Detlev Albers

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Detlev Albers (born November 13, 1943 in Goslar ; † May 31, 2008 in Bremen ) was a German political scientist , university professor and former SPD state chairman in the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen .

He became known, among other things, through an action in which he and his fellow student Gert Hinnerk Behlmer unrolled the banner " Under the gowns - Muff of 1000 years " on the occasion of the handover of the rectorate at the University of Hamburg on November 9, 1967 .

biography

education

Albers graduated from high school in Hamburg in 1963 and studied law and social sciences first in Bonn and then in Hamburg . He was chairman of the Hamburg AStA from 1966/1967 and advocated the so-called third parity between professors, the academic mid-level staff and the students with regard to co-determination at German universities. After the first state examination in law (1969), he was a research associate at the Hamburg research center of the Association of German Scientists, headed by Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker , from 1969 to 1972 . In 1973/1974 he worked for Horst Kern as a research assistant at the social science seminar of the Technical University of Hanover and received his doctorate at the Free University of Berlin with a thesis on the cause and course of social conflicts, illustrated using the example of the Italian strike movement 1968–1971 for Dr. phil.

science

At the end of 1974 Albers received an assistant professorship, then a professorship in the political science course at the University of Bremen . 1977–1981 he was vice rector of the University of Bremen, 1983–1985 spokesman for the human and social sciences department and responsible for teaching in the 1992/1993 course. In 1986 Albers became a board member of the Academy for Labor and Politics (until 1993) and in 1992 a member of the conversion advisory board in the state of Bremen (until 1996). In 2001 he founded the Bremen Forum for European Regional Policy (BFER) at the Institute for Political Science and took over its management.

In 2004 he founded the electronic journal Social Europe Journal (SEJ) and worked as its editor-in-chief until his death.

politics

Albers had been a member of the SPD since 1966, from 1987 to 1995 a member of the advisory board of Bremer Neustadt . From 1999 to 2007 he was a member of the federal executive committee of the SPD. From 1993 to 2004 he was a member of the state executive committee of the SPD Bremen , from 1995 to 2004 as Bremen state chairman . Albers was a member of the SPD Party Council and the SPD Fundamental Values ​​Commission until his death. He was also involved in the 2007 SPD basic program , the Hamburg program .

death

Albers died of a stroke at the age of 64 . At the funeral in Bremer Church of Our Lady held Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul , Böhrnsen and his old classmate, a former Hamburg State Culture Gert Hinnerk Behlmer, the speeches.

His brother Kersten Albers is chairman of the Friends of the Museum of Labor in Hamburg.

Publications

  • with Werner Goldschmidt and Paul Oehlke: Class struggles in Western Europe. France, Italy, Great Britain. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1971, ISBN 3-499-11502-6
  • Causes and course of social conflicts, illustrated using the example of the Italian strike movement, 1968-1971. Dissertation . Free University of Berlin , 1974
  • with Kurt Neumann and Kurt Wand (eds.): Orientierungsrahmen, ohne Alternative? To the discussion about alternatives of social democratic politics. dvk-Verlag Obiora, Berlin 1976, ISBN 3-88107-008-7
  • Democracy and Socialism in Italy. The "historic compromise" and the strategy of the parties and trade unions. Campus, Frankfurt / New York 1978, ISBN 3-593-32263-3
  • with Josef Hindels and Lucio Lombardo Radice (eds.): Otto Bauer and the “third” way. The rediscovery of Austromarxism by left-wing socialists and Eurocommunists. Campus, Frankfurt am Main / New York, NY 1979, ISBN 3-593-32617-5
  • with Josef Cap , Pietro Ingrao and Didier Montchane (eds.): Perspektiven der Eurolenken. Campus, Frankfurt am Main / New York, NY 1981, ISBN 3-593-32836-4
  • (Ed.): Capitalist crisis and strategies of the euro left. Questions of a socialist policy in Western Europe. spw-Verlag, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-922489-03-6
  • (Ed.): Western European Unions. A comparison of crisis management. Argument, Berlin 1983, ISBN 3-88619-085-4
  • Attempt on Otto Bauer and Antonio Gramsci. On the political theory of Marxism. Argument, Berlin 1983, ISBN 3-88619-032-3
  • with Franco Andreucci (ed.): The path of the workers' movement after 1917. On socialist theory in the interwar period. Campus, Frankfurt am Main / New York, NY 1985, ISBN 3-593-33498-4
  • with Horst Heimann & Richard Saage (eds.): Otto Bauer, Theory and Politics. Argument, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-88619-129-X
  • * with Kurt Neumann (Ed.): Beyond Irsee! On the criticism of the SPD's draft program. spw-Verlag, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-922489-09-5
  • Socialism in the west. First Approaches: Marxism and Social Democracy. Argument, Berlin / Hamburg 1987, ISBN 3-88619-364-0 .
  • with Frank Heidenreich, Heinrich Lienker and Kurt Neumann (eds.): Socialism of the future. Basis for the new program of the SPD. spw-Verlag, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-922489-11-7 .
  • with Frank Deppe and Michael Stamm (eds.): Distance Enlightenment: Glasnost and the West German Left. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1989, ISBN 3-462-01988-0
  • (Ed.): Regional policy of the European trade unions. A comparative inventory for Great Britain, France, Italy, Spain and Germany. Bund-Verlag, Cologne 1993, ISBN 3-7663-2428-4
  • with Andrea Nahles (Ed.): Left program modules. Food for thought on the SPD's Hamburg program. Forward book, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-86602-020-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ What is actually doing ...: Detlev Albers . In: Stern , May 6, 2003
  2. ↑ Apo veteran Albers: "We only knew unemployment from books in 1968" . Spiegel Online , February 6, 2006
  3. ↑ Social Europe Journal: Authors ( Memento from September 2, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) :( with links to Albers' articles)
  4. ↑ SPD state chairman Detlev Albers resigns . In: Die Welt , December 11, 2003
  5. ^ SPD with first contributions to the basic program . January 18, 2001
  6. ^ The journalistic skirmish about the "Hamburg Program" of the SPD: Deployment of the gladiators . In: FAZ , October 1, 2007
  7. ↑ SPD politician and political scientist Detlev Albers has died . , May 31, 2008
  8. ↑ From Euromarxism to Realpolitik . WAZ , May 31, 2008
  9. ↑ Bremen SPD strategist Detlev Albers is dead . In: taz , June 2, 2008
  10. ^ Funeral service for Detlev Albers . In: taz , June 14, 2008
personal data
SURNAME Albers, Detlev
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist and politician (SPD)
DATE OF BIRTH November 13, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Goslar
DATE OF DEATH May 31, 2008
Place of death Bremen