Harold Zink

Harold Zink (born May 15, 1901 , † June 20, 1962 in Worthington (Ohio) , Columbus (Ohio) ) was an American political scientist.

Life

Zink studied at the University of Denver , where he graduated with an MA in 1923 with the work The Order of the Penitent Brothers: a study of the South West . He graduated from Harvard University in 1926 with a dissertation, Twenty barons of American politics; a psycho-biographical study of twenty municipal bosses , the work was published as a book in 1930. He taught political science at DePauw University and was Professor of Political Science at Ohio State University since 1948 . He served on the board of the Midwest Political Science Association from 1937 to 1948 . In 1960 he was visiting professor at Victoria University of Wellington .

denazification

His studies of the forms of government in the states of the war opponents of the Allies qualified him for a role as an advisor in the American occupation administration in defeated Germany. Since 1944 he worked in the "German Country Unit" of the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF) and was a political advisor on the staff of the Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force (PolAd SCAEF) and the Military Governor of the United States in Germany . He was involved in the drafting of the "Handbook for Military Government for Germany", in particular in the plans for denazification . Returning to Columbus (Ohio) in 1947 he wrote a first résumé about the lack of cooperation between the various departments and the difficulties in identifying the formerly active Nazis who were to be eliminated from economic life.

Between June 1950 and September 1951, Zink was again in Germany as head of the HICOG Historical Division .

From the brief perspective of 1957, he viewed the effects of the American attempt to democratize German society through educational reforms rather critically.

Fonts (selection)

• Foreword in Z. Michael Szaz: Germany's eastern frontiers: the problem of the Oder-Neisse Line . Chicago: H. Regnery, 1960.
• with others (ed.): Rural local government in Sweden, Italy and India: a comparative study . London: Stevens, 1957
• The United States in Germany, 1944-1955 . Princeton: Van Nostrand, 1957
• American Military Government in Germany . New York: Macmillan Co., 1947
• The American denazification program in Germany , in: Journal of Central European Affairs , Oct. 1946, pp. 227-240
• with Frederic A. Ogg: Modern Foreign Governments . 1947
• with Taylor Cole (Ed.): Government in Wartime Europe and Japan . Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1942
• Government and politics in the United States . New York: Macmillan, 1942
  • with Guy B Hathorn; Howard R Penniman: Government and politics in the United States . Princeton: Van Nostrand, 1963
• with Taylor Cole (Ed.): Government in Wartime Europe . New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1941
• Government of cities in the United States . New York, Macmillan Co., 1939
• City Bosses In The United States: a study of twenty municipal bosses . Durham: Duke University Press 1930 (New York, NY AMS Press 1968)

Web links

• Literature by and about Harold Zink in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Harold Zink in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Harold Zink , at author and book

Individual evidence

1. ^ Obituary by Harold Zink in Columbus Dispatch , at Columbus Library
2. ↑ Harold Zink ( Memento of the original from March 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The 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. , at Midwest Political Science Association 
3. ^ Uta Gerhardt and Gösta Gantner: Ritual process denazification. A thesis on the social transformation of the post-war period , contributions to the discussion of the SFB 619 “Ritual Dynamics” of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg. Edited by Dietrich Harth and Axel Michaels. No. 7 / July 2004 [1]
4. ↑ Harold Zink: The United States in Germany, 1944-1955 . 1957