Heinz Brill

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Heinz Brill (born July 3, 1940 in Göttingen ) is a German political scientist .

Life

Brill is the son of a railroad worker. After attending elementary school 1946–1955, he first completed an apprenticeship as a bricklayer , which he completed in 1958 with the journeyman's examination. In the same year he joined the German Air Force , where he served as a soldier in Lindau / Bodensee from 1958 to 1961; as a staff sergeant of the reserve he resigned. He completed the evening school for working people in Göttingen (obtained his secondary school diploma by foreign exams in 1964), worked at the University Library of Göttingen and spent time for language studies in Kingston-upon-Thames , England, and later in London. He also attended as a reserve officer cadet the military school of the Air Force (OSLw) in Neubiberg near Munich; In 1965 he was promoted to lieutenant in the reserve.

In 1966 he passed the gifted test with the specialist examiner Peter von Oertzen in Göttingen . He was initially a guest student at the University of Göttingen and then studied social sciences (politics, constitutional history and sociology) from the winter semester 1966/67 . In 1970 he received a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation (later also a doctoral scholarship ) and moved to the University of Freiburg im Breisgau . During this time he visited u. a. the International University Weeks in Alpach and graduated from the Political Seminar of the Political Academy Eichholz near Bonn.

In 1972 he graduated from the University of Freiburg i.Br. completed his undergraduate studies with a Magister Artium (MA). The master's thesis "Theory of the State as Reality Science (Hermann Heller)" was supervised by Wilhelm Hennis . With the preparatory work for his later dissertation, he was, among other things, at the Military History Research Office in Freiburg i.Br. active.

In order to get to know the research conditions at a new university, he enrolled in 1972 for a postgraduate course at the University of Konstanz, which he completed in 1974 with the degree of licentiate (Lic. Rer. Soc.). As a general topic for his later dissertation, he worked on as a licentiate thesis: The geostrategic interests of the USA, Great Britain, France and the Soviet Union in relation to Central Europe and the options available in West Germany .

In 1974 he became a doctoral candidate at the Georg-August University of Göttingen , where he worked in 1977 with Ernst-August Roloff at the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences with the social science dissertation The Problem of a Defense Policy Alternative for Germany. The disputes over the alternative military policy proposals made by Colonel Bogislaw von Bonin (1952–1955). A contribution to the history of the development of the Bundeswehr to the Dr. disc. pole. received his doctorate. Then he was a research assistant at the Department of Political Science at the University of Göttingen.

Lectureships took place in parallel to the individual study phases. In 1970 he completed a course for teaching officers didactics at the Air Force Army School (TrSLw) in Iserlohn. In 1972/73 he became a captain of reserve lecturer for international politics / foreign and security policy of the Federal Republic of Germany at the staff academy of the Bundeswehr in Hamburg. During this time he enrolled as a guest student at the University of Hamburg. In 1974, with the rank of Major in the Reserve, he became a teaching staff officer at the Air Force officers' school in Neubiberg (already a teaching officer in 1971) and in 1975/76 and 1980/81 lecturer and teaching staff officer for geopolitics / geostrategy at the command academy of the Bundeswehr (FüAkBw) in Hamburg.

From 1978 to 1997 he was a research assistant in the Office for Studies and Exercises of the Bundeswehr in Bensberg near Cologne; In 1984 he was promoted to lieutenant colonel in the reserve.

In 1985 he was appointed to the Scientific Council and became a civil servant.

From 1993 he was Scientific Director and Deputy Head of Department for Security Policy in the Central Research and Study Area (ZFSB) there.

In 1993 he became a permanent employee of the Austrian Military Journal (ÖMZ). Brill worked as a lecturer in international politics at the University of Göttingen (1977–1996), the University of Cologne (1991–2002), the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg (2003/04) and as a consultant for security policy at numerous adult education institutions ( 1970-2013).

He is married.

Awards

Fonts (selection)

  • Bogislaw von Bonin in the field of tension between rearmament - western integration - reunification . 2 volumes, Nomos-Verlag, Baden-Baden 1987/89.
  • Volume 1: A contribution to the history of the emergence of the Bundeswehr, 1952–1955 (= military, armaments, security . Vol. 49). 1987, ISBN 3-7890-0673-4 .
  • Volume 2: Contributions to the history of the development of the Bundeswehr. Documents and materials (= military, armaments, security . Vol. 52). 1989, ISBN 3-7890-1828-7 .
  • Libya's foreign and security policy. Moamar el Gaddafi's motives and visions (= military, armaments, security . Vol. 53). Nomos-Verlag, Baden-Baden 1988, ISBN 3-7890-1585-7 .
  • The Republic of South Africa in the field of tension of internal, regional and global conflicts. Geopolitical and geostrategic aspects of a crisis region . Nomos-Verlag, Baden-Baden 1991, ISBN 3-7890-2122-9 .
  • Geopolitics today. Germany's chance? . Frankfurt / M .; Berlin: Ullstein, 1994, ISBN 3-550-07064-0 .
  • Geopolitical Analysis. Contributions to German and international security policy (1974–2008) . Revised and expanded 2nd edition, Biblio-Verlag, Bissendorf 2008, ISBN 3-7648-2386-0 (first edition 2005).

literature

  • Peter von Oertzen : The Rise of the Gifted . In: Festschrift for Otto Brenner on his 60th birthday. Edited by Peter von Oertzen. European publishing company. Frankfurt am Main 1967, pp. 435-446.
  • Edmund Ruppert : The Bensberger Dr. Heinz Brill and his role in the new geopolitics . In: Rheinisch-Bergischer Calendar 2001. Heider-Verlag, Bergisch Gladbach, ISBN 3-87314-353-4 , pp. 147–151.
  • Nils Hoffmann : The Renaissance of Geopolitics? . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften / Springer Fachmedien, Wiesbaden 2012, ISBN 978-3-531-19433-2 , pp. 55–79.
  • Norbert Beleke (Ed.): Who is who? The German Who's Who. 2015/2016 . Volume 52, Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 2015, ISBN 978-3-7950-2055-2 , p. 121.

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personal data
SURNAME Brill, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd July 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Goettingen