Hans-Joachim Mengel

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Hans-Joachim Mengel (* 1947 ) is a German lawyer and political scientist . He is Professor of Political Science at the Otto Suhr Institute at the Free University of Berlin .

Life

Scientific career

Mengel's legal focus is on constitutional law . As a political scientist, he works primarily in the areas of domestic politics and system comparison .

After his legal state exams , doctorates in both disciplines (Dr. iur. And Dr. sc. Pol. (Sorbonne)) and his habilitation , his academic career led him to Yale , as a Kennedy Fellow at Harvard and as a Fellow at Queens Cambridge University College .

During the process of German reunification Mengel pleaded for an equal merger of the two German states and a new all-German constitution , which should be voted on by a referendum . To this end, he submitted a corresponding draft treaty together with Leipzig international lawyers , which, however, could not prevail.

Mengel's academic work is shaped by his commitment to democratic decision-making processes and the protection of civil rights.

Since 2007 he has headed the Center for the Study of Discrimination based on sexual Orientation (CSDSO) at the Free University of Berlin .

Political commitment

Mengel founded the citizens' initiative "Save the Uckermark " against the establishment of wind turbines in the structurally weak area, which is characterized by industrial agriculture. For him, the construction of wind turbines is the "worst devastation since the Thirty Years War ". The citizens' initiative received 11% of the vote in 2003 and moved with five members as a parliamentary group to the uckermark district council . Mengel acted as group chairman. This commitment led to his SPD to after 37 years of membership party exclusion threatened what Mengel moved to the active outlet. In the 2008 elections, the initiative received around 7%.

As part of his commitment to the citizens' initiative, Mengel also ran in 2004 in the Uckermark I constituency as a single applicant for the state elections in Brandenburg and received 18.8% of the first votes, but failed to get the direct mandate.

In August 2012, it was announced that Mengel the wind farm operator Enertrag had allowed to build wind turbines on a plot Mengels. According to his own statements, Mengel receives around 40,000 euros in lease per year. He explained his turnaround as follows: "If the bell ringer realizes that the goal is no longer achievable, you have to think about ending it." If he has already lost the fight against the wind farm , he wants at least the financial benefit from the Have wind power. That is why he offered his property to Enertrag. According to the Berliner Kurier Mengel's plot of land, Enertrag had previously left out Mengel's plot of land in his wind farm planning so as not to provoke Mengel. "Half of the other lessors are in the west," explained Mengel. "If I hadn't signed the contract, then we would have 20 wind turbines in front of the door and nothing else." Now he will at least get compensation for it. Mengel was heavily criticized for this attitude in his own group; he then resigned his mandate in the district council, according to his own statements for health reasons.

Mengel is honorary chairman of the "European Academy" association and chairman of the board of trustees of the "Collegium Wartinum" foundation. He is committed to the preservation of the manor Schloss Wartin and its use in the spirit of an Anglo-Saxon college as a cultural, artistic and scientific center in the Uckermark. He was also the honorary mayor of the town of Wartin .

Publications

  • Federal Economic and Social Council as a contribution to parliamentary reform. A comparative constitutional study with a view to the Conseil Economique et Social of the Fifth Republic of France. Marburg 1975 (dissertation)
  • International organizations and transnational data protection. Berlin 1984, ISBN 3-88840-220-4
  • Legislation and Procedure. A contribution to the empiricism and theory of the legislative process in the federal constitutional state. Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-428-08022-X

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History of wind energy. The power from the air . In: Die Zeit , No. 6/2012.
  2. ↑ Changed sides . In: Der Tagesspiegel , September 21, 2012. Retrieved January 3, 2013.
  3. ↑ Don Quixote gives up. The boss of the wind power opponents in the Uckermark has a wind turbine built on his land . In: Märkische Allgemeine , September 19, 2012. online ( Memento from September 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive ).
  4. ↑ resignation! Wind turbine hypocrite disappears . In: Berliner Kurier , September 20, 2012. Retrieved January 3, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Mengel, Hans-Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 1947