Life
Early years
Hermann Weber was born into a working-class family in the closing years of what would later become known as thePublished output (not a complete list)
As author
* withAs editor
* Hermann Weber and others (Ed.): ''Kommunisten verfolgen Kommunisten: stalinistischer Terror und „Säuberungen“ in den kommunistischen Parteien Europas seit den dreißiger Jahren''. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1993, . * ''Der Gründungsparteitag der KPD.'' Europäische Verlagsanstalt, Frankfurt am Main 1969. Neu herausgegeben und eingeleitet: ''Die Gründung der KPD, Protokoll und Materialien des Gründungsparteitages der KPD 1918/1919. Mit einer Einführung zur angeblichen Erstveröffentlichung durch die SED.'' Dietz, Berlin 1993, .Young communist
Weber joined the KPD himself in 1945. Early in 1946 he attended a four-week course near Berlin organised by the Free German Youth (FDJ / ''Freie Deutsche Jugend'') which was in effect the newly created youth wing of theBack in the Federal Republic
In 1949 Weber was sent back to what had now become the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany), formally established in May 1949 from a combination of the three Allied occupation zones hitherto under US, British and French control. He became editor-in-chief of the FDJ-Zeitung, a newspaper based at this stage inAcademia
Between 1964 and 1968 Weber studied atPost retirement career
Weber remained a board member of the National Foundation for Re-assessment of the SED Dictatorship. He was also an honorary member of the Joint Commission for research on recent German Russian relations. In 1993 he founded the Year Book for Historical Communism Research, an annual publication which he continued to edit till 2007.Professional high point
Weber identified a high point of his research career as the discovery, in 1968, of the text of the original minutes of the Founding Congress of theNotes
References
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Weber, Hermann Historians of communism 20th-century German historians Academic staff of the University of Mannheim German newspaper journalists German male journalists German political writers German autobiographers German editors Officers Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany 1928 births 2014 deaths German male essayists 20th-century German essayists 20th-century German male writers