Jaroslav Langer
Jaroslav Langer (* 1918 in Czechoslovakia ; † 2008 or 2009 in Bonn ) was a Czech-German lawyer , resistance fighter , economist , political scientist , writer , politician and futurologist .
Life
From 1937 to 1939 he studied at the Faculty of Law at Charles University in Prague. After the occupation of Czechoslovakia by the German Wehrmacht , he fled to Poland, where he was arrested by the Gestapo after the outbreak of World War II . During the transport to the concentration camp, Langer was able to escape and settle in Soviet western Ukraine . During the invasion of the German army in June 1941, it fell under German occupation again. He later joined the resistance struggle in the Warsaw ghetto .
After the Second World War he studied economics and political science in Prague from 1945 to 1948. In 1954 he became a member of the Czechoslovak Writers' Union . In 1962 he was excluded from the association, but in 1967 - with the beginning of the thaw in the ČSSR - he was rehabilitated as a member . During the Prague Spring of 1968 he was a co-founder of the Society for Human Rights and a member of the preparatory committee of the Club of the Active Partisans ( KAN ).
After the violent end of the Prague Spring in 1969, he went into exile in Germany and lived with his wife in Bonn, where he worked as a research assistant in the library of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation from 1970 to 1979 .
At the suggestion of Manfred Sibker , a member of the Club of Rome , Langer's project "Dysfunctionality of modern power-hierarchical social structures as a cause of the rebellion of the individual against established power" was able to be carried out with a grant from the Volkswagenwerk Foundation (today: Volkswagen Foundation ) for two years (1977– 1979).
After his retirement he continued to work as a freelance writer and futurologist. He published his life's work in 1988 under the title "Limits of Rule: The End Times of Power Hierarchies".
He was a member of the board of trustees of the association Mehr Demokratie eV (formerly IDEE eV - Initiative DEmokratie Entwicklungs), which he co-founded.
After the fall of the Iron Curtain in November 1989, he visited Prague and worked with representatives of the local citizens' forum ( Občanské fórum , OF) and supported them in building democracy.
Publications
- Power and property as the systemic basis of values in our society , Frankfurt am Main , 1979, (Ed .: Wertwandel und Gesellschaftlicher Wandel, Helmut Klages; Peter Kmieciak, Campus Verl. Pp. 664–666, ISBN 3-593-32417-2 )
- On the technology of freedom , Society for Future Issues, Berlin 1980 (workshop booklets for future research, 18)
- Twenty Theses on New Political Citizens Movements , Cologne 1980 (Center for Group Studies and Community Work)
- Social defense through social structures: An alternative peace plan , Bonn 1983 (Ed .: Klub Alternative Nonkonformisten (KAN), 59 pp. (Das KAN paper, 2) )
- Limits of Rule: The End Times of Power Hierarchies , Opladen 1988 (VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften / Westdeutscher Verlag, 334 pages, ISBN 3-531-11903-6 )
- Twenty theses on new political citizen movements , Bonn, September 1991
Web links
- Literature and other media by and about Jaroslav Langer in the catalog of the National Library of the Czech Republic
Individual evidence
- ^ IALHI conference 1973: Jaroslav Langer as representative of the library of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung
- ↑ Mehr Demokratie eV: Kuratorium
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Langer, Jaroslav |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Czech-German lawyer, resistance fighter, economist, political scientist, writer, politician and futurologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1918 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Czechoslovakia |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2008 or 2009 |
| Place of death | Bonn |