Peter Glotz

Peter goggle ( born March 6, 1939 in Eger, Sudetenland, † 25 August, 2005 Zurich, Switzerland ) was a German politician ( SPD), publicist and communication scientists.

He was from 1974 to 1977 Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Education and Science, 1977-1981 Senator for Science and Research of West Berlin and from 1981 to 1987 federal secretary of the SPD. From 1996 to 1999 he was the founding president of the University of Erfurt and from 2000 to 2004 professor at the University of St. Gallen. From 2004 until his death in was Peter goggle at the Bureau of the German - Arab society.

Education and work

The father of Oglethorpe was a German Insurance employee, the mother was Czech. After the expulsion from Bohemia goggle 1945 came after Ecker village in Upper Franconia. He attended secondary school in Bayreuth and Hanover, where in 1959 the Abitur. He then completed a degree in journalism, philosophy, German literature and sociology at the universities of Munich and Vienna, which he as a Master of Arts in trade ended in 1964 journalism. He was then to 1970 when Otto B. Roegele a research assistant at the Institute of journalism at the University of Munich, where in 1968 his PhD. was done with the work book review in German newspapers. From 1969 to 1970 he was Vice-Principal of the University of Munich. Subsequently, he was until 1972 Director of a research institute in Munich.

After leaving the Bundestag in 1996 Oglethorpe until 1999 ( founding) Rector of the University of Erfurt. Success he achieved at the University of Erfurt, especially with the development of philosophical and political science faculty, the Max -Weber -Kolleg, the construction of the library, and contact with the business. From 2000 to 2004 he was then a permanent guest Professor of Media and Society at the Institute for Media and Communications Management at the University of St. Gallen ( Switzerland ). As a representative of the Federal Chancellor goggle was from 2001 to 2002 Member of the European Constitutional Convention to draft a European constitution. Since 2000, he was together with Erika Steinbach Chairman of the Foundation Center against Expulsions. He was curator of the Initiative New Social Market Economy. He worked most recently as a freelance journalist, author and editor, such as the " New Society Frankfurt notebooks".

Together with Heinz Klaus Mertes, he hosted on RTL 1996 to 1997 the political talk show Crossfire and 2005 together with Heiner Geissler, the monthly political broadcast goggle & Geissler on n-tv.

Family

Oglethorpe married in 1976, the then Member of Parliament Anke Martiny in second marriage. With his third wife Felicitas Walch, whom he married in 1991, he had a son.

Oglethorpe died aged 66 on 25 August 2005 in the presence of his third wife and his seven- year-old son at the University Hospital Zurich in a squamous cell carcinoma in the lung.

Party

Since 1961, Oglethorpe was a member of the SPD. From 1972 to 1976 he was deputy chairman of the Bavarian Social Democrats. After a brief stint as a state chairman of the SPD Berlin in 1981, he was until 1987 the SPD federal party. Finally goggle officiated from 1987 to 1991 as a district chairman in southern Bavaria.

Member of Parliament

From 1970 to 1972 Oglethorpe belonged to the Bavarian Parliament as MP for the constituency Fürstenfeldbruck.

From 1972 until his resignation on 16 May 1977 and from 1983 to 24 September 1996, he was a member of the German Bundestag.

Oglethorpe was always drawn over the national list Bavaria in the Bundestag.

Public offices

On 16 May 1974 he was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Federal Minister of Education and Science in the run of Helmut Schmidt federal government.

On 16 May 1977 he resigned from this office when he was appointed Senator for Science and Research, headed by Dietrich Stobbe Senate of Berlin (West). This office he retained under his successor, Hans -Jochen Vogel. After the change of government following the federal election in 1981 Oglethorpe retired from the Senate on June 11, 1981.

Political

Oglethorpe was often referred to members of the media as the " mastermind " of the Social Democrats, although he only reluctantly and usually not followed this in his ideas. In the 1970s, he distinguished himself in disputes with the Young Socialists in the SPD. In January 1978, he participated in the Tunix Congress in Berlin, whereby the Left after the events of the German Autumn discussed future strategies and orientations. As a federal manager, he tried the SPD new impulses ( " campaign capability") given to those which he fused with current social science theories and issues tried ( "Information Society" ). These efforts were not considered by a electoral success (loss of federal elections in 1983 and 1987), but he made so that the legitimacy of political science and policy advice on a standard for the work of his party. He published a number of books, same time also to papers and articles in newspapers and magazines ( Time, Friday).

Oglethorpe was attributed to the start of his party career the left wing, with age he approached, however, conservative positions. He belonged to the SPD to the pioneers for the introduction of tuition fees ( in the core rots? Five to twelve at German universities. , 1996). He also supported the Agenda 2010, the red - green government, and still demanded more far-reaching reforms in the labor and economic policy. Furthermore, he was involved on behalf of the SPD-led government in the drafting of the European Constitution. Oglethorpe advocated the establishment of a Centre Against Expulsions in Berlin, and was since September 2000 ( jointly with the President of the Federation of displaced Erika Steinbach ), Chairman of the Foundation, founded for this purpose.

Works

  • Book review in German newspapers. Publisher of the book market research, Hamburg 1968.
  • Wolfgang R. Lange Bucher ( ed.): Missed lessons. Design of a read book. S. Mohn Verlag, Gütersloh 1965.
  • Wolfgang R. Langenbucher: The disobeyed readers. For a critique of the German press. Kiepenheuer and Malevich, Cologne and Berlin in 1969.
  • Wolfgang R. Lange Bucher ( ed.): models for German. Correction of a hero gallery. R. Piper, Munich, 1974.
  • The path of social democracy. The historic mission of reformism. Molden, Vienna 1975.
  • The interior of the power. Political Diary 1976-1978. Steinhausen, Munich 1979.
  • The work of the escalation. About the organization of a government capable left. Berlin, settlers in 1984.
  • Manifesto for a New European Left. Siedler, Berlin 1985.
  • The intensification of work. Five Theses on the working society and its future. In: Kurt van Haaren, Hans -Ulrich Klose, Michael Müller ( ed.): emancipation of labor. Strategies against unemployment, environmental degradation and human alienation. New Society, Bonn, 1986, pp. 41-47.
  • The German rights. A polemic. German publishing house, Stuttgart 1989.
  • The aberration of the nation state. European speeches to a German audience. DVA, Stuttgart 1990.
  • The Left after the victory of the West. DVA, Stuttgart 1992.
  • Konrad Seitz, Peter goggle, Rita Süssmuth: The haphazard elites: the Germans miss the future? Stiebner, Munich 1992.
  • Rots in the core? Five to twelve at German universities. DVA, Stuttgart 1996.
  • The years of the gloom. Political diary. DVA, Stuttgart 1996.
  • The notification of the Germans. Recent television coverage between quota and time constraint. Institute for Media and Communication in Development of the publishing group Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Frankfurt am Main, 1998.
  • The accelerated society. Culture fighting in digital capitalism. Kindler, Munich 1999.
  • From Analog to Digital. Our company is on the path to digital culture. Huber, Frauenfeld 2001.
  • Ron Sommer. The path of the Telekom. Hoffmann und Campe, Hamburg 2001.
  • The expulsion. Bohemia as a lesson. Ullsteinhaus, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-550-07574- X.
  • The knowledge worker. Essays on political strategy. Foreword by Lepenies. Huber, Frauenfeld 2004, ISBN 3-7193-1351-4.
  • Online from Vistaprint. Newspaper and magazine changing. UGC, Konstanz 2004.
  • From home to home. Memoirs of a frontier worker. Econ, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-430-13258-4.

Awards

Reichsgau Sudetenland August 25 Pundit Deutsch-Arabische Gesellschaft Eckersdorf Squamous-cell carcinoma Landtag of Bavaria Hans-Jochen Vogel Federation of Expellees Hans-Ulrich Klose Bavarian Order of Merit First Schmidt cabinet Bruno Kreisky Adolf Arndt Adolf Grimme Alois Hundhammer Christine Teusch Hanna-Renate Laurien Wolfgang Gerhardt Annette Schavan Karin Wolff Johanna Wanka Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer Walter Momper Anke Fuchs Ottmar Schreiner Kai Brodersen Integrated Authority File
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