Parteihochschule Karl Marx

The Party School Karl Marx ( PHS) was a (SBZ ) founded university in 1946 in the Soviet zone of occupation, which was subordinate to the Central Committee of the SED. The teaching was discontinued on 30 June 1990.

History

The PHS was the highest educational institution of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany, there was subordinate to the training of the district party comrades Schools ( BPS) and county Party Schools ( KPS). Alternatively, it was also studying at the Party School of the Communist Party in Moscow.

After the foundation in 1946 until the end of 1947, there were initially six-month courses. In 1947, then two-year courses for younger SED members and functionaries to the general political and ideological education, as well as semi-annual courses for older, often relatively influential officials who were trained for new tasks, gone. Three quarters of all cadets came from the Soviet occupation zone and the GDR, the rest were Communist Party functionaries from the Western occupation zones studied here under another name. In later years, the party members were delegated by their basic organizations for one-year or three-year study. Direct or external distance learning was possible with the Diploma in Social Scientists.

The college was initially the Agitation and Propaganda Department of the Central Committee assumed, in 1983 the ideology and culture secretary in the Politburo Kurt Hager, who was regarded as the chief ideologue of the GDR after Ulbricht's demise and the assumption of power by Erich Honecker. Hager was also further courses at the Higher Party School.

Its headquarters was initially located in Liebenwalde, since 1948 in the Hakeburg in Kleinmachnow, and from 1955 in Berlin-Mitte in the Rungestraße 3, at Am Köllnischen Park, where it was expanded in 1974 and partly supplemented by new buildings until in around 1980 individual chairs was moved again to Kleinmachnow.

At its inception, the school got the following problem: " development of a skilled cadres in connection with theoretical research and production of training and other materials according to the instructions of the Central Secretariat ". The Party School was an official state university with an enrollment in the university register of the GDR, who also owned the doctoral and postdoctoral law.

A total of about 25,000 members of the SED completed training and courses. In addition, 2,000 students studied friendly parties and leftist organizations from 67 countries in 1963 founded Thalmann - Institut (Institute for Foreign Students ). In the summer of 1990, the liquidation of the university, the dismissal of 150 professors, lecturers and assistants, the remaining students and about 300 other employees took place.

Chairs

  • History of the CPSU
  • Political Economy of Socialism
  • Political Economy of Capitalism
  • Doctrine of the Marxist- Leninist party, the party life and party building
  • Economics of the industry
  • Agricultural Policy and Agricultural Economics
  • Cultural policy of the SED

Directors

Known graduates

  • Rolf Kutzmutz (The Left )
  • Herbert Mies ( DKP)
  • Petra Pau (The Left )
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