Werner Kowalski (historian)

Werner Kowalski (born January 16, 1929 in Wanne-Eickel , Gelsenkirchen district ) is a German historian .

Life

Werner Kowalski studied history at the University of Halle from 1948 to 1952. He received his doctorate in 1960 under Leo Stern . His writings on Wilhelm Weitling and the socialists before Marx are part of the basic literature on this topic. He completed his habilitation in 1969 and was appointed professor in 1970. Most recently (until 1990) he was the head of the “General History Department of the History / Citizenship Section” at the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg .

Works (selection)

• The Swiss Weitling Journals and Weitling Research. In: Journal of History . 4 (1958) pp. 824-841.
• The Entente's counter-revolutionary stance on the German November Revolution . In: Scientific journal of the University of Halle. 8 (1958/59)
• The traveling journeymen and the beginnings of the German labor movement . Phil. Diss. Halle 1960.
• Prehistory and origin of the covenant of the just. With a source attachment . (= Series of publications by the Institute for German History at the Martin Luther University in Halle 1). Rütten & Loening, Berlin 1962 (Licensed edition: Detlev Auvermann, Glashütten / Ts. 1962)
• The popular agitation in the Free City of Frankfurt after the guard storm of April 1833 . In: HJ Bartmuß et al. (Ed.): Die Volksmassen. Shaper of the story. Ceremony for Prof. Dr. Dr. hc Leo Stern on his 60th birthday . Rütten & Loening, Berlin 1962, pp. 154-174.
• with Heinz Tillmann (Ed.): West German Neocolonialismus. Research into the economic and political expansion of West German imperialism in Africa and Asia . (= Series of publications by the Institute for General History at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg 1). Rütten & Loening, Berlin 1963.
• From petty-bourgeois democracy to communism. Magazines from the early days of the German labor movement (1834 to 1847) The main reports of the federal central authority in Frankfurt am Main from 1838 to 1842 about the German revolutionary movement . Edit and a. by Werner Kowalski. (= Archival research on the history of the German labor movement, Volume 5 / I). Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1967 (Detlev Auvermann, Glashütten / Ts. 1967; Topos Verlag, Vaduz 1978)
• The cry for help of the German youth. Bern 1841. The young generation. Geneva 1842/43 . With an introduction v. Werner Kowalski. Detlev Auvermann, Glashütten im Taunus 1973.
• From petty-bourgeois democracy to communism. The main reports of the federal central authority in Frankfurt am Main from 1838 to 1842 on the German revolutionary movement . Edit and a. by Werner Kowalski. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1978 (Archival Research on the History of the German Labor Movement Volume 5 / II) (Topos Verlag, Vaduz 1978)
• About the origin and character of the SAI . In: Contributions to the history of the labor movement. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1969, pp. 928-948.
• The collapse and restoration of the 2nd International (1914–1923) . Phil. Habil May 21, 1969 University of Halle
• with Detlef Jena , Dieter Pälike et al. (Ed.): Principles of the unity of socialism, science and education. Materials d. central scientific Conference of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg on April 29, 1970 on the 100th birthday of WI Lenin . Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, 1970
• Kowalski, Werner: Leo Stern's contribution to research into the history of the German labor movement. In: Hans Huebner (Ed.): Leo Stern in the service of science and socialist politics . Halle (Saale) 1976, pp. 24–29 (= scientific articles from the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg 1976/18)
• with Johannes Glasneck (ed.): The Socialist International . Your history and politics . German Science Publishing House, Berlin 1977
• The Berlin Three Executive Conference 1922 . In: Scientific journal of the Martin Luther University, Halle-Wittenberg. Social and Linguistic Series. Vol. 27, 1978, No. 2, pp. 19-29.
• as publisher: Social foundations and mechanisms of rule of German fascism . 2 parts. Univ. Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale) 1980.
• History of the Socialist Workers International (1923–1940) . German Science Publishing House, Berlin 1985.
• Size and limits of an elementary proletarian movement: The League of the Just . In: Journal of History. Vol. 35, 1987, No. 9, pp. 784-800.
• Final disintegration of the covenant of the outlawed and establishment of the covenant of the just. In: Martin Hundt (Ed.): Bund der Kommunisten 1836–1852 . Academy publishing house. Berlin 1988, pp. 126-137.
• Ernst Barnikol's research on the history of early German socialism. In: Walter Schmidt (ed.): Socialism and early workers' movement . Academy of Sciences of the GDR, Central Institute for History, Berlin 1989, pp. 268–274 (= Studies on History 15)
• as editor: Karl Kautsky . Lectures and contributions from the Halle conference on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of death . Hall / S. 1990
• Individual freedom or liberation of the individual. A discussion problem of the early German labor movement. In: Think alternatives. Critical emancipatory social theories as a reflex on the social question in bourgeois society. Published by the Central Institute for Philosophy. Central Institute for Philosophy, Berlin 1991, pp. 55–57. (Colloquium on the topic: Alternative Thinking, October 4th and 5th, 1991, Berlin).
• Concepts of socialism yesterday and today . Edited by the Party of Democratic Socialism. Policy Commission. Berlin 1997 (= controvers )

literature

• Collegium Politicum at the University of Hamburg. Historiography working group: historians in Central Germany . Ferd. Dümmlers Verlag, Bonn Hanover Hamburg Munich 1965, p. 57 f.
• Werner Kowalski 60 years. In: Journal of History . 37. (1989), pp. 68-69.
• Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk: Legitimation of a new state Party workers on the historical front. History in the Soviet Zone / GDR 1945 to 1961 . Christian Links, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-86153-130-5 , p. 188.
• Lothar Mertens: Priest of the Klio or court chronicler of the party? Collective biographical analyzes of the GDR historians . V & R unipress, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-89971-307-9 , pp. 50 and 99
• Lothar Mertens : Lexicon of the GDR historians. Biographies and bibliographies on the historians from the German Democratic Republic . KG Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-11673-X , p. 360.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk.