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Gerhard Branstner
Gerhard Branstner (25 May 1927 – 18 August 2008) was a German writer. Life Born in Blankenhain, Branstner attended primary schools from 1934 and began a three-year administrative apprenticeship in 1942. After two weeks of front-line service, he was briefly taken as an American prisoner of war in 1945. Branstner was then a French prisoner of war (until 1947) and finally a Belgian prisoner of war, from which he was released in 1947. As the son of poor parents (his father was a porcelain worker), he was given the opportunity in the German Democratic Republic, GDR from 1949 to 1951 to catch up on his A-levels at the in Jena. He then studied philosophy at the Humboldt University of Berlin from 1951 to 1956, where he later also worked as a lecturer. Branstner married in 1953. The marriage produced two sons (born 1955 and 1957) and a daughter (born 1959). With a thesis ''On Humour and its Role in Literature'', he received his doctorate in 1963 (later published as ''The Art of Humo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bundesarchiv Bild 183-F1204-0028-001, Berlin, Käthe Krieg, Gerhard Branstner, Harry Thürk
The German Federal Archives or Bundesarchiv (BArch) (german: Bundesarchiv) are the National Archives of Germany. They were established at the current location in Koblenz in 1952. They are subordinated to the Federal Commissioner for Culture and the Media (Claudia Roth since 2021) under the German Chancellery, and before 1998, to the Federal Ministry of the Interior (Germany), Federal Ministry of the Interior. On 6 December 2008, the Archives donated 100,000 photos to the public, by making them accessible via Wikimedia Commons. History The federal archive for institutions and authorities in Germany, the first precursor to the present-day Federal Archives, was established in Potsdam, Brandenburg in 1919, a later date than in other European countries. This national archive documented German government dating from the founding of the North German Confederation in 1867. It also included material from the older German Confederation and the Imperial Chamber Court. The oldest documents i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |