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Summarysocial democratic background; studies; contact with Else Eisner; Kurt Eisner-Archiv; development to a communist and entry into the KPD; change from Munich to Berlin; political activity; arrest; emigration to Switzerland after dismissal; acquaintance with Hans Mayer; emigration to Turkey; meeting with Ernst Reuter; campaign against western migrants in the GDR in the 1950s; attitude towards political opposition; personal motivation to work in the GDR; why he stayed in the GDR and about his scientific work here; scientific work determined by the SED; on the German question; historical comparison; German social democracy; on the situation of the intellectual left; on the development of democracy; on German reunification; on the decline of the GDR and personal question of guilt; on historical utopia; on personal utopias; on reunification as a historical task and historical compromise; on his Bismarck biography and Otto Fürst von Bismarck; Wolf Jobst Siedler and the work on the book; Siedler-Verlag and Akademie-Verlag; meeting with Willy Brandt
Shotlist
TagsNational Socialism; Emigration; Opposition; German Democratic Republic (GDR); Germany; Reunification; Democracy; German Unity; History; Social Democracy; Marxism; Utopism; Wende; Social Democracy;
