Gilbert Ziebura

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Gilbert Ziebura (born March 18, 1924 in Hanover ; † February 21, 2013 in Braunschweig ) was a German political scientist . He has made important contributions to the historical debate and a. delivered to the political and economic system of the interwar period . He also "co-founded the social science research in France in the Federal Republic and shaped it decisively over the decades."

Life

He lived with his family in Berlin from 1930 and attended the Oberrealschule ( Schadow School ) there until 1943 . He was a member of the Jungvolk and the Hitler Youth , was a soldier in 1943 and served on the Eastern Front . After a serious wound and amputation of an upper arm in November of that year, he was discharged from the Wehrmacht in 1944.

In 1944/45 he completed a high school diploma course in Cottbus . He then worked briefly as a primary school teacher; from 1946 to 1948 he studied history , Romance studies and general political science at the Humboldt University in Berlin . In 1948 he moved to the Free University of Berlin . He then studied from 1950 to 1952 in Paris at the Sorbonne . In 1953 he received his doctorate with a paper on "The German Question in French Public Opinion 1911-1914". From 1954 he was a lecturer at the German University for Politics in Berlin and there since 1955 a research assistant. Ziebura completed his habilitation in 1962 with the work “ Léon Blum . Theory and practice of a socialist policy. ”Since 1964 Ziebura was a full professor for political science with a focus on foreign policy at the Free University of Berlin.

In 1968 he was involved in the dispute over the democratization of universities and worked in parallel on the planning staff of the Federal Chancellery .

In 1974 he accepted a position at the University of Konstanz . 1978 moved to the Technical University of Braunschweig . In 1992 he retired. After that he was still visiting professor at the University of Hanover in 1993/94 .

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His teaching and research focused on international politics. These included international economic relations and European policy, France and Franco-German relations , questions of the social system and foreign policy, as well as theoretical questions.

He has also covered historical subjects. His book “Weltwirtschaft und Weltpolitik 1922 / 24–1931. Between reconstruction and collapse ”. In it he described the failure to create a stable economic and political world order as the prehistory of the world economic crisis . He rejected the thesis of relative stabilization and criticized not only the European but also the American policy of the time.

In addition to monographs, he published numerous articles and worked as an editor. He also expressed himself in the public debate and, since the 1970s and especially after the end of the Cold War, has developed a critical left-liberal understanding of politics in criticism of neoliberalism and globalization . In 2009 he published an autobiography “Critique of Realpolitik. Genesis of a left-liberal vision of world society ”.

Monographic publications

  • The German question in French public opinion from 1911 to 1914. Berlin, 1955
  • The French system of government. Guide by Francois Goguel. Translation and preface by GZ; Source book. Cologne and Opladen, 1956/57
  • The Fifth Republic. France's new system of government. Cologne and Opladen, 1960
  • Léon Blum. Theory and Practice of a Socialist Politics. Vol. 1: 1872-1934. Berlin, 1963
  • Franco-German relations since 1945. Myths and realities. Pfullingen, 1970
  • (with Ch. Deubner, U. Rehfeldt, F. Schlupp) The internationalization of capital. New theories in the international discussion. Frankfurt / M., New York, 1979.
  • France 1789 - 1870. The emergence of a civil society. Frankfurt / M., New York, 1979.
  • World economy and world politics 1922 / 24–1931. Between reconstruction and collapse. Frankfurt / M., 1984
  • Between relaxation and global economic recession. The international relations of the Federal Republic of Germany 1962 - 1974/75. Processing: Friedrich Diestelmeier. German Institute for Distance Learning at the University of Tübingen (Ed.), German History after 1945, Part 1, Study Letter 7, 1988
  • (with Michael Bonder and Bernd Röttger) Germany in a new world era. Unresolved challenges. Opladen, 1992.
  • Franco-German relations since 1945. Myths and realities. Neske, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-7885-0511-7 .
  • France. History, society, politics. Selected essays , ed. by Adolf Kimmel. Opladen, 2003
  • Criticism of "Realpolitik". Genesis of a left-liberal vision of world society. Autobiography, Lit.-Verlag, Münster 2009, ISBN 978-3-643-10063-4 .

literature

  • Ulrich Menzel : Left-liberal was his vision. The great political scientist is dead. An obituary for Gilbert Ziebura. In: Braunschweiger Zeitung of February 27, 2013, p. 30.
  • Bernd Röttger: In Memoriam Gilbert Ziebura (1924–2013). On the topicality of an analysis of structural determinants of political action corridors , in: PROKLA 171, Vol. 43, Issue 2 2013, pp. 183–191.
  • Joachim Umlauf, Nicole Colin, Ulrich Pfeil , Corine Defrance Eds .: Lexicon of German-French cultural relations after 1945. Gunter Narr, Tübingen 2013, revised, ext. Ed. 2015, p. 488ff.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ziebura, Gilbert . In: Personal Lexicon for International Relations Virtual (PIBv), edited by Ulrich Menzel , Institute for Social Sciences, TU Braunschweig .
  2. ↑ Hans Manfred Bock , Adolf Kimmel and Henrik Uterwedde (as editors of the 'France Studies') in the foreword to Gilbert Ziebura (2003): France: History, Society, Politics: Selected Essays , p. 7 ( online )
  3. ↑ Horst Möller : Between the world wars . Munich 1998, p. 182
  4. ↑ ISBN 978-3810009784
personal data
SURNAME Ziebura, Gilbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH February 21, 2013
Place of death Braunschweig