of the SDS: the Socialist German Student Union from Helmut Schmidt to Rudi Dutschke (With a foreword by Wolfgang Kraushaar ), Federal Agency for Political Education, Bonn 2008 (series of publications by the Federal Agency for Political Education), vol. 705, ISBN 978-3-89331-868-1 . (previously several other editions)
  • (with Tilman P. Fichter): Dutschke's Germany: The Socialist German Student Union, the national question and the criticism of the GDR from the left, a polemic about Germany with documents from Michael Mauke to Rudi Dutschke (With a foreword from an Eastern perspective by Rolf Schneider and a Foreword from a western perspective by Christian Semler ), Essen 2011, ISBN 978-3-8375-0481-1 .
  • Free University of Berlin: Foundation of a political university in Berlin. Duncker and Humblot, Berlin 1988 (also dissertation Freie Universität Berlin 1987) ISBN 3-428-06490-9 .
  • (as ed.): Left-wing intellectual departure between “cultural revolution” and “cultural destruction”: the Socialist German Student Union (SDS) in post-war history (1946–1969), documentation of a symposium. Opladen, Wiesbaden: Westdeutscher Verlag 1998 (publications of the Central Institute for Social Research at the Free University of Berlin, Vol. 83), ISBN 3-531-13099-4 .
  • (with Bernd Rabehl and Jochen Staadt ): The anti-authoritarian revolt. The Socialist German Student Union after separating from the SPD. Volume 1: 1960-1967. Opladen, Wiesbaden: Westdeutscher Verlag 2002 (publications of the Central Institute for Social Science Research of the Free University of Berlin, Vol. 91), ISBN 3-531-13301-2 .
  • (as ed. with Karol Kubicki): 50 years of the Free University of Berlin from the perspective of contemporary witnesses. Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-929532-60-3 .
  • Karol Kubicki, Siegward Lönnendonker (Ed.): Contributions to the history of science at the Free University of Berlin :
    • Vol. 1: The Free University of Berlin 1948–2007 - From the foundation to the competition for excellence , 258 p. (In the appendix: a contribution about the left-wing groups including brief descriptions of the K groups, a documentation of the disruptions in courses at the Free University in the period from WS 1969/70 to WS 1970/71 as well as the wording of the test clause, the federal-state agreement "Excellence Competition" and a list of partnerships and collaborations until 2006), Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-89971-474 -6 .
    • Vol. 2: The historical sciences at the Free University of Berlin , 123 p. (With contributions by Ernst Baltrusch, Dietrich kurz / Knut Schulz, Henning Köhler, Wolfram Fischer and Jürgen Kocka), Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-89971-475- 3 .
    • Vol. 3: The natural sciences at the Free University of Berlin , 179 pages (with articles by Karl Peter Grotemeyer / Martin Aigner, Gerhard Berendt, Helmut Gabriel / Eckart Matthias, Helmut Baumgärtel, Volker Jacobshagen / Jürgen Fischer / Walter Franke / Peter Giese / Helmut Keupp / Karl Lenz / Michael Schaale / Werner Wehry, Karl-Heinz Frömming, Claus Schnarrenberger / Ekkehard Höxtermann and H. Walter Lack), Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-89971-476-0 .
    • Vol. 4: The cultural and ethno-sciences at the Free University of Berlin , 207 pp. (With contributions by Egon Renner, Johannes Renger, Rainer Voigt, Detlef Foljanty, Mechthild Leutner, Siegfried Baske, Hans-Joachim Torke; Heinz Ickstadt and Reinhard Liehr and an addendum on biochemistry by Eberhard Riedel), Göttingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-89971-856-0 .
    • Vol. 5: Religious Studies, Jewish Studies, Islamic Studies and Newer Philologies at the Free University of Berlin , 205 p. (With contributions by Klaus Heinrich, Monika Thumblang / Anja Middelbeck-Varwick, Friedrich-Wilhelm Marquardt, Peter Schäfer / Klaus Herrmann, Gottfried Müller, Hartmut Eggert , Eberhard Lämmert, Hans-Dieter Gelfert and Michael Kaehne †) Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-89971-954-3 .
    • Vol. 6: Social sciences at the Free University of Berlin - educational science, psychology, university didactics, political science, research association SED state, communication sciences, sociology and tourism , 298 p. (With contributions by Harald Scholtz †, Michael-Sören Schuppan, Wolfgang Schönpflug / Horst -Peter Brauns, Brigitte Berendt, Gerhard Göhler, Hubertus Buchstein , Tilman Fichter, Siegward Lönnendonker, Klaus Schroeder, Gernot Wersig † / Ulrich Neveling, Heiner Ganßmann and Günther Haedrich and Kristiane Klemm), Göttingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-8471-0141 -3 .
    • Vol. 7: The ancient and art studies at the Free University of Berlin , 207 pp. (With contributions by Adolf H. Borbein, Ursula Moortgat-Correns †, Klaus Bruhn, Matthias Fritz, Erika Fischer-Lichte, Christian Pischel / Danny Gronmaier / Cilli Pogodda / David Gaertner / Tobias Haupts and supplements on law and economics by Heinz Rieter and Gisela Simmat), Göttingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8471-0427-8 , ISBN 978-3-8470-0427-1 (E- Book).
  • with Tilman P. Fichter : History of the SDS 1946–1970 . With a foreword by Klaus Meschkat and part of a picture by Klaus Mehner †, Aisthesis Verlag, Bielefeld 2018, ISBN 978-3-8498-1259-1 .

Documentation (selection)

  • (with Tilman Fichter with the assistance of Claus Rietzschel): Free University of Berlin 1948–1973 - University in transition. (Time tables and documents, on behalf of the President for the 25th anniversary of the FU)
    • Part I: 1945–1949 "Counterfoundation why?", Berlin: 1973 (71 pages DIN A4 in 9 ° and 10 °)
    • Part II: 1949–1957 "Consolidation at Any Price", Berlin: 1974 (152 pp.)
    • Part III: 1958–1964 "On the way to dissent", Berlin: 1974 (200 pages)
    • Part IV: 1964–1967 "The Crisis", Berlin: 1975 (479 pages)
    • Part V: 1967–1969 "Violence and Counter-violence", Berlin: 1983 (455 pages) together with Jochen Staadt
    • Part VI: 1969–1973 “The oktroyierte Reform”, Berlin: 1990. 457 p. Authors: Jahn, Peter; Kleinert, Annemarie; Staadt, Jochen.
  • with Jochen Staadt: 1968 - prehistory and consequences. (Documentation of the lecture series from the summer semester 1988 at the FU) , in: Kalaschnikow - Science and Society Critical Writing, 8th edition 2/97, also online publication of the archive "APO and social movements".

Individual evidence

  1. see Lönnendonker's curriculum vitae at the SED State Research Association
  2. The daily mirror
  3. Kubicki / Lönnendonker (ed.): 50 years of the Free University of Berlin from the perspective of contemporary witnesses. Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-929532-60-3 .
  4. Anja Kühne: Biggest swindle in university history. In: Der Tagesspiegel from May 12, 2005.
  5. Karol Kubicki / Siegward Lönnendonker (Ed.): Contributions ..., Vol. 1, p. 160.
  6. ^ Archive "APO and social movements".

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