Werner Markert

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Werner Markert (born December 3, 1905 in Leipzig , † March 25, 1965 in Tübingen ) was a German historian .

Life

Markert grew up in a middle-class family. In 1925 he joined an alliance youth organization. Markert studied history, sociology and Slavic studies in Leipzig , Heidelberg , Hamburg and Paris . He received his doctorate in 1931 in Leipzig on the political sociology of Russia. After that he spent a year in Moscow. From 1935 to 1939 he worked as a lecturer at the University of Leipzig and published the magazine "Osteuropa". Since 1933 he was a member of the SA . During the Second World War , Markert was used as a special leader in Abwehr II . There Markert was responsible for operations behind enemy lines as head of the "Insurgation" department of the country groups Russia, Scandinavia and the Baltic States.

Markert's denazification was successfully completed in 1947. He had letters of discharge and a. received from Klaus Mehnert and Gerhard von Mende , an oriental expert from Rosenberg's East Ministry . Markert was part of the so-called “professors group” of the Gehlen organization , which provided them with studies for a fee. He completed his habilitation in 1948 at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen and became a lecturer for middle and modern history, especially Eastern European history. Together with Mehnert, the historian Hans Koch , the former agricultural scientist Theodor Oberländer and Gerhard von Mende, Markert founded the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Ostforschung (AFO) and endeavored to found an Eastern Europe institute whose research focus should be the "contemporary problems" of the communist states. This was achieved during the Cold War - not least thanks to the advocacy of Erich Wende , head of the cultural department of the Federal Ministry of the Interior . In 1953, Markert was appointed to a professorship in Tübingen and became director of the newly founded Institute for Eastern European History and Regional Studies, where he affiliated the AFO. Since 1954, Markert and numerous employees have published an "Eastern Europe Handbook".

Fonts

  • A political sociology in Russia. In: Archives for cultural history . Vol. 23, 1933, pp. 255-274, doi : 10.7788 / akg-1933-jg15 , (Leipzig, University, phil. Dissertation, from December 22, 1932).
  • Alexander I. Politics of the Holy Alliance. Göttingen 1948, (Göttingen, University, phil. Habilitation thesis, 14 February 1948).
  • (as ed.): The human being in the communist system. Tübingen lectures on Marxism and the Soviet state . Mohr, Tübingen 1957 (2nd edition 1962).
  • (as ed.): German-Russian relations from Bismarck to the present . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1964.
  • (as ed.): Soviet Union. The economic system . Böhlau, Cologne 1965.
  • Eastern Europe and the Western World. Articles and lectures. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1966.

literature

  • Katharina Kucher, Thorsten Zachary: Enemy research with old Wehrmacht stocks. Werner Markert edited the magazine "Osteuropa" before 1945 and after 1945 founded the working group for Eastern European Studies. It is considered to be relatively little burdened, but allowed itself to be worked on by the burdened. In FAZ No. 213, page N3, Sept. 13, 2017.
  • Katharina Kucher, Corinna Kuhr-Korolev, Tetiana Sebtam Nataliia Sinkevych: spoils of war in Tübingen. A certificate from Peter the Great, the partnerships of the Eastern European researchers and the restitution . In: Osteuropa, Vol. 66 (2016), pp. 149–167.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Wolf: The emergence of the BND. Construction, financing, control . Ed .: Jost Dülffer et al. (=  Publications of the Independent Historical Commission for Research into the History of the Federal Intelligence Service 1945–1968 . Volume 9 ). Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-96289-022-3 , pp. 65 ff .
personal data
SURNAME Markert, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH December 3, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH March 25, 1965
Place of death Tübingen