Eberhard Schuett-Wetschky

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Eberhard Schuett-Wetschky (born October 24, 1937 in Hamburg ; † July 2, 2015 ) was a German political scientist .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1956 at the Christianeum in Hamburg, Schuett-Wetschky initially worked in the commercial field for a few years and studied at the Universities of Geneva and Paris (Sorbonne), and finally from 1962 at the University of Hamburg (initially law, then political science with the minor subjects Medieval and Modern History , Public Law). Schuett-Wetschky received his doctorate in 1973 with a study on proportional representation / majority voting.

From 1974 to 1979 he worked as an assistant professor at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg . His habilitation in political science, funded by the DFG with a habilitation grant, took place in 1981. In 1981/82 Schuett-Wetschky was a substitute professor; In 1983 he was appointed private lecturer and in 1995 professor .

Since October 2002 Schuett-Wetschky has been teaching political science at the Institute for Social Sciences at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel .

Schütt-Wetschky was a partner in the steel trading company Heinrich Schütt KG in Hamburg. In 1992 he founded the Science and Democracy Foundation . This is currently (as of May 2016) funding the Institute for Security Policy at the University of Kiel and the pw portal for political science. After his death he left his fortune to the foundation.

Scientific activity

Schuett-Wetschky's research focus was on the parliamentary system of government in the Federal Republic of Germany. He dealt in particular with democratic political leadership and the importance of parties. Since his habilitation thesis Basic Types of Parliamentary Democracy , published in 1984, he has differentiated between a classically liberal (traditional) type and a (realistic) group type of parliamentary democracy. While the first is mainly characterized by the opposition between parliament and government, the open-ended deliberations in the plenary session of parliament and the absence of political parties in the area of ​​state decision-making, the realistic group type is characterized by the merging of parliamentary majority and government to form a government majority , which the facing parliamentary opposition (new model of separation of powers). According to the realistic type, political decisions on the matter are made by the respective majority parties, whereby the decision-making authority of the parliament remains unaffected. In Schuett-Wetschky's opinion, political practice in parliamentary democracies largely corresponds to this realistic type.

The policy guidelines of Chancellor (Art. 65 I GG) held Schuett-Wetschky for an ineffective in practice determination.

Schuett-Wetschky took the approach of a practice-oriented political science, which does not take practice uncritically as a yardstick, but always critically questions it.

In 1990, Schuett-Wetschky, together with Gesine Schwan and Werner Link , initiated the Political Yearbook and edited it as managing director (two half-volumes annually). In 1996 the yearbook was expanded to include the Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft (ZPol). In 1996, Schuett-Wetschky also launched the Annotated Bibliography of Political Science , a bibliographic database that provides ongoing information on all new political science publications in German-speaking countries.

Publications (selection)

Books

  • Basic types of parliamentary democracy. Classic old liberal type and group type. With special consideration of the criticism of the "Fraktionszwang" , Freiburg i. Br./Munich 1984.
  • Interest groups and the state , Darmstadt 1997.

Essays

  • Separation of powers between the Bundestag and the Federal Government? After the failure of the parliamentary council's concept of separation of powers: common good through parties instead of state organs? . In: Klaus Dicke (Ed.), The Democratic Constitutional State in Germany. 80 Years of the Weimar Constitution, 50 Years of the Basic Law, 10 Years of the Fall of the Wall, Baden-Baden 2001, pp. 67–117.
  • Policy competence of the Federal Chancellor, democratic leadership and party democracy. Part I: Policy competence as a foreign body in party democracy . In: Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft 13 (2003), Issue 4, pp. 1897–1932.
  • Policy competence of the Federal Chancellor, democratic leadership and party democracy. Part II: Misinformation of the audience . In: Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft 14 (2004); Issue 1, pp. 5-29.
  • Government, parliament or parties: who decides who decides? In: Journal for Parliamentary Questions 36 (Issue 3), pp. 489–507.
  • Together with Sebastian Galka: Criticism of parliamentarism and the Basic Law: Has the Parliamentary Council rejected parliamentary group discipline? In: Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft 17 (2007), Heft 4, pp. 1095–1117.
  • Practice-oriented political science. Critique of the empirical-analytical and behavioralist as well as the traditional normative position . In: Peter Haungs (Ed.), Science, Theory and Philosophy of Politics. Concepts and Problems, Baden-Baden 1990, pp. 19–62.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary. In: Lebenswege.faz.net. FAZ , July 11, 2015, accessed on April 5, 2020 .
  2. ^ Part of Heinrich Schütt KG in: FAZ , July 11, 2015, p. 11
  3. ↑ The founder. In: www.swud.org. Retrieved April 5, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Funded projects. In: www.swud.org. Archived from the original on May 23, 2016 ; accessed on May 23, 2016 .
  5. ↑ What is the Science and Democracy Foundation? In: www.swud.org. Archived from the original on May 23, 2016 ; accessed on April 5, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Schuett-Wetschky, Eberhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH October 24, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH 2nd July 2015