Gregor Schirmer

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Gregor Schirmer

Gregor Schirmer (born April 1, 1932 in Nuremberg ) is a former German SED functionary and was a professor of international law in the GDR .

Life

Schirmer was born as the son of the KPD functionary Hermann Schirmer and his wife Anna. He moved to the GDR in 1950 when there was a trial by an American military tribunal for his work as FDJ district chairman in Nuremberg. In the GDR he worked for a short time in the Central Council of the FDJ, studied law at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig from 1951 to 1955 and in 1955/56 was an additional course in international law at the Academy for Political Science and Law in Potsdam-Babelsberg. Then he graduated to 1959 when Peter Alfons Stony a postgraduate at the Law Faculty of the Humboldt University of Berlin, which he awarded the degree of Dr. jur. completed.

Schirmer joined the KPD in Nuremberg in 1949 and became a member of the SED after moving to the GDR. He exercised honorary party functions until he was appointed full-time deputy secretary of the SED party leadership at Humboldt University in 1961. In 1962 Schirmer was appointed lecturer for international law at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena and at the same time appointed Vice Rector. In 1965 he completed his habilitation on a topic of international law and was appointed professor of international law. In 1963 he was elected member of the People's Chamber for the Kulturbund of the GDR . He remained a member of the People's Chamber until 1990 and was a member of the Committee for Foreign Affairs and deputy chairman of the Kulturbund parliamentary group. From 1963 to 1990 he was a member of the Presidential Council of the Kulturbund and from 1972 of the Presidium. In 1965 Schirmer was appointed Deputy State Secretary for Universities and Technical Schools; after the state secretariat was converted into a ministry, he was deputy minister until 1976. At the same time he was a professor on leave at Humboldt University.

In 1976 he was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver.

From 1977 to 1989, Schirmer was deputy head of the science department of the Central Committee (ZK) of the SED. From November 1989 until the resignation of the SED Central Committee on December 3, 1989, Schirmer was head of the Commission for Science and Education at the Central Committee's Politburo. In 1990 he worked as a professor at the Academy for Social Sciences until it was closed. He became a retirement benefit recipient and retired in 1992. Schirmer worked for members of the PDS - or the left-wing parliamentary group in the Bundestag , is a member of the Association for International Politics and International Law, the Marxist Forum and the Council of Elders of the party Die Linke .

Publications

  • Universality of international treaties and international organizations, Berlin 1966
  • Sisyphus in the summit storm, in: Hans Modrow (Ed.), Das Große Haus, Edition Ost 1994, p. 116 ff.
  • Primacy of international law or power over law? In: International Law and Legal Awareness for a Global Peace Order. 4th Dresden Symposium “For a Global Peace Order” on November 20, 1999. (Ed.) Dresdener Studiengemeinschaft Sicherheitsppolitik (DSS) e. V: DSS working papers , Dresden 2000, issue 52, pp. 5-18. urn : nbn: de: bsz: 14-qucosa2-340176
  • The People's Chamber and the political leadership of the SED, in: Werner J. Patzelt / Roland Schirmer (eds.), The People's Chamber of the GDR, Wiesbaden 2002, pp. 187 ff.
  • International law and enforcement of human rights, in: Topos H. 21 2003, p. 55 ff.
  • Germany - a deployment area of ​​the USA in the war against Iraq ?, in: Dieter S. Lutz / Hans J. Gießmann (ed.), The strength of the law against the law of the strong, Baden-Baden 2003, p. 204 ff.
  • Thoughts on III. University reform, in: Alma Mater and Modern Society, Thuringian Forum for Education and Science, Jena 2004, p. 27 ff.
  • Peace and international law, in: World without War ?, Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung Sachsen 2004, p. 63 ff.
  • Ius ad bellum or “old” international peace law ?, in: Wars for the New Order of the World, Kai Homilius Verlag 2004, p. 63 ff.
  • Social sciences in the GDR. Management and planning by the SED, in: Reformzeit und Wissenschaft, Contributions to the GDR history of science, Volume 2, Akademische Verlagsanstalt 2005, p. 155 ff
  • The Nuremberg Principles - A Change in International Law, Bulletin for Research on Fascism and World War II, Issue 27, Edition Organon Berlin 2006, pp. 1–21.
  • Peace and International Law, Writings on International Politics, Volume 14, Association for International Politics and International Law, Berlin 2008
  • Lisbon at the end? Criticism of the EU Treaties, Compact No. 2, Kai Homilius Verlag 2008
  • Analysis: The Federal Constitutional Court reaffirms the Lisbon Treaty, but at the same time calls for a consent law that strengthens the decision-making power of the Bundestag on EU issues. Young World July 7th 2009
  • The rise of the EU to military power: a political-legal polemic. edition ost - Spotless, Berlin, 2012, ISBN 978-3-360-02069-7
  • "Yes, I am ready for it": a flashback. Verlag am Park, Berlin, 2014, ISBN 978-3-89793-193-0 .
  • German borders and territories from 1815 to 1990: An international law and political inventory. edition ost, Berlin, 2017, ISBN 978-3-94518-783-8

literature

Web links

Commons : Gregor Schirmer  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German Communists. Biographisches Handbuch 1918 to 1945. Dietz, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-320-02044-7 , p. 662 ( online ).
  2. ↑ Berliner Zeitung , October 7, 1976, p. 5
personal data
SURNAME Schirmer, Gregor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SED functionary, MdV
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg