Hubertus Knabe

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Hubertus Knabe
Freie Universität Berlin
Occupations
  • Historian
  • Museum director
Organizations
Green Party

Hubertus Knabe (born 1959) is a German historian and was the scientific director of the

Alliance '90/The Greens
.

Early life and career

Knabe's parents fled East Germany in 1959, and Knabe was born that year and grew up in

Federal Commissioner for the Stasi Records. In 2001, he was appointed scientific director of the Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial.[1]

Political views

Knabe is committed to not allowing the crimes committed by the

East German government to be forgotten. He said: "Not until the Communist dictatorship is as firmly in mind in Germany as the criminal regime of the Nazis will we really have succeeded in coming to terms with the legacy of Stasi minister Erich Mielke."[2]

Knabe has called for a more outspoken

Berlin state government for what he described as kowtowing to the extremism of The Left party, which he alleged to be riddled with former SED and Stasi personnel intent on bringing back the old regime to the city-state.[4]

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