Stefan wool

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Stefan Wool (2007)

Stefan Wolle (born October 22, 1950 in Halle (Saale) ) is a German historian specializing in GDR research .

Life

Wool studied history in East Berlin . In 1972 he was for political reasons by the Humboldt University of Berlin relegated and worked as a laborer. He then continued his studies from 1973 to 1976. From 1976 to 1989 he was a research assistant at the Academy of Sciences of the GDR ; In 1984 he received his doctorate there with the dissertation The Contribution of German Historians to the Study of Old Russian History at the beginning of the 19th century (1801-1815) .

After the fall of the wall, he became an expert on the Stasi files at the round table , an employee of the committee for the dissolution of the Ministry for State Security and the Federal Commissioner for the records of the State Security Service of the former GDR . There he was dismissed without notice in March 1991 by the Stasi special envoy Joachim Gauck after his opinion was published, according to which the IM activities of the last Prime Minister of the GDR Lothar de Maizière had been proven .

At the beginning of 1990, together with Armin Mitter , he initiated the Independent Association of Historians , which was directed against the established history of the GDR.

From 1991 to 1997 he was a research assistant at the Humboldt University, then a scholarship from the German Research Foundation .

From 1998 to 2000, Stefan Wolle was a consultant at the Federal Foundation for Coming to terms with the SED dictatorship , and since 2002 he has been a member of the SED State research association at the Free University of Berlin .

Since 2005 Stefan Wolle has been Scientific Director of the GDR Museum in Berlin.

Fonts

  • The big plan. Everyday life and rule in the GDR 1949–1961. Ch. Links, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-86153-738-0 .
  • Departure to Utopia. Everyday life and rule in the GDR 1961–1971. Ch. Links, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-86153-619-2 , (Licensed edition. (= Federal Agency for Political Education. Series of publications. 1137). Federal Agency for Political Education, Bonn 2011, ISBN 978-3-8389-0137- 4 ; review ).
  • Basic knowledge of GDR compact. DDR Museum Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-939801-03-0 .
  • with Jochen Staadt and Tobias Voigt : Feind-Bild Springer. A publisher and its opponents. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-525-36381-2 .
  • with Jochen Staadt and Tobias Voigt: Operation television. The Stasi and the media in East and West. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-525-36741-4 .
  • The dream of the revolt. The GDR 1968. Ch. Links, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-86153-469-3 .
  • Departure into stagnation. The GDR in the 1960s (= Zeitbilder. 1). Federal Agency for Civic Education, Bonn 2005, ISBN 3-89331-588-8 .
  • with Hans-Hermann Hertle : Back then in the GDR. Everyday life in the workers 'and peasants' state. Bertelsmann, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-570-00832-0 (booklet for the four-part MDR television documentation).
  • with Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk : Red Star over Germany. Soviet troops in the GDR. Ch. Links, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-86153-246-8 .
  • The perfect world of dictatorship. Everyday life and rule in the GDR 1971–1989. Ch. Links, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-86153-157-7 .
  • as editor with Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk and Armin Mitter : The day X - June 17, 1953. The "inner state foundation" of the GDR as a result of the crisis in 1952/54 (= research on GDR history. 3). Ch. Links, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-86153-083-X .
  • Vladimir the Saint. Russia's first Christian prince. Verlags-Anstalt Union, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-372-00305-5 .
  • with Armin Mitter : sinking in installments. Unknown chapter in GDR history. Bertelsmann, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-570-01216-6 .
  • as editor with Armin Mitter: I love you all! Orders and situation reports of the MfS, January - November 1989. BasisDruck, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-86163-001-X .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gauck fires critics . In: Der Spiegel . No. 10 , 1991, pp. 16 ( Online - Mar. 4, 1991 ).
  2. ↑ Mario Frank : Gauck: a biography . Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-518-42411-7 , pp. 277 f .; limited preview in Google Book search
  3. ^ DDR Museum ( Memento from October 12, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ^ Five curses for the GDR , book presentation by Henry Bernhard , Deutschlandfunk , August 12, 2013 (Andruck - magazine for political literature).
  5. ↑ Thomas Schmid , Sven F. Kellerhoff : Axel Springer, the Stasi and the ominous SS treasure . From www.welt.de, June 6, 2009. Retrieved January 26, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Wool, Stefan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH October 22, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle (Saale)