Dieter S. Lutz

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Dieter S. Lutz (born December 26, 1949 in Gaildorf ; † January 13, 2003 in Berlin ) was a German political scientist, university professor and peace researcher . He was Scientific Director of the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the German Peace Research Foundation.

Life

Scientific career

Lutz studied law and political science in Tübingen, London and The Hague from 1970 to 1976 and graduated in 1976 with a Magister Artium. From 1972 he worked as a research assistant to Volker Rittberger at the Institute for Political Science at the University of Tübingen . In 1981 he received his doctorate in social sciences from the University of Tübingen. In 1988 he was a visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Boston / USA. 1991 followed a doctorate in administrative sciences at the University of Nijmegen / Netherlands. In 1991 and 1992 he was a substitute professor at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg . In 1993 he completed his habilitation at the University of Hamburg, where he became a private lecturer in the same year. In 1998 he was appointed honorary professor at the University of Kiel . In 2002 he founded the first German major course "Peace Research and Security Policy" at the University of Hamburg.

Worked at the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy

In 1976 he became a scientific consultant and deputy scientific director at the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg (IFSH).

From 1994 he succeeded Egon Bahr as head of the institute. Lutz also headed the Center for OSCE Research (CORE) at the ISFH, which is funded by the Federal Foreign Office.

Work for the German Foundation for Peace Research

From autumn 2000 he was also Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the German Foundation for Peace Research (DSF).

Functions

In 1997 he was appointed by the military bishop to the advisory board of the Institute for Theology and Peace in Barsbüttel

1998 Appointment to the board of trustees of Haus Rissen . International Institute for Politics and Economics

1999 Appointment to the Peace Research Working Group at the Foreign Office's Planning Staff (AA)

1999 Appointment to the Structural and Finding Committee for Peace Research by the Federal Minister for Education and Research (BMBF)

1999 member of the Circle Strategique Franco Allemand

In 2002 he became President of the Willy Brandt Center for German and European Studies at the University of Wrocław .

In the same year he was elected chairman of the Berlin Association of German Scientists (VDW).

Positions

Peace as a fundamental principle of the constitution

Dieter S. Lutz was one of the masterminds behind the concept of collective security . In view of the fundamental importance of peace as a guiding norm of the Basic Law according to Art. 26.1, Preamble, Art. 1 Para. 2, Art. 4 Para. 3, Art. 9 Para. 2, Art. 24 Para. 1, 2 and 3, According to Art. 25 and Art. 26, Paragraphs 1 and 2 of the Basic Law, the orientation of political practice on this peace norm appeared to him insufficient: "Why does the Federal Government accept the report of the so-called» Five Wise Men «, i.e. an expert report from economists ( and also finances it), but not the peace report of the five leading peace research institutions in Germany? Why is there still no peace and security policy expert council (peace council) in the Federal Chancellery? Why does peace research have little or no influence on school lessons? " Regardless of the freedom of science, in Lutz's opinion, the constitutional requirement also means the promotion of peace research in university research and teaching.

"Peace as an emergency", positive concept of peace

The program of "building peace" distinguishes Lutz from the usual understanding of realpolitik . It aims at a policy that "persistently tries to change the warlike reality by all means and by all means." To accept war approvingly or to adapt to a warlike reality as a fact and to "muddle through" without a goal is not compatible with a peace building.

The concept of peace by Lutz is not negative by the absence of violence defined, but as a process: He is "sustainably serve the existence of conservation and -entfaltung in the coexistence of people and nations He should realize human rights and war, violence, exploitation, poverty, hunger. "Prevent oppression, if necessary eliminate it. It should also use the natural foundations of life and their development opportunities as well as preserve them for future generations." For this, based on Johannes Rau, at least ten "building blocks" or "serious cases" of peace have to be politically mastered and "shaped", that is, "realistically concretized": democracy , human rights , remembrance and forgiveness, prevention , social market economy , development , cultural dialogue, good Neighborhood, federation and environment .

Kosovo conflict

Lutz took a firm stand against the military use in the Yugoslav wars and in the Kosovo war , which he considered to be contrary to international law. According to the general report of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly and contrary to official NATO accounts, especially before the war, it was not the Serbs but the KLA who were responsible for the escalation of the conflict and the generation of the crisis in Kosovo, which has already been presented, but as a conspiracy theory has been designated. A situation analysis by the Foreign Office on March 19, 1999 shows that the political decision-makers must have known about the situation before the war.

Feedback and reception

Olaf Scholz praised Lutz as one of the “most prominent peace researchers” and the link between peace research and social democracy.

In his obituary, Otfried Nassauer emphasized the connection between research and policy advice. Lutz was one of the SPD's “welcome-welcome security policy advisors”. Despite the disadvantages for the institute, his Lutz always stuck to his stance: Political advice that follows all tactical twists and turns of daily politics was, in his opinion, no good.

Memberships

Lutz was a member of the SPD .

Private

He was married to Liane Bayreuther-Lutz, a judge at the Hamburg Higher Regional Court, and had two children.

Honors

Quote

The most important task of politics is therefore to avoid situations that allow the only alternatives as evils, such as blaming yourself or killing innocent people through the use of military means. So it is not war that is the worst case in which politics has to prove itself, but peace. ( Peace as an emergency , Baden-Baden 2002)

Publications

  • Lutz, Dieter S .: War and Peace as a Legal Issue in the Parliamentary Council 1948/49, Baden-Baden 1982.
  • with Axel Krohn : European Security II (= Hamburg contributions to peace research and security policy . H. 40). Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg , Hamburg 1989.
  • Herzog, Roman: Democracy as a Peace Strategy . Speeches and contributions by the Federal President, edited by Dieter S. Lutz, Baden-Baden 1997.
  • Dieter S. Lutz (Hrsg.): The war in Kosovo and the failure of politics. Contributions from the IFSH. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden 2000, ISBN 978-3789066986 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peace and Peace Research - The Constitutional Law and its Science. In: Wissenschaft & Frieden 2002-3: Welt (dis) order. Retrieved March 27, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Dieter S. Lutz: Ten "Serious Cases of Peace" Federal President Johannes Rau formulates a peace policy concept in and with his contributions and speeches, IFSH, Issue 124 Hamburg, December 2000 ( Memento from October 12, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ taz of January 16, 2003
personal data
SURNAME Lutz, Dieter S.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist and peace researcher
DATE OF BIRTH December 26, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Gaildorf
DATE OF DEATH January 13, 2003
Place of death Berlin