Walter Süß (historian)
Walter Süß (* 1947 ) is a German historian and political scientist. The focus of his work is the history of the GDR and the Ministry for State Security .
life and work
Walter Süß studied political science, sociology and Eastern European history. In 1973 he completed his studies as a political scientist. In 1979 he received his doctorate from the Free University of Berlin Dr. phil., his dissertation was the business organization in the USSR between the October Revolution and forced collectivization . He then worked as a research assistant in research projects on the history of Soviet Stalinism at the Eastern Europe Institute and on comparative communism research at the Central Institute for Social Science Research at the Free University of Berlin. From 1992, Süß was a scientific advisor to the Federal Commissioner for Stasi Records (BStU), where he worked as a department head in the Education and Research Department. He retired from the BStU as of 2019.
Publications (selection)
- State Security and the CSCE Process , with Douglas Selvage. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2019, ISBN 978-3-525-31069-4 .
- The MfS lexicon: terms, people and structures of the state security of the GDR , with Roger Engelmann , Daniela Münkel , Bernd Florath , Helge Heidemeyer , Arno Polzin. Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-86153-627-7 . ( Online )
- Military and state security in the security concept of the Warsaw Pact countries , with Torsten Diedrich . Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-610-9 .
- State security at the end: why the powerful did not succeed in preventing a revolution in 1989 . Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 1999, ISBN 978-3-86153-181-4 .
- State Party and State Security: On the relationship between SED and MfS , with Siegfried Suckut . Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 978-3-86153-131-9 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Walter Süß in the catalog of the German National Library
- Publications by Walter Süß at the BStU (partly in full text online)
- Author portrait at Ch. Links Verlag
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Author portrait of Walter Süß at Ch. Links Verlag
- ↑ Walter Suess: The company in the USSR: position, organization u. Management 1917-1932 . Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1981, ISBN 978-3-8204-5868-8 .
- ↑ Short biography and reviews of works by Walter Süß at perlentaucher.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sweet, Walter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1947 |