Alf Mintzel

This article is about the sociologist, for the soccer player see Alf Mintzel (soccer player)

Alf Mintzel (born April 18, 1935 in Augsburg ; actually Johann Albrecht Mintzel ) is a German sociologist and political scientist .

career

Mintzel initially studied painting and graphics with Erich Rhein at the former Werkkunstschule Hanover , now the University of Applied Sciences for Media, Information and Design . In 1959 he began studying law at the University of Hamburg and continued it at the Universities of Würzburg, Marburg and the Free University of Berlin. 1961/62 switched to the subject sociology and then went through all stages of a scientific university career at the Free University of Berlin: the diploma exam in sociology in 1967, the doctorate in political science in 1974 and the habilitation with the venia legendi in political science with a focus on political science Sociology. From 1967 to 1974 he was a research assistant at the former Institute for Political Science at the Free University of Berlin. From 1974 to 1978 he held the position of assistant professor at what would later become the Central Institute for Social Science Research. 1979/80 he represented at the University of Bochum, 1980/81 at the University of Mannheim a chair for political science.

In 1981 he was appointed to the chair of sociology at the University of Passau , which was newly founded in 1978 . He was one of the founding members of the university that was being established. Mintzel's task was initially to organize the subject of sociology, to integrate it into the overall structure of the Faculty of Philosophy and to coordinate the teaching services with other courses.

Mintzel's research interests were broad. The focus of his research and numerous publications were in the fields of political sociology , political science and contemporary political history, in the fields of cultural sociology and in fields of Upper Franconian industrial and cultural history from the 16th century to the present. The visual arts and contributions to current artistic creation were added as a fourth area of ​​work. He found his way into science and especially into political science party research in 1962 with a grant from the US Ford Foundation to promote young scientists at the Institute for Political Science at the Free University of Berlin. Mintzel has repeatedly appeared in public as a contentious publicist on various occasions . In 1990/91 his demand, introduced in 1978 when the University of Passau was founded, which had shown the Jesuit counter-Reformation “Maria vom Siege”, was to be withdrawn from official university circulation nationwide in 1990/91. The University of Passau introduced a new logo in 2003. A detailed and detailed description of his academic career and professional work is in his blog “There was a lot of space between the chairs. Survival Stories of a Cross-Border Commuter ”. In the blog he presented his autobiography in chronologically ordered chapters. A second blog deals with the life stories and worlds of experience of his ancestors.

In party research, Mintzel has been concerned with the history of the CSU and its role in Bavaria since the mid-1960s, as well as with the general development of the popular parties in the party system of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG). His studies on the CSU and the political development of Bavaria after 1945 were considered pioneering achievements in empirical party research and made him known far beyond the borders of the FRG. In the theory of parties he dealt with typologies of the popular parties and analyzed the real development processes of the "big parties". His research contributions, particularly on the development history of the popular parties and the CSU, have been translated into English, Spanish, Italian and Russian. In the 1970s, he was also involved at the Central Institute for Empirical Social Research at Freie Universität in the preparation of the party handbook, a standard work on party research. In 1990, together with Heinrich Oberreuter , he published the anthology Political Parties in the Federal Republic of Germany (2nd edition 1992).

In the areas of cultural sociology, his second focus, Mintzel dealt with the concept of culture in sociology and related sciences as well as with the controversial issues about the developments, structures and conflict situations of multicultural societies in Europe and North America. The macro analysis and the comparison of multiethnic and multicultural megacities, megalopolis and metropolises became the focus of his teaching at the University of Passau. In 1997 he published an extensive textbook on this. In the context of sociocultural issues, he analyzed the political-cultural hegemony of the CSU and the weaknesses of "countercultures" in Bavaria.

In the field of Upper Franconian commercial and cultural history, Mintzel, who comes from a long-established Upper Franconian printing and publishing dynasty, researched the history of printing, publishing and press in Upper Franconia from the 16th century to the present day. He summarized his research results from several decades in his two-volume work From Black Art to the Printing Industry (2011). In addition, he published his research results on the recent political history of Hof , especially on dealing with the National Socialist past.

After a long break in his artistic activity, he began to pursue his training at the former Werkkunstschule Hannover in the 1980s and to take part in exhibitions. The focus of his artistic work is object art .

Mintzel has three daughters (including the writer Theresa Sperling ) with his wife Ingelu Mintzel (née Schaltbrand ).

Publications

Monographs

• The CSU. Anatomy of a Conservative Party 1945–1972 . 1st edition. Westdeutscher Verlag, 1975 (2nd edition 1978), ISBN 3-531-11278-3 .
• History of the CSU. An overview . Opladen 1977, ISBN 3-531-11358-5 .
• The city of Hof in the history of the press in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. Yard 1979.
• The People's Party: Type and Reality. A textbook. Opladen 1983, ISBN 3-531-11498-0 .
• As editor with Heinrich Oberreuter for the Federal Agency for Civic Education : Parties in the Federal Republic of Germany . Bonn 1990, ISBN 3-89331-051-7 .
• The CSU hegemony in Bavaria. Strategy and success; Winners and losers . Passau 1998, ISBN 3-927575-77-1 .
• Objects. 1989-1995. Wood stone metal. Orselina / Passau 1995, ISBN 3-00-000008-9 .
• Multicultural societies in Europe and North America. Concepts , issues, analyzes, findings. Wissenschaftsverlag Rothe, Passau 1997, ISBN 3-927575-55-0 .
• Hofer leaflets and pamphlets from the 16th and 17th centuries. A documentation of 29 copies. 43. Report of the North Upper Franconian Association for Nature, History and Regional Studies e. V. Hof, Hof 2000, ISBN 3-928626-36-1 .
• A company history. Mintzel print. Hofer Anzeiger. Rehauer Tagblatt. Future publishing house. Hoermann publishing house. Anniversary edition 375 years of Mintzel-Druck, 200 years of Hofer Anzeiger. 2000, ISBN 3-88267-056-8 .
• Khao Lak. A requiem in pictures. Collages, hand drawings, lithographs. Hoermann Verlag, Passau 2005, ISBN 3-88267-074-6 .
• From black art to the printing industry: the Mintzel book printing company and its newspaper publisher. Volume I: From the Thirty Years War to 1800. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-428-13104-4 .
• From black art to the printing industry: the Mintzel book printing company and its newspaper publisher. Volume II: From 1800 to the present. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-428-13104-4 .

Contributions to party research and the political development of Bavaria and the Federal Republic of Germany after 1945 ”(a selection)

• 1967 Foundation, separation from the East and integration of the Berlin parties and unions into the West. In: Jürgen Fijalkowski u. a .: Berlin - claim to capital and integration with the West (= publications of the Institute for Political Science, vol. 20). Westdeutscher Verlag: Köln / Opladen 1967, pp. 3–103.

• 1973 The CSU in Bavaria. In: Jürgen Dittberner, Rolf Ebbighausen (Hrsg.): Party system in the legitimation crisis. Studies and materials on the sociology of the parties in the Federal Republic of Germany (= publications of the Central Institute for Social Science Research at the Free University of Berlin, vol. 24). Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1973, pp. 349-426.
• 1975 The Bavarian state elections of October 27, 1974: Triumph of a conservative party: a sociological special case? In: Journal for Parliamentary Issues, 6th vol., Issue 2, December 1975, pp. 429–446.
• 1976 Occupation policy and development of the bourgeois parties in the western zones (1945–1949). In: Dietrich Staritz (ed.): Party system of the Federal Republic. Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1976 (2nd edition 1980), pp. 73-89.
• 1977 The faction merger after Kreuth: End of a development? In: Journal for Parliamentary Issues, 8th year, Issue 1, April 1977, pp. 58–76.
• 1978 The Christian-Social Union in Bavaria: Analytical notes on its development, role and political success. In: Max Kaase, Klaus von Beyme (Ed.): Elections & Parties. Socio-political Change and Participation in the West German Federal Election of 1976 (= German Political Studies. Vol. 3). SAGE Publications, London / Beverly Hills 1978, pp. 192-225.
• 1980 Franz Josef Strauss and the CSU regional group in the German Bundestag. In: Friedrich Zimmermann (ed.): Claim and performance. Dedications for Franz Josef Strauss. Seewald Verlag, Stuttgart 1980, pp. 281-307.
• 1982 Conservatism and Christian Democracy in the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Zig Layton-Henry (Ed.): Conservative Politics in Western Europe. MacMillan, London / Basingstoke, pp. 131-159.
• 1983 The Bavarian Party. In: Richard Stöss (Ed.): Party Handbook. The parties of the Federal Republic of Germany 1945–1980, vol. 1 (= publications of the Central Institute for Social Science Research of the Free University of Berlin, vol. 38). Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1983, pp. 395-498.
• 1984 Farewell to a phantom. On theoretical concepts and empirical analyzes of the “People's Party” from a comparative perspective. In: Jürgen W. Falter, Christian Fenner, Michael Th. Greven (ed.): Political decision-making and mediation of interests. Negotiations at the DVPW conference from 11. – 13. October 1983 in Mannheim. Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1984, ISBN 978-3-663-14338-3 , pp. 61-67.
• 1985 Bavaria, rich in tradition and state self-confident. Bavaria's political culture in transition. In: Regional political culture. With contributions by Hans-Georg Wehling a. a. Kohlhammer Taschenbücher, Vol. 1069; ed. from the State Center for Political Education Baden-Württemberg. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1985, pp. 146-162.
• 1987 Special features of the political culture of Bavaria: facets and stages of a political-cultural homogenization. In: Dirk Berg-Schlosser, Jakob Schissler (Ed.): Political culture in Germany. Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen, pp. 295-308.
• 1987 Are Bavaria's clocks really different? In: Journal for Parliamentary Issues 18, No. 1, pp. 77–93.
• 1989 major parties in the party state of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: From Politics and Current Affairs 39, No. 11, pp. 3-14.
• 1989 No false hopes: the CSU does not degenerate into a provincial party. In: Hans-Jürgen Heinrichs (Ed.): FJ Strauss. The character and the mask. The progressive and the conservative. The man of the world and the hillbilly. Athenaeum, Frankfurt a. M. 1989, pp. 172-191.
• 1990 The accepted party state. In: Martin Broszat (Ed.): Caesuras after 1945. Essays on the periodization of German post-war history (= series of the quarterly books for contemporary history, vol. 61). Oldenbourg, Munich 1990, pp. 75-94.
• 1990 The party state of the Federal Republic: Review and future prospects in the new German situation. In: Robert Hettlage (Ed.): The Federal Republic. A historical record. Beck, Munich 1990, pp. 139-166.
• 1990 Political and socio-economic developments in the postwar Era: The case of Bavaria, 1945–1989. In: Karl Rohe (Ed.): Elections, parties and political traditions: Social Foundations of German parties and party systems, 1867–1987. Berg, New York 1990, pp. 145-178.
• 1990 Regional political traditions and the CSU hegemony in Bavaria. In: Dieter Oberndörfer, Karl Schmitt (Hrsg.): Parties and regional political traditions in the Federal Republic of Germany. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1990, pp. 125-180.
• 1992 The Christian Democracy in the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Mario Caciagli et al .: Christian Democracy in Europe. Inst. De Ciencies Politiques i Socials, Barcelona, ​​pp. 57-82.
• 1993 In search of the reality of the major parties in the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Hans-Dieter Klingemann, Wolfgang Luthardt (ed.): Welfare state, social structure and constitutional analysis. Festschrift for Jürgen Fijalkowski. Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1993, pp. 66-104.
• 1995 En busca de la realidad de los partidos politicos mayoritarios en la Republica Federal de Alemania. In: Josef Thesing (ed.): Partidos poiticos en la democracia. Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Sankt Augustin 1995, pp. 251–294.
• 1995 In search of the reality of the major parties in the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Josef Thesing (Ed.): Political parties in democracy: role and functions of political parties in the political system of the Federal Republic of Germany. Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Sankt Augustin 1995, pp. 218-254.
• 1996 Germany: The future of the popular parties after the crisis. In: Dietrich Tränhardt (Hrsg.): Japan and Germany in the world after the Cold War. Lit, Münster 1996, pp. 187-226.
• 2001 Fritz Schäffer (Friedrich), Federal Minister of Finance, Federal Minister of Justice. In: Udo Kempf, Hans G. Merz (Hrsg.): The members of the federal government. Biographical Lexicon of the German Federal Cabinets 1949–1998. Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 2001.
• 2004 together with Barbara Wasner: State Parliamentarism in Bavaria. In: Siegfried Mielke , Werner Reutter (ed.): Land parliamentarism in Germany. History - structure - functions. VS Verlag, Wiesbaden 2004, pp. 79-109.

Contributions to the topic and problematic of culture and society / multicultural societies / secular state

• 1992 The Passau Madonna Controversy: the symbolic representation of social institutions. In: Dieter Emig (Ed.): Language and political culture in democracy: Hans Gerd Schumann to commemorate. Lang, Frankfurt a. M. 1992, pp. 295-348.
• 1993 Culture and Society: The Concept of Culture in Sociology. In: Klaus P. Hansen (Ed.): Concept of culture and method: The silent paradigm shift in the humanities, a Passau lecture series. Narr, Tübingen, pp. 171-199.
• 1996 The Madonna Dispute. In: Operations - Journal for Citizens' Rights and Society Policy 35, No. 2, 1996, pp. 56–73.
• 1999 Has the concept of the multicultural society failed? In: Hermann Schwengel (Ed.): Boundless Society? 29th Congress of the German Society for Sociology, 11th Congress of the Swiss Society for Sociology. Freiburg i. Br. Volume II / 1: Sections, Research Committees, Working Groups. Centaurus-Verlagsgesellschaft, Pfaffenweiler, pp. 310-312.
• 2007 Current challenges of the secularized state, ailing Christianity, growing Islam. In: Werner Patzelt, Martin Sebaldt, Uwe Krahnenpol (eds.) With the assistance of Henrik Gast, Tobias Nerb and Benjamin Zeitler: Res publica semper reformanda. Science and political education in the service of the common good. Festschrift for Heinrich Oberreuter on his 65th birthday. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2007, pp. 135–148.
• 2008 Sfide odierne per lo Stato secolarizzato. Dibattito sul crocifisso, sull 'edificazione di mosque, sulla vicenda di Marktl e su altre forme di cooperazione amichevole. In: A cura di Gian Enrico Rusconi: Lo Stato secolarizzato nell'eta post-secolare. Societa editrice il Mulino, Bologna, pp. 239-273.
• 2010 Challenges of the secularized state today. Crucifix debate, mosque building, Marktl, Konkordatsklehrstühle and other forms of friendly cooperation. In: Gian Erico Rusconi (ed.): The secularized state in the post-secular age (= writings of the Italian-German Historical Institute in Trient, vol. 22). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, pp. 199-235.

Relevant publications in newspapers and magazines

• 1979 Bundled longings from the bastion of Bavaria. The CSU succeeded in setting the CDU on a historically evolved course of confrontation. In: Vorwärts, No. 30, July 19, 1979, p. 9.
• 1979 A concentration of political forces on a few currents. The party system of the Federal Republic of Germany - development and probation (documentation commissioned by the information and press office of the federal government). In: Frankfurter Rundschau, No. 188, August 15, 1979, p. 14.
• 1980 Industrialization and social policy in the Free State of Bavaria ahead? About a conservative social policy (a conversation with Alf Mintzel). In: taz (the daily newspaper), February 1, 1980, p. 11.
• 1983 Ecological movement or young bourgeois protest: The dilemma of the Greens in Bavaria. On the sociology of the election result in Bavaria. In: taz (the daily newspaper), March 16, 1983, p. 9 (magazine).
• 1984 Jumps in the bedrock (commentary on the outcome of the Bavarian local elections). In: taz (the daily newspaper), No. 1268, March 22, 1984, p. 4.
• 1988 No false hopes: the CSU does not degenerate into a provincial party. Even after the death of Franz Josef Strauss, the three-legged power cartel of the state, the state party and the Catholic Church stood in Bavaria. In: Frankfurter Rundschau, No. 244, October 19, 1988, p. 14.
• 1988 Fritz Schäffer was born a hundred years ago: three careers, tangible intrigues and a July tower. The speeches do not convey the whole truth about the conservative Bavarian politician. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung, No. 109, 11./12. May 1988, p. 15.
• 1995 "Mia san mia, crucifix sacrament": Insight into Bavarian: the "offended majority" is an invention of the Catholic hotheads, an "ethnological view". In: Frankfurter Rundschau, No. 222, September 23, 1995, p. 14.
• 1999 A “heaven of values” with many nuances. Do we have a European guiding culture that is binding for all residents? In: Frankfurter Rundschau, No. 117, enclosure Pentecost 1999 50 Years of the Basic Law , p. 138.
• 2008 Strauss and his CSU professor (series on the 20th anniversary of the death of FJS, part 7). In: Münchner Merkur, No. 235, October 9, 2008, p. 13.

Publications about art and creation

• 2000 Two exhibitions for Oswald Miedl's 60th birthday. Moving formations, currents of force and light - in between. In: University of Passau. News and Reports, No. 101, June 2000, pp. 21-23.
• 2001 "Europa Sacrale". About the interrelationships between art and religion using the example of the “44. Festival European Weeks Passau ”. In: Richard Faber, Volker Krech (Ed.): Art and Religion in the 20th Century. Würzburg 2001, pp. 227-258.

Publications on the cultural and commercial history of Upper Franconia and the political history of the city of Hof / Saale

• 1983 Hofer leaflets and pamphlets from the 16th and 17th centuries. In: Wolfenbütteler-Barocknachrichten. On behalf of the International Working Group for German Baroque Literature, ed. von der Herzog August Bibliothek, Vol. X. Issue 1, 1983, pp. 5–21.
• 1984 studies on the early press and publishing history of the cities of Hof and Bayreuth. In: Archive for the history of Upper Franconia (AO), 64th volume, Historischer Verein für Oberfranken, pp. 197–286.
• 1986 Bayreuth and Hofer small publishers of the 18th century and their publishing works. In: Archive for the history of Upper Franconia (AO), 66th volume, pp. 77–189.
• 2001 The "Höfer litteraische Zeitung" from 1811/12 - documentation of two finds. In: Archive for the History of Upper Franconia (AO) 81/2001. Historischer Verein Oberfranken, pp. 355–369.
• 2013 Freemasonry and National Socialism. "When barbarism hurls its torch into the civilized world ..." The Hof Lodge "Zum Morgenstern" and the "Laws of Humanity". In: Archive for the history of Upper Franconia, (AO), 93rd volume. Historical Association for Upper Franconia, pp. 233–264.
• 2013 Prominent Hofer in the shadow of the swastika. Examples of individual entanglements. In: Miscellanea curiensia. Contributions to the history and culture of Northern Upper Franconia and neighboring regions. Volume X. 65. Report of the North Upper Franconian Association for Nature, History and Regional Studies e. V., Hof 2013, pp. 171–214.
• 2017 On Dealing with the National Socialist Past. In: Beatrix Münzer-Glas, Arnd Kluge: The monuments of the city of Hof. Chronik der Staat Hof , Volume XI, Hof 2017, pp. 682–716.

Exhibitions (a selection)

• 1989 “There is still enough time” (together with Inge Lu Mintzel), Gallery in the Scharfrichterhaus, Passau
• 1996 “Departure and Encounter”, joint exhibition by Russian and German artists, German Clinic for Diagnostics, Wiesbaden
• 1996 "Objects", Atelier "Die Kunstgalerie", Bad Kreuznach
• 1999 "Objects", Diocesan Archive Passau, Luragosaal (participation)
• 2005 “Khao Lak - a Requiem in Pictures”, foyer of the central library of the University of Passau
• 2005 "Graphics", exhibition participation, Kulturmodell Passau
• 2006 "Printing with Stone - Lithography", City of Straubing, Cultural Office (participation)
• 2006 "Horrors of War" / "Remembered Landscape" / "Khao Lak - Cycle", Ortenburg, gallery on the Wolfach
• 2010 “de profundis”, Vilshofen Culture & History Association, Vilshofen City Gallery in the Tower (participation)
• 2015 "Objects - Graphics - Painting", producers' gallery Passau

Web links

• Literature by and about Alf Mintzel in the catalog of the German National Library
• Alf Mintzel's homepage

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Controversial symbolism: With Maria in a militant league . In: The time . December 21, 1990, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed August 31, 2017]).
2. ↑ Alf Mintzel - There was a lot of space between the chairs. Survival stories of a frontier worker. Retrieved August 4, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Alf Mintzel - life stories and worlds of experience of my ancestors. Retrieved August 4, 2018 .