Wolfgang Schröder (historian)

Wolfgang Schröder (born July 9, 1935 in Dresden , † November 18, 2010 in Taucha ) was a German historian .

After graduating from high school in 1953, Schröder studied history at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig until 1957 . In 1957 he passed the state examination for high school teachers and worked until 1958 as a teacher at a high school .

In 1958 Schröder became a research assistant in the department "1871-1917" at the Institute for History of the German Academy of Sciences , Leipzig branch. He did his doctorate in July 1963 under Ernst Engelberg and Lothar Mosler on the German trade union movement in the 1890s. In 1972 he received his PhD B on the labor movement in the last third of the 19th century.

From 1969 to 1990 Schröder was the responsible editor of the yearbook for history . From 1973 he was also a member of the editorial board. In 1976 he switched to the Central Institute for History of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR in East Berlin as a research assistant . In September 1986 he received the title of professor there.

From 1992 to 1996 Schröder worked as a research assistant at the Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties in Bonn .

Schröder's main area of ​​work was the history of the later 19th century with a focus on the German labor movement. He dealt in detail with the life and work of Wilhelm Liebknecht . Schröder could no longer complete his planned biography of Liebknecht. His widow Renate Dreßler-Schröder and the historian Klaus Kinner released the fragmentary biography from the estate in 2013.

Fonts

• Class struggles and union unity. Grandstand, Berlin 1965.
• Liebknecht, Wilhelm . In: Karl Obermann u. a. (Ed.): Biographical lexicon to German history. From the beginning until 1917 . German publishing house of the sciences. Berlin 1967, pp. 287-289.
• Liebknecht, Wilhelm Philipp Martin Christian . In: History of the German labor movement. Biographical Lexicon . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1970, pp. 293-298.
• Party and unions. The trade union movement in the conception of the revolutionary social democracy 1868/69 to 1893. Tribüne, Berlin 1975.
• Horst Bartel , Wolfgang Schröder, Gustav Seeber , Heinz Wolter: The Social Democrat 1879 - 1890. A contribution to the role of the central organ in the struggle of the revolutionary workers' movement against the socialist law . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1975.
• Ed .: Wilhelm Liebknecht. Small political papers . Reclam, Leipzig 1976. (Licensed edition Röderberg Verlag, Frankfurt am Main ISBN 3-8768-2418-4 )
• Hans Hugo von Kleist-Retzow . A junker of shot and grain . In: Gustav Seeber (Hrsg.): Gestalten der Bismarckzeit . Volume 1. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1978, pp. 218–242.
• Wilhelm Liebknecht. Protagonists of the revolution from below . In: Gustav Seeber (Hrsg.): Gestalten der Bismarckzeit . Volume 1. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1978, pp. 79-105.
• Horst Bartel, Wolfgang Schröder, Gustav Seeber: The Socialist Law 1878 1890. Illustrated history of the struggle of the working class against the exceptional law . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1980.
• with Gerhard Keiderling and Ingo Materna (eds.): Studies on the history of Berlin. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-05-000286-7 .
• Ernestine. On the unusual life of Wilhelm Liebknecht's first wife; a documentary narrative. Verlag für die Frau, Leipzig 1987, ISBN 3-7304-0085-1 .
• " You can imagine how I often felt too courageous ..." Jenny Marx in letters to a trusted friend . Verlag für die Frau, Leipzig 1989, ISBN 3-7304-0233-1
• I have to be able to give myself completely. Claim, disillusionment and confession of Nathalie Liebknecht . In: Friderun Bodeit (Ed.): I have to be able to give myself completely. Women in Leipzig . Verlag für die Frau, Leipzig 1990, pp. 137–156 and 236–237.
• Wilhelm Liebknecht's foray into uncharted territory . 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. 75–79. (Colloquium on the topic: Alternative Thinking, October 4th and 5th, 1991, Berlin).
• Schröder, Wolfgang; Kiesshauer, Inge: Die Genossenschaftsbuchdruckerei zu Leipzig 1872 - 1881. With a bibliographical appendix: Publishing catalogs of social democratic publishers in Leipzig (1869 - 1881). Publisher: Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz Verlag., 1992. ISBN 3-447-03358-4 / ISBN 978-3-447-03358-9
• Wilhelm Liebknecht and Friedrich Ludwig Weidig . Personal marginalia on the relationship between democracy and socialism . Reprint from: Bourgeois Revolution and Revolutionary Left. Contribution to a scientific colloquium on the occasion of Helmut Bock's 70th birthday . Edited by Walter Schmidt , Berlin 2000, pp. 143–150.
• with Elvira Döscher: Saxon parliamentarians 1869–1918. The deputies of the Second Chamber of the Kingdom of Saxony in the mirror of historical photographs. A biographical handbook (= photo documents on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 5). Droste, Düsseldorf 2001, ISBN 3-7700-5236-6 .
• State elections in the Kingdom of Saxony 1869–1895 / 1896. Verlag der Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Leipzig 2002-2004, ISBN 3-89679-189-3 .
• "A great guy you can rely on". How August Bebel and Wilhelm Liebknecht “discovered” their place of asylum in Borsdorf in 1881 . In: No obituary! Articles about and for Götz Langkau . IISG, Amsterdam 2003, pp. 81-88.
• Leipzig - the cradle of the German labor movement. Roots and development of the workers' education association 1848/49 - 1878/81. With a documentation of the activity reports. Karl Dietz, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-320-02214-3 .
• Wilhelm Liebknecht. Soldier of the revolution, party leader, parliamentarian. A fragment. Karl Dietz, Berlin 2013, ISBN 3-320-02289-X . (Bibliography, pp. 461–476.)

literature

• Lothar Mertens : Lexicon of the GDR historians. Biographies and bibliographies on the historians from the German Democratic Republic. Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-11673-X , S. #.
• Curriculum vitae Wolfgang Schröder . In: Wolfgang Schröder: Wilhelm Liebknecht. Soldier of the revolution, party leader, parliamentarian. A fragment. Karl Dietz, Berlin 2013, ISBN 3-320-02289-X , p. 477.