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Hendrik Malte Wenk

Doctoral Candidate

Hendrik_Malte.Wenk@tu-dresden.de

phone: +49 (0351) 463 32802

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VITA

Academic career

  • Since 2018 work on a dissertation on the topic of "Die Volkspolizei im Sicherheitssystem der DDR. Ambivalenzen in der Praxis des Abschnittsbevollmächtigten" (The People's Police in the GDR's Security System. Ambivalences in the Practice of the Community Policeman)
  • 10/2015–10/2018 M.A. in History at TU Dresden
  • 10/2012–1/2016 B.A. in History, Political Science and Philosophy at TU Dresden

Work experience

  • 4/2019-7/2019 Research Assistant at the Chair for Totalitarianism Research, TU Dresden
  • 11/2018-3/2019 Research Assistant at Hannah Arendt Institute, TU Dresden
  • 4/2018–10/2018 Student Assistant at Hannah Arendt Institute, TU Dresden
  • 5/2017–9/2018 Student Assistant at the Chair for Modern and Contemporary History, TU Dresden
  • 4/2017-6/2017 Internship in Sächsische Zeitung's local newsroom in Dresden
  • 2/2016-4/2017 Student Assistant at the Saxon State and University Library Dresden (SLUB)
  • 7/2014-8/2014 Internship with the Federal Commissioner for the records of the State Security Service of the former GDR, branch office Dresden

Linguistic proficiency

  • English
  • French
  • Spanish

Research and teaching focus

  • Contemporary History
  • GDR History
  • History of the People's Police

Research projects

The People's Police in the GDR's Security System. Ambivalences in the Practice of the Community Policeman (Dissertation) Short Exposé on Dissertation

Scholarships and Awards

  • Since 9/2019 Doctoral scholarship holder of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom

Expert activities

  • Expert for the State Archiva Thuringia - State Archive Meiningen

Academic self-government

  • Since 10/2020 Student Representative in the Tenure Evaluation Committee of TU Dresden
  • Since 05/2020 Member of the Doctoral Council of the Graduate Academy of TU Dresden
  • Since 01/2020 Student Representative in the Committee of the History Study Commission of TU Dresden
  • 2019/20 Member of the Appointment Committee of the "Chair for Political Theory and the History of Political Thought" at TU Dresden

Functions and memberships

  • Since 01/2020 Executive Editor for book reviews of the journal "Totalitarismus und Demokratie. Zeitschrift für Internationale Diktatur- und Freiheitsforschung"
  • Since 10/2019 Member of the German Historians' Association
  • Since 10/2019 Member of the Association of Scholarship Holders and Former Scholarship Holders of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom
  • Since 09/2019 Member of the German Society for Police History (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Polizeigeschichte e.V.)
  • Since 3/2019 Member of the Dresden History Club (Dresdner Geschichtsverein e.V.)
  • since 3/2019 Member of the Graduate Academy of TU Dresden

PUBLICATIONS



Reviews

Rez. zu: Polizei im Wandel. 70 Jahre Polizeiarbeit in Nordrhein-Westfalen, Frank Kawelovski/Sabine Mecking.

Wenk, Hendrik Malte
In: H-Soz-Kult more details


Rez. zu: Die Blockparteien im SED-System der letzten DDR-Jahre. Wahrnehmung und Partizipation am Beispiel des Bezirks Rostock, Luise Güth.

Wenk, Hendrik Malte
In: Online-Rezensionen des Jahrbuchs zur Liberalismus-Forschung, 2020 (2020) 1In: Archiv des Liberalismus more details

Press Articles

Schwarz, weiß oder grau? Das Sicherheitssystem der DDR.

vsa-freiheit.org more details

further publishments

Bericht zu: Liberale und Frieden. Kolloquium zur Liberalismus-Forschung 2018, 29.10.2018 – 31.10.2018 Jena.

H-Soz-Kult, 2020 to the internet article


Bericht zu: Volunteering and Civic Engagement in Co-Transformation. Perspectives from Eastern and Western Europe, 1970-2000, 09.01.2020 – 10.01.2020 Dresden.

H-Soz-Kult, 2020 to the internet article

LECTURES




Die Abschnittsbevollmächtigten im Sicherheitssystem der DDR.

24 January 2020 • Suhl
13. Geschichtsmesse: "Neue Heimat, alte Grenzen? Gesellschaft und Transformation in Deutschland seit 1990", Sektion Aktuelle Forschungsprojekte I, Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur.