 Complete the following phrase:  In November 1970 he took over as Secretary for Sciences, Humanities and Arts Sekretär für Wissenschaft und Kultur with the party sectional leadership team SED-Kreisleitung at the Karl Marx University. That lasted till December 1977 when he took over as Party Regional Secretary for Sciences, Humanities, Popular education and Arts Sekretär für Wissenschaft und Kultur in respect of the Leipzig party regional leadership team SED-Bezirksleitung. By this time, seven years after receiving his doctorate, he had received his Habilitation for a piece of work on the postwar history of Leipzig University. Identified as a post-graduate student of significant promise, during 198283 he accepted the opportunity to study for a year at the Academy for Social Sciences run in Moscow by the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party. His lecturers in Moscow included the reformist historian Roy Medvedev who would emerge after 