Jürgen Seifert

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Jürgen Seifert (born April 18, 1928 in Berlin ; † June 4, 2005 in Hanover ) was a German lawyer , political scientist and civil rights activist .

Jürgen Seifert, November 1997

Life

Seifert was a member of the Hitler Youth and did Reich labor service . Shortly before the end of World War II , he was deployed as an air force helper and eventually interned by the US military . After his imprisonment, he moved to Osnabrück , where his grandfather lived. There he made up his Abitur and trained as a toolmaker . During his apprenticeship he became an active member of a Bundische Freischar group and joined IG Metall . In 1951 Seifert began studying law, political science and philosophy at the University of Münster . In 1954 he became a member of the SPD . After passing the 1st state law examination, he completed his legal traineeship in Münster and continued his studies there, interrupted by stays at the universities of Bristol and Bologna . In 1957 he joined the SDS and was elected to its federal executive committee in 1958.

From 1955 to 1959 he was a member of the Collegium Philosophicum in Münster, the so-called Knight School . In this context he met Carl Schmitt in 1955 , with whom he then exchanged letters from April 1956 to June 1968. Schmitt ended the correspondence when Seifert became known as an opponent of the emergency laws . Seifert also later dealt with the work of the controversial constitutional lawyer, but his "fascination for Schmitt was probably very limited, from whose friend-foe scheme he has repeatedly distanced himself very clearly."

The incompatibility decision with the entire SDS led to exclusion from the SPD in 1961 . In the dispute over the Spiegel affair and with his criticism of the emergency legislation, Seifert became known to a wider public. In Münster he received his doctorate in 1966 with a thesis on the emergency committee for Dr. jur. and then worked as an assistant at Arkadij Gurland at the TH Darmstadt . In 1971 Seifert became Professor of Political Science at the Technical University of Hanover . In 1979 he was a co-founder of the Republican Bar Association . In 1994 he retired, but continued to hold courses at the Department of Political Science at the University of Hanover and headed a popular day-to-day political colloquium until his sudden death.

From 1977 to 1997 Seifert was co-editor and editor of the magazines Kritische Justiz und vorgänge , since 1998 employee of the civil rights yearbook Grundrechte-Report. He was co-director at the German Institute for Research on Federalism in Hanover and a member of the constitutional commission of the federal states and the police reform commission of the state of Lower Saxony . He was also a member of the board of trustees for a new federal German constitution. From 1983 to 1987 he was federal chairman of the Humanist Union (HU); then member of the HU advisory board. He was a member of the G 10 commission of the German Bundestag to control the federal intelligence services .

Seifert was married to Monika Seifert , the "mother of anti-authoritarian children's shops " (Oskar Negt). The marriage resulted in two daughters. Jürgen Seifert lived with the social scientist Mechthild Rumpf since 1973, and a son was born in 1976. The marriage was concluded in 1999. After the birth of the son, Seifert began to acquire antiquarian children's books, which added up to a scientifically significant collection. The collection was bought in 2008 by the Children's and Young People's Literature Unit at the University of Göttingen .

Fonts (selection)

Books

  • Imminent danger. On the problem of emergency legislation . Europäische Verlags-Anstalt, Frankfurt am Main 1963, with an introduction by Fritz Bauer (3rd edition 1965).
  • The Emergency Committee . European publishing company, Frankfurt am Main 1968 (also dissertation, University of Münster 1966).
  • The Spiegel Affair . 2 volumes, with Alfred Grosser , Walter, Olten / Freiburg im Breisgau 1966.
  • Struggle for constitutional positions. Materials for determining the limits and possibilities of legal policy . European publishing company, Cologne / Frankfurt am Main 1974, ISBN 978-3-434-20061-1 .
  • Basic Law and Restoration. Constitutional analysis and documentary representation of the text of the Basic Law of May 23, 1949 with all amendments including the 34th Amendment Act . Luchterhand, Darmstadt / Neuwied 1974, ISBN 978-3-472-61150-9 (3rd edition 1977, ISBN 978-3-472-16007-6 ).
  • 1984 already today or who is afraid of the protection of the constitution? New Critique Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1976 (with Peter Brückner and Diethelm Damm), ISBN 978-3-8015-0144-0 .
  • Politics between destruction and creation. Political change studies . Offizin, Hannover 1997, ISBN 978-3-930345-09-0 .

Book chapters and magazine articles

  • The struggle for constitutional positions. Wolfgang Abendroth on his 60th birthday . In: operations 7 (1966), pp 275-278.
  • Left in the SPD (1945–1968) . In: Bernhard Blanke (editor), Die Linke im Rechtsstaat . Volume 1: Conditions of Socialist Politics 1945–1965 . Rotbuch-Verlag, Berlin 1976, ISBN 978-3-88022-145-1 , pp. 236-266.
  • House or forum. Value system or open constitutional order . In: Jürgen Habermas (Ed.), Keywords on the “intellectual situation of the time” , Volume 1: Nation and Republic , Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1979, pp. 527-532.
  • Counter-Revolution theorist. Carl Schmitt 1888–1985 , In: Kritische Justiz , Volume 18, 1985, Issue 2, pp. 193–200, ( online ).
  • From "58" to "68". A biographical review . In: operations , 124 (1993), pp 1-6, Online
  • Joachim Ritter 's 'Collegium Philosophicum'. An open thinking forum . In: Richard Faber / Christine Holste (eds.), Circles - Groups - Bünde. On the sociology of modern intellectual associations. Königshausen and Neumann, Würzburg 2000, ISBN 978-3-8260-1747-6 , pp. 189–198.
  • The periphery of fire and the strange. Experiences in the youth movement in the post-war period . In: Meino Naumann (Ed.), But in the evening we invite each other. A mosaic for Wolfgang Hempel for his seventieth birthday . Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg, Potsdam 2001, ISBN 978-3-935035-27-9 , pp. 50-68.

literature

  • Oskar Negt , Jürgen Seifert. “The people have to fight for their constitution like for a city wall.” In other words: Insubordinate contemporaries. Approaches and memories , Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 1994, pp. 241-250, ISBN 3-596-12250-3 .
  • Michael Buckmiller , Joachim Perels (ed.): Opposition as a driving force of democracy. Balance sheet and perspectives of the second republic. Jürgen Seifert on his 70th birthday. Offizin-Verlag, Hanover 1998, ISBN 3-930345-13-7 .
  • Alexander Cammann, Over the fences and barriers. On the death of Jürgen Seifert. 2005. (online)
  • Till Müller-Heidelberg, A life between security and freedom. On the death of Jürgen Seifert (1928–2005). In: Communications of the Humanist Union No. 190, pp. 10–11. (on-line)
  • Mark Schweda, Joachim Ritter and the Ritter School. Junius, Hamburg 2015, pp. 102–112, 210 f.
  • Stephan Alexander Glienke, Jürgen Seifert (1928–2005). Opposing positions and self-knowledge . In: Kritische Justiz (ed.), DISPATABLE JURISTINNEN. Another tradition , online resource (pdf), Nomos, Baden-Baden 2016, ISBN 978-3-8452-4449-5 , pp. 469–494.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Unless otherwise stated, biographical information is based on: Paul Ciupke, Jürgen Seifert . In: Barbara Stambolis (Ed.), Youth Moves shaped. Essays on autobiographical texts by Werner Heisenberg, Robert Jungk and many others . V & R Unipress, Göttingen 2013, pp. 655-666; as well as on: Jürgen Seifert, From "58" to "68". A biographical review , transactions No. 124 (Issue 4/1993), pp. 1–6, online version (accessed April 30, 2017).
  2. ^ Jürgen Seifert: Joachim Ritter's 'Collegium Philosophicum'. An open thinking forum . In: Circles - Groups - Frets. On the sociology of modern intellectual associations. Würzburg 2000, pp. 189–198, here p. 189.
  3. ↑ Jürgen Seifert: Politics between destruction and design. Studies on Change of Policy. Offizin, Hannover 1997, p. 21, note 1.
  4. ↑ Paul Ciupke: Jürgen Seifert . In: Barbara Stambolis (Ed.), Youth Moves shaped. Essays on autobiographical texts by Werner Heisenberg, Robert Jungk and many others . V & R Unipress, Göttingen 2013, pp. 655-666; here. P. 661.
  5. ^ Seifert Collection (SamS) , University of Göttingen.
  6. ↑ Wolfgang Wangelin (Ed.): The red wonder umbrella. Children's books from the Seifert Collection from the Early Enlightenment to National Socialism . Catalog for the exhibition of the Seifert collection in the Pauline Church of the Lower Saxony State and University Library Göttingen from October 23, 2011 to February 12, 2012, Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-8353-0970-8 .
personal data
SURNAME Seifert, Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist and civil rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH June 4, 2005
Place of death Hanover