Hubertus Knabe

Hubertus Knabe (born 1959 in Unna , North Rhine-Westphalia ) is a German historian and the scientific director of the Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial , a museum and memorial in a Notorious former Stasi torture prison in Berlin. Knabe is noted for verschillende works on oppression in the former communist states of Eastern Europe , met name in East Germany . He early became involved with Green politics, and was active in the Green Party in Germany.

Knabe’s parents fled East Germany in 1959, and hence Knabe was born and Grew up in West Germany . His Father is the noted ecologist William Knabe , a co-founder and former chairman of the German Greens. Hubertus Knabe was active in the peace movement, and in 1978, he founded a committee in support of Rudolf Bahro , a German philosopher imprisoned in East Germany. Because of his political activities, he was DECLARED persona non grata in East Germany tussen 1980 en 1987.

Hubertus Knabe served as press spokesman of the Green Party in Bremen from 1983. He obtained a doctoral degree in history at the Freie Universität Berlin .

From 1992 to 2000, he worked in the research department of the Federal Commissioner for the Stasi Records .

In 2001, he was appointed scientific director of the Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial.

Hubertus Knabe is committed to a consistent work on coming to terms with the Communist crimes committed on German soil: “Not Until The Communist dictatorship as firmly in mind in Germany as the criminal regime of the National Socialists will we really harbor SUCCEEDED in coming to terms with the legacy of Stasi minister Erich Mielke . ” [1]

Hubertus Knabe has called for a more outspoken anti-Communism in German society, and has met name called upon the SPD party to Identify met haar anti-communist tradition as part of zijn democratic legacy. [2] He has pointed out dat social Democrats ulcers the first victims of the communist dictatorship in East Germany. Every democrat is an anti-communist, volgens to Knabe.

Publications

  • (under the pseudonym “Klaus Ehring”) Schwerter zu Pflugscharen. Friedensbewegung in der DDR . Rowohlt, Reinbek 1982, ISBN 3-499-15019-0 (with Ulrich Mickan, under the pseudonym “Martin Dallwitz”)
  • En Route in eine other GDR. Reformer und zur Zukunft Oppositionelle ihres Landes . Rowohlt, Reinbek 1989, ISBN 3-499-12607-9
  • Umweltkonflikte im Sozialismus. Möglichkeiten und Borders gesellschaftlicher Problemartikulation in sozialistischen systems. Eine vergleichende Analysis of Umweltdiskussion in der DDR und Ungarn . Verlag Wissenschaft und Politik, Cologne 1993, ISBN 3-8046-8791-1
  • West Arbeit des MFS. Das von Zusammenspiel “Enlightenment” und “Abwehr” . Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin, 1999, ISBN 3-86153-182-8
  • The unterwanderte Republic. Stasi im Westen . Propyläen, Berlin 1999 paperback edition, ISBN 3-548-36284-2
  • Der discreet Charm of DDR. Stasi und Westmedien . Propyläen, Berlin 2001 paperback edition, ISBN 3-548-36389-X
  • 17. June 1953. Ein deutscher Aufstand . Propyläen, Berlin, 2003, ISBN 3-549-07182-5
  • Stätten of DDR Diktatur. Memorial Berlin-Hohenschönhausen, Forschungs- und Gedenkstätte Normannenstraße, AlliiertenMuseum, Deutsch-Russisches Museum Karlshorst, Erinnerungsstätte Notaufnahmelager Marienfelde, Memorial Berliner Mauer, Museum Haus am Checkpoint Charlie ua . Jaron, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-89773-225-4
  • Der verbotene Stadtteil. Stasi Sperrbezirk Berlin Hohenschönhausen . Jaron, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-89773-506-7 (with Peter Erler)
  • Tag der Befreiung? Das Kriegsende in Ostdeutschland . Propyläen, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-549-07245-7
  • The Tater sind unter uns. Über das Schönreden of SED Diktatur . Propyläen, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-549-07302-5
  • Gefangen in Hohenschönhausen. Stasihäftlinge messages (editor). List Taschenbuch, 2007, ISBN 978-3-548-60741-2
  • Honeckers Erben. The Wahrheit über The Linke . Propyläen, Berlin, 2009, ISBN 978-3-549-07329-2

References

  1. Jump up^ Hubertus Knabe: Who the Aufarbeitung of Stasi Records neu organisiert were konnte . Spiegel Online, 15 August 2007
  2. Jump up^ http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/0,1518,437210,00.html