Hamid Ahmadi
EDUCATION
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1965 -1968 |
B.Sc. in Military Science at the Tehran Military Academy |
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1968 -1971 |
M.Sc. in Naval Science at the Tehran Military Academy and US Naval Training Center Guam |
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1974 -1978 |
M.A. in Political Science at the University of Karachi |
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1993-1998 |
Doctoral thesis on Socialism and Communism in Iran from 1905 until 1941 at the Free University of Berlin under Prof. Dr. Abraham Ashkenasi |
CAREER IN IRAN
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1974 - 1975 |
Founder of the Iranian Marine Historical Documents Centre, Naval Center, Tehran |
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1976 - 1977 |
Chair of the Section for Analysis of Political-Military Strategy in the Persian Gulf and Indian Ocean, Tehran |
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1979 |
Military advisor to the defence minister Admiral Dr. Ahmad Madani |
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1979-1980 |
Senior Lecturer on the History of War and History of Political Thought at the Military Academy of Iran |
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1980-1981 |
Military advisor to the first president of Iran Dr. Abulhassan Banisadr |
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1982 |
One of the founding members of the Iranian Naval Staff Faculty Iran |
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1983 |
Last military rank: Lieutenant Commander of the Iranian Navy |
POLITICAL CAREER
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1983-1985 |
Head of Orgainisation of the Tudeh Party, Branch in Afghanistan |
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1986 |
Member of the Central Committee of the Tudeh Party of Iran |
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1987 |
Author of critical pamphlets against the Tudeh Party’s policies and Communist ideology (distributed in the former GDR), leading to the break with the Tudeh Party and exile to former West Germany |
CAREER IN GERMANY (POLITICAL EXILE)
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1991 |
One of the founding members of the Association for Social Research of Iran, Berlin |
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1995 - 1997 |
Director of the Oral History Project Iran: Interviews with Iranian Left Activists at the The International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam |
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2000 - present |
Founder and Director of the Research Association for Iranian Oral History (RAIOH) in Berlin; interviews with 90 narrators (approx. 1000 hours) |
BOOK PUBLICATIONS (PUBLISHED IN FARSI)
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1975 |
History of the Iranian Navy |
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1975 |
A history of the Arab-Israel war |
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1987 |
A study on political policy of the Tudeh Party of Iran, (1979-1983) |
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1991 |
A history of the Iranian Republican and Dr. Erani Group (1926-1937) |
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1992 |
A history of the Iranian Communist Party (1921-1931) |
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1993 |
A history of the Edalat Party of Iran, (1917-1920) |
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1998 |
The recollections of Bozorg Alavi |
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1999 |
The recollections of Parviz Ekteshafi, Iranian Air Force |
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2001 |
The recollections of Abolhasan Banisadr, The first president of Iran |
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2001 |
A history of the Islamic revolution in Iran |
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2002 |
The recollections of Morteza Zarbakht, Iranian Air Force |
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2004 |
The recollections of Najmi Alavi, Iranian Women's movement |
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2006 |
The recollections of Reza Taheri, Iranian Peasant movement |
ARCHIVIST ACTIVITIES
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1985 - 1995 |
Build up of the archives of the Iranian socialist and communist parties, organizations and groups (1917-1990) (Made available to the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam) |
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1985 – present |
Collection of Documents and journals relating to organizations of Iranian political oppositions and activists, women's and student’s movements, and non-governmental intellectual circles covering the period 1890 - 2000. |
