Rolf Clement

Rolf Clement (2011)

Rolf Clement (* 1953 in Stuttgart ) is a German journalist and publicist . For many years he was a special correspondent for security policy and a member of the chief editor of Deutschlandfunk . He has been working as a freelance journalist since 2017, including for the TV station Phoenix and the specialist magazine Europäische Sicherheit und Technik. He is a lecturer at the Federal University of Applied Sciences in Brühl near Cologne.

Life

After graduating from high school in 1972, Rolf Clement did military service in the Bundeswehr from 1972 to 1974 at the Carl von Ossietzky High School in Bonn . From 1974 to 1980 he studied law at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn (without a degree). During his studies he was active at the Ring of Christian Democratic Students (RCDS). He was also a member of the Junge Union (JU) in Bonn, and at times also European Commissioner for the youth organization of the CDU.

From 1980 to 1984 he worked as a correspondent for the regional newspapers Mannheimer Morgen , Mainzer Allgemeine , Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung , Donaukurier Ingolstadt and Flensburger Tageblatt in Bonn. From 1984 to 1989 he was Bonn correspondent for Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR). In addition, he was briefly editor-in-chief of the Junge Union magazine The decision , which is why his employer advised him to leave the editor-in-chief on hold. He previously criticized in the paper u. a. the Kohl government. From 1987 he was also a board member of the Bonn Journalists' Association .

Since 1989 he has been working for Deutschlandfunk (DLF) in Cologne, initially in the "East-West editorial team". From 1996 to 2007 he was head of the background department and editor-in-chief of the political background series . In 2007 he became a member of the station's editor-in-chief and because of the increasing importance of terrorism , as it was called, special correspondent for security policy . At times he was officially part-time as editor-in-chief of the monthly magazine Loyal , which is published by the Association of Reservists of the German Armed Forces .

He moderated, lectured and discussed at national and international panel discussions, meetings, congresses and conferences, among others, the Handelsblatt , the magazine Europäische Sicherheit & Technik , the German Atlantic Society , the German Society for Defense Technology , the Federal Association of the German Aerospace Industry , the International Berlin Aviation and Space Exhibition , the Society for Defense and Security Policy , the Federal Academy for Security Policy, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution , the Federal Agency for Civic Education , the Heinrich Böll Foundation , the Konrad Adenauer Foundation , the Friedrich Ebert Foundation , the Seeheimer Kreis in the SPD , the Bundeswehr Academy for Information and Communication , the Military History Research Office and the Catholic Military Pastoral Care .

Publications

Clement has published several articles in the political science journal Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte as well as in the security policy periodicals Mittler-Brief , Europäische Sicherheit , Europäische Wehrkunde , Europäische Sicherheit & Technik and if - Zeitschrift für Innereführung , but also in political journals such as The Political Opinion and supraregional Newspapers like Das Parlament and Rheinischer Merkur . Contributions also appeared in the TV station Phoenix at the Bayerischer Rundfunk, the Südwestrundfunk, the Hessian Radio and the Swiss broadcaster .

Memberships, links to politics

For several years he has been a member of the Advisory Board for Internal Leadership in the Federal Ministry of Defense , of which he became deputy spokesman. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Society for Security Policy . In addition, he was a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in London and is a member of the Security Policy Study Group at the German Society for Foreign Policy (DGAP) in Berlin. He also accompanied the Munich Security Conference (MSC) as an observer .

Awards

• 1999: Karl Carstens Prize of the Federal Academy for Security Policy

reception

Books

His work 50 Years of the Bundeswehr , published with Paul Elmar Jöris from Westdeutscher Rundfunk , presented by the then Federal Defense Minister Peter Struck , was given in 2005 by Joachim Käppner ( Süddeutsche Zeitung ) as "Reich with pictures and documents, your work skilfully describes the history of the Bundeswehr by all branches of the armed forces and institutions up to and including military chaplaincy ”. But it is "embarrassed about scandals". According to Rainer Blasius ( Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ), it is an “official stocktaking” with “lavishly illustrated” chapters, ultimately a “very informative publication”. It is worth mentioning that in comparison to other authors, Clement and Jöris stand “behind the traditional decree of 1982 critical of the armed forces”. Political scientist Markus Kaim also considers the most important aspects to be "systematically recorded and analyzed" in a specialist review on the political science portal .

Another work, The Terrorists from Next Door , was u. a. by the SPD politician and historian Karsten Rudolph in the Welt am Sonntag as follows: “The two journalists [...] have written an excellently researched report that comes to a disturbing result: 'Islamist terrorism had one from the beginning Based in Germany, it didn't have to be imported. '”The book was created on the basis of the observation of the trial (against the Sauerland Group ) before the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court . According to a FAZ review, they trace "in clear language [...] the paths of those four terrorists". The political scientist and extremism researcher Armin Pfahl-Traughber sums it up: "It is an informative and factual presentation from a journalistic point of view, which, however, only partially formulates analytical assessments".

Others

Clement's contributions have been cited in the literature by Ulf von Krause and Wilfried von Bredow , among others . Clement wrote in the APuZ essay, The new Bundeswehr as an instrument of German foreign policy , from 2004: “Not all deployments corresponded to Germany's interests, and where the interests of the deployments seemed necessary, they were rejected.” And in one Comment on the Parliamentary Participation Act said, among other things: “It is high time that Parliament regulates the posting of soldiers on missions abroad differently than before. The fact that every deployment of every soldier in crisis areas now had to be decided by the Bundestag has sometimes led to strange consequences. ”He cited the example of exchange programs.

In 2006, the SZ discussed a possible conflict of interest with Clement's journalistic work due to Clement's diverse security policy activities, which, however, he practically rejected. In 2008, Leipzig media researcher Uwe Krüger published in the journalistic journal Message , as in 2004, the discussion of the subject of uranium ammunition in Iraq in the film by Frieder Wagner , The Doctor and the Radiated Children of Basra , with the leading involvement of Clement by the broadcaster because of allegedly considerable journalistic issues Defects was rejected. Clement, at that time head of the “Background” department, after consulting the scientific editorial team, identified 15 points of criticism with which he “could not be responsible for the broadcast of the program”. Another critical article by the SZ, this time by Christoph Schwennicke , on Deutschlandfunk from 2008 was rated as a media campaign by those affected . Clement and other employees wrote in a SZ letter to the editor : “We are resolutely opposed to the attempt by a few to discredit our media company with an apparently targeted campaign”.

The Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung u. a. 2015 reported on a misleading comment by Clements in connection with netzpolitik.org , which denied the fact of an investigation against two journalists of the portal for treason . At the same time, the author praised Clement as an "experienced and respected colleague with a great deal of security policy expertise".

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

• with Paul Elmar Jöris : 50 years of the Bundeswehr. 1955-2005. Mittler & Sohn, Hamburg et al. 2005, ISBN 3-8132-0839-7 .
• with Paul Elmar Jöris: The terrorists next door. Divine warriors from Germany. Piper, Munich et al. 2010, ISBN 978-3-492-05399-0 .
• with Paul Elmar Jöris: Islamist Terrorists from Germany (= Federal Center for Political Education. Series of publications. Volume 1159). Federal Agency for Civic Education , Bonn 2011, ISBN 978-3-8389-0159-6 .

Contributions to edited volumes

• Security Policy and the Media - From the Broadcasting Perspective. In: Sven Bernhard Gareis , Rolf Zimmermann (ed.): Security policy communication (= writings of the Bundeswehr Academy for Information and Communication . Volume 22). Nomos, Baden-Baden 1999, ISBN 3-7890-6012-7 , p. 84 ff.
• Armed forces. In: Werner Weidenfeld , Karl-Rudolf Korte (ed.): Handbook on German Unity. 1949-1989-1999 . Campus, Frankfurt am Main et al. 1999, ISBN 3-593-36240-6 , p. 137 ff.
• The participation of the Bundeswehr in the international military operation in Kosovo and Yugoslavia. In: Erich Reiter (Ed.): The war for Kosovo 1998/99 . v. Hase and Koehler, Mainz 2000, ISBN 3-7758-1386-1 , p. 157 ff.
• Foreign missions and transformation of the Bundeswehr. In: Thomas Jäger , Alexander Höse, Kai Oppermann (ed.): German foreign policy. Security, Welfare, Institutions and Norms . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2007, ISBN 978-3-531-14982-0 , p. 123 ff.
• Conscription and Inner Leadership. In: Andreas Ahammer, Stephan Nachtigall (Ed.): Conscription - Legitimate Child of Democracy (= Science & Security . Volume 7). BWV, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-8305-1820-4 , p. 220 ff.
• From mandate to action. Political and legal framework of the operations. In: Peter Boßdorf (Red.): 10 years of the Bundeswehr Operations Command (= Wehrtechnischer Report 4/2011). With contributions by Thomas de Maizière ( preface ), Susanne Kastner (greeting) and Volker Wieker (preface), Report Verlag, Bonn 2011, p. 18 ff.
• Bundeswehr and the public. In: Eberhard Birk , Winfried Heinemann , Sven Lange (Hrsg.): Tradition for the Bundeswehr. New aspects of an old debate. Hartmann - Miles-Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-937885-60-5 , p. 151 ff.
• Media and security policy - a partnership with difficulties. In: Ekkehard Griep (ed.): Des Friedens General. Manfred Eisele - from war refugee to top blue helmet . Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau et al. 2013, ISBN 978-3-451-30743-0 , p. 307 ff.

Web links

• Literature by and about Rolf Clement in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Rolf Clement  in the German Digital Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by Rolf Clement at perlentaucher.de
• Contributions by Rolf Clement to Deutschlandradio Kultur and Deutschlandfunk

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Gunter Hofmann : Self-praise. In: The time . October 19, 1984, No. 43.
2. ^ GA: Call for journalists. In: Bonner General-Anzeiger . March 11, 1987, Bonn city edition, p. 4.
3. ↑ Personal details : From the editorial offices. In: Medium magazine . Edition 10/2007, p. 60.
4. ↑ ^{a b c d} Christoph Kappes: Absolutely ready for defense. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . December 6, 2006, p. 17.
5. ↑ Handelsblatt Conference on Security Industry and Defense Industry, September 2015
6. ↑ Markus Decker: Secret Service defends itself. In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung . May 5, 2015.
7. ^ Stefan Schaaf: Conference report: September 11th - Lessons learned? . Heinrich Böll Foundation , Berlin 2011, p. 4.
8. ↑ Ulrike Hospes: Contributions to the event: Between memory and future. Symposium on the Bonn / Berlin decision of June 20, 1991 . Konrad Adenauer Foundation , May 25, 2011.
9. ↑ Johannes Kahrs , Sandra Viehbeck (ed.): In the middle of the party. Foundation, history and work of the Seeheimer Kreis . With a foreword by Petra Ernstberger , Klaas Hübner and Johannes Kahrs and greetings from Gerhard Schröder and Annemarie Renger , Seeheimer Kreis , Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-00-016396-4 , p. 62.
10. ↑ Military History Research Office (ed.): Annual report 2012/13 . With a foreword by Hans-Hubertus Mack , Potsdam 2013, p. 4.
11. ↑ Josef König: 59th General Conference: "Lessons learned?". In: compass. 11/14, p. 14.
12. ↑ Martin Sebaldt , Alexander Straßner : Associations in the Federal Republic of Germany. An introduction (= study books Political System of the Federal Republic of Germany ). VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-531-13543-0 , p. 159.
13. ↑ Society for Security Policy - Briefly introduced , accessed on January 28, 2018.
14. ↑ Munich Security Conference 2013 - Observers (PDF), Münchner Sicherheitskonferenz , 2013, p. 2.
15. ↑ Personal details : Peter Struck. In: Der Spiegel . June 6, 2005, No. 23, p. 196.
16. ↑ Joachim Käppner : The ghost of yesterday. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . November 7, 2005, p. 8.
17. ↑ Rainer Blasius : Docked. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . August 29, 2005, No. 200, p. 6.
18. ^ Rainer Blasius : Old comrades. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . September 12, 2015, No. 212, p. 8.
19. ↑ Markus Kaim , review of: Rolf Clement, Paul Elmar Jöris: 50 years of the Bundeswehr. Hamburg / Berlin / Bonn 2005, In: Portal for Political Science . pw-portal.de published on January 1, 2006.
20. ↑ Ashot Manucharyan: "Some must die". In: The Parliament . October 4, 2010, No. 40.
21. ↑ Timo Lüth, review of: Rolf Clement / Paul Elmar Jöris: The terrorists from next door. Munich / Zurich: 2010, in: Portal for Political Science, pw-portal.de published on June 17, 2010.
22. ↑ Marianne Quoirin: Dangerous Neighborhood. In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger . May 10, 2010.
23. ^ Marion Bacher: Books, briefly discussed. In: Falter . No. 21/10, May 26, 2010, p. 14.
24. ↑ Peter Lausmann: The terror from our midst. In: Rhein-Zeitung . June 10, 2010, p. 7.
25. ↑ Karsten Rudolph : Gotteskrieger from NRW. In: Welt am Sonntag . May 2, 2010, No. 18, p. NRW10.
26. ↑ Markus Bickel: Closed life concepts. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . August 2, 2010, No. 176, p. 6.
27. ↑ Armin Pfahl-Traughber : The terrorists next door . Humanistic Press Service , May 18, 2010.
28. ↑ Ulf von Krause : The Bundeswehr operations in Afghanistan. Political decision-making process with escalation dynamics . VS Verlag, Wiesbaden 2011, ISBN 978-3-531-17855-4 , p. 231 f .; ders .: The Bundeswehr as an instrument of German foreign policy . Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2013, ISBN 978-3-658-00184-1 , p. 195.
29. ^ Wilfried von Bredow : The mandate of the armed forces for armed deployment abroad. In: Thomas Bohrmann , Karl-Heinz Lather , Friedrich Lohmann (eds.): Handbook of military professional ethics . Volume 2: Application Errors . Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2014, ISBN 978-3-658-06341-2 , p. 166; ders .: security, security policy and the military. Germany since unification (= basic knowledge of politics ). Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2015, ISBN 978-3-658-05332-1 , p. 193.
30. ↑ Uwe Krüger : »Not broadcastable«. In: Message 1/2008, p. 58 f.
31. ^ Rolf Clement et al. a .: Staged campaign. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . February 20, 1998, p. 9.
32. ↑ Kai Schlieter: Real and fake journalists. In: the daily newspaper . August 5, 2013, p. 3.
33. ↑ Harald Staun: The dear colleagues. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung . August 2, 2015, No. 31, p. 49.