Inventory of the Dieter Rieke papers
Finding aid prepared by Myriam Lefloch
Hoover Institution Library and Archives
© 2003
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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
Access
The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual
or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.
Use
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
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)
Autobiography,
Geliebtes Leben: Erlebtes und Ertragenes zwischen den Mahlsteinen jűngster deutscher Geschichte, .
1999
General note
See also Photographs
box 1, folder 2
Printout from CD-Rom (entitled "Gel(i)ebtes Leben")
box 1, folder 4
Biographical file.
Scope and Contents note
Photocopies of documents re his arrest and rehabilitation. Includes documents re SPD members Wilhelm Clintjens, Bernhard Müller,
Felix Dyrda, Wilhelm Treumann, and Theodor Blell, who were arrested with Dieter Rieke
box 1, folder 6
Correspondence with Horst G. Schakat
Documents relating to other GDR political prisoners.
Scope and Contents note
Photocopies
box 1, folder 12
Kracht, Fritz.
General note
See also Photographs
Scope and Contents note
Includes original of "Pochtovaia kartochka," and "Déclaration en douane," 1954-1955.
box 2, folder 5
Studera-Petzold, Rosemarie
box 2, folder 9
Subject file - Prisons and prisoners in the Soviet Occupation Zone (Sowjetische Besatzungszone)
box 2, folder 10
30 black and white and color prints, , included in his autobiography,
Geliebtes Leben
n.d.
box 2, folder 11
3 black and white prints depicting the Soviet transit camp Sukhobezvodnoe, USSR
n.d.
General note
For detailed information on these prints see also Documents relating to other GDR political prisoners/Kracht, Fritz
box 3
Phonotape cassette, - Interview of Heyko Templiner
2001 May 7
box 3
4 video cassettes of interviews of former political prisoners in the SBZ/DDR.
General note
See separate list
Scope and Contents note
Includes duplicates.
box 3
9 video cassettes of miscellaneous documentaries re history of and political repression in the GDR.
General note
See separate list
Scope and Contents note
Includes duplicates.
box 4
14 video cassettes of miscellaneous documentaries re history of and political repression in the GDR.
General note
See separate list
Scope and Contents note
Includes duplicates.
