Reinhard Opitz

Reinhard Opitz ( born July 2, 1934 in Bytom, † April 3, 1986 in Cologne ) was a German journalist, independent scholar and social scientist.

The life, works

Reinhard Opitz visited a human Gymnasium in Halle and Leipzig. In 1951 he and his family left the GDR. He studied German and philosophy at the Free University ( FU) in West Berlin, and in 1955 to Tübingen. There he joined the Socialist German Student Union (SDS ). Opitz founded 1956 Student Action against rearmament and was due to a leaflet of this association a university Diszplinarstrafe. He moved back in 1956 at the Free University in Berlin. There he became involved in the editorial department of the student -Courier from 1957, the magazine was concrete terms. Opitz was the editor of West Berlin. In 1959 he was expelled along with a Concrete- group from the SDS.

From 1960 Opitz engaged in the German Peace Union's (DFU ) and was in Cologne from 1960 to 1965 their press officer. From 1965 he worked as a freelance, starting in 1974 as a staff editor at Pahl - Rugenstein publisher. Opitz was co-editor of the leaves for German and international politics.

Reinhard Opitz was a German leftist intellectual, the much respected in the former left - journalistic milieu, numerous time- critical articles published from the mid- 1960s to mid-1980s, especially on the role of fascism in Germany and the company concept of " formed society ".

Opitz was established in 1973 as "external " at the Faculty of Social Sciences ( FB 03 ), University of Marburg ( expert Hans Heinz Holz ) phil with a political historical study of the German social liberalism of the Weimar Republic to the Dr.. doctorate. Later he published basic policy historical works, such as the Edition " Europe strategies of German capital " (1977) and " fascism and neo-fascism " (1984). From 1984 until his death he worked as a lecturer in the fields of politics, history and social science at the " Cologne School of Journalism Institute eV" (now " Cologne School of Journalism ").

Through numerous time-bound ideology -critical work out Opitz was twenty years active as a public speaker and consultant.

Effect

In political science, contemporary history mainstream Reinhard Opitz enjoys as a scientist and publicist posthumously permanent recognition (not to be confused with approval).

His name is mentioned in the treatment of the history of the political system of the Federal Republic of Germany than that of the most important critic of Erhard 's anti- pluralism, which formed society, pe cited with a core set - although at half the alienation of the position also shoot over the target, but fully as an indication that the time came to move, so as intellectuals in Habermas'schem sense.

His dissertation in 1973 with Hans Heinz Holz about " ideology and practice of the German social liberalism 1917-1933 ," published the same year in Cologne Pahl - Rugenstein Verlag, secures him a place in the political science liberalism discussion.

Even in the political science fascism discussion of his publications are present: in the literature Notes to Article Fascism / fascism theory of Guenter Rieger for the band 7 of Nohlenschen Dictionary of Politics: Political concepts, ed. by Dieter Nohlen, Rainer -Olaf Schultze and Suzanne S. Schüttemeyer. Munich ( Beck) in 1998, Reinhard Opitz with " fascism and neo-fascism " by 1996 one in six (1/6 ) Authors mentioned, besides TW Adorno 1973: Studies on the authoritarian character, Ffm (English first 1950), W. Laqueur 1997: fascism. Yesterday - today - tomorrow, Bln, E. Nolte 1963: Fascism in his era, Cologne, R. Saage 41997: theories of fascism, Baden -Baden ( first: 1976) and Wippermann, W. 71997: Fascism theories. The development of the discussion from the beginning until today, Darmst. ( first: 1972). In Rieger's eponymous contribution to Nohlen / Grotz (eds. ) Small dictionary of politics, Munich ( Beck) in 2007, is Opitz, update and addition of A. Bauerkämper 2006. Fascism in Europe 1918-1945, Stg, S. Breuer, 2005: nationalism and fascism, Darmstadt and R. Kühnl 2006: theories of fascism, Heilbronn, one of the nine (1 /9). Comparisons as well as the extended edition of the same encyclopedia, 2011.

Bauerkämper 2006 calls him together with Reinhard Kühnl as representatives of the Marxist theory of fascism (S 24; register), and Reinhard Kühnl 2006, which has paid great attention to the contributions of Reinhard Opitz to the theory of fascism from the start, found 1990/2006 the representation of the Opitz 's approach under the rubric of " fascism as a dictatorship of monopoly capital ", the knowledge must apply at each statement to Opitz's theory as a minimum requirement.

Publications

• The great plan of the CDU: The " Formed society ", in: " Sheets for German and International Politics ", vol 9, 1965; Reprint " arguments at the time " 17, 5th edition.
• Fundamental questions of oppositional and alternative strategy, in: " Alternatives to the opposition," by Friedrich ed. superheater and Reinhard Opitz, Pahl - Rugenstein, Cologne 1969, pp. 395-406
• Theses on fascism term, in: " neo-fascism in Germany. Analysis - arguments - Documentaries " Röderberg, Frankfurt am Main 1971, p 25-28
• How to fight fascism? In: " fascism. Emergence and prevention. Materials for fascism discussion " Röderberg, Frankfurt am Main 1972, p 46-64
• The German social liberalism 1917-1933, Pahl - Rugenstein, Cologne 1973
• On the origin and prevention of fascism, in "The Argument", H. 87, 1974, p 543-603
• ( Co-author): Anti-Fascist politics today. Fascism and militarism / experiences and lessons learned, in: " Anti-Fascist politics today [ ... ] ", Röderberg, Frankfurt am Main 1975
• (Ed.) European strategies of German capital from 1900 to 1945, Pahl - Rugenstein, Cologne 1977
• On the Development of the theory of totalitarianism, in: Frank Deppe et al, " Marxism and the labor movement. Josef grindstone on his 65th birthday ", publishing Marxist leaves, Frankfurt am Main 1980, p 106-122
• The fascism definition Dimitrov and their importance for the current discussion fascism, in: " speeches and contributions. International Colloquium on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Georgi Dimitrov ", publishing Marxist leaves, Frankfurt am Main 1982, p 116-125 Marx- Engels Foundation [ ... ]
• Fascism and neo-fascism, Marxist Publisher sheets, Frankfurt am Main 1984 Akademie-Verlag, [ East ] Berlin 1984
• Fascism and neo-fascism, 2 vols 1: The German fascism to 1945, 2: neo-fascism in Germany, Pahl - Rugenstein, Cologne 1988
• Jews out - Turks out - Democracy out. The history and actuality of reactionary and fascist strategies [ document ] in: " 1999 - Journal of Social History of the 20th and 21st century ", vol 1, 1989, pp. 84-100
• Bitburg in 1985 and the 8th May 1945 in: "Z - Marxist magazine renewal", H. 122, 1995, pp. 9-18
• Ilina tray / Rainer Rilling ( eds. ): Liberalism - Fascism - Integration, 3 vols, I: Liberalism * Integration II: Fascism, III: ' Röhm affair, BDWi -Verlag, Marburg [ December ] 1999

About Reinhard Opitz

" [ ... ] Marxist political scientist, fascism theorist, political polemicist, and music and art lovers with encyclopedic interests. For the stations of his political life were [ ... ] VVN, concrete, SDS, DFU or BDWi. He has published in journals and publishers such as Röderberg and Pahl - Rugenstein, in the argument, the Forum on Science, the DVZ / tat, the Marxist leaves and the leaves for German and international policy, the long -time editor, he was [ ... ] One of the important Marxist publicists of the Federal Republic, and perhaps the most perceptive fascism theorist of the German Left. "

" Unemployed, outside the established scientific institutions and marginalized in traditional political apparatus of the German left, Opitz worked until his death [ ... ] in his apartment in Cologne until last scientifically further, especially on his 1984 published book to the ' neo-fascism ', as the can apply his main work. "

" We will miss his never-ending sentences, constant voltage, if he still throws wild, frenzied glasses in a high arc in the audience, the joy of his guard, interested in all kind of radical thinking, his unwavering political stability. A self-deprecating, often mischievous collected, sometimes straight into asocial upsetting bizarreness of the appearance and behavior mediated via the startling earnestness with which anything and everything most thorough intellectual: [ ... ] However, the focus and relentlessness of his scientific thinking came at a price assessment was subjected. "