David Childs (political scientist)

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David Childs (2008)

David Haslam Childs (born September 25, 1933 in Bolton ) is a British political scientist.

Life

Childs was born in 1933 as one of two children and the only son of industrial worker John Arthur Childs , later mayor of Bolton.

He attended the Thornleigh Salesian College in Bolton and studied at the London School of Economics and Political Science (B.Sc. 1956) and with a scholarship from the British Council at the University of Hamburg . In 1962 he earned a Ph.D. from the University of London . Until 1961 he worked as a teacher in London. From 1961 to 1964 he worked as a screenwriter for television (including Associated Television ). Then he worked again in the school service.

Childs stood in the British general election in 1964 for the Labor Party in the rugby constituency. He lost 41.2 percent to Roy Wise ( Conservative Party ), who received 45.1 percent.

In 1966 he became a Lecturer at the University of Nottingham , and later Senior Lecturer and Reader in Political Science at the Department of Politics. Today he is Emeritus Professor of Politics. He is an important point of contact for politics and the media in the field of British political history . It is among many other books and the like. a. Author of Britain since 1945. A Political History (7th edition 2012). Between 1988 and 2013 he wrote several obituaries for the British daily newspaper The Independent .

Childs was a founding member of the Association for the Study of German Politics (ASGP), which he chaired from 1981 to 1986. He is also u. a. Member of the British-German Association (BGA), the European Movement International and the Gesellschaft für Deutschlandforschung (GfD). In 1990 he was elected to the Royal Society of Arts (RSA).

During the Cold War, he, who is regarded as an expert on both German states , was observed by the Ministry for State Security during his visits to the GDR in the 1970s and 1980s, sometimes also in England.

Childs is married and has two children.

Honors

Fonts

  • From Schumacher to Brandt. The story of German socialism 1945-1965 . Pergamon Press, Oxford et al. a. 1966.
  • East Germany (= Nations of the modern world ). Fraeger, New York 1969.
  • Germany since 1918 . Batsford, London 1971.
  • Marx and the Marxists. An outline of practice and theory . Barnes & Noble Books, London a. a. 1973.
  • Britain since 1945. A political history . Benn, London 1979.
  • with Jeffrey Johnson : West Germany. Politics and society . Croom Helm, London 1981, ISBN 0-7099-0702-8 .
  • The GDR. Moscow's German ally . Allen & Unwin, London a. a. 1983, ISBN 978-004-354-029-9 .
  • with Thomas A. Baylis , Marilyn Rueschemeyer (Eds.): East Germany in comparative perspective . Routledge, London a. a. 1989, ISBN 0-415-00496-9 .
  • Britain since 1939. Progress and decline . Macmillan, Basingstoke 1995, ISBN 0-333-48681-1 .
  • with Richard Popplewell : The Stasi. Ehe East German intelligence and security service . Macmillan Press, Houndmills, et al. a. 1996, ISBN 0-333-63094-7 .
  • The two red flags. European social democracy and Soviet communism since 1945 . Routledge, London a. a. 2000, ISBN 0-415-22195-1 .
  • The fall of the GDR. Germany's road to unity (= Themes in modern German history series ). Longman, Harlow, et al. a. 2001, ISBN 0-582-31569-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Office of the Federal President
personal data
SURNAME Childs, David
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Childs, David Haslam (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Bolton