GDR Oral History Project Interviews

Lev Bezymenskii interview by Olga Sandler 1992 June 25

Scope and Contents note

Regards Soviet-German relations. Narrator is a journalist.

box 1

Transcript (in Russian) and photograph

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Access

Use copy reference number: 94066_a_0000086

Scope and Contents note

1 sound cassette located in Box 9, Tape 1.

Lothar Bisky interview by Heinrich Bortfeldt 1933 April 6

Scope and Contents note

Narrator is head [?] of Zentralinstitut für Jugend-forschung; Kultursoziologe at the Akademie für Gesellschaftswissenschaften; Rektor der Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen.

box 1

Transcript

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Conditions Governing Access note

Use copy reference number: 94066_a_0000088

Scope and Contents note

1 sound cassette located in Box 9, Tape 2.

Siegfried Bock interview by A. J. McAdams 1992 May 18

Scope and Contents note

Narrator is a diplomat; Envoy to the European Conference of Safety and Cooperation in Helsinki and Geneva; ambassador to Romania.

box 1

CV and photograph

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Conditions Governing Access note

Use copy reference number: 94066_a_0000089

Scope and Contents note

2 sound cassettes located in Box 9, Tapes 3-4.

Bärbel Bohley interview by John Torpey 1993 April 2

Scope and Contents note

Narrator is an artist; co-founder of the oppositional group Neues Forum; co-founder of Frauen für den Frieden.

box 1

CV (no transcript)

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Conditions Governing Access note

Use copy reference number: 94066_a_0000091_a01 and 94066_a_0000092_a01

Scope and Contents note

2 sound cassettes located in Box 9, Tapes 5-6. Audio quality is poor.

Joachim Böhm interview by A. J. McAdams 1990 December 5

Scope and Contents note

Narrator is deputy director, ZK Dept. Regards relations with socialist countries.

box 1

Transcript and photograph

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Conditions Governing Access note

Use copy reference number: 94066_a_0000091

Scope and Contents note

2 sound cassettes located in Box 9, Tapes 7-8.

Michael Brie interview by Matthew Siena 1991 December 23

Scope and Contents note

Narrator is professor für sozialphilosophie at the Humboldt-University, Berlin.

box 1

Transcript and photograph

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Conditions Governing Access note

Use copy reference number: 94066_a_0000092

Scope and Contents note

1 sound cassette located in Box 9, Tape 9.

Manfred Buhr interview by K. Zechmeister 1992 December 2

Scope and Contents note

Narrator is a philosopher; director of Zentralinstitut für Philosophie at the Academy of Sciences; vice president of the International Hegel-Society; co-editor of Philosophisches Wörterbuch.

box 1

Transcript and CV

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Conditions Governing Access note

Use copy reference number: 94066_a_0000093

Scope and Contents note

2 sound cassettes located in Box 9, Tapes 10-11.

Peter-Michael Diestel interview by Bortfeldt 1992 December 15

Scope and Contents note

Narrator is dr. jur.; co-founder of DSU; member of the Volkskammer DDR-Innenminister; president of the CDU-Fraktion im Landtag Brandenburg.

box 1

Transcript and CV

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Conditions Governing Access note

Use copy reference number: 94066_a_0000094

Scope and Contents note

1 sound cassette located in Box 9, Tape 12.

Stefan Doernberg interview by Bortfeldt 1992 November 10

Scope and Contents note

Narrator is a historian; Generalsekretär des DDR-Komitees für europäische Sicherheit; director of the Institut für Internationale Beziehungen (Potsdam-Babelsberg). Transcript and cassette tape for interview conducted on January 15, 1993 are missing.

box 1

Transcript (not literal) and CV

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Conditions Governing Access note

Use copy reference number: 94066_a_0000095

Scope and Contents note

2 sound cassettes located in Box 9, Tapes 13-14.

Stefan Doernberg interview by Gerd Kaiser 1993 July 27

box 1

Transcript

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Conditions Governing Access note

Use copy reference number: 94066_a_0000096

Scope and Contents note

1 sound cassette located in Box 9, Tape 15.

Fred Ebeling interview by Torpey 1991 August 23

Scope and Contents note

Narrator is a member of Demokratischer Aufbruch.

box 1

Photograph

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Conditions Governing Access note

Use copy reference number: 94066_a_0000097

Scope and Contents note

2 sound cassettes located in Box 10, Tapes 16-17. Audio has some echoing, but is understandable.

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Fred Ebeling interview by Torpey 1992 January 28

Conditions Governing Access note

Use copy reference number: 94066_a_0000098

Scope and Contents note

2 sound cassettes located in Box 10, Tapes 18-19. Audio has some echoing, but is understandable.

Werner Eberlein interview by Torpey 1992 February 2

Scope and Contents note

Narrator is a member DDR Politbüro 1983-1989; son of KPD co-founder Hugo Eberlein; member of the editorial board of Neues Deutschland; Russian interpreter for Ulbricht & Honecker.

box 1

Transcript, CV, and photograph

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Conditions Governing Access note

Use copy reference number: 94066_a_0000101

Scope and Contents note

2 sound cassettes located in Box 10, Tapes 20-21.

Konrad Elmer interview by Thomas Banchoff 1991 December 5

Scope and Contents note

Narrator is a SPD member, Bundestag.

box 1

Transcript, CV, and photograph

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Conditions Governing Access note

Use copy reference number: 94066_a_0000102

Scope and Contents note

1 sound cassette located in Box 10, Tape 22.

Rainer Eppelmann interview by Dan Hamilton 1991 November 9

Scope and Contents note

Narrator is a pastor; co-founder of Initiative Demokratischer Aufbruch (DA), its candidate for Berlin in 1990.

box 1

Transcript, CV, and photograph

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Conditions Governing Access note

Use copy reference number: 94066_a_0000104

Scope and Contents note

1 sound cassette located in Box 10, Tape 23.

Rainer Eppelmann interview by Banchoff 1991 December 5

box 1

Transcript

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Conditions Governing Access note

Use copy reference number: 94066_a_0000105

Scope and Contents note

2 sound cassettes located in Box 10, Tapes 24-25.

Oskar Fischer interview by McAdams 1993 March 9

Scope and Contents note

Narrator is a party official; Minister of Foreign Affairs.

box 2

Transcript, CV, and photograph

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Conditions Governing Access note

Use copy reference number: 94066_a_0000106

Scope and Contents note

2 sound cassettes located in Box 10, Tapes 26-27.

Peter Fischer interview by Siena 1991 December 23

Scope and Contents note

Narrator is an engineer and economist; assistant at the Hochschule für Ökonomie, Berlin; assistant of Sigmund Rothstein, Verbandsprasident der jüdischen Gemeinden in Berlin; friend of Biermann and Irene Runge.

box 2

Transcript and photograph

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Conditions Governing Access note

Use copy reference number: 94066_a_0000107

Scope and Contents note

2 sound cassettes located in Box 10, Tapes 28-29.

Peter Florin interview by McAdams 1994 March 10

Scope and Contents note

Narrator is a government official; member of SED-ZK; representative of GDR by UN in New York; chairman of UNESCO committee; ambassador to CSSR.

box 2

Transcript, CV, and photograph

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Conditions Governing Access note

Use copy reference number: 94066_a_0000120_a01, 94066_a_0000121_a01 and 94066_a_0000122_a01

Scope and Contents note

3 sound cassettes located in Box 10, Tapes 28-29.

Hans-Dieter Fritschler and Landolf Scherzer interview by Kaiser

Scope and Contents note

Narrators are SED leaders in Thüringen. Scherzer is a writer and author of Der Erste, an account of Fritschler's political work, published by Köln: Kiepenheuer & Witsch in 1986.

box 2

Transcript and newspaper clippings

Scope and Contents note

Includes 2 newspaper articles (with photos of Fritschler and Scherzer): (1) · Peter Pragal, "Jetzt kocht 'Der Erste' auch mal Kaffee für die Partei," in Berliner Zeitung, May 16-17, 1992, p. 61; and (2) · Landolf Scherzer, "Das letzte Gefecht," in Die Zeit, January 2-5, 1990, pp. 9, 10, 12.

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Conditions Governing Access note

Use copy reference number: 94066_a_0000109

Scope and Contents note

1 sound cassette located in Box 11, Tape 33.

Joachim Gauck interview by Torpey 1993 April 23

Scope and Contents note

Narrator is Bundesbeauftragter für die Unterlagen des Staatssicherheitsdienstes der ehemaligen DDR; Pastor, co-founder of Neues Forum.

box 2

Transcript, CV, and photograph

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Conditions Governing Access note

Use copy reference number: 94066_a_0000111

Scope and Contents note

2 sound cassettes located in Box 11, Tapes 34-35.

Lea Große interview by Kaiser 1992 February 13

Scope and Contents note

Narrator is a communist since 1927 who was sentenced to 5 years in prison in 1935 for communist underground activities; Programmleiter beim Sender "Freies Deutschland" in Moscow, hefredakteurin beim Rundfunk Dresden.

box 2

Transcript

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Conditions Governing Access note

Use copy reference number: 94066_a_0000112

Scope and Contents note

1 sound cassette located in Box 11, Tape 36.

Gregor Gysi interview by Bortfeldt 1993 July 6

Scope and Contents note

Narrator is a lawyer; one of the few to have defended oppositionists; advocate of Neues Forum; leader of the renewed SED-PDS.

box 2

Transcript and CV

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Conditions Governing Access note

Use copy reference number: 94066_a_0000113

Scope and Contents note

1 sound cassette located in Box 11, Tape 37.

Klaus Gysi interview by Siena 1900 January 3

Scope and Contents note

Narrator is a government official; Head of the Department of Publishing House Volk und Wissen; minister of Culture; ambassador to Italy; secretary of state for church matters.

box 2

Transcript, CV, and photographs

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Conditions Governing Access note

Use copy reference number: 94066_a_0000114

Scope and Contents note

1 sound cassette located in Box 11, Tape 38.

Klaus Gysi interview by Siena 1991 December 28

box 2

Transcript

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Conditions Governing Access note

Use copy reference number: 94066_a_0000115

Scope and Contents note

2 sound cassettes located in Box 11, Tapes 39-40.

Herbert Häber interview by McAdams 1990 March 19

Scope and Contents note

Narrator is a party official; Member DDR Politbüro.

box 3

Transcript, CV, and photographs

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Conditions Governing Access note

Use copy reference number: 94066_a_0000116

Scope and Contents note

2 sound cassettes located in Box 11, Tapes 41-42.

Herbert Häber interview by McAdams 1993 March 8

box 3

Transcript

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Conditions Governing Access note

Use copy reference number: 94066_a_0000117

Scope and Contents note

2 sound cassettes located in Box 11, Tapes 43-44.

Kurt Hager interview by McAdams 1990 December 3

Scope and Contents note

Narrator is a government official; leading ideologist; member of the ZK of SED, secretary responsible for the ZK für Kultur und Wissenschaft.

box 3

Transcript, CV, and photograph

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Conditions Governing Access note

Use copy reference number: 94066_a_0000118

Scope and Contents note

2 sound cassettes located in Box 11, Tapes 45-46.

Kurt Hager interview by McAdams 1991 July 11

box 3

Transcript

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Conditions Governing Access note

Use copy reference number: 94066_a_0000119

Scope and Contents note

2 sound cassettes located in Box 11, Tapes 47-48.

Kurt Hager interview by Catherine Epstein 1993 August 6

box 3

Transcript

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Conditions Governing Access note

Use copy reference number: 94066_a_0000120

Scope and Contents note

2 sound cassettes located in Box 12, Tapes 49-50.

Erich Hahn interview by Bortfeldt 1991 February 28

Scope and Contents note

Narrator is a professor of Marxist and Leninist Philosophy; candidate of SED-ZK since 1976.

box 3

Transcript, CV, and photograph

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Conditions Governing Access note

Use copy reference number: 94066_a_0000121

Scope and Contents note

1 sound cassette located in Box 12, Tape 51.

Brunhilde and Helmut Hanke interview by K. H. Plagemann 1991 July 22

Scope and Contents note

Narrator is Mayor of Potsdam since 1961; member of the Staatsrat.

box 3

Transcript

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Conditions Governing Access note

Use copy reference number: 94066_a_0000122

Scope and Contents note

1 sound cassette located in Box 12, Tape 52. Beginning of the interview is missing.

Wolfgang Harich interview by McAdams 1990 December 1

box 3

Transcript, CV, and photograph

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Conditions Governing Access note

Use copy reference number: 94066_a_0000132

Scope and Contents note

2 sound cassettes located in Box 12, Tapes 53-54.

Wolfgang Herger interview by Torpey 1991 September 16

Scope and Contents note

Narrator is a party official; member DDR Politbüro.

box 3

CV and photograph (no transcript)

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Conditions Governing Access note

Use copy reference number: 84066_a_0000133

Scope and Contents note

1 sound cassette located in Box 12, Tape 55. Audio quality is poor with echoing.

Wolfgang Herger interview by Torpey 1992 January 30

box 3

Transcript

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Conditions Governing Access note

Use copy reference number: 94066_a_0000134

Scope and Contents note

2 sound cassettes located in Box 12, Tapes 56-57.

Frank-Joachim Herrmann interview by McAdams 1994 March 11

Scope and Contents note

Narrator is a mitarbeiter des ZK der SED; editor-in-chief of the Berliner Zeitung.

box 4

Transcript, CV, and photograph

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Conditions Governing Access note

Use copy reference number: 94066_a_0000135

Scope and Contents note

2 sound cassettes located in Box 12, Tapes 58-59.

Uwe-Jens Heuer interview by Banchoff 1991 November 14

Scope and Contents note

Narrator is a professor of law; was advising the ZK in questions concerning Staats-und Wirtschaftsrecht at the Zentralinstitut für sozialistische Wirtschaftsführung.

box 4

Transcript, CV, and election brochure

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Conditions Governing Access note

Use copy reference number: 94066_a_0000136

Scope and Contents note

1 sound cassette located in Box 12, Tape 60.

Stephan Hilsberg interview by Banchoff 1991 June 14

Scope and Contents note

Narrator is a computer scientist; co-founder of the SPD (East); member of the Bundestag.

box 4

CV and photograph

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Conditions Governing Access note

Use copy reference number: 94066_a_0000137

Scope and Contents note

1 sound cassette located in Box 12, Tape 61.

Gustav Just interview by Torpey 1991 July 14

Scope and Contents note

Narrator is a member of Gruppe Harich, SPD member Brandenburger Landtag.

box 4

Transcript and photograph

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Conditions Governing Access note

Use copy reference number: 94066_a_0000138

Scope and Contents note

1 sound cassette located in Box 13, Tape 62.

Gustav Just interview by Torpey 1992 February 1

box 4

Article, "Die Schüsse im Leben des Gustav Just" by Hanno Kühnert, Die Zeit, p. 16 1993 April 16

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Conditions Governing Access note

Use copy reference number: 94066_a_0000139

Scope and Contents note

2 sound cassettes located in Box 13, Tapes 63-64.

Dietmar Keller interview by Banchoff 1991 November 25

Scope and Contents note

Narrator held various positions within the Kultur-ministerium; minister of culture in 1989, open to reforms.

box 4

Transcript, CV, and photograph

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Conditions Governing Access note

Use copy reference number: 94066_a_0000140

Scope and Contents note

1 sound cassette located in Box 13, Tape 65.

Karl-Heinz Kern interview by McAdams 1992 May 22

Scope and Contents note

Narrator is a chemist; diplomat; GDR ambassador to Great Britain.

box 4

Transcript, CV, and photograph

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Conditions Governing Access note

Use copy reference number: 94066_a_0000141

Scope and Contents note

2 sound cassettes located in Box 13, Tapes 66-67.

Günther Kleiber interview by Zechmeister 1992 November 26

Scope and Contents note

Narrator is an electrical engineer; various party positions linked to the fields of Elektrotechnik, Elektronik, data processing; Stell-vertretender Ministerprasident der DDR; Minister für Allg. Maschinen-, Landmaschinen-und Fahrzeugbau.

box 4

Transcript and CV

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Conditions Governing Access note

Use copy reference number: 94066_a_0000142

Scope and Contents note

2 sound cassettes located in Box 13, Tapes 68-69.

Gerd König interview by McAdams 1993 March 9

Scope and Contents note

Narrator is a diplomat; ambassador to the CSSR.

box 4

Transcript, CV, and photograph

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Conditions Governing Access note

Use copy reference number: 94066_a_0000143

Scope and Contents note

2 sound cassettes located in Box 13, Tapes 70-71.

Ernst Krabatsch interview by Banchoff 1992 March 25

Scope and Contents note

Narrator is a diplomat; member of the GDR delegation to international conferences on various occasions.

box 4

Transcript and CV

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Conditions Governing Access note

Use copy reference number: 94066_a_0000150

Scope and Contents note

1 sound cassette located in Box 13, Tape 72.

Egon Krenz interview by Bortfeldt 1990 May 31

Scope and Contents note

Narrator is General Secretary and head of Staatsrat after Honecker's retirement; chief executive of the country during the transition period (October 18 - December 3, 1989); expelled from the SED in January 1990.

box 4

Transcript and CV

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Conditions Governing Access note

Use copy reference number: 94066_a_0000151

Scope and Contents note

2 sound cassettes located in Box 13, Tapes 73-74.

Jürgen Kuczynski interview by Bortfeldt 1991 January 10

Scope and Contents note

Narrator is an old communist; economist; professor of Economic History at Humboldt University, Direktor des Instituts für Geschichte der Wirtschaftswiss. der Akad. der Wissenschaften.

box 5

Transcript, CV, and note announcing Kuczynski's new book: Ein hoffnungsloser Fall von Optimismus: Memoiren 1989-94, Berlin: Aufbau Verlag 1994

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Scope and Contents note

1 sound cassette located in Box 13, Tape 75.

Access

Use copy reference number: 94066_a_0000152

Manfred Lötsch interview by Torpey 1991 February 27

Scope and Contents note

Narrator is a reform-oriented sociologist at the Academy of Social Sciences, Berlin.

box 5

Photograph (no transcript)

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Scope and Contents note

1 sound cassette located in Box 13, Tape 76. Sound quality is bad.

Access

Use copy reference number: 94066_a_0000153

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Manfred Lötsch interview by Torpey 1992 January 28

Conditions Governing Access note

Use copy reference number: 94066_a_0000154

Scope and Contents note

2 sound cassettes located in Box 13, Tapes 77-78. Audio is OK in the beginning. Transcript is missing.

Lothar de Maizière interview by Hamilton 1991 November 12

Scope and Contents note

Narrator is a lawyer; becomes head of the CDU of the DDR in 1989; last Prime Minister of the GDR.

box 5

Transcript and CV

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Scope and Contents note

3 sound cassettes located in Box 14, Tapes 79-81.

Access

Use copy reference number: 94066_a_0000155

Lothar de Maizière interview by Bortfeldt 1992 November 4

box 5

Transcript

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Scope and Contents note

1 sound cassette located in Box 14, Tape 82.

Access

Use copy reference number: 94066_a_0000156

Moritz Mebel interview by Bortfeldt 1991 February 27

Scope and Contents note

Narrator is a Chefarzt für Urologie an der Charité.

box 5

Transcript, CV, and photograph

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Scope and Contents note

2 sound cassettes located in Box 14, Tapes 83-84.

Access

Use copy reference number: 94066_a_0000157

Markus Meckel interview by Banchoff 1991 June 10

Scope and Contents note

Narrator is a pastor; co-founder of the East German Social Democratic Party; foreign minister of the DDR (April - August 1990).

box 5

Transcript, CVs, and photograph

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Sound recording

Scope and Contents note

1 sound cassette located in Box 14, Tape 85.

Access

Use copy reference number: 94066_a_0000158

Daniil Efimovich (Melanid) Mel'nikov interview by Sandler 1992 July 1

Scope and Contents note

Regarding German-Soviet relations. Narrator worked at TASS and for the SovInformbiuro.

box 5

Transcript and photograph

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Scope and Contents note

1 sound cassette (in Russian) located in Box 14, Tape 86.

Access

Use copy reference number: 94066_a_0000159

Hans-J. Misselwitz interview by Bortfeldt 1993 June 3

Scope and Contents note

Narrator is a biochemist; pastor; Parlamentarischer Staatssekretar (SPD) beim Außen-ministerium (under de Maizière).

box 5

Transcript

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Scope and Contents note

1 sound cassette located in Box 14, Tape 87.

Access

Use copy reference number: 94066_a_0000160

Hans Modrow interview by Bortfeldt 1993 March 17

Scope and Contents note

Narrator is a PhD in Wirtschaftswissenschaften; within the SED for democratic reforms; on November 13, 1989, elected head of the DDR- Ministerrat, successor of Stoph; proposes gradualist unification plan in February 1990.

box 5

Transcript and CV

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Scope and Contents note

1 sound cassette located in Box 14, Tape 88.

Access

Use copy reference number: 94066_a_0000161

Claus Montag interview by McAdams 1991 July 9

Scope and Contents note

Narrator is Head of Abteilung Außenpolitik der USA des Inst. für internat. Beziehungen an der Akademie für Staats- und Rechtswissen- schaft der DDR. Publications on East-West relations. Botschaftsrat.

box 5

Transcript

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Scope and Contents note

1 sound cassette located in Box 14, Tape 89.

Access

Use copy reference number: 94066_a_0000162

Erwin Müller interview by McAdams 1992 May 21

Scope and Contents note

Narrator is a schlosser. Journalist. Editor-in-chief of Was und Wie.

box 5

Transcript and photograph

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Scope and Contents note

2 sound cassettes located in Box 14, Tapes 90-91.

Access

Use copy reference number: 94066_a_0000163

Harald Neubert interview by McAdams 1990 December 4

Scope and Contents note

Narrator is a professor of history. Leiter des Instituts für internationale Arbeiterbewegung an der Akademie für Gesellschaftswissenschaften beim ZK der SED.

box 5

Transcript and photographs

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Scope and Contents note

1 sound cassette located in Box 14, Tape 92.

Access

Use copy reference number: 94066_a_0000164 No commercial use without permission.

Erich Nickel interview by McAdams 1994 March 12

Scope and Contents note

Narrator is a librarian. Historian. Author of Geschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. In the GDR published under the title: Die BRD. Ein Überblick. Emigrated in 1989.

box 6

Transcript and photograph

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Scope and Contents note

2 sound cassettes located in Box 14, Tapes 93-94.

Access

Use copy reference number: 94066_a_0000165

Boris Orlov interview by Sandler 1992 June 23

Scope and Contents note

Narrator is a historian at the Academy of Sciences in Moscow (Institut nauchnoi informatsii po obshchestvennym naukam). Special interest: German Social Democrats.

box 6

Transcript and photograph

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Scope and Contents note

1 sound cassette (in Russian) located in Box 14, Tape 95.

Access

Use copy reference number: 94066_a_0000166

Rainer Ortleb interview by Banchoff 1991 December 19

Scope and Contents note

Narrator is a mathematician. Since 1968 member of the LDPD, then LDP. Head of the LDP (February 2, 1990).

box 6

Transcript, CVs, and photograph

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Scope and Contents note

1 sound cassette located in Box 15, Tape 96.

Access

Use copy reference number: 94066_a_0000167

Karl-Ernst Plagemann interview by McAdams 1990 November 17

Scope and Contents note

Narrator is a mitarbeiter am Institut für internat. Beziehungen an der Akad. für Staats-und Rechtswissenschaft der DDR, Potsdam-Babelsberg.

box 6

Transcript

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Scope and Contents note

1 sound cassette located in Box 15, Tape 97.

Access

Use copy reference number: 94066_a_0000168

Jens (and Christian in English) Reich interview by Siena 1989 December 28

Scope and Contents note

Narrator is a microbiologist. Co-founder of the protest movement Neues Forum.

box 6

Transcript (for Jens only), CV, and photographs

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Scope and Contents note

1 sound cassette located in Box 15, Tape 98. Side A: Christian (in English), Jens (in German and English), and Christian (in English). Sound quality is OK. Side B: Christian (in English).

Access

Use copy reference number: 94066_a_0000169

Jens (and Christian in English) Reich interview by Siena 1991 December 23

box 6

Transcript

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Scope and Contents note

1 sound cassette located in Box 15, Tape 99.

Access

Use copy reference number: 94066_a_0000170

Klaus Reichenbach interview by Banchoff 1992 May 6

Scope and Contents note

Narrator is an engineer. Lawyer. 1990 Landesvorstand der CDU Sachsen. Member of the Volkskammer. GDR minister.

box 6

Transcript and CV

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Scope and Contents note

1 sound cassette located in Box 15, Tape 100.

Access

Use copy reference number: 94066_a_0000171

Otto Reinhold interview by McAdams 1990 March 23

Scope and Contents note

Narrator is Director of the Academy of Social Sciences [Akad. für Gesellschaftswissenschaften].

box 6

Transcript with errata sheet and photograph

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Scope and Contents note

2 sound cassettes located in Box 15, Tapes 101-102.

Access

Use copy reference number: 94066_a_0000172

Otto Reinhold interview by Bortfeldt 1991 January 29

box 6

Transcript

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Scope and Contents note

2 sound cassettes located in Box 15, Tapes 103-104.

Access

Use copy reference number: 94066_a_0000173

Rolf Reißig interview by McAdams 1992 May 19

Scope and Contents note

Narrator is a professor at the Academy of Social Sciences.

box 6

Transcript with errata sheet and photograph

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Scope and Contents note

2 sound cassettes located in Box 15, Tapes 105-106.

Access

Use copy reference number: 94066_a_0000174

Irene Runge interview by Siena 1991 December 19

Scope and Contents note

Narrator is a sociologist, anthropologist, and journalist.

box 6

Transcript and photographs

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Scope and Contents note

2 sound cassettes located in Box 15, Tapes 107-108.

Access

Use copy reference number: 94066_a_0000175

Hans Schindler interview by McAdams 1991 October 3

Scope and Contents note

Narrator is a Dipl. Staatswissenschaftler, Fachrichtung Außenpolitik (Potsdam/Babelsberg). Secretary at the embassy in Moscow. Stellvertretender Botschafter in Bonn (1979-1985). 30 Jahre Mitarbeiter Karl Seidels.

box 7

Transcript and photograph

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Sound recording

Scope and Contents note

2 sound cassettes located in Box 15, Tapes 109-110.

Access

Use copy reference number: 94066_a_0000176

Karl Schirdewan interview by McAdams 1991 July 9

Scope and Contents note

Narrator is an old communist. Member of ZK Politbüro. Together with Wollweber dismissed for opposing Ulbricht. Then Leiter der Staatl. Archivverwaltung der DDR in Potsdam.

box 7

Transcript and CV

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Sound recording

Scope and Contents note

3 sound cassettes located in Box 16, Tapes 111-113.

Access

Use copy reference number: 94066_a_0000177

Gregor Schirmer interview by McAdams 1993 March 7

Scope and Contents note

Narrator is a government official, Deputy Minister of Education.

box 7

Transcript, CV, and photograph

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Sound recording

Scope and Contents note

2 sound cassettes located in Box 16, Tapes 114-115.

Access

Use copy reference number: 94066_a_0000178

Gerhard Schürer interview by McAdams 1991 July 10

Scope and Contents note

Narrator is a member of ZK. Head of Staatliche Plankommission.

box 7

Transcript with errata sheet and CV

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Sound recording

Scope and Contents note

1 sound cassette located in Box 16, Tape 116.

Access

Use copy reference number: 94066_a_0000179

Karl Seidel interview by McAdams 1991 July 8

Scope and Contents note

Narrator is a diplomat. Botschaftsrat in Moscow. Leiter der Abteilung BRD im Ministerium für Auswärtige Anglegenheiten.

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Transcript and CV

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Sound recording

Scope and Contents note

1 sound cassette located in Box 16, Tape 117.

Access

Use copy reference number: 94066_a_0000203

Wolfgang and Regina (called "Lotte") Templin interview by Torpey 1991 August 29

Scope and Contents note

Narrator is Wiss. Mitarbeiter am Zentralinstitut für Philosophie der Akademie der Wissenschaften. Co-founder of Initiative Frieden und Menschenrechte (IFM). 1988 arrested and expelled. 1989 Sprecher der IFM am Runden Tisch. (Lotte: IFM activist. Arrested together with Wolfgang).

box 7

Transcript and photograph

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Sound recording

Scope and Contents note

1 sound cassette located in Box 16, Tape 118.

Access

Use copy reference number: 94066_a_0000204

Wolfgang and Regina (called "Lotte") Templin interview by Torpey 1992 February 3

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Transcript (Tapes 119-120)

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Scope and Contents note

3 sound cassettes located in Box 16, Tapes 119-121. Lotte is on Tape 121, which also has poor audio quality (it is late; contains Wolfgang telling jokes).

Access

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Ferdinand Thun interview by McAdams 1993 March 10

Scope and Contents note

Narrator is Foreign Ministry Chief of Protocol.

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Transcript and photograph

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Conditions Governing Access note

Use copy reference number: 94066_a_0003441

Scope and Contents note

2 sound cassettes located in Box 16, Tapes 122-123.

Wolfgang Ullmann interview by Banchoff 1991 November 12

Scope and Contents note

Narrator is a doctor of theology, pastor, Dozent für Kirchen-geschichte. Delegate of the movement Demokratie Jetzt to the Round Table. Minister under Modrow.

box 8

Transcript, CVs, and photograph

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Sound recording

Scope and Contents note

1 sound cassette located in Box 16, Tape 124.

Access

Use copy reference number: 94066_a_0010881

Manfred Uschner interview by McAdams

Scope and Contents note

Narrator is mitglied des Politbüros des ZK der SED. For 14 years Hermann Axen's personal referent.

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Transcript and photograph

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Sound recording

Scope and Contents note

2 sound cassettes located in Box 17, Tapes 125-126.

Access

Use copy reference number: 94066_a_0010884

Manfred Uschner interview by Zechmeister 1993 March 10

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Transcript

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Scope and Contents note

2 sound cassettes located in Box 17, Tapes 127-128.

Access

Use copy reference number: 94066_a_0010890

Hans Voss interview by McAdams

Scope and Contents note

Narrator is a diplomat. Consul in Burma and Cambodia, ambassador to Romania and Italy.

box 8

Transcript, CV, and photograph

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Sound recording

Scope and Contents note

2 sound cassettes located in Box 17, Tapes 129-130.

Access

Use copy reference number: 94066_a_0010897

Günther Wirth interview by Zechmeister 1992 December 2

Scope and Contents note

Narrator is a member of the Hauptvorstand der CDU der DDR, editor-in-chief of the journal Standpunkt.

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Transcript and postscriptum by Wirth

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Sound recording

Scope and Contents note

3 sound cassettes located in Box 17, Tapes 131-133.

Access

Use copy reference number: 94066_a_0010901

Vincent von Wroblewski interview by Siena 1991 December 17

Scope and Contents note

Narrator is a philosopher, interpreter (French), and editor of the Rowohlt Sartre-edition.

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Transcript and photograph

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Sound recording

Scope and Contents note

1 sound cassette located in Box 17, Tape 134.

Access

Use copy reference number: 94066_a_0010908