Hartmut Jäckel

Hartmut Jäckel (born September 30, 1930 in Wesermünde ) is a German political scientist and university professor. From 1977 to 1981 he was State Secretary ( SPD ) in the Berlin Senate Administration for Science and Research.

Life

youth

Hartmut Jäckel lost his father, a graduate engineer, at the age of five. He first attended the humanistic high schools in Dortmund and Fulda . He graduated from high school in 1950 at the Laurentianum grammar school in Arnsberg .

Scientific career

Jäckel studied law in Tübingen , Heidelberg and Freiburg im Breisgau , where he graduated in 1955 with the first state examination in law. There he initially stayed as a research assistant. Jäckel then continued his studies at the Law School of Yale University , where he received the title Master of Laws (LL. M.) in 1958 . In 1959 and 1960 he worked as a research assistant at the Institut de Droit comparé at the University of Paris . The degree of Dr. jur. acquired Jäckel in Freiburg in 1963.

Jäckel's academic career began in 1963 with a teaching position at the Otto Suhr Institute of the Free University of Berlin , where he also qualified as a professor in 1969 in political science. A year later he was given a professorship there. From 1974 to 1977 he was First Vice President of the Free University of Berlin.

His main research interests were politics and law in the democratic constitutional state, political parties and German unity . Hartmut Jäckel has been retired since 2004.

Hartmut Jäckel was a board member of the German Academic Exchange Service from 1974 to 1978 and chairman of the German Society for Political Science from 1991 to 1993 .

Political activities

Hartmut Jäckel joined the SPD in 1968 and was involved in the social democratic voter initiative . From 1977 to 1981 he was Senate Director (today: State Secretary ) in the Berlin Senate Administration for Science and Research . He gained practical experience in the implementation of educational policy. After the resignation of the Governing Mayor Dietrich Stobbe and the departure of Senator Peter Glotz to the SPD headquarters in Bonn, Jäckel resigned from this office in February 1981 and returned to the Free University of Berlin, where he resumed teaching. From October 1982 Jäckel was a member of the commission to review the University Framework Act.

Jäckel's position in the SPD always remained independent. On October 21, 1983, for example, he wrote an open letter in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung to Hans-Jochen Vogel, the leader of the opposition in the German Bundestag at the time . In it he criticized the withdrawal of the SPD from the NATO double decision and objected to the egocentric cultivation of an anti-American dropout mentality in the SPD.

Jäckel had a close friendship with the regime critic Robert Havemann , whose fate in the GDR preoccupied Jäckel. His commitment to Havemann's life and work prompted the GDR to ban Jäckel from entering the country, which was not lifted until 1987, five years after Havemann's death (1982). Jäckel administered the income from his book publications in the Federal Republic for Havemann, which, in the opinion of the GDR government, represented a foreign exchange offense.

In the meantime, Jäckel traveled to Poland many times in difficult times and there was in contact with Lech Wałęsa , Bronisław Geremek and other opponents of the regime.

In another public letter to the chairman of the SPD parliamentary group at the time, Rudolf Scharping , he condemned the SPD's blockade policy in the Bundesrat in October 1997 .

Jäckel is a member of the German-Israeli Society and the Advisory Board of the Robert Havemann Society .

Private

Jäckel is the younger brother of the historian Eberhard Jäckel and has been married to Margarete Mühl-Jäckel since August 1983. Daughter Laura (born 1991) comes from this marriage, son Martin (born 1964) and daughter Bettina (born 1966) come from a previous marriage.

Publications

One of his most recent books is the work Menschen in Berlin , published in 2000 . To name the last telephone book of the old capital in 1941 . After discovering an edition of the Berlin telephone directory from 1941 at a flea market, he documented everyday life in the capital during National Socialism using 231 short biographies of various telephone subscribers. Erich Kästner , Josef Herberger , Lale Andersen , Konrad Zuse , Manfred von Ardenne , Gottfried Benn , Carl Diem , Hans Frank , Eugen Gerstenmaier , Otto Grotewohl , Ernst von Harnack , Robert Havemann , Maria von Maltzan , Emil Nolde , Ludwig Mies, among others, dive van der Rohe , Carl Schmitt , Clara Viebig and Ernst von Weizsäcker .

Other publications in selection:

• Is the principle of non-interference out of date? Baden-Baden: Nomos , 1995.
• The new Federal Republic. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 1994.
• A Marxist in the GDR. Munich, Zurich: Piper , 1980.
• For discussion: recognition of the GDR? Berlin [West]: State Center for Political Education , 1968.
• Validity of fundamental rights and safeguarding of fundamental rights. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot , 1967.
• The essential content guarantee of fundamental rights. Freiburg 1963.

Web links

• Literature by and about Hartmut Jäckel in the catalog of the German National Library