Dietmar Herz

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Dietmar Herz (born December 28, 1958 in Schwabniederhofen ; † March 7, 2018 ) was a German political scientist and political official . He was professor of comparative government and chairman of the advisory board of the Willy Brandt School of Public Policy at the University of Erfurt . From 2009 to 2014 he was State Secretary in the Thuringian Ministry of Justice .

Education and scientific activity

Dietmar Herz graduated from the Rhabanus-Maurus-Gymnasium St. Ottilien and studied political science, philosophy and history as well as law at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich from 1981 to 1987 . In 1987 he obtained an MA in political science and in 1988 he passed his first state examination. From 1987 to 1989, Herz completed a postgraduate course in political and administrative sciences at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University as a scholarship holder in the McCloy Academic Scholarship Program , which he completed with the title Master of Public Administration (MPA). During this time he was also a teaching fellow at Harvard Law School. He also completed an internship with the Michigan Public Services Commission in Lansing , the capital of the US state of Michigan , in 1988 .

From 1989 he worked as a research assistant at the Geschwister-Scholl-Institute for Political Science at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich , where he lectured in political science. In 1991, Herz was awarded a dissertation on The Short American Century. Doctorate in search of inner and outer order . From that year until 1995 he was a lecturer for the German Private Finance Academy and also performed consulting activities in this context. In 1992, Herz passed his second state examination in law.

In 1994 and 1995 he was a scholarship holder of the German Study Center in Venice , and from 1995 to 1997 he was elected member of the Board of Directors of the National Collegiate Conference Association.

In 1996 , Herz completed his habilitation in political science at the Geschwister-Scholl-Institut of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and then worked there as a private lecturer until 1997 . His habilitation thesis was published in 1999 under the title The Well-weighed Republic. The constitutional thinking of political-philosophical liberalism in Schöningh .

In 1997, Herz was a visiting professor at the Helmut Kohl Institute for European Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem . In the same year he took up a professorship for political science at the seminar for political science at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Bonn , where he was the liaison professor of the German National Academic Foundation . In addition, from 1998 to 1999 he was a lecturer at the Ernst Moritz Arndt University in Greifswald in the field of international politics and from 1999 to 2000 was visiting professor at Vanderbilt University in Nashville , the capital of the US state of Tennessee .

Since 2000 Dietmar Herz was Professor of Comparative Government Studies at the University of Erfurt and was the representative of the Political Science Faculty for the Professional School Project, which led to the founding of what was then the Erfurt School of Public Policy.

From 2001 to 2004, Herz was also Vice President of the University of Erfurt for Studies and Teaching. From 2004 onwards he was Vice President for Research, Young Academics and International Affairs; In 2006 he applied for the presidency of the university. In 2006 he resigned from the office of Vice President after internal disputes about the presidency of the university became public due to suspicion of irregularities in a doctorate supervised by Herz.

Dietmar Herz was also the founding director of the Erfurt School of Public Policy (ESPP, since 2009 Willy Brandt School of Public Policy ) from 2002 to 2006 . With its advanced studies for a Master of Public Policy (MPP), ESPP was the first provider of a public policy course in Germany. When he joined the Thuringian Ministry of Justice, Herz switched to the advisory board of the Willy Brandt School.

Since September 2007, as holder of the first Carl Friedrich von Martius visiting professorship at the DAAD at the Universidade de São Paulo, he was entrusted with the establishment of an institute for German and European studies at the largest university in Brazil.

While he was State Secretary in the Thuringian state government, Herz was on leave from his chair at the university.

Dietmar Herz died in March 2018 after a long illness at the age of 59 and was buried on March 14th in his hometown Schwabniederhofen.

Political activity

Herz belonged to the SPD . After the Thuringian state election in 2009 , he was appointed State Secretary in the Thuringian Ministry of Justice under Minister Holger Poppenhäger on November 4, 2009 . With the swearing-in of the Ramelow I cabinet , he resigned from office in December 2014. In an interview with "Spiegel" in February 2015, he drew a sobering balance sheet of his excursion into politics.

Works (selection)

Books (monographs)

  • History of Israel: From the founding of the state to the present . Verlag CH Beck, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-406-48024-9 .
  • Understand USA . Primus Verlag, Darmstadt 2011. ISBN 978-3-89678-679-1 .
  • with Christian Jetzlsperger: The European Union , Verlag CH Beck, Munich, 2nd edition 2008.
  • The Americans at War: Report from Iraq in the fourth year of the war , Verlag CH Beck, Munich 2007.
  • with Julia Steets: Palestine: Gaza and Westbank , Verlag CH Beck, Munich, 2nd edition 2003.
  • The United Nations: Development, Activities, Perspectives , Fischer Taschenbuchverlag, Frankfurt am Main 2002.
  • Simulation and business game in the social sciences: an inventory of the international discussion , Lit-Verlag, Münster, Hamburg and London 2000.
  • The well-considered republic: The constitutional thinking of political-philosophical liberalism , Schöningh-Verlag, Paderborn 1999.

Editorships

  • with Veronika Weinberger (ed.): Lexicon of economic works. 650 groundbreaking writings from antiquity to the 20th century. Verlag Wirtschaft und Finanz im Schäffer-Poeschel-Verlag, Stuttgart / Düsseldorf 2006, ISBN 978-3-87881-158-9 .
  • with Peter J. Opitz (Ed.): Eric Voegelin: Order and History. 10 volumes, Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Munich 2001–2005.

Reports

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mourning for Dietmar Herz . University of Erfurt, March 9, 2018, accessed on March 10, 2018.
  2. ↑ Hermann Horstkotte: Erfurt quarrels: Strong man overboard . Spiegel Online , May 12, 2006, accessed March 10, 2018.
  3. ^ Bridgehead in São Paulo: Erfurt political scientist founding professor in Brazil's economic metropolis. Press release of the University of Erfurt, October 18, 2007, archived from the original on September 22, 2014 ; accessed on March 10, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Carmen Voigt: Erfurt political scientist Prof. Dr. Dietmar Herz becomes State Secretary in the Thuringian Ministry of Justice . Informationsdienst Wissenschaft (idw), November 5, 2009, accessed on March 10, 2018.
  5. ↑ Michael Backfisch: After an excursion into politics: Erfurt Professor Dietmar Herz takes stock . Thüringer Allgemeine , February 28, 2015, accessed on March 10, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Heart, Dietmar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist and State Secretary in Thuringia
DATE OF BIRTH December 28, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwabniederhofen
DATE OF DEATH March 7, 2018