Gunnar Matthiessen

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Gunnar Matthiessen ( September 1, 1939 - April 10, 1996 ) was a German publicist and one of the organizers of the peace movement against the NATO double resolution and co-organizer of the large demonstrations of the peace movement in the Federal Republic of Germany from 1981 to 1983.

Matthiessen, who studied philosophy, sociology and German at the University of Cologne, was a member of the SDS from 1964 until its dissolution , whose Cologne group with its Marxist orientation later became one of the founding groups of the later MSB Spartakus . Together with Herbert Lederer, Enno Bussmann , Hannes Heer (SDS Bonn) and Werner Loch, he was the responsible editor of facit. Socialist Contributions , the organ of the Marxist SDS wing, later the theoretical organ of the MSB Spartacus.

From 1965 to 1968 he was managing director of the Campaign for Democracy and Disarmament in North Rhine-Westphalia . He was jointly responsible for the star march of the opponents of the emergency laws on May 11, 1968 in Bonn . Matthiessen was a founding member and a member of the office of the Committee for Peace, Disarmament and Cooperation in Europe . He was the deputy publishing director of the Pahl-Rugenstein Verlag and long-time managing director of the Martin-Niemöller -Stiftung founded in 1977 .

Matthiessen is the author and co-editor of various books, primarily on peace policy issues, and author of numerous articles (especially in the late 1970s and early 1980s) in the journals for German and international politics .

Publications (selection)

  • Critique of Maoism, Cologne 1973
  • The totalitarianism theory - a pro-fascist doctrine. In: Wolfgang Abendroth u. a. (Ed.): Fascism and Militarism. Analyzes and theses for anti-fascist practice. (Materials from the Hanau Conference against Fascism and Militarism 1973), Frankfurt am Main 1973
  • Armaments escalation and disarmament perspectives, Cologne 1974
  • Political and military détente. In: Sheets for German and International Politics 1/1977
  • The Vienna summit, the discussion about the SS-20 missiles and the future of détente. In: Blätter für German and international politics 7/79
  • The departure in the Federal Republic - emergence, organization, problems. In: Frankfurter Hefte. Again: Fight against atomic death, Frankfurt am Main 1982
  • Balance sheets ... In: Friedrich Hitzer and Reinhard Opitz (Hrsg.): Alternatives of the opposition. Cologne 1969

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Initiative Socialist Forum: The New Peace Movement: Established Association Policy or Anti-Militarist Opposition? On the development, the understanding of politics and the social composition of the peace movement ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ca-ira.net archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file; 322 kB) . In: Initiative Socialist Forum: Peace - the closer you look, the more strange it looks back. On the criticism of a German peace movement , Freiburg (ça ira - Verlag 1984), pp. 141–191
  2. ↑ Der Spiegel, April 11, 1977 ; red leaves. Student magazine, No. 29/30, 5 (1975), p. 47.
  3. ↑ From the beginning until today ... ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.martin-niemoeller-stiftung.de archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .
personal data
SURNAME Matthiessen, Gunnar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author, spokesman for the peace movement
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1939
DATE OF DEATH April 10, 1996