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Scope and Content Note
Title: Dieter Rieke papers
Date (inclusive): 1950-2001
Collection Number: 2000C6
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
German
Physical Description:
4 manuscript boxes
(1.6 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Memoirs, correspondence, judicial documents, videotape cassettes, and photographs, relating to political prisoners in East
Germany. Includes judicial documents of and videotape cassette interviews with other prisoners.
Creator:
Rieke, Dieter, 1925-
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
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Acquisition Information
Materials were acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 2000.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Dieter Rieke papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Biographical Note
1925 |
Born in Osnabrück, Germany |
1945 |
Co-founded and joined the SPD in Gardelegen, East Germany |
1948 May 21 |
Arrested for contacts with the Ostbűro of the SPD |
1949 April 14 |
Sentenced to 25 years of prison |
1956 December 21 |
Released from prison (Bautzen) |
1957 January 21 |
Fled to West Berlin with his parents |
1959 May 1 |
Started working as a journalist for
Die demokratische Gemeinde in Bad Godesberg
|
1967 April 1 |
Moved to Rüsselsheim, where he took on the job of spokesman for the SPD mayor of the city and where he still lives today |
1999 |
Author,
Geliebtes Leben: Erlebtes und Ertragenes zwischen den Mahlsteinen jűngster deutscher Geschichte
|
Scope and Content Note
Memoirs, correspondence, judicial documents, videotape cassettes, and photographs, relating to political prisoners in East
Germany. Includes judicial documents of and videotape cassette interviews with other prisoners.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Video tapes
Socialism -- Germany
Civil rights -- Germany (East)
Political prisoners -- Germany (East)