Herbert Spiro

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Herbert Spiro (1970s)

Herbert John Spiro (born September 7, 1924 in Hamburg ; died April 6, 2010 in San Antonio (Texas) ) was an American political scientist, diplomat and politician.

Life

Herbert Spiro was a son of the auditor Albert John Spiro and Marianne Stiefel. He was married to Elisabeth Anna Petersen, born in New York in 1938, and the legal scholar Peter J. Spiro is one of two sons.

Spiro attended Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Hamburg . His family fled to the United States in 1938 and lived in Texas . Spiro was withdrawn from German citizenship due to the 11th ordinance on the Reich Citizenship Act of November 25, 1941.

He graduated from San Antonio Junior College and served in World War II from 1943 to 1945. After the German surrender, he worked in the occupation administration of the American Zone in Austria until 1946, where he was awarded the Bronze Star Medal and the Purple Heart . Spiro studied at Harvard University from 1947 and received his doctorate there in 1953. He had various research stays and grants with the then new research focus on Africa. He became an assistant professor at Harvard in 1957, then worked from 1962 to 1964 as an associate professor at Amherst College and then at the University of Pennsylvania . Spiro has received a variety of political advice for various countries. From 1970 to 1975 he worked on the Foreign Ministry's planning staff . In the presidency of Republican Gerald Ford from 1975 to 1977 he was also US ambassador to Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea . In Equatorial Guinea he was declared persona non grata .

From 1980 to 1989 Spiro was visiting professor at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies at the Free University of Berlin .

Spiro is the author of eleven books and a large number of magazine articles, and has contributed to the Encyclopaedia Britannica .

Spiro ran as a Republican party member in 1992 and 1994 for a member of the House of Representatives and in 1993 for the Senate , albeit unsuccessfully.

He was buried in Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery .

Fonts (selection)

  • The Marxian criticism of democracy . Bachelor thesis. Harvard University, 1949
  • A theory of responsibility in government . Dissertation. Harvard University, 1953
  • The politics of German codetermination . Harvard University Press, 1958
  • Government by constitution: the political systems of democracy . New York: Random House, 1959
  • Politics in Africa: Prospects south of the Sahara . Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1962
  • Comparative analysis of worker participation in decision-making . International Political Science Association, 1966
  • Africa: the primacy of politics . New York: Random House, 1967
  • (Ed.): Patterns of African development: five comparisons . Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1967
  • Responsibility in government: theory and practice . New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1969
  • The dialectic of representation, 1619 to 1969 . Virginia: Jamestown Foundation, 1969
  • Politics as the master science: from Plato to Mao . New York: Harper & Row, 1970

literature

  • Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (Hrsg.): Biographical manual of the German-speaking emigration after 1933. Volume 1: Politics, economy, public life . Munich: Saur, 1980, pp. 716f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The legal scholar Peter J. Spiro and his children only received German citizenship in 2013 after a dispute with the German bureaucracy. Peter J. Spiro: At Home in Two Countries: The Past and Future of Dual Citizenship . New York University Press, 2016 ISBN 9780814785829
personal data
SURNAME Spiro, Herbert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Spiro, Herbert John (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American political scientist, diplomat, and politician (Republican)
DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH April 6, 2010
Place of death San Antonio (Texas)