Wolfgang Mönke

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Wolfgang Otto Hermann Mönke (born March 15, 1927 in Berlin-Mariendorf ; died February 24, 1986 in Berlin-Hohenschönhausen ) was a German historian, Marx-Engels researcher and editor.

Life

Wolfgang Mönke was the son of Otto Paul Mönke and Martha Maria, geb. Merlitz . After attending middle school, he wanted to become an aircraft engineer. He had to break off an internship because the family moved to Wroclaw . He completed another internship at the FAMA works . He and his sister Margot fled to Berlin at the end of January 1945. In mid-March 1945 he was drafted into a replacement and training battalion in Braunschweig . After 18 days as a soldier, he was taken prisoner by the United States. After a year he became a British prisoner of war for another two years. Dismissed in February 1948, he turned to his mother and sister in Rudow . From April 1948 he attended the ABF and received his Abitur in August 1949. From September he first studied English at the Humboldt University in Berlin and from 1951 to 1956 philosophy .

In 1957 a position for Marx-Engels research was set up for Auguste Cornu at the Academy of Sciences in Berlin and Mönke was appointed head of the department. He held this position until October 1, 1976, when the academy's research area was dissolved. According to his own notes, the task of the assistant Mönke was to support Cornus in drafting his Marx-Engels biography. To do this, he should visit the most important archives and libraries in various European countries and create an archive from copied materials. Mönke contributed to the bibliographies of all three volumes of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels - Leben und Werk and helped revise the editions in French and Russian. and Polish language

In 1962 he started working with Bert Andréas . He later helped comment on the preparatory work for the facsimile edition of the Deutsche-Brusser-Zeitung . In addition, Mönke maintained extensive correspondence with Grandjonc, Hans Pelger, Heinz Monz , Helmut Deckert , Hans G Helms and others with Marx-Engels researchers.

Wolfgang Mönke was married to his wife Gisela since 1955. The marriage did not divorce until 1982 after the separation in 1962. He had a son Enrico (born 1955) and a daughter. Mönke died of a heart attack - without an official obituary - on February 24, 1986. He was buried on March 26, 1986 in the Baumschulenweg cemetery.

A large part of his estate is in the archive of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences . A small part is in the estate of his wife and son.

Wolfgang Mönke was one of the founders of contemporary research into the history of the reception of the works of Marx and Engels. He did important preparatory work for the edition of the "German Ideology" and other writings in the Marx-Engels Complete Edition .

Works

  • Wolfgang Mönke, Günther Orlewicz: Karl Marx 'philosophical, economic and communist views in the Paris manuscripts, 1844. In: Karl Bittel : The conference of the four foreign ministers in Berlin from January 25 to February 18, 1954 . Part 2. Junge Welt 1954.
  • About the relationship between Marxism and Hegel's philosophy . In: German magazine for philosophy. 3rd vol. Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1955, issue 2, pp. 235–241. ISSN  2192-1482
  • About the collaboration of Moses Hess on the " German Ideology " by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. In: Scientific annals. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1957. Issue 5, pp. 316-330.
  • The "true" socialism in Germany in the 1940s. In: Studia Filozoficzne. Warszawa 1959, No. 5 (14), pp. 3-58.
  • Moses Hess. Philosophical and Socialist Writings 1837–1850. A selection . Edited and introduced by Auguste Cornu and Wolfgang Mönke. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1961.
    • Moses Hess: Pisma fiozoficne 1841-1850. Wyboru dokonaöi, westepem i przypisami opatrzyli A. Cotnu i W. Mönke , Warschwa 1953.
    • Moses Hess. Philosophical and Socialist Writings 1837–1850. Edited and introduced by Wolfgang Mönke. 2. edit Edition Topos-Verlag, Vaduz 1980.
  • Thomas Paine . Human rights . Rights of man . Ed., Translated and introduced by Wolfgang Mönke. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1962.
    • Thomas Paine. Human rights. Rights of man . Ed., Translated and introduced by Wolfgang Mönke. 2., through and with an afterword. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1983.
  • About the collaboration of Moses Hess on the "German Ideology". In: Annali dell'Istituto G. Feltrinelli . Anno 6, Milano 1963. (1964), pp. 438-509.
  • New sources for Hess research. With excerpts from a diary, from manuscripts and letters from correspondence with Marx, Engels, Weitling , Ewerbeck and others. a. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1964.
  • Comments on two previously unknown reprints of a work by Friedrich Engels. In: Contributions to the history of the German labor movement. Berlin 1964, No. 4, pp. 670-674.
  • The literary response in Germany to Friedrich Engels ' work “ The Situation of the Working Class in England ” . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1965. (= German Academy of Sciences in Berlin. Lectures and writings . Issue 92)
  • Review of: Andréasa Biobliografia Manifestu kommunistycznego. In: Studia filozoficzne. Warschawa, 1966. Issue 1, pp. 217–223,
  • August Hermann Ewerbeck . In: Biographical Lexicon on German History. Edited by Karl Obermann et al.Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1967, pp. 113–114.
  • Hess, Moses. In: Biographical Lexicon on German History. From the beginnings to 1917. Ed. By Karl Obermann et al. Berlin 1967, pp. 210–212.
  • Jung, Georg Gottlob . In: Biographical Lexicon on German History. From the beginnings to 1917. Ed. By Karl Obermann et al. Berlin 1967, pp. 236–237.
  • Hermann Püttmann . In: Biographical Lexicon on German History. From the beginning until 1917. Ed. By Karl Obermann et al. Berlin 1967, pp. 381–384.
  • Emil Ottokar Weller . In: Biographical Lexicon on German History. From the beginnings to 1917. Ed. By Karl Obermann et al. Berlin 1967, pp. 491–492.
  • Bert Andréas, Wolfgang Mönke: An unknown letter from Karl Marx to Joseph Weydemeyer . In: Contributions to the history of the German labor movement. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1968, issue 1, pp. 49-67.
  • Bert Andréas, Wolfgang Mönke: New data on the "German Ideology". With an unknown letter from Karl Marx and other documents. In: Archives for Social History. Hanover 1968, pp. 5–159. Digitized
  • Ewerbeck, Hermann August. In: History of the German labor movement. Biographisches Lexikon Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1970, pp. 123-124.
  • Hess, Moses. In: History of the German labor movement. Biographical Lexicon. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1970, pp. 205-206.
  • On the editorial and publishing history of the " Holy Family ". In: One hundred and twenty-five years of Verlag Rütten & Loening. 1844-1969. An almanac. Rütten & Loening, Berlin 1969, pp. 100-123.
  • The "real" socialism. Moses Hess. 1812-1844 . ( Dissertation A. German Academy of Sciences, Berlin 1971.)
  • The holy family. On the first joint work by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1972.
    • The holy family. On the first joint work by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. (Licensed edition) Delev Auvermann, Glashütten i. T. 1972.
  • Rhenish yearbooks on social reform . Edited with the participation of several by Hermann Püttmann. Darmstadt 1845 and Bellevue near Konstanz 1846. With an introduction by Wolfgasng Mönke. 2 volumes. Reprint. Detlev Auvermann, Glassworks in the Tasunus 1974.-
  • Some new dates on the biography of Marx. In: Contributions to Marx-Engels research. Dedicated to the work of Auguste Cornus. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1975, pp. 72–91.

literature

  • Gisela Mönke: funeral speech for Wolfgang Mönke . (1986, 4 pages)
  • Waltraud Seidel-Höppner : Grave speech by Waltraud Seidel-Höppner, March 26, 1986, Baumschulenweg . (2 pages)
  • Thomas Kuczynski : Auguste Cornu's Marx-Engels research unit and Wolfgang Mönke's research. In: The Marx-Engels work editions in the USSR and GDR (1945–1968). (= Contributions to Marx-Engels research. New series . Special volume 5). Argument, Hamburg 2006, ISBN 3-88619-691-7 , pp. 422-425. Digitized

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birth certificate No. 33/1927.
  2. ↑ Death certificate No. 55/1986.
  3. ^ Gisela Mönke: Funeral speech for Wolfgang Mönke .
  4. ↑ Auguste Cornu: Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels - life and work . (3 volumes), Aufbau Verlag, Berlin 1954, 1962, 1968.
  5. ↑ Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels . 4th volumes. Presses Universitaires de France, Paris 1955–1970.
  6. ^ Karl Marks i Fridrich Engel's . 3 volumes. Moskava 1959-1968.
  7. ↑ Karol Marxs and Fryderyk Engels . 4 volumes. Warszuawa 1958-1969.
  8. ^ Jacques Grandjonc : Une vie d'exile. Bert Andréas 1914-1984 . Trier 1987, p. 44. (= writings from the Karl-Marx-Haus supplement .)
  9. ↑ Review by Bert Andréas in: German literary newspaper for criticism of international science . Berlin 1963, April, columns 291-295.
  10. ↑ Beatrix Bouvier review in: Archive for Social History . Hannover 1984, pp. 691-692. Digitized
  11. ↑ Walter Schmidt (Annotation) in Zeitschrift für Geschichtswwissenschaft , 13th year, 1965, issue 5, p. 901.
  12. ^ Edmund Silberner : (Review) in: Archive for Social History. Hannover 1967, pp. 601-603. Digitized
  13. ^ Walter Schmidt (annotation) in Zeitschrift für Geschichtswwissenschaft . 14th year 1966, issue 1, p. 169.
personal data
SURNAME Mönke, Wolfgang
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mönke, Wolfgang Otto Hermann (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian, Marx-Engels researcher and editor
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin-Mariendorf
DATE OF DEATH February 24, 1986
Place of death Berlin-Hohenschönhausen