Horst Meier

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Horst Meier

Horst Meier (born July 14, 1954 in Oberkaufungen ) is a German author and lawyer .

Life

From 1973 to 1981 Horst Meier studied law in Göttingen , worked from 1975 to 1976 as a community service provider in the Protestant student community in Kassel and did his doctorate in 1992 on the prohibition rulings against the SRP and KPD (doctoral supervisor was the legal theorist Ralf Dreier ). Meier was a trainee lawyer from 1982 to 1984 (among others with Gerhard Mauz and the Hamburg criminal defense lawyer Uwe Maeffert ) and until 1991 criminal defense lawyer (most recently partner of attorney Knuth Pfeiffer in Kassel).

From 2008 to 2010 he worked as head of studies for law and politics at the Evangelical Academy Hofgeismar .

Meier publishes on legal political issues such as party bans and the protection of the republic, civil rights and (direct) democracy, internal security, and freedom of speech and assembly. He has published articles for taz , FR , FAS and, since 1989, for the monthly magazine Merkur , as well as radio broadcasts for WDR , DLF and NDR (including since 1990 for the essay series thoughts at the time ). Horst Meier lives in Kassel .

Works

Books

  • 1993: Party bans and a democratic republic . Nomos, Baden-Baden.
  • 1995: Protection of the Republic (co-author). Rowohlt, Reinbek.
  • 1995: take back Hitler. On the anti-Nazi imperative in Jean Améry . In: Jean Améry, Resentment . European Publishing House, Hamburg.
  • 2002: Ban the NPD or live with right-wing extremists? (Mithrsg.). Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt.
  • 2010: Direct Democracy in the Basic Law? (Mithrsg.). Evangelical Academy, Hofgeismar.
  • 2010: Right-wing extremists under the protection of freedom of assembly (Mithrsg.). Evangelical Academy, Hofgeismar.
  • 2010: Erhard Denninger, police in a democratic constitutional state (Mithrsg.). Evangelical Academy Hofgeismar.
  • 2012: Protest-free zones? [44] Variations on Civil Rights and Politics . Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin.
  • 2012: After the protection of the constitution. Plea for a new security architecture for the Berlin Republic (co-author Claus Leggewie ). Verlag Archiv der Jugendkulturen, Berlin.
  • 2015: Ban on the NPD - a German state theater in two acts. Analyzes and criticism 2001–2014 . Berlin science publisher. (with guest contributions by, among others, Hans Magnus Enzensberger , Eckhard Jesse , Wolfgang Kraushaar , Claus Leggewie , Johannes Lichdi , Volker Neumann and Peter Niesen as well as a conversation with Bernhard Schlink )
  • 2017: The second ban proceedings against the NPD. Analysis, process reporting, judgment criticism. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin (with Claus Leggewie and Johannes Lichdi).
  • 2018: Entry in "Kleines Kasseler Literatur-Lexikon", ed. by Nikola Roßbach. Wehrhahn Verlag, Hanover.
  • 2019, 2nd edition: After the protection of the constitution. Plea for a new security architecture for the Berlin Republic (co-author Claus Leggewie ). Hirnkost Verlag, Berlin.
  • 2019: Ralf Dreier, The Middle Between Wood and Theology. A kind of balance sheet. Compiled and edited by Horst Meier. Nomos Verlag, Baden-Baden

Essays

  • Rescue torture? In: Merkur 656 (December 2003).
  • Armed Intervention and International Law . In: Merkur 661 (May 2004).
  • About freedom of parties . In: Merkur 668 (December 2004).
  • Praise of legal positivism (via Hans Kelsen ). In: Merkur 673 (May 2005).
  • Holocaust remembrance and reasons of state . In: Merkur 680 (December 2005).
  • Enemy criminal law? . In: Merkur 685 (May 2006).
  • Lawless miracle. Of the sense of grace . In: Blätter für German and international politics , issue 6/2007.
  • More discussion, not enforced silence. About freedom of speech in the United States. In: Merkur 708 (May 2008).
  • About the death penalty . In: Merkur 711 (August 2008).
  • Special rights against neo-Nazis? . In: Merkur 733 (June 2010).
  • The good rights of bad people . In: FAS of August 22, 2010.
  • A constitution for pacifists? About war and the constitution . In: Merkur 741 (February 2011).
  • Residual risk. Atomic technology and the law. In: Merkur 747 (August 2011).
  • Arrest the usual suspects! In: FAS of April 29, 2012.
  • Defense of Constitution. About the end of a German special path . In: Blätter für German and international politics, issue 10/2012 (co-author Claus Leggewie ).
  • Anyone who speaks of a party ban must not remain silent about freedom . In: FAZ of December 13, 2012 (co-author)
  • Incremental material without weight and evidential value. The Federal Council's application for a ban against the NPD is on a clayey feet. In: FR from February 25, 2013 (co-author)
  • “Intellectual property” in the digital age. On the copyright debate. In: Neue Gesellschaft / Frankfurter Hefte 3/2013.
  • Endless loop NPD ban. About freedom of parties and "militant democracy". In: Merkur 768 (May 2013).
  • About the future of the party ban. European standards and German constitution. In: Law and Politics, issue 2/2013. (with Şeyda Emek)
  • What is the protection of the Constitution for? In: Merkur 777 (February 2014) - also in: Eurozine from February 12, 2014 (see web links)
  • Live with 'right'. Horst Meier in conversation with Bernhard Schlink. In: Law and Politics, Issue 4/2014.
  • NPD ban - A question of party freedom in Katapult-Magazin (July 2015)
  • Claus Leggewie / Horst Meier, On the operational risk of democracy. Attempt to turn the German extremism debate upside down . In: Eckhard Jesse (ed.), How dangerous is extremism? Special volume of the Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft (2015), pp. 163–196
  • "Arguable" or Liberal Democracy? How to deal with "non-violent extremists" in Germany and the USA. In: Law & Politics, issue 4/2015
  • The renewed ban proceedings against the NPD. From the application to the opening resolution (part 1) - together with Claus Leggewie and Johannes Lichdi. In: Law & Politics, Issue 1/2016.
  • Part 2 in Law & Politics, Issue 2/2016: "What should we do with it?" The process
  • Part 3 in Law & Politics, Issue 2/2017: "High hurdles" look different. Criticism of the judgment
  • Criticism of the "potentiality" [created in the NPD judgment]. In: Merkur 819 (August 2017)
  • The AfD and the protection of the constitution - a German extremist game or the long farewell to the fdGO. In: Law & Politics, Issue 4/2019 (also in: Law & Politics, Supplement 4: 70 Years of the Basic Law)

Radio broadcasts

  • “German listeners!” Thomas Mann's radio broadcasts to Germany 1940–1945 . WDR 3, August 16, 1989.
  • The Fiihrer's last postman. Gary Lauck, US neo-Nazi, before the Hamburg Regional Court . SWF 2, Feature, March 5, 1997.
  • "He was fun-loving, sometimes greedy for life". The Nazi judicial murder of Werner Holländer . SWR 2 / DLF, Feature, March 31st / March 20th April 1999.
  • Can the state torture? Documentation of the dispute between Bernhard Schlink and Winfried Brugger at the Berlin Humboldt University (excerpts), NDR 3, November 20, 2001.
  • Prussian, Jew, patriot and democrat. Bernhard Weiß , Vice President of the Berlin Police, and the Defense of the Weimar Republic . DLF Feature 2005.
  • Constitution and Conflict. About the need for consensus in the German culture of debate . NDR culture, thoughts on the time, March 7, 2010.
  • Our beautiful new world of data or what remains of the basic right to “informational self-determination”? NDR Kultur, “Thoughts at the Time”, February 20, 2011.
  • Feeling good in Germany. The hotel ban against an ex-NPD chairman in court . DLF Feature 2012.
  • The past, the guilt and the law . The writer & lawyer Bernhard Schlink in conversation with Horst Meier., DLF "Essay & Discourse", December 8, 2013. (cf. web links)
  • Forced to choose the bigger evil or do we actually still need a five percent threshold? , NDR Kultur / WDR3, “Thoughts on Time”, March 30, 2014.
  • Can the state kill? About the death penalty . NDR Kultur / WDR3, thoughts on the time, October 5, 2014.
  • About making judges. Why we need reform for the election of our constitutional guardians. NDR culture, thoughts on the time, February 22, 2015
  • On the way to the prevention state. About freedom and security in times of global disorder, NDR culture, thoughts on time, November 8, 2015
  • Worse than the police allow? About political satire and criminal justice. NDR Culture, Thoughts on Time, June 19, 2016 - Manuscript.
  • ABOUT FREEDOM OF PARTIES. The ban proceedings against the NPD. A two-part essay by Claus Leggewie & Horst Meier. Deutschlandfunk, Essay & Diskurs, September 11th and 18th, 2016
  • The hour of the demagogues. About hate slogans and a culture of debate. NDR Culture, Thoughts on Time, September 25, 2016 - (on the occasion of the publication of Timothy Garton Ash, Freedom of speech, 2016)
  • Political unity in dissent. What holds pluralistic societies together. NDR culture, thoughts on the time, January 29, 2017 - (printed in "Die Neue Gesellschaft / Frankfurter Hefte" 4/2017)
  • Wrong messages and German solutions. Criticism of the "Network Enforcement Act". NDR culture, thoughts on time, June 25, 2017 - (printed in Frankfurter Rundschau on June 30, 2017)
  • Child pornography and arms trafficking, civil rights and data protection. The "Darknet" as a darkroom on the Internet. NDR culture, thoughts on time, October 22, 2017
  • Talking with rights - what else? About the pleasure in open debate. NDR culture, thoughts on time, February 25, 2018
  • Dare more direct democracy? For the discussion of plebiscites at the federal level. NDR culture, thoughts on time, June 3, 2018
  • Freedom of expression in the digital age. NDR culture, thoughts on time, May 5, 2019
  • The AfD and the protection of the constitution - a German extremist game. NDR culture, thoughts on time, July 21, 2019
  • Of safe spaces and tender souls. On the current debate on freedom of speech in the United States. NDR culture, thoughts on the time, November 24, 2019

Awards

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ↑ FR article: incriminating material without weight and evidential value. The Federal Council's application for a ban against the NPD is on a clayey feet. ( Memento of the original from December 24, 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.horst-meier-autor.de
  2. ↑ Manuscript: Compulsion to choose the greater evil or do we actually still need a five percent lock-up clause? ( Memento from December 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Audio: May the state kill? About the death penalty ( Memento of the original from December 24, 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / media.ndr.de
  4. ↑ manuscript
  5. ↑ Need thumbscrews?
  6. ↑ Enemy criminal law?
  7. ↑ On freedom of parties. The ban proceedings against the NPD.
  8. ↑ DAT 1/17: The media do their job justice. Retrieved May 25, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Meier, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author and lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Kaufungen