Hans-Joachim Veen

Hans-Joachim Veen (2006)

Hans-Joachim Veen (born August 29, 1944 in Strasbourg ) is a German political scientist and has been an honorary professor at the University of Trier since 1994 .

Life

Hans-Joachim Veen was born in Strasbourg in Alsace in 1944 . After graduating from high school in 1964 at a natural science high school in Bremen , he did his military service as a reserve officer candidate with Panzer Reconnaissance Battalion 3 in Lüneburg. As a reserve officer, he reached the rank of colonel in the reserve. He served, among other things, as commander of the tank battalion 524 (partly cadre) in Lingen. He completed his last military exercises as Chief of Staff of the Bundeswehr Command USA and Canada in Reston / Virginia.

From 1966 to 1971 he studied political science, public law and history at the University of Hamburg and the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg for a master's degree. From 1975 to 1976 he was a research assistant at the chair of Wilhelm Hennis at the University of Freiburg, where he also wrote the dissertation opposition in the Bundestag in 1976 . Their functions, institutional conditions of action under the behavior of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group in the 6th electoral term 1969–1972 for Dr. phil. received his doctorate .

He worked for many years as deputy director (from 1976) and finally director (1983–1999) of the social science research institute of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung and made a name for himself as an election and party researcher and in scientific policy advice. From 2000 he headed the project “Democracy and Party Development in Eastern Europe” at the foundation. With this project he paved the way for the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung's systematic party support in young democracies and is still active in this field today. From 1994 to 1995 he was a deputy chair for comparative government at the University of Trier , and has been an honorary professor there since then.

From 2002 to the end of November 2014, Veen was the founding chairman of the Ettersberg Foundation in Weimar. The foundation is dedicated to European dictatorship research and the processing of the SED dictatorship. Since its expansion in 2012, it has also been the sponsor of the Andreasstrasse Memorial and Educational Center, a former remand prison of the Ministry for State Security on Domplatz in Erfurt. From 2007 to 2009 Veen was chairman of the Thuringian state advisory board on violence prevention. From 2009 to 2012 Veen moderated the Thuringia History Association. Working group to come to terms with the SED dictatorship. From 2008 to 2017 he was chairman of the scientific advisory committee at the Federal Commissioner for the Records of the State Security Service of the former GDR. In 2014 he was appointed to the expert commission of the German Bundestag on the future of the authority of the Federal Commissioner for the Records of the State Security Service of the former GDR. He has been a member of the Advisory Board of the Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial Foundation since 2017 (deputy chairman since 2019).

Awards

• 1993: Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon (for services to the development of political, economic and historical science at the universities in the new federal states by means of a multi-year visiting professor program)

Fonts (selection)

Monographs and Articles

• Opposition in the Bundestag. Their functions, institutional conditions of action and the behavior of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group in the 6th electoral term 1969–1972. Bonn 1976 (= series of publications by the Federal Agency for Political Education, vol. 113).
• Party state and freedom of representation. To the discussion about the imperative mandate. Munich 1976.
• with Walter Jaide: Balance of youth research. Results of empirical analyzes in the Federal Republic of Germany from 1975–1987. Paderborn 1989.
• with Jürgen Hoffmann: The Greens at the beginning of the nineties. Profile and deficits of an almost established party. Bonn 1992.
• et al .: A youth in Germany? Orientations and behavior of youth in East and West. Opladen 1994.
• Inner unity - but where is it? , in: APuZ B 40-41 (1997).
• The development of party systems in the post-communist EU accession countries - a comparative analysis of their achievements and deficits. In: KAS-Auslandsinformationen, 7/2005.
• with Karsten Grabow , Wilhelm Hofmeister: Party cooperation and party support of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung. Guide to international cooperation. Cologne 2008.
• Thälmann continues greeting. The political legacy of communism in a united Germany , in: Die Politische Demokratie No. 546, Sept./Oct. 2017.
• Relationship crisis to the "common man". How the popular parties can be revitalized. In: The Political Opinion, No. 552, Sept./Oct. 2018.

Editorships

• with Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann : Changing voter behavior. Determinants, social trends, research application using the example of the federal election in 1987. Paderborn 1991.
• Christian-Democratic and Conservative Parties in Western Europe (5 volumes). Paderborn 1983-2000.
• et al .: Opposition and Resistance in the SED Dictatorship. Berlin (Propylaea) 2000.
• After the dictatorship. Democratic upheavals in Europe - 12 years later. Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2003.
• The truncated revolution. June 17, 1953 in German history. Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2004.
• Old elites in young democracies? Change, change and continuity in Central and Eastern Europe. Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2004.
• with Peter März : Remember what? Communism in the German culture of remembrance. Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2006.
• with Ulrich Mählert , Peter March: Interactions between East and West. Dissidence, opposition and civil society 1975–1989. Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2007.
• with Ulrich Mählert, Franz-Josef Schlichting: Parties in Young Democracies. Between fragility and stabilization in East Central Europe. Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2008
• with Peter März, Franz-Josef Schlichting: Church and Revolution. Christianity in East Central Europe before and after 1989. Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2009
• with Hendrik Hansen: Coming to terms with totalitarian experiences and political culture, The importance of dealing with SED injustice for the understanding of law and values ​​in reunified Germany. Political Thinking Yearbook 2009. Berlin 2009
• with Peter March, Franz-Josef Schlichting: The consequences of the revolution. 20 years after communism. Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2010
• with Volkhard Knigge , Ulrich Mählert, Franz-Josef Schlichting: work on European memory. Experience of dictatorship and development of democracy. Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2011
• Interim balance sheets. Thuringia and its neighbors after 20 years. Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2012.

Web links

• Literature by and about Hans-Joachim Veen in the catalog of the German National Library
• CV of Hans-Joachim Veen (PDF) at the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ( page no longer available , search in web archives: press release: constituent meeting of the scientific advisory board )