Horst Bartel was a German historian and university professor.
13 Facts About Horst Bartel
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Horst Bartel was involved in most of the core historiography projects undertaken in the German Democratic Republic.
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Horst Bartel started a teacher training course at Orlau in Upper Silesia, but he left the course in 1944 without completing it.
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Between September 1945 and 1946 Horst Bartel worked as a messenger at a hospital in Cottbus.
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In Horst Bartel's case teaching was quickly superseded, still in 1946, by a period of university level study at Berlin's Humboldt University, focusing on history, German studies and pedagogy.
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In 1949 Horst Bartel became a teacher, and then a school head, in Wandlitz, just outside Berlin on its north side.
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In 1960, on the recommendation of Ernst Engelberg, Horst Bartel took over as Director of the Institute.
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Horst Bartel was appointed deputy director of the Historical Institute of the German Academy of Sciences, an appointment made despite opposition from the Academy founder and well regarded economist Jurgen Kuczynski.
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From 1956 till 1959 Horst Bartel was a member of the editorial collective on the Journal for Historical Science.
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Horst Bartel then joined the editorial collective of the academic journal Contributions to the History of the German Labour Movement, remaining with the journal until his death.
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Horst Bartel provided information to the Ministry for State Security as a Gesellschaftlicher Mitarbeiter Sicherheit.
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Horst Bartel became a corresponding fellow of the German Academy of Sciences in 1969, progressing to a full fellowship in 1972.
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Horst Bartel was one of an initially small minority of committed communists in the Soviet occupation zone of Germany at the end of the war who not only worked together on constructing historical seminars and institutes, but together transformed the context of historical study so that it might comply with the precepts of the East German ruling Socialist Unity Party of Germany.