Completed research projects

From Floppy Discs to FAIR Data

coordination: Dr. Anne Klammt

TransFAIR Data: Data and Content of the NS newspaper Freiheitskampf for Knowledge Transfer

coordination: Dr. Anne Klammt

Miteinander politisch sein

coordination: Prof. Dr. Thomas Lindenbergereditor: Dr. Maren Hachmeister

DDtrust

coordination: Prof. Dr. Mike Schmeitzner

Ukrainian Childhood facing War and Displacement : A Life Story Project

Exhibition politics. Documenta and the GDR

coordination: Dr. Alexia Pooth

Beschlussregister. Institutionalisation in the GDR

coordination: Dora Busch

Belonging. The History of Child Adoption in Germany (1945/9-2000)

coordination: PD Dr. Bettina Hitzereditor: PD Dr. Bettina Hitzer; Anne Rinke

Transformations of the Police. One Hundred Years of Landeskriminalamt (LKA) Sachsen 1922-2022

coordination: Prof. Dr. Mike Schmeitzner

Corona Project: From Virus to Viral Conspiracy Theories

coordination: Prof. Dr. Thomas Lindenberger

From #Corona Diktatur to 'Hygiene Demos': Conspiracy theories surrounding COVID-19 in digital and analog space

coordination: Prof. Dr. Uwe Backeseditor: Stefan BriegerJoint project

Digitization strategy and knowledge transfer

coordination: Dr. Claudia Böttchereditor: Dr. Jochen TiepmarJoint project

The radicalization of stereotypes and scapegoats in the wake of the Spanish Flu in 1918

coordination: Prof. Dr. Mike Schmeitznereditor: Matthäus WehowskiJoint project

Multiple Transformations. Societal Experience and Cultural Change in East Germany and Central Eastern Europe before and after 1989

coordination: PD Dr. Friederike Kind-Kovácseditor: Dr. Maren Hachmeister; PD Dr. Friederike

Voluntariness and Care in Transformation: Local Involvement in the Tri-Border Region

coordination: PD Dr. Friederike Kind-Kovácseditor: Dr. Maren HachmeisterJoint project

Development of co-operative structures at the Hannah Arendt Institute at the TU Dresden and the Research Institute on Social Cohesion at Leipzig University

coordination: PD Dr. Steffen Kailitzeditor: Uwe Backes, Philipp Currle, Tobias Genswein, Katja Pietrusky

State persecution of homosexuals in Saxony 1933-1968

coordination: Dr. Clemens Vollnhalseditor: Dr. Alexander Zinn

Setting out for democracy and nationhood in the border triangle of Germany, Poland and Czechoslovakia after the Great War (1918-1923)

coordination: PD Dr. Steffen Kailitzeditor: Sebastian Paul, Matthäus Wehowski

History of late Saxon war-time society (1943-1945)

coordination: Dr. Francesca Weil

Stasi operation ‘Light’ in 1962

coordination: Dr. Thomas Widera

Volunteer work in local communities between state socialism and liberal capitalism. The history of the volunteer fire brigades in Germany and Eastern Central Europe 1980-2000

coordination: Prof. Dr. Thomas Lindenberger, Univ. Prof. Dr. Philipp Thereditor: Steffi Unger, Mojmír Stránský

Sachsenburg concentration camp 1933-1937

coordination: Prof. Dr. Mike Schmeitzner

East German film propaganda and West German censorship by the Inter-Ministerial Committee for East/West Cinematic Affairs

coordination: Dr. Andreas Kötzing

Images of omnipotence. Depictions of State Security in film and television.

coordination: Dr. Andreas Kötzing

Saxony from 1933 to 1945. A historical travel guide

coordination: Prof. Dr. Mike Schmeitzner, Dr. Francesca Weil

The 11th Plenary Session of the Central Committee of the SED in December 1965

coordination: Dr. Andreas Kötzing

Right-wing motivated hatred and violence in Saxony: trends, radicalisation and prevention

coordination: Prof. Dr. Uwe Backes

Types of autocracy

coordination: Prof. Dr. Uwe Backes

The moral order of National Socialism

coordination: PD Dr. Wolfgang Bialas

The Deutsche Volksliste (German People's List, DVL) in Nazi-occupied Poland in 1939/41-1945

coordination: Dr. Johannes Frackowiak

Biographies and case law of Wehrmacht judges

coordination: Dr. Claudia Bade

Why do democracies collapse?

coordination: PD Dr. Steffen Kailitz

The Prague embassy refugees of 1989

coordination: Dr. Karel Vodička

First in the district. Social profile, career and the reign of regional Saxon SED elites during the Ulbricht era

coordination: Dr. Tilman Pohlmann

National Socialist crimes and Stalinist justice

coordination: PD Dr. Mike Schmeitzner

National Socialist propaganda in Saxony 1921-1945

coordination: Stephan Dehn

The Saxon Grand Lodges after 1918

coordination: Franziska Böhl

Völkische Bewegung, Konservative Revolution, Nationalsozialismus

coordination: Dr. Clemens Vollnhals M.A.

Co-operation between the GDR Ministry for State Security (MfS) and the Polish Ministry of the Interior (MSW)

coordination: Dr. Tytus Jaskułowski

Variants of autocracy and its strategies of legitimation

coordination: PD Dr. Steffen Kailitz

Edition project: Anna Walentynowicz and Anna Baszanowska: Shadows in the Future

coordination: Dr. Tytus Jaskułowskieditor: Dr. Eva Wiese

The Peaceful Revolution in the GDR, 1989-1990. The transition compared with Eastern Central Europe

coordination: Dr. Clemens Vollnhals M.A.

Right-wing motivated multiple and habitual offenders in Saxony

coordination: Prof. Dr. Uwe Backes

Victims along the Saxon-Bavarian and Saxon-Czech borders between 1952 and 1989Victims along the Saxon-Bavarian and Saxon-Czech borders between 1952 and 1989

coordination: Jan Gülzau

Courageous women of the Confessing Church (Bekennende Kirche) in opposition to Nazi racial policy

coordination: Dr. Clemens Vollnhals M.A.

History of the Bautzen Strasse detention centre and the Dresden State Security District Administration Authority 1945-1990

coordination: Dr. Thomas Widera

Construction soldiers in Prora and their protest against SED military policy

coordination: Dr. Thomas Widera

Critique of utopian thinking – Karl Marx and Marxism

coordination: Prof. Dr. Lothar Fritze

Nach den Diktaturen: Der Umgang mit den Opfern in Europa

coordination: Dr. Clemens Vollnhals M.A.

Totalitarian thinking in Marxism and National Socialism

coordination: Prof. Dr. Lothar Fritze

Flight and integration. A survey of fugitives in Saxony

coordination: PD Dr. Steffen Kailitz

Democratic Cohesion in Saxony (DeZiS)

coordination: PD Dr. Steffen Kailitz

Youth and Hitler Youth in National Socialism

coordination: Dr. André Postert

There can be no mercy. An exchange of letters during World War II

coordination: Dr. Francesca Weil

Childhoods in the Second World War

coordination: Dr. Francesca Weil, Dr. André Postert

Protestantism and the nationalist movement

coordination: Dr. Clemens Vollnhals

Budapest's Children: Humanitarian Relief in the Aftermath of the Great War

coordination: PD Dr. Friederike Kind-Kovácseditor: PD Dr. Friederike Kind-Kovács