Jochen Bohn

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Jochen Bohn (* 1969 in Siegen ) is a German political scientist and officer in the Bundeswehr . He is an adjunct professor of political philosophy and social ethics at the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences at the University of the Bundeswehr in Munich and an inspection staff officer at the assessment center for executives in the Bundeswehr .

Career

After graduating from the Protestant grammar school in Siegen-Weidenau , Bohn was an officer in the troop service in the German army from 1988 to 2000. He was trained as an officer for psychological defense (today: operational communication ) and was deployed in the first SFOR contingent in 1997 at the NATO headquarters in Sarajevo (BiH). Here he was jointly responsible for the German part of the NATO Information Campaign . From 1997 to 2000 he was head of the staff department in Feldjägerbataillon 760 (Munich), responsible for leadership and information management of the association.

After the end of his military service, Bohn moved in 2000 as an assistant to the Institute for Theology and Ethics at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich. As a part-time, he practiced as a staff officer for press and public relations at the Defense Division IV (Munich). Bohn has been an active soldier again since 2019 and works in personnel recruitment at the Federal Office for Personnel Management of the Bundeswehr (Cologne).

From 1991 to 1995 Bohn studied political and social sciences at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich . From 1998 to 2001 he completed his studies in business philosophy at the FernUniversität in Hagen . In 2003 Bohn received his doctorate in political and social sciences at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich, followed by his habilitation in 2013 .

Bohn is married and has four daughters.

Research and Positions

Scientifically, Bohn works at the interface between political philosophy and political theology . Based on the thought movements of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Jacques Derrida , he asks about a possible interpretation of reality and the understanding of politically relevant power of reality that can be gained from it. In the broader context of current debates on the post-secularity of society and politics, Bohn proposes that the representative concept of power developed in the religious and metaphysical tradition be abandoned and that it be overcome with a reserved concept of reality power. In developing this concept, he draws on the figure of as if not developed in pre-Christian Pauline theology , which has been politically reactivated in the recent past primarily by Giorgio Agamben .

In his contributions to current military ethical discourse, particularly on issues of self-image of German soldiers, Bohn is considered critic of internal leadership and the mission statement of the citizen in uniform . In Bohn's perspective, this image threatens to expand in view of the peculiar dynamics of the bourgeois political system to represent the public servant in uniform . Against the increasing functionalization of violence in the German armed forces and their soldiers, Bohn calls for the primacy of politics to be opened up in the sense of an institutionalized strengthening of the political position and role of the Bundeswehr and its soldiers. This opening is to be achieved through upheavals in the external and internal structure of the armed forces, not least through a fundamental reform of the education of the next generation of military leaders.

Fonts (selection)

  • Man in the Calvinist state. Divine world order and political profession (= Biblia et symbiotica. Volume 11). Verlag für Kultur und Wissenschaft Schirrmacher, Bonn 1995, ISBN 3-926105-45-3 (also diploma thesis, University of the Bundeswehr Munich 1995).
  • Rule without natural law. Protestantism between flight from the world and Christian despotism (= experience and thinking. Volume 93). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-428-11506-6 (also dissertation, University of the Bundeswehr Munich 2003).
  • as editor with Thomas Bohrmann : Religion as life power. A ceremony for Gottfried Küenzlen . Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2010, ISBN 978-3-374-02780-4 .
  • as editor with Thomas Bohrmann and Gottfried Küenzlen: The Bundeswehr today. Professional ethical perspectives for an army in action (= contributions to peace ethics . Volume 44). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-17-021654-9 .
  • Reservation. Draft of a theology of politics (= writings of the Institute for Theology and Ethics of the University of the Federal Armed Forces Munich. Volume 2). Lit-Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-643-12417-3 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jochen Bohn: Reservation. Draft of a theology of politics (=  writings of the Institute for Theology and Ethics of the University of the Federal Armed Forces Munich . Volume 2 ). Lit-Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-643-12417-3 .
  2. ↑ Jochen Bohn: Philosophical Paulinism. A new messianic tone in political thought . In: Oliver Hidalgo, Holger Zapf (ed.): The narrative of the return of religion . Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2017, ISBN 978-3-658-18450-6 , p. 89-113 .
  3. ↑ Jochen Bohn: The successor of the citizen in uniform. Approaching a soldier beyond civil functionality . In: Uwe Hartmann, Claus v. Rosen (Ed.): Yearbook Inner Leadership 2014: Drones, Robots and Cyborgs - The Soldier in the Face of New Military Technologies . Miles-Verlag, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-937885-61-2 , p. 266-284 .
  4. ↑ Jochen Bohn: Uwe Hartmann's good soldier. A criticism . In: Uwe Hartmann, Claus v. Rosen (Hrsg.): Yearbook Inner Leadership 2018: Inner Leadership Between Awakening, Dismantling and Abolition. Think new things, encourage participation, dare to take alternatives . Miles-Verlag, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-945861-86-8 , pp. 270-291 .

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SURNAME Bohn, Jochen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Wins