Jürgen Domes

Jürgen Domes (born April 2, 1932 in Lübeck , † September 22, 2001 in Sulzbach / Saar ) was a German political scientist .

Domes studied political science , Protestant theology , history and sociology at the Universities of Marburg and Heidelberg . In 1960 he did his doctorate under Dolf Sternberger with a thesis on "The Volunteer Act in the Second German Bundestag - A Study of Parliament's Opposition Behavior". Since 1964 he has taught at the Otto Suhr Institute of the Free University of Berlin , where he wrote in 1967 on the subject of “Postponed Revolution - The Influence of Structure, Organization and Methods of Rule of the Kuomintang on the Development Process in China as an Example of the Politics of Non-Totalitarian Unity Parties in Developing Countries “Qualified as a professor. In 1968 he was visiting professor at the University of South Carolina .

In 1975 he moved as successor to Christian Graf von Krockow and Karl Kaiser at the University of Saarland . There he taught political science and was director of the “Politics of China and East Asia” department. He was u. a. 1986/87 Dean of the Faculty of Law and Economics.

On November 19, 1976, Domes also became one of the three chairmen of the Federal Freedom of Science (BFW), an association for educational policy in response to the student movement, which was founded in 1970 with Clemens Christians and Thomas Nipperdey . He held the office until 1982.

From 1981 Domes was a member of the Sudeten German Academy of Sciences and Arts .

Jürgen W. Falter called Domes a “liberal arch-conservative” and had an “international reputation”. Eberhard Sandschneider described him as a “pioneer of international China research” who set standards with “150 publications that analyzed precisely”.

The historian and publicist Götz Aly praised Domes' habilitation thesis on Maoist China forty years after its publication as "sober , very objective analyzes free of any foaming anti-communism , as I would consider exemplary today".

literature

• Jürgen W. Falter and Eberhard Sandschneider (eds.): Politics in China. Contributions to the analysis of Chinese politics. On the 60th birthday of Jürgen Domes , in series: Empirical and methodological contributions to social science , edited by Jürgen W. Falter and Rainer B. Pelka, Volume 9, Verlag Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, New York, Paris, Vienna 1992, ISBN 978-3-631-44450-4

• Eberhard Sandschneider (Ed.): The Study of Modern China (Festschrift for the 65th birthday of Jürgen Domes), C. Hurst & Co. Publishers Ltd., London 1999, ISBN 1-85065-422-0

• Academic commemoration for university professor Dr. Jürgen Domes , series of university speeches from Saarland University, Saarland University Press, Saarbrücken 2006

Web links

• Literature by and about Jürgen Domes in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Jürgen Domes  in the German Digital Library
• Literature by and about Jürgen Domes in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Biographical note on the occasion of the academic commemoration for Jürgen Domes; idw , November 25, 2002
• "In memoriam Professor Jürgen Domes", in: campus - magazine of the Saarland University , No. 1 (2003)
• Interview with Götz Aly about the "68 generation" in the online edition of the Börsenblatt des Deutschen Buchhandels , January 17, 2008
• Entry on the website of the Sudeten German Academy of Sciences and Arts

Remarks

1. ↑ ^{a b} Robert Ash: In Memoriam Jürgen Domes (1932-2001) . In: China information, A Journal on Contemporary China Studies , Vol. 15, No. 2 (2001), p. 153
2. ↑ Faculty meetings of November 30, 1966, November 1 and 15, 1967 , Findbuch in the archive of the Free University of Berlin, pp. 81 and 87f., Retrieved on May 19, 2020
3. ↑ Announcements of the USC, April 26, 1968 ( Memento of the original from November 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ Harro von Senger : Labeling of Chinese History . Review of the book by Jürgen Domes and Marie-Luise Näth History of the People's Republic of China , in: New political literature, Issue 1, Darmstadt, 1994, p. 114
5. ↑ Academy website , accessed October 1, 2019
6. ^ "In memoriam Professor Jürgen Domes", in: campus - Journal of the Saarland University No. 1/2003
7. ↑ Excerpt from Our Struggle 1968 , Part 1 at Perlentaucher.de from February 11, 2008, accessed on July 11, 2020