Gerd Langguth
Gerd Langguth (born May 18, 1946 in Wertheim ; † May 12, 2013 in Cologne-Merheim ) was a German political scientist , political journalist and politician ( CDU ). From 1976 to 1980 he was a member of the German Bundestag and from 1981 to 1985 director of the Federal Agency for Civic Education . He also held an honorary professorship in Bonn. He was also known as the biographer for Chancellor Angela Merkel and Federal President Horst Köhler .
Life
Origin and studies
Gerd Langguth was born in 1946 as the son of a food wholesaler. He attended the ancient language branch of the Dietrich-Bonhoeffer-Gymnasium in Wertheim am Main. After graduating from high school, he studied political science, constitutional law and history at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . In 1975, he was in Hans-Adolf Jacobsen with a thesis on the development of the protest movement in West Germany from 1968 to 1975 to the Dr. phil. PhD.
Honorary professorship
In 1975/76 he was initially a lecturer in sociology at the University of Applied Sciences for Public Administration in Stuttgart.
As part of his honorary professorship (from 1996) for political science at the Institute for Political Science and Sociology in Bonn, Langguth dealt with European integration , international terrorism , the parties and the political history of the FRG. He supervised several dissertations a. a. Daniel Friedrich Sturm .
Langguth was a member of the German Society for Political Science .
Volunteering
From 2010 he was President of the International Club La Redoute. He was also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Democracy Foundation at the University of Cologne and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Otto and Erich Langguth Foundation.
Private
Langguth, a Protestant, was married to the food chemist and manager Susanne Langguth .
A few days before his 67th birthday, Langguth died in a hospital in Cologne-Merheim after a long illness.
politics
Party and foundation
During his studies (1970 to 1974) Langguth was federal chairman of the Ring of Christian Democratic Students (RCDS). From 1975 to 1977 he was Vice President of the European Union of Democratic Students. From 1971 to 1977 he was also a member of the CDU federal executive board and in 1974 a member of the CDU policy committee . In 1972 he became a member of the federal executive committee of the Evangelical Working Group (EAK) of his party. In 1975 he became a board member of the Junge Union Baden-Württemberg and the CDU Baden-Württemberg .
In 1975 he was head of the education department of the CDU-affiliated Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung in Stuttgart. From 1993 to 1997 he was Executive Chairman of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation. He was primarily concerned with coming to terms with German history. After that he was supposed to become chairman of Inter Nationes , which was prevented by the SPD and the Greens.
He later renounced his sponsor Helmut Kohl and from 2003 to 2004 was the executive director of the cross-party, economic and political association of the Citizens' Convention , which he founded together with Meinhard Miegel .
Langguth rejected the "excesses" of the 1968 movement , was a proponent of Kohl's European policy and was considered a transatlantic .
Member of the Bundestag
Langguth was a member of the German Bundestag from 1976 to 1980 . He prevailed in the 1976 federal election as a direct candidate in constituency 165 (Esslingen) against Volker Hauff (SPD). He was a full member of the Home Affairs Committee and the Petitions Committee (after 1979 deputy member) and deputy member of the Committee on Economic Cooperation . In the 1980 Bundestag election he was again defeated by Hauff with 35.6 to 44.5 percent of the first votes.
State Secretary
From 1986 to 1987 he was State Secretary and Plenipotentiary of the State of Berlin at the Federal Government.
From 1988 to 1993 he was then Head of the Representation of the EC Commission in the Federal Republic of Germany in Bonn.
Political education
Federal headquarters
Between 1981 and 1985, Langguth was, alongside Franklin Schultheiß (SPD) and Horst Dahlhaus (FDP), one of three directors of the Federal Agency for Civic Education (bpb) in Bonn.
Journalism
Langguth's publications as a political author dealt with the protest movement - development, decline, renaissance. Die Neue Linke since 1968 , a controversial description of the 1968 movement in the analysis of the former representative of the RCDS. Further publications are The Green Factor. From movement to party? as well as the book Mythos '68 and biographies about Angela Merkel (2005) and Horst Köhler (2007). His last book Kohl - Schröder - Merkel was published in March 2009 . Power people, in which he carried out a fundamental analysis of the facets of “power”, as previously in his publication The Inner Life of Power. Crisis and future of the CDU .
He appeared regularly as a television commentator, u. a. as a guest of the event broadcaster Phoenix .
Awards
- 1975: Kai-Uwe-von-Hassel-Förderpreis of the Hermann Ehlers Foundation
- 1995: Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon (March 17, 1995)
- 2009: Media Prize from the Association of Foreign Press in Germany
The Ring of Christian Democratic Academics (RCDA) donated the Gerd Langguth Prize after his death.
Works (selection)
- Kohl - Schröder - Merkel. Machtmenschen, dtv, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-423-24731-3 .
- Horst Koehler. Biography , dtv, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-423-24589-0 .
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Angela Merkel , dtv, Munich, 2005, ISBN 3-423-24485-2 . (2010: Extended and updated paperback edition, dtv, Munich, ISBN 978-3-423-34627-6 )
The biography of the future Chancellor Angela Merkel , published in mid-2005, is based on 142 interviews with people from Merkel's circle. Angela Merkel herself was willing to “participate in a limited way” on the book and gave the author an “extensive interview” (65 minutes). - The inner workings of power. Crisis and future of the CDU , Ullstein, Munich, 2001, ISBN 3-550-07169-8 .
- Myth '68. Rudi Dutschke's philosophy of violence - causes and consequences of the student movement , Olzog Verlag , Munich, 2001, ISBN 3-7892-8065-8 .
- Remember Germany. One nation in dialogue , Bouvier, Bonn 1998, 152 pp., ISBN 3-416-02747-7 .
- The intellectuals and the national question , (Editor). Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main / New York 1997; ISBN 3-593-35725-9 .
- Search for collateral. A psychogram of the Germans , DVA, Stuttgart, 1995, ISBN 3-421-05002-3 .
- Politics and Poster , Bonn 1995; ISBN 3-416-02569-5 .
- Power means responsibility - Adenauer's setting the course for today's politics (editor), Cologne 1994; with his own contribution: Konrad Adenauer: “Father” of reunification or “splitter” of Germany? Pp. 75-93, ISBN 3-8046-8809-8 .
- Author, power, state. Literature and Politics in Germany - A necessary dialogue (editor), Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-0918-5 .
- Berlin. From the focus of division to the bridge of unity , Verl. Wissenschaft und Politik, Cologne, 1990, ISBN 3-8046-8755-5 .
- Who rules Nicaragua. History, ideology and power structures of Sandinism , Verl. Bonn Aktuell, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-87959-381-7 .
- Protest movement - development, decline, renaissance. Die Neue Linke since 1968 , Verl. Wissenschaft und Politik, Cologne, 1983, 2nd edition 1984, ISBN 3-8046-8617-6 .
- The green factor. From movement to party? , Osnabrück, Fromm, 1984, ISBN 3-7201-5169-7 .
- Youth is different. Portrait of a Young Generation , Herder, Freiburg, 1983, ISBN 3-451-08059-1 .
- Protest movement in the Federal Republic of Germany 1968–1976 , series of publications by the Federal Center for Political Education, Vol. 117, Cologne 1976 (publication of the dissertation The Development of the Protest Movement in the Federal Republic 1968–1975 , University of Bonn, Philosophical Faculty, 1975) ISBN 3-8046- 8520-X , ISBN 3-921352-18-5 .
- Protest movement at the end. The New Left as the advance guard of the DKP , Hase & Köhler, Mainz 1971, ISBN 3-7758-0827-2 .
literature
- Langguth, Gerd , in: Friedhelm Golücke : Author's lexicon for student and university history. SH-Verlag, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-89498-130-X . P. 190.
- Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (eds.), Bruno Jahn (collaborators): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 1: A-M. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 , p. 484.
Web links
- Literature by and about Gerd Langguth in the catalog of the German National Library
- Gerd Langguth in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Gerd Langguth , Internationales Biographisches Archiv 03/2009 of January 13, 2009, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
- Gerd Langguth at the Konrad Adenauer Foundation
- Daniel Friedrich Sturm : Gerd Langguth - An ethnologist of left subculture . Welt Online , May 13, 2013.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gerd Langguth: The Development of the Protest Movement in the Federal Republic of 1968-1975 . Mainz 1971, p. 1.
- ^ Severin Weiland: Journalist and political expert Langguth is dead. Spiegel Online , May 12, 2013, accessed on May 12, 2013 .
- ^ Wolfgang Hoffmann: Interested. In: zeit.de . April 8, 1998, accessed March 8, 2020 .
- ↑ Office of the Federal President
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Langguth, Gerd |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German political scientist, politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 18, 1946 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wertheim |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 12, 2013 |
| Place of death | Cologne-Merheim |