Walter Nimtz

Walter Nimtz (born April 14, 1913 in Züllchow , Randow district , † June 24, 2000 in Berlin ) was a German historian . He was director of the Museum for German History in Berlin.

Life

Nimtz, the son of a working class family, was part of the working class youth movement at an early stage. After 1933 he took an active part in the resistance fight against the Nazi regime . Before 1945 he worked as an employee in Stettin , after 1945 as a functionary for the SED in Saxony-Anhalt . As head of the SED district party school in Halle (Saale) he was delegated to study at the party college "Karl Marx" in October 1947 , where, after completing his studies in 1948, he taught as a lecturer and head of the chair for the history of the German labor movement until 1963. In 1959 Nimtz received his doctorate as Dr. phil. at the party college and was appointed professor there in 1960.

From 1963 to 1966 Nimtz was director of the Museum of German History in Berlin, after which he was appointed deputy director of the Central Institute for History at the Academy of Sciences of the GDR . From 1972 to 1977 he was also Vice President of the Historians' Society of the GDR .

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

• The basic task and the character of the November Revolution 1918 in Germany . Berlin, party college "Karl Marx", dissertation from October 15, 1959.
• The November Revolution of 1918 in Germany with a document attachment . 2nd, revised and expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 1965 (1st edition, 1962).
• (Ed.): 120 years of the German labor movement in pictures and documents . 2nd, modified and expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 1965 (1st edition, 1964).

items

• About the character of the November revolution of 1918/1919 in Germany . In: Zeitschrift für Geschichtswwissenschaft (1958), Issue 3, pp. 687–715,
• The historical significance of the October conference of the Spartacus group . In: Einheit , Volume 13 (1959), Issue 9, pp. 1327-1339.
• The first coalition government with the Social Democrats in Germany in October 1918 . In: Contributions to the history of the labor movement , 10th year (1968), special issue on the 50th anniversary of the November revolution , pp. 3–45.

Awards

• Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze (1959) and in silver (1966)
• National Prize of the GDR (1968)

literature

• Nimtz, Walter . In: Collegium Politicum at the University of Hamburg, Historiography Working Group (Hrsg.): Historians in Central Germany . Ferd. Dümmlers Verlag, Bonn, Hanover, Hamburg, Munich 1965, p. 71.
• Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German who's who . Volume II. Arani-Verlag, Berlin-Grunewald 1965, p. 235.
• Walter Nimtz. 65 years . In: Zeitschrift für Geschichtswwissenschaft (1978), p. 737.
• Walter Nimtz. 70 years . In: Zeitschrift für Geschichtswwissenschaft (1983), p. 353.
• Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990. Volume 2: Maassen - Zylla. KG Saur, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-598-11177-0 , p. 601.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ According to other sources as early as 1912.