Inventory of the Dieter Rieke Papers
Prepared by Myriam Lefloch
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford University
Stanford, California 94305-6010
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© 2003
Hoover Institution Archives. All rights reserved.
Inventory of the Dieter Rieke Papers
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford University
Stanford, California
Contact Information
- Hoover Institution Archives
- Stanford University
- Stanford, California 94305-6010
- Phone: (650) 723-3563
- Fax: (650) 725-3445
- Email: archives@hoover.stanford.edu
- Prepared by:
- Myriam Lefloch
- Date Completed:
- 2002
- Encoded by:
- ByteManagers using OAC finding aid conversion service specifications
© 2003 Hoover Institution Archives. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
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.
Administrative Information
Access
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.
Publication Rights
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Archives.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Dieter Rieke papers, [Box no.], Hoover Institution Archives.
Acquisition Information
Materials were acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 2000.
Accruals
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.
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.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the repository's online public access catalog.
Subjects
Civil rights--Germany (East)
Political prisoners--Germany (East)
Socialism--Germany.
Germany.
Germany (East)
Genres and Forms of Material
Video tapes.
Container List
Box 1
Autobiography,
Geliebtes Leben: Erlebtes und Ertragenes zwischen den Mahlsteinen jűngster deutscher Geschichte, 1999.
Note
See also Photographs
Box/Folder 1 : 2
Printout from CD-Rom (entitled "Gel(i)ebtes Leben")
Box/Folder 1 : 4
Biographical file.
Scope and Content 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/Folder 1 : 6
Correspondence with Horst G. Schakat
Documents relating to other GDR political prisoners.
Scope and Content Note
Photocopies
Box/Folder 1 : 12
Kracht, Fritz.
Note
See also Photographs
Scope and Content Note
Includes original of "Pochtovaia kartochka," and "Déclaration en douane," 1954-1955.
Box/Folder 2 : 5
Studera-Petzold, Rosemarie
Box/Folder 2 : 9
Subject file - Prisons and prisoners in the Soviet Occupation Zone (Sowjetische Besatzungszone)
Box/Folder 2 : 10
30 black and white and color prints, n.d., included in his autobiography,
Geliebtes Leben
Box/Folder 2 : 11
3 black and white prints depicting the Soviet transit camp Sukhobezvodnoe, USSR, n.d.
Note
For detailed information on these prints see also Documents relating to other GDR political prisoners/Kracht, Fritz
Box 3
Phonotape cassette, 2001 May 7 - Interview of Heyko Templiner
4 video cassettes of interviews of former political prisoners in the SBZ/DDR.
Note
See separate list
Scope and Content Note
Includes duplicates.
9 video cassettes of miscellaneous documentaries re history of and political repression in the GDR.
Note
See separate list
Scope and Content Note
Includes duplicates.
Box 4
14 video cassettes of miscellaneous documentaries re history of and political repression in the GDR.
Note
See separate list
Scope and Content Note
Includes duplicates.
