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Title: Dieter Rieke papers,
Date (inclusive): 1950-2001
Collection number: 2000C6
Creator:
Rieke, Dieter, 1925-
Collection Size:
4 manuscript boxes
(1.6 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
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.
Language:
German.
Collection is open for research.
The Hoover Institution Archives only allows access to
copies of audiovisual items. To listen to sound recordings or to view videos or films during your visit, please contact the Archives
at least two working days before your arrival. We will then advise you of the accessibility of the material you wish to see
or hear. Please note that not all audiovisual material is immediately accessible.
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Archives.
[Identification of item], Dieter Rieke papers, [Box no.], Hoover Institution Archives.
Materials were acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 2000.
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. To determine if this has occurred, find
the collection in Stanford University's online catalog at
http://searchworks.stanford.edu/ . Materials have been added to the collection if the number of boxes listed in the online catalog is larger than the number
of boxes listed in this finding aid.
| 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 |
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.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the repository's online public access catalog.
Civil rights--Germany (East)
Political prisoners--Germany (East)
Socialism--Germany.
Germany.
Germany (East)
Video tapes.