Günther Rüther

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Günther Rüther (born October 16, 1948 in Cuxhaven ) is a German political scientist . Until the turn of the year 2013/4 he was head of the promotion of talented students and culture of the CDU-affiliated Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung and teaches as an honorary professor at the Institute for Political Science and Sociology at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn .

biography

After graduating from high school in 1968, Rüther did his military service as a reserve officer in the Bundeswehr; his last rank was ensign in the reserve. He then studied German , political science , philosophy and educational science at the Georg-August University in Göttingen . In 1973/74 he completed his studies as a Magister Artium at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Freiburg and with the first state examination for teaching at grammar schools in Baden-Württemberg . In 1979 he was in Hans-Helmuth Knütter at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Bonn with a thesis on state and Adult Education to Dr. phil. PhD .

Rüther began his professional career in 1974 as a research associate at the Konrad Adenauer Foundation. From 1982 he was responsible for political education there, in 1989/90 he coordinated the activities of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung in the GDR , from 1993 to 1999 he was head of the political education and culture department. Since 2000, Rüther has been head of the main department for gifted students and culture at the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung.

In addition to his professional activity, Rüther held numerous honorary positions, he was a member of the board of the non-profit association Against Forgetting - For Democracy and a member of the German UNESCO Commission .

Teaching and journalism

His main research interests are mind and power in the 20th century and the political elite in the parliamentary system of government in the Federal Republic of Germany. He is represented with numerous articles and reviews in specialist journals and newspapers. In 1993 he worked as a scientific advisor on the six-part television series That Was the GDR. A story of the other Germany of the ARD with. Numerous didactic materials and exhibitions with accompanying volumes were created under his responsibility. a. Everyday life in the GDR , life in developing countries and the planet earth rescue operation .

Fonts (selection)

Book publications and writings
  • State and adult education. An investigation into the position of the institutions in the social constitutional state . 1979.
  • Between adaptation and criticism. Literature in the real existing socialism of the GDR . Bornheim 1989.
  • Grab your pen, buddy. Writers, literature and politics in the GDR . Düsseldorf 1991.
  • Political culture and internal unity . Bornheim 1995.
  • Literature and Politics - A German Doom? . Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-8353-1233-3 .
  • The powerless. Writers and intellectuals since 1945 . Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2016, ISBN 978-3-8353-1838-0 .
  • We negatives. Kurt Tucholsky and the Weimar Republic . Marix Verlag, Wiesbaden 2018, ISBN 978-3-7374-1101-1 .
  • Theodor Fontane. Enlightenment critic writer, Wiesbaden 2019 978-3-7374-0247-3
Editing of edited volumes and co-author
  • History of the Christian-Democratic and Christian-Social Movements in Germany . Bonn 1984.
  • Culture and literature in the GDR . Cologne 1987.
  • Politics and Society in Germany. Basics, connections, challenges . Cologne 1994.
  • Representative or plebiscitary democracy - an alternative? Basics, comparisons, perspectives . Baden-Baden 1996.
  • Literature in the dictatorship. Writing under National Socialism and GDR Socialism . Paderborn / Munich 1997.
  • Boom in heads? Elites in the modern knowledge society . Düsseldorf 2004 (co-editor).
  • Elites in Germany. Meaning, power, responsibility . Bonn 2006 (co-editor), series of publications by the Federal Agency for Civic Education .
  • Committed to art and culture. Contributions to the current discussion, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung . Bornheim 2006 (co-editor).
  • Why the humanities have a future! A contribution to the 2007 Science Year . Freiburg 2007 (together with Jörg-Dieter Gauger).
  • Theodor Fontane. Everything is a coincidence. Writings of a realist, Wiesbaden 2019
Editor of series and a quarterly political journal
  • Series of publications on the foundations of political education, 6 volumes, St. Augustin 1978–1980.
  • Series of publications on the award of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung's literature prize since 1993 (13 editions so far).
  • Political Education Journal . Eichholz letter, 1992–1999 (special issues).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ulrike Quadbeck: Karl Dietrich Bracher and the beginnings of Bonn political science . Baden-Baden 2008, p. 385.
personal data
SURNAME Rüther, Günther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German head of gifted education and culture in the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung
DATE OF BIRTH October 16, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Cuxhaven