Stefan Doernberg

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Stefan Doernberg (born June 21, 1924 in Berlin ; † May 3, 2010 ibid) was a German historian and diplomat. He was director of the Institute for International Relations at the Academy for Political Science and Law of the GDR .

Life

Stefan Doernberg (2nd from right) at a press conference in 1980

Stefan Doernberg was born the son of a KPD functionary, emigrated with his Jewish parents to the Soviet Union in 1935 , became a member of the KJVD in 1939 and graduated from the Karl Liebknecht School (Moscow) in 1941 . On the day of the attack on the Soviet Union , he volunteered for the Red Army . In 1942 he was temporarily interned in a labor camp in the Urals , but returned to the front after attending a Comintern school . As a lieutenant in the 8th Guard Army , he took part in the fighting in Ukraine , Poland and around Berlin .

In 1945 Doernberg returned to Germany. From 1946 to 1950 he worked for the Soviet military administration of Mecklenburg as a speaker and interpreter for General Michail Alexandrowitsch Skossyrew . From 1946 to 1950 he was the foreign policy editor of the newspaper Daily Rundschau . During this time, from 1947 to 1951, he completed a correspondence course in history at Lomonosov University in Moscow . 1950 to 1955 he worked as an editor of the German edition of the magazine Soviet literature . In 1955 he took over the chair for general history at the Institute for Social Sciences at the Central Committee of the SED . There he was in 1959 with the work The battle for the economic disempowerment of German imperialism on the territory of the German Democratic Republic and its importance in the anti-fascist democratic upheaval to Dr. phil. PhD .

From 1961 to 1971 Doernberg acted as director of the German Institute for Contemporary History (DIZ) in East Berlin . In 1963 he received a professorship for the history of the German and international labor movement . From 1957 to 1962 he was scientific secretary of the German section of the Commission of Historians of the GDR and the USSR and from 1964 chairman of the GDR section of the research institutions of the GDR, the ČSSR, Poland, Hungary and the USSR on questions of European security. In 1966 he was awarded the degree of Doctor of History of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR ( Dr. sc. ). From 1971 to 1977 he worked as deputy director of the Institute for International Politics and Economics in Berlin and from 1970 as secretary, general secretary and vice-president of the GDR Committee for European Security . From 1977 to 1982 he was director of the Institute for International Relations at the Academy for Political Science and Law.

From 1983 to 1987 Stefan Doernberg was the GDR's ambassador to Finland . He was a member of the GDR Peace Council and a member of the SED . In 1964 he received the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze, 1966 in silver and 1984 in gold.

Since November 2008 he has been chairman of the DRAFD ( Association of Germans in the Resistance, in the armed forces of the anti-Hitler coalition and the "Free Germany" movement ). Stefan Doernberg was deputy chairman of the council of elders of the party Die Linke .

Stefan Doernberg died on May 3, 2010 in Berlin, just before a planned trip to Moscow, where, at the invitation of the Russian government, he was to take part in the celebrations marking the 65th anniversary of the victory over National Socialist Germany.

Publications

  • The founding of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany and its historical significance . In: Journal of History , 1956, No. 2. Berlin.
  • with Percy Stulz: Germany 1945–1949. Brief outline of the historical development . Berlin 1959
  • The birth of a new Germany 1945–1949. The anti-fascist-democratic upheaval and the emergence of the GDR . Berlin 1959
  • The second World War. 1939-1945. Reality and fake . Berlin, 1959. (Editor)
  • Ed .: Contributions to the history of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany . Berlin 1961
  • Brief history of the GDR . Berlin 1964
  • Bonn reaches for nuclear weapons . Berlin 1965
  • The first steps into a new Germany . Berlin 1965
  • History of the German labor movement (8 volumes as co-author). Berlin 1966
  • German history (3 volumes as co-editor). Berlin 1968
  • The participation of West German imperialism in the aggression and war crimes of US imperialism in Vietnam . Berlin 1969
  • European security and international relaxation . Berlin 1973
  • Ed .: Problems of Peace, Security and Cooperation. Contributions from West u. Eastern Europe . Cologne 1975
  • Liberation 1945. An eyewitness report . Berlin 1975
  • Ed .: GDR, USSR. Cooperation and rapprochement . Berlin 1979
  • Ed .: Foreign policy of the GDR. 3 decades of socialist German peace policy . Berlin 1979
  • The strategy of peace of the socialist community of states . Berlin 1981
  • Storm bells of world history . Leipzig 1984
  • Ed .: In league with the enemy. Germans on the Allied side . Berlin 1995
  • Power poker for German unity. Strategies and missed opportunities in the first decade after the end of the war . Berlin 1999
  • A German on his way to Germany. Report by a contemporary witness about 1945 . Berlin 2000
  • Front deployment - memories of a Red Army soldier, historian and ambassador . Berlin 2004
  • Ed .: Hitler's end without myth. Jelena Rzhevskaya remembers her mission in Berlin in May 1945 . Berlin 2005
  • with Dietrich Staritz and Helmut Meier: Company history of the GDR. State of research - deficits - projects . Berlin 2006

literature

  • Doernberg, Stefan . In: Collegium Politicum at the University of Hamburg. Historiography Working Group (Ed.): Historians in Central Germany . Ferd. Dümmerls Verlag, Bonn / Hanover / Hamburg / Munich 1965, p. 22 f.
  • Contributions to a scientific conference in honor of Prof. Dr. Stefan Doernberg. Helsinki 1975: Opportunities used and opportunities missed (= Pankower lectures 21), Helle Panke, Berlin 2000, DNB 959018395 .
  • Gottfried Hamacher, with the assistance of André Lohmar: Against Hitler - Germans in the Resistance, in the armed forces of the anti-Hitler coalition and the "Free Germany" movement: short biographies . Rosa Luxemburg Foundation , Berlin. Volume 53. ISBN 3-320-02941-X ( PDF )
  • Doernberg, Stefan: A German on the way to Germany. Report of a contemporary witness about the year 1945 (= Pankower lectures 24), Helle Panke, Berlin 2000.
  • Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk:  Doernberg, Stefan . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Frank Herold: The last command. 60th anniversary of the liberation. Stefan Doernberg from Berlin was there when Germany capitulated. He was then 21 years old and a lieutenant in the Red Army. In: Berliner Zeitung , May 2, 2005.
  2. Stefan Doernberg: "I experienced May 8, 1945 in Berlin, was an eyewitness ..." . drafd.de.
  3. Stefan Doernberg new chairman of DRAFD e. V.
  4. Russian Foreign Minister presented award on the occasion of the 65th anniversary of Victory to four comrades of DRAFD e. V.