George Turner (politician, 1935)

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George Turner (2015)

George Turner (born May 28, 1935 in Insterburg , East Prussia ) is a German legal scholar, science manager and politician.

Life

Turner's ancestors were exiles from Salzburg who immigrated to the Kingdom of Prussia after the Great Plague .

George Turner grew up on the Lithuanian border, where his parents ran a farm. After fleeing and being expelled, lived as a pupil in Ebstorf from 1945 onwards . He reported on those post-war years in 2018. In 1955 he passed the high school diploma at the Herzog-Ernst-Gymnasium Uelzen . He studied law and political science at the Georg-August University in Göttingen and became a member of the Frisia fraternity . He published the history of the later Corps Frisia Göttingen in 2011. Meanwhile, at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and the University of Würzburg , he became 1960 in Goettingen Dr. iur. PhD . In 1963 he passed the Great State Examination at the Hamburg Higher Regional Court . In 1966 he completed his habilitation in mining law , commercial law and civil law . In 1968 Turner was initially a legal adviser and in-house counsel at the Clausthal Bergakademie . In the same year he was appointed Scientific Councilor and Professor .

From 1970 to 1986 he was twice re-elected President of the University of Hohenheim . From 1971 to 1973 he was also chairman of the Baden-Württemberg State Rectors 'Conference , from 1976 to 1979 Vice-President and from 1979 to 1983 finally President of the West German Rectors' Conference . In 1986, the Governing Mayor of Berlin , Eberhard Diepgen (CDU) , appointed him as a non-party Senator for Science and Research of the State of Berlin. Turner remained in this office until the CDU was defeated in the election to the Berlin House of Representatives in 1989 . From 1989 to 2000 Turner taught again as a professor for commercial and agricultural law and science administration at the University of Hohenheim. In addition, after the German reunification he was visiting professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin . Since his retirement he has mainly worked as a journalist and advises media companies, for example the Georg von Holtzbrinck publishing group . He writes a regular column in the Tagesspiegel . Turner also appears as a regular author for the Preussische Allgemeine Zeitung .

He married Edda Horstmann in Göttingen in 1963. Sebastian Turner is among his three sons .

Publications

  • with Raimund Willecke: Grundriss des Bergrechts , 2nd, revised and expanded edition, Berlin 1970.
  • Mass university and educational emergency. How the crisis can be overcome , Frankfurt am Main 1984 ISBN 3-596-24261-4 .
  • The registered cooperative in the system of corporate law , Göttingen 1992 ISBN 3-525-12802-9 .
  • Agricultural law. Ein Grundriss , Stuttgart 1994 (3rd edition Frankfurt am Main 2006) ISBN 3-7690-0678-X .
  • University between imagination and reality. On the history of the university reform in the last third of the 20th century , Berlin 2001 ISBN 3-428-10332-7 .
  • We'll take home with us. A contribution to the emigration of Salzburg Protestants in 1732, their settlement in East Prussia and their expulsion in 1944/45 . Berlin 2016 (5th revised and expanded edition) ISBN 978-3-8305-1900-3 .
  • with Joachim D. Weber and Brigitte Goebbels: University from A – Z. Orientations, history, terms . Berlin 2004 (2nd revised edition 2011) ISBN 978-3-8305-1888-4 .
  • From university to university. Dead ends and detours in university policy since 1945 , 2nd edition, Berlin 2016. ISBN 978-3-8305-3688-8 .
  • Salzburg, East Prussia - Integration and Preservation of Identity, Berlin 2017. ISBN 978-3-8305-3787-8 .
  • Higher education reforms. A never-ending story since the 1950s. Berlin 2018. ISBN 978-3-428-85424-0
  • What are they doing here? Refugees and locals 1945–49. The example of Ebstorf in the Lüneburg Heath. Berlin 2019. ISBN 978-3-8305-3969-8 .

Honors

literature

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Therefore his first name is not pronounced in English; it is an Austrian variant, cf. Hungarian György .
  2. ↑ George Turner: Locals and Refugees. The years 1945–49, illustrated using the example of the local region . The heather wanderer. Local supplement of the Allgemeine Zeitung, Uelzen, 95th year (2018)
  3. ↑ George Turner (ed.): Frisia Gottingensis 1956-2011 . Heath 2011.
  4. ^ Dissertation: The Calenberger Meierrecht - History and System .
  5. ^ Habilitation thesis: The mining authorization system. A contribution to the solution of the conflict of those interested in mining .
  6. ↑ http://www.tagesspiegel.de/autoren/George%20Turner
  7. ↑ http://suche.ostpreussenarchiv.de/
personal data
SURNAME Turner, George
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German scientist and politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Insterburg / East Prussia