Claus Dieter Kernig

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Claus Dieter Kernig (born September 5, 1927 in Berlin ; † January 23, 2019 ) was a German political scientist .

Live and act

As the son of the journalist Willy Kernig and his wife Helene Dietel, he studied philosophy with Martin Heidegger , theology, economics and political science with Arnold Bergstraesser . After his doctorate in 1958 at the University in Freiburg , he worked until 1961 as a research assistant at the University in Marburg . He then worked as a consultant on political issues. At the same time he devoted himself to closer research into the political development of the Soviet system and its ideology.

The result of these investigations was a six-volume edition on the system comparison of the Soviet system with the democratic societies. For this work he won the support and collaboration of those familiar with the Soviet Union and over four hundred experts in the fields of philosophy and political science.

In 1968 he accepted a teaching position at the University of Freiburg, where he then worked as an honorary professor. From 1972 he started working at the Center for Applied Economic Research “ Prognos ” in Basel. Two years later he accepted a position at the University of Trier as Professor of Political Science. With his knowledge he worked as an industrial advisor for exports to the Soviet Union. He gained deeper insights into the industrial organization in the Soviet Union.

In 1980 he became convinced that the lack of industrial and technological development in the USSR would lead to an economic decline. He was also able to gain insights into the development of the People's Republic of China after it turned away from Maoist industrial policy. To do this, he went to Asia and Africa and briefed officials on these new developments.

He foresaw a very pessimistic development for Russia after 2000. He predicted that the new President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin would not be able to initiate a new industrial policy for Russia that would enable Russia to join the developed industrial nations. The mistakes that the previous presidents Gorbachev and Yeltsin would have made would have been fatal for the further development of Russia.

From 2002 he turned to questions of future energy supply and population development in Germany.

Since 1956 he was married to Henni Hansen.

Fonts

  • The meaning of criticism in Soviet socialism , Freiburg / Breisgau 1958
  • Soviet system and democratic society. Vol. 1. Image theory to the dictatorship of the proletariat , 1966
  • Soviet system and democratic society. Vol. 2. Diplomacy to Identity , 1968
  • Soviet system and democratic society. Vol. 3. Ideology to Achievement , 1969
  • Soviet system and democratic society. [Special volume]. The Communist Parties of the World , 1969
  • Person and Revolution, Marx, Lenin, Mao. An introduction to work and activities as publisher, Freiburg 1972
  • Soviet System and Democratic Society Vol. 5: Personality Cult and Social Psychology , 1972
  • Soviet System and Democratic Society Vol. 6: Social Revolutionaries - Chance , 1973
  • Marxism in System Comparison , 3 volumes, published as a publisher, Frankfurt / Main 1973–1974
  • Utopia is empty: Future prospects of industrial culture , 1976
  • Socialism. A manual. Volume 1: From the beginning to the Communist Manifesto , Stuttgart 1979
  • Socialism. A manual. Volume 2: From Orthodoxy to Fragmentation , 1986
  • Lenin's empire in ruins. Shadows over Russia's future , Stuttgart 2000
  • Energy Supply Concepts in the 21st Century: The Role of Nuclear Energy , with Gert Maichel and Pedro M. de Sampaio Nunes, 2002
  • And multiply? Germany and the world population in the 21st century , Bonn 2006

credentials

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Claus-Dieter Kernig. In: trauer.de. Retrieved February 11, 2019 .

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personal data
SURNAME Kernig, Claus Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH September 5, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH January 23, 2019