Franz Neumann (political scientist, 1935)

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Franz Xaver Neumann (born January 12, 1935 in Großborowitz ( Sudetenland ); † December 6, 2019 in Hausen (Pohlheim) ) was a German political scientist , university professor and local politician.

Life

After being expelled from the Sudetenland in 1946, Neumann came to Biskirchen and Leun near Wetzlar. He graduated from the Philippinum in Weilburg in 1957. He then studied chemistry and mathematics and later political science and sociology at the University of Marburg , with Wolfgang Abendroth , among others . In 1963 he passed his exams, in 1966 he did his doctorate at the University of Marburg with a thesis on the Federation of Expellees and Disenfranchised (BHE), a German party that was active from 1950 to 1961. In 1968 Franz Neumann joined the SPD .

He was then a research assistant at the Universities of Marburg and Gießen and from 1972 professor for political science in Gießen. From 1981 to 1989 he was president of the then comprehensive university in Kassel (now the University of Kassel). After 1989 he remained an honorary professor at the University of Kassel for another 14 years, and from 1981 to 2004 he also held a visiting professorship at the University of Gießen. He has worked several times as a local politician, for example from 1977 to 1981 he was a member of the local advisory council in his home town of Hausen, and from 1998 he was a member of the "Gießen District Council", which in 2001 elected him as its chairman. Until his departure in March 2011 he was chairman of the district council of Giessen.

family

In 1963 he married Erika Neumann, née Thürmer, with whom he had two children.

Work areas

  • Political theory and history of ideas
  • Criticism of ideology
  • Political sociology (especially party theory and sociology)
  • German constitutional law and constitutional policy
  • Political ethics
  • Theory and basic questions of political education
  • Political systems in Germany since 1918

Publications

  • Ed. And introduction, together with K. Lenk: Theory and Sociology of Political Parties , 2 volumes, Darmstadt, Neuwied 1974.
  • Dignity and life can be touched, or who protects people? In: Franz Neumann, ed .: Political Ethics. Handbook , Baden-Baden 1985.
  • Ed. And introduction: The Frankfurt Imperial Constitution. Reproduction of the Kassel original supplemented by the signatures of the representatives in the Berlin original and the names from the Reich Law Gazette of April 28, 1849 , Wiesbaden 1989.
  • About violence or political ethics in the land of milk and honey , in: B. Claußen, W. Gagel and Franz Neumann eds .: Challenges - Answers. Political education in the nineties , Opladen 1991.
  • Constitutional Discussion in Germany I: State Goals - Fundamental Rights - Participation , WOCHENSCHAU; Special edition, Volume 43, Dec. 1992.
  • Constitutional discussion in Germany II: 'Preserving the tried and tested' - Little new was added to the Basic Law , WOCHENSCHAU; Special edition, 45. Born in December 1994.
  • More democracy in the Bonn republic? No or tentative steps by the joint constitutional commission of the Bundestag and Bundesrat , In: Gegenwartskunde 2, 1994.
  • Ed., Together with H. Drechsler and W. Hilligen: Society and State. Lexikon der Politik , Munich 1995 (9th, revised and expanded edition).
  • Theory of democracy - models for the rule of the people and anarchism - theories and utopias of freedom and non-domination . In: Franz Neumann, ed .: Handbook of Political Theories and Ideologies, Vol. 1 and 2, Opladen 1995/1996.
  • Preservation of the "super-representative" democracy of the Basic Law. On the work of the Joint Constitutional Commission in the context of the constitutional discussion after German reunification , in: Die Demokratie übersehen. A model facing new challenges, Berlin 1997.
  • as editor together with Arnd Bauerkämper and Eike Hennig: Democracy History of the Federal Republic in the 20th Century: Tension Fields - Arguments - Tendencies , Schwalbach / Ts. : Wochenschau-Verlag 2007, ISBN 978-3-89974-212-1 .

Festschrift

  • Klaus Fritzsche, Mark Arenhövel , Gerhard Freiling: Conflicts about order and freedom: Franz Neumann on his 60th birthday; social science contributions , Pfungstadt; Bensheim: Ed. Ergon 1995, ISBN 978-3-927960-25-1 .

Prizes and awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see https://trauer.mittelhessen.de/trauerbeispiel/franz-neumann
  2. ↑ see entry of the dissertation in the German library at http://d-nb.info/481448187
  3. ↑ see Neumann homepage , accessed February 6, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Neumann, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Neumann, Franz Xaver
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Großborowitz , Sudetenland
DATE OF DEATH December 6, 2019
Place of death Hausen (Pohlheim)