Jürgen Brautmeier

Jürgen Brautmeier (2014)

Jürgen Brautmeier (born July 15, 1954 in Delbrück ) is a German historian and publicist. From 2010 to 2016 he was director of the State Media Authority in North Rhine-Westphalia .

Life

Brautmeier studied history and English from 1974 to 1980 at Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf and at the University of Cambridge . He received his doctorate in 1983 in Düsseldorf with a thesis on research policy in North Rhine-Westphalia . Then Brautmeier published essays on the country's history, on the First and Second World War and on emigration to America. Since 2002 he has been one of the editors of the Düsseldorf publications on modern history and the history of North Rhine-Westphalia.

In the 1990s, Jürgen Brautmeier worked on behalf of the Council of Europe as an independent consultant in Eastern and Central European countries in the development of national broadcasting legislation . At the same time, Brautmeier had several teaching positions at the University of Düsseldorf (1991-1998), the Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences (1993/94), the Lomonossow University in Moscow (1995) and the University of St. Petersburg (1997). He is also a founding member of the European Platform of Regulatory Authorities (EPRA) and has been Vice-President of the Media Council of the German-speaking Community of Belgium since 2007 .

From autumn 2010 to the end of 2016, Jürgen Brautmeier was director of the state media agency in North Rhine-Westphalia. From 2013 to 2015 he was also chairman of the directors' conference of the media companies.

In 2016 the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf awarded him the title of honorary professor.

Jürgen Brautmeier is married and has two daughters. He is a member of the CDU and has been chairman of the CDU city association of Neuss since March 2018. As an author, he regularly publishes articles on politics, the media and history in blog-der-republik.

controversy

On July 2, 2014, the Red-Green coalition government in North Rhine-Westphalia, together with the pirate faction, decided to change the North Rhine-Westphalian state media law . This now included the passage that the state media director must be a lawyer qualified to be a judge. The historian Jürgen Brautmeier was thus denied a candidacy for re-election in 2016. While the draft of the State Media Act could be discussed publicly on the Internet for a year, the requirements for future directors were only presented to the state parliament one day before the vote. The state government received heavy criticism for this “revenge”. Two months later, the directors of the media authorities confirmed Jürgen Brautmeier as chairman of the directors' conference for another year (2015), which some media understood as a political statement.

The media also stated that this was a “power game” when the State Media Act of North Rhine-Westphalia was changed again on December 17, 2014. Paragraph 100, referred to in the reporting as “Lex Brautmeier”, was not changed despite criticism. In a previous hearing, it was openly suspected that the state government wanted to get rid of an uncomfortable critic who stood for the state-remote media regulation and promotion. The term of office of Brautmeier ended on December 31, 2016.

Fonts

• Research policy in North Rhine-Westphalia 1945–1961. Diss. Düsseldorf 1983. (= Düsseldorfer Schriften zur Modern Landesgeschichte and the history of North Rhine-Westphalia. Volume 10). Schwann Verlag, Düsseldorf, 1983, ISBN 3-590-18122-2 .
• The way to the state parliament. The Provincial Councils of the North Rhine Province and Westphalia 1945/46 . In: History in the West. Half-yearly journal for national and contemporary history. Issue 1, Klartext Verlag, Essen 1986, ISSN  0930-3286 , pp. 31-52.
• Right to choose between military government and party politics. Documents for the 1947 state election . In: History in the West. Half-yearly journal for national and contemporary history. Issue 1, Klartext Verlag, Essen 1987, ISSN  0930-3286 , pp. 90-99.
• Front probation in Stalingrad. Field post letters from Private Hans Happe from Delbrück / Westphalia . In: History in the West. Half-yearly journal for national and contemporary history. Issue 2, Klartext Verlag, Essen 1993, ISSN  0930-3286 , pp. 166-192.
• Federal and state governments in conflict. The dispute over who is responsible for radio and television in Germany. (= Düsseldorf media studies lectures. Volume 14). ZV, Zeitungs-Verlag-Service, Bonn 1998, ISBN 3-929122-61-8 .
• From the Advisory Provincial Councils to the Appointed Landtag. The beginning of parliamentarism in North Rhine-Westphalia. In: Ernst Gnoss - Resistance and Reconstruction. The first president of the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia. Edited by the President of the State Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia. (= Writings of the State Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia. Volume 11). Düsseldorf 1999, pp. 55-97.
• Zs. With Anja Ingenbleek: Undesired dual track or guarantor of democratic local government? British documents on the controversy surrounding the separation of duties between the mayor / district administrator and the main administrative officer in the British zone of occupation, with particular reference to North Rhine-Westphalia, Part 1 . In: History in the West. Half-yearly journal for national and contemporary history. Issue 2, Klartext Verlag, Essen 2000, ISSN  0930-3286 , pp. 208-240.
• Zs. With Anja Ingenbleek: Undesired dual track or guarantor of democratic local government? British documents on the controversy over the separation of duties between the mayor / district administrator and the main administrative officer in the British zone of occupation, with particular reference to North Rhine-Westphalia, part 2 . In: History in the West. Half-yearly journal for national and contemporary history. Issue 1, Klartext Verlag, Essen 2001, ISSN  0930-3286 , pp. 76-111.
• “Don't stay alone as an orphan in the depressed country!” The emigration of a Westphalian smallholder family to Nebraska in 1884 . In: Westphalian magazine. Volume 153/2003, Bonifatius Druck-Buch-Verlag, Paderborn 2003, ISBN 3-89710-267-6 , pp. 301–326.
• Edited with Ulrich Heinemann: Myths - Possibilities - Realities. 60 years of North Rhine-Westphalia. (= Düsseldorfer Schriften zur Modern Landesgeschichte and the history of North Rhine-Westphalia. Volume 77). Klartext Verlag, Essen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89861-659-1 .
• "They settled the north of America". From Ostenland (Westphalia) to Muenster (Texas). In: Bernd Broer et al. (Ed.): On to America! (= Contributions to America's emigration in the 19th century and the revival of historical relationships in the 20th and 21st centuries. Volume 3). Bonifatius Druck-Buch-Verlag, Paderborn 2008, ISBN 978-3-89710-408-2 , pp. 25-42.
• Edited with Kurt Düwell, Ulrich Heinemann and Dietmar Petzina : Heimat Nordrhein-Westfalen. Identity and regionalities in transition. (= Düsseldorfer Schriften zur Modern Landesgeschichte and the history of North Rhine-Westphalia. Volume 83). Klartext Verlag, Essen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8375-0155-1 .
• Home without hope. The emigration to America from the Neuss region in the 19th century In: Yearbook for the Rhein-Kreis Neuss 2012. Kreisheimatbund Neuss, Neuss 2011, ISBN 978-3-9810667-6-0 , pp. 106–121.
• Run to the enemy! The literary education of the youth before the First World War. In: Novaesium 2015. Neuss Yearbook for Art, Culture and History, Neuss 2015, ISBN 978-3-922980-52-0 , pp. 167–209
• Eight graves in Texas - emigrants from the Delbrücker Land to the New World. In: then & now. Information on history, nature and homeland care from Delbrück. Issue 36, Bernhard Kößmeier Stadtheimatpfleger Delbrück, Delbrück April 2016, ISSN  1862-7390 , pp. 1–4.
• Regulation in times of media convergence. Speeches, texts and interviews by Prof. Dr. Jürgen Brautmeier. (= LfM documentation. Vol. 54). Boerje Halm Druck, Wuppertal 2016, ISBN 978-3-940929-43-3 .
• The St. Matthias Brotherhood in Neuss-Uedesheim. In: Novaesium 2017. Neuss Yearbook for Art, Culture and History, Neuss 2017, ISBN 978-3-922980-54-4 , pp. 197-214.
• How Albert Speer escaped the gallows. On the genesis of the survival strategy of the Reich Minister for Armaments and War Production in May 1945. In: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte, Issue 2, 2019, Verlag De Gruyter Oldenbourg, Berlin / Boston 2019, ISSN  0042-5702 , pp. 289-306.
• Eight weeks at sea: In 1853 the sailing ship "Uhland" brought more than 120 emigrants from the Delbrücker Land to New Orleans. In: "then & now. Information on history, nature and home care from Delbrück. Issue 48, Bernhard Kößmeier Stadtheimatpfleger Delbrück, Delbrück March 2019, ISSN  1862-7390 , pp. 1–4.
• Nepper, tugboat, farmer catcher? The business with the American emigration from the Delbrücker Land in the middle of the 19th century. In: then & now. Information on history, nature and homeland care from Delbrück. Issue 49, Bernhard Kößmeier Stadtheimatpfleger Delbrück, Delbrück April 2019, ISSN  1862-7390 , pp. 1–4.
• "... The one from the Rhine". A long way from Cologne to Kaliningrad. The Soviet German writer Rudolf Jacquemien (1908–1992). In: Yearbook 83 of the Cologne History Association. V., Böhlau Verlag Cologne 2019, ISBN 978-3-412-51638-3 , pp. 265-295.
• Media policy in North Rhine-Westphalia in the Rau era. A research impulse. In: History in the West. Half-yearly journal for national and contemporary history. Volume 34, Klartext Verlag, Essen 2019, ISSN  0930-3286 , pp. 95–110.

Web links

• Comment by Günther H. Oettinger during the keynote DLM Symposium 2015 on the qualification of LfM directors
• Review of a publication in the Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Düsseldorfer Schriften zur Neuer Landesgeschichte and on the history of North Rhine-Westphalia, klartext-verlag.de ( Memento of the original from October 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. 
2. ↑ Jürgen Brautmeier appointed new chair of German DFLM epra.org, January 31, 2013.
3. ↑ members of the ruling chamber of the Media Council of the German-speaking Community of Belgium , medienrat.be
4. ↑ One year joint office of the media authorities in Berlin , die-medienanstalten.de, September 17, 2014.
5. ↑ Biography of Dr. Jürgen Brautmeier ( Memento of the original from November 4, 2016 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. , lfm-nrw.de, November 3, 2016. 
6. ↑ LfM press release , lfm-nrw.de, November 3, 2016.
7. ↑ Prof. Dr. Jürgen Brautmeier. Retrieved on May 8, 2019 (German). 
8. ↑ Jürgen Brautmeier. Retrieved on May 29, 2019 (German). 
9. ↑ In the land of tricksters and drivers , faz.net, July 4, 2014.
10. ↑ Criticism of the State Media Act in the LfM Media Commission ( Memento of the original from December 19, 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. , epd.de, September 5, 2014. 
11. ↑ Against NRW - State media chiefs set standards , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung print edition, September 16, 2014.
12. ↑ This is a power game! - The SPD and the Greens in North Rhine-Westphalia are working on the media law , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung print edition, November 28, 2014.
13. ↑ Stefan Laurin, statement on the public hearing on the State Media Act by the Main Committee and the Committee for Culture and Media of the State Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia , landtag.nrw.de, November 28, 2014.