Stefan Wolle

Quick Facts

Full Name	Stefan Wolle
Occupation	Historian
Date Of Birth	Oct 22, 1950(1950-10-22)
Age	74
Birthplace	Halle
Country	Germany
Birth City	Saxony-Anhalt
Horoscope	Libra

Stefan Wolle Biography

Stefan Wolle is one of the most popular and richest Historian who was born on October 22, 1950 in Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Stefan Wolle (born 22 October 1950) is Stefan Wolle (born 22 October 1950) is a German historian from Germany. The focus of his socio-historical studies is Germany’s German Democratic Republic (East Germany) in which prior to reunification, he lived and worked.

In March or February 1991 Wolle along with Mitter were removed by the Stasi Records Agency for “disloyalty”. The decision was made at the direction by Wolfgang Schauble, at that time the Interior Minister in the German government. It also came in the wake of an interview on TV that Wolle was able to reveal his name as the previous East German prime minister, Lothar de Maiziere been included in Stasi files that contained non-official Stasi collaborators. (Schauble’s intervention may be prompted by the revelation regarding de Maiziere was in direct contradiction to previous assurances made public by Schauble on the subject.) The decision to dismiss de Maiziere was made in the hands of Joachim Gauck, then head of the Stasi Records Agency. In his personal memoir Gauck expressed his profound regrets over the incident He was told he had no choiceand indeed attempted to reinstate Wolle at a later time.

Between 1991 between 1991 and 1996 Wolle was researcher at Humboldt University. Between 1996 and 1998 his work was funded by the German Research Foundation (“Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft” / DFG). From 1998 to 2000, he worked for the National Foundation for the Evaluation of the SED Dictatorship (“Bundesstiftung for the Study of the SED-Diktatur”). Since 2002, he has been working with the Forschungsverbund SED Staat (” SED [one-party-]state Research Association”) in the Berlin Free University.

Stefan Wolle Net Worth

Stefan Wolle is one of the richest Historian from Germany. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Stefan Wolle 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Stefan Wolle was born in Halle. His father was a staunch fan of the newly established ruling party. He went to school in Berlin and enrolled on an apprenticeship within the trade of books. After completing his military service the Berlin native was accepted into Humboldt University to study historical sciences. However, in 1972 , he was exiled from the university because due to being accused of “intellectual arrogance”. However, he was allowed to go back and continue his studies at Humboldt between 1973 until 1976. However, he was not an official part in the Socialist Unity Party (“Sozialistische Einheitspartei Germanys” SED) SED) however, and did not intend to do so. He was employed for the next 13 decades as an academic scholar associated with the Central Historical Institute and the Institute for General History at the (East) German Academy of Sciences.

Wolle earned the doctorate degree in 1984, for research about Vladimir The Great from Kievan Rus’, consciously chosen as an unideological subject which was then revised for publication in 1993 as a book. Wolle gained more attention as a result of the Peaceful Revolution which was followed by German unification, which was officially announced in October of 1990. In the second half of the 1980s, he had been in contact with groups of the underground opposition and, after the wall was smashed in November 1989 , he was able to be an Round Table expert witness on Stasi documents. Additionally, he was a part of the “Normannenstrasse Citizens Committee”. He was charged, along and Armin Mitter with the responsibility of preserving documents in the Stasi national center in Normannenstrasse in the event that it was the time when Stasi operation itself ended. Through a time of rapid shifts, the occupation January 1990 by citizens concerned (taking their cues of similar protests at Erfurt, Lepizig and Rostock) of the building that housed the archivesstopped greater destruction of evidence. In March of 1990 Wolle and Mitter who had access to the archives they published the version of the first Stasi report and directions. There were 200,000 copies printed in two days and by the end of July, 1990, 250,000 were printed. The issue regarding what would be the best use of the Stasi archives was becoming urgent fast due to the nature and extent of surveillance by the government on citizens of East Germany between 1949 and 1989. By March 1990, an organized method of handling the archive started to be developed. Stefan Wolle served as a part of the group that became known as the Stasi Records Agency (“Bundesbeauftragter for the Stasi- Unterlagen” / BStU”Gauck commission “Gauck commission”) between March 1990 until February 1991.

Since 2005 Stefan Wolle has been director of academic research at the popular DDR Museum, which opened to the public in July 2006.

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Stefan Ranked on the list of most popular Historian. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Germany. Stefan Wolle celebrates birthday on October 22 of every year.