Gottfried Dietze

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Gottfried Dietze (born July 31, 1922 in Kemberg ; † July 2006 in Washington, DC ) was an American political scientist of German origin.

Dietze grew up as the son of the mayor of Goldberg in Silesia . His father was removed from his post in 1936 because he was a Freemason . At that time, Gottfried Dietze was a member of the Deutsche Jungenschaft , a youth association founded by Eberhard Koebel in 1929 and operating illegally from 1933, to which a number of people who later became prominent belonged.

After the end of the Second World War , Dietze studied foreign studies, law, philosophy and politics in Berlin, Göttingen and Hamburg. In 1949 he was in Heidelberg for Dr. jur. PhD with a dissertation written under Walter Jellinek on the formulation of human rights . After his emigration to the United States he acquired in Princeton the Ph.D. with a dissertation on the concept of “free government” in America.

From 1954 until his death, he taught Comparative government at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and its Washington branch.

Dietze, who was referred to in an obituary as “Prussian through and through”, saw himself as an “anarchic conservative” and was close to American libertarianism . His research work has received several third-party funding from conservative think tanks such as the Earhart Foundation .

Dietze was always particularly interested in developments in his country of origin, whose "Hitler complex" - also the title of a book published in 1990 - he viewed as the source of Germany's self-damaging foreign and domestic policy. He wrote several books ( see below ) and articles on this subject , including the state letters published by Hans-Dietrich Sander .

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On legal and state theory

  • On the formulation of human rights , Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1956 (jur. Diss. Heidelberg 1949).
  • The Federalist. A Classic on Federalism and Free Government , 1960 (PhD thesis Princeton, 8th ed. 1998).
  • In Defense of Property , 1963 (6th ed. 2004); German: In defense of property , JCB Mohr, Tübingen 1978, ISBN 3-16-340662-9 .
  • America's Political Dilemma. From Limited to Unlimited Democracy , 1968 (5th edition 2003).
  • Change in the meaning of human rights , CF Müller, Karlsruhe 1972, ISBN 3-7880-0040-6 .
  • Kant and the rule of law , JCB Mohr, Tübingen 1982, ISBN 3-16-344488-1 .
  • Pure liberalism , JCB Mohr, Tübingen 1985, ISBN 3-16-344943-3 .
  • Liberal Commentary on the American Constitution , JCB Mohr, Tübingen 1988, ISBN 3-16-345402-X .
  • Liberal Democracy , Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-428-07579-X .
  • Problems of human rights , Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-428-08421-7 .
  • Concept of law , Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-428-09094-2 .

To current politics

  • Germany, where are you? Searching thoughts from Washington , Olzog, Munich 1980, ISBN 3-7892-7154-3 .
  • The Hitler complex , Karolinger, Vienna 1990, ISBN 3-85418-046-2 .
  • Burden dignity . In: Political Situation Analysis. Festschrift for Hans-Joachim Arndt on his 70th birthday , ed. v. Volker Beismann and Markus Josef Klein, San Casciano, Bruchsal 1993, ISBN 3-928906-00-3 , pp. 39-52.
  • Letters from America. Liberating essays on the German situation , San Casciano, Aschau i. Ch. 1995, ISBN 3-928906-17-8 .
  • Germany: better and more beautiful , Asgard, St. Augustin 2001, ISBN 3-427-64231-3 .
  • America's Guilt , Asgard, St. Augustin 2005, ISBN 978-3-537-86504-5 .
  • Debt and Debt , Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007 ISBN 978-3-428-12161-8 .

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literature

  • Werner Mäder: In memoriam Gottfried Dietze. In: Twentieth stage [stage, issue 20], summer 2010, pp. 113–125.
personal data
SURNAME Dietze, Gottfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH July 31, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Kemberg
DATE OF DEATH July 2006
Place of death Washington, DC