Karl-Heinz Röder

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Karl-Heinz Röder 1988

Karl-Heinz Röder (born  June 13, 1935 in Schmalkalden ; †  January 3, 1991 in Berlin ) was a German political and legal theorist and political scientist with a Marxist-Leninist character.

Life

Karl-Heinz Röder was born in Schmalkalden in 1935 . From 1953 to 1957 he studied law at the University of Leipzig. From 1957 to 1958 Röder worked as an editor at the German Central Publishing House. From 1958 to 1965 Röder was a research assistant, senior assistant and lecturer at the Humboldt University in Berlin. He received his doctorate in 1962 from the legal faculty of the Humboldt University in Berlin with a thesis on the Godesberg program of the SPD and received his habilitation in 1969 at the Academy for Political Science and Law in Potsdam-Babelsberg . From 1965 to 1972 he was a research assistant at the German Economic Institute and from 1971 at the Institute for International Politics and Economics. At the same time he acted as professor for political and legal theory at the Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg from 1971 , one year later he became head of the department "Analysis and Critique of the Civil State and Law and of the Civil State and Legal Ideology" and in 1978 Deputy Director of the Institute for Theory of the State and Law (ITSR) of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR , based in Berlin-Mitte . After the political turning point in the GDR, he was elected director of the institute, renamed the Institute for Legal Studies, in March 1990, which he had previously headed on a provisional basis on behalf of Wolfgang Weichelt . He died on January 3, 1991 in Berlin . Karl-Heinz Röder was one of the few GDR scientists who stubbornly advocated the establishment of political science as an autonomous discipline.

Act

Röder dealt with Marxist-Leninist approaches to state and legal theory . The main focus of his work was the investigation of the political systems of capitalist countries.

Röder was a founding member of the Council for Political and Legal Research at the AdW of the GDR formed on May 4, 1973 by the Vice-President of the AdW of the GDR, Werner Kalweit, in Berlin.

With effect from October 1, 1975, Röder was appointed by the President of the AdW of the GDR, Hermann Klare, as a member of the social sciences section of the GDR UNESCO Commission.

From 1975 he was convenor of panel and papergiver at the world congresses of the International Political Science Association (IPSA) in Edinburgh (1976), Moscow (1979), Rio de Janeiro (1982), Paris (1985) and Washington, DC (1988) . Karl-Heinz Röder was a member of the IPSA program committee from 1979 to 1982. Since 1984 he has been Chairman of the IPSA Study Group Theories of the State. In 1985 he became chairman of the National Committee for Political Science of the GDR . In the same year he was elected a member of the Executive Committee of the IPSA in Paris, he was re-elected in 1988 in Washington, DC From 1988 onwards he was a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR. Röder took u. a. Participate in the following international scientific events outside of world congresses:

  • Presentation "State and Transformation of Civil Society", Xth International Hegel Congress, Moscow 1974
  • Presentation "Comments on the Marxist-Leninist theory of the bourgeois state", Florence 1975
  • Presentation "On the founding of the National Committee for Political Science of the GDR", IPSA Round Table Dubrovnik 1975
  • Presentation "Materialistic definition of the state and 'left' state derivatives", International Conference on the 100th anniversary of the publication of Friedrich Engels' work "Mr. Eugen Dühring's revolution in science", Berlin 1978
  • Presentation "Research results on the political organization of socialism and on the political systems of capitalist countries", Stanford University 1980
  • Presentation "Results and Tasks of Political Science in the GDR", Dartmouth College 1980
  • Presentation "International Crises and Crises Management", IPSA Round Table, Zurich 1981
  • Presentation "Toward a New Design for Political Development Research", IPSA Round Table, Tokyo 1982
  • Lecture "The Development of Scientific Relations between the GDR and the USA", The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy Tufts University 1983
  • Presentation "Political Science and Science Policy in a Phase of Uncertainty", Colloquium of the Werner Reimers Foundation, Bad Homburg vdH 1984
  • Presentation "Review and Expectations of the Bilateral Relationship GDR-US" at the 1st GDR Symposium at Harvard University, Cambridge Mass. 1984
  • Presentation "The Role of Interests in the Political System of the GDR" at the Round Table Interests and Politics, Zagreb 1985
  • Presentation "The Perception of the US in Politics and Society of the GDR" at the XI. New Hampshire Symposium on the German Democratic Republic, Conway New Hampshire 1985
  • Presentation "Democratization as a Global Process" at the Round Table Democratization from an Comparative Perspective, Buenos Aires 1986
  • Presentation "The Politics of Dialogue on the Coalition of Reason after the Eleventh Party Congress" at the XII. New Hampshire Symposium on the German Democratic Republic, Conway New Hampshire, 1986
  • Presentation "New Approaches to Political Thinking in the Nuclear Age" at the Round Table Crisis in Political Thought: In Search of New Directions, Ottawa 1986
  • Chairman of the Round Table "New Approaches to Political Thinking in View of Global Issues", Berlin 1987
  • Lecture "Political Theory and the Discours of Ideologies" at the conference New Political Thinking: Challenges and Obstacles, Moscow 1988
  • Presentation "Political Science in the GDR - today", National Issues Forum on making the transition: Policy issues for the new administration, The Brookings Institution, Washington DC, 1988
  • Presentation "Democratization in Eastern Europe and the GDR" at the Round Table Europe in Transition, Oslo 1989
  • Lecture "Political Reforms in the GDR" at the conference of the University of Southern California Los Angeles The Two Germanys since 1949, Los Angeles 1990
  • Lecture "The Political and Legal System of the GDR in Transition" at the conference International Perspectives on Conscientious Objection, Utrecht 1990
  • Lecture "Legal Aspects of the Unification of Germany" at the conference New Changes in the International Order, Seoul 1990

Guest lectures:

  • University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, USA 1985
  • University of Innsbruck, Austria 1986
  • University of Bergen, Norway 1990
  • Taipei University, Taiwan 1990

Numerous study trips and research stays led Röder u. a. to Yale University, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and the Rand Corporation in Santa Monica, the Heritage Foundation, the American Enterprise Institute and the American Political Foundation in Washington , DC

Activity for the National Committee for Political Science of the GDR :

  • The National Committee was founded on December 18, 1974 at the Academy of Sciences of the GDR on the basis of a resolution by the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the SED. The Central Committee Secretariat also approved the membership in the International Association for Political Science (IPSA) by the AdW of the GDR. In 1975 the National Committee became a collective member of the IPSA.
  • The President of the IPSA, Karl W. Deutsch (JuDr., PhD., Stanfield Professor of International Peace, Harvard University) visited the GDR in November 1977 at the invitation of the National Committee and gave a lecture at the Institute for Theory of the State and the Law of AdW of the GDR.
  • The National Committee led u. a. the following international events by:
    • IPSA Round Table "Detente: Reasons- Demands- Obstacles", Weimar 25th and 26th August 1980 (with Candido Mendes , Karl W. Deutsch , Daniel Frei , Klaus von Beyme and Georgy Schachnasarow )
    • IPSA Round Table "The future of the state", Berlin August 20 and 21, 1984 (with John Trent, Klaus v. Beyme, Pierre Birnbaum, Howard Leutner and Fukuji Taguchi, among others)
    • IPSA conference and round table "New Approaches to Political Thinking in View of Global Issues", Berlin April 4-7, 1987 (with Seymour M. Lipset, Gerhard Lehmbruch , Klaus v. Beyme, Francesco Kjellberg, Guillermo O'Donnell, among others and Hongkoo Lee)

In addition to Karl-Heinz Röder (chairman), the 20-person committee of experts from 1985 a. a. the following professors:

  • Robert Knuth, director of the Institute for Cosmos Research of the AdW of the GDR
  • Claus Montag, Head of the USA Department at the Institute for International Relations at the Academy for Political Science and Law, Potsdam-Babelsberg
  • Wolfgang Mundt, director of the Heinrich Hertz Institute of the AdW of the GDR
  • Rolf Reissig, Director of the Institute for Scientific Communism at the Academy for Social Sciences at the Central Committee of the SED
  • Max Schmidt (Deputy Chairman), Director of the Institute for International Politics and Economics, Berlin
  • Rolf Sieber, Rector of the "Bruno Leuschner" School of Economics, Berlin-Karlshorst

The National Committee has sent a delegation to each of the IPSA world congresses and round tables since 1976. Participation in the world congresses took place on the basis of a resolution by the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the SED. The Central Committee Secretariat made the appropriate decision on March 4, 1988 (No. 26/88) for the delegation to attend the XIV. IPSA World Congress from August 28 to September 1, 1988 in Washington, DC. In addition to Röder u. a. Professors Gerhard Basler (Deputy Head of Department at the Institute for International Politics and Economics, Berlin), Gerhard Hahn (Director of the Institute for International Relations at ASR, Potsdam-Babelsberg), Claus Montag (see above) and Rolf Reissig (see above).

Röder was a member of the editorial team of " Staat und Recht " and " Neue Justiz " as well as a member of the Advisory Board of the "International Political Science Review".

  • In addition to his scientific work, Karl-Heinz Röder was active as a honorary chairman of the Berlin committee of the League for Friendship of the GDR from May 1983 .

In this role he took a. on December 11, 1984 at the founding congress of the Rome Committee of the Italy-GDR Society in the Palazzo Braschi in Rome.

On May 16, 1985 he was a participant in a conference of the Britain / GDR Friendship Society in Bradford on the subject: "The Defeat of Fascism - 40 years after".

On May 17, 1985 he represented the Berlin district committee at the GDR-Sussex Round Table in Brighton.

For his honorary office, Röder was awarded the gold badge for services to the friendship of peoples by the presidium of the League for Friendship of Nations of the GDR.

As part of his work for the League for Friendship of Nations, Röder was appointed to the GDR committee for the 750th anniversary of Berlin on February 7, 1985. The chairman of the committee was the chairman of the State Council, Erich Honecker. In addition to Röder, the 169-strong body consisted of only two other lawyers, the chairman of the LDPD, Prof. Dr. Manfred Gerlach and Manfred Stolpe, Consistorial President of the Evangelical Church in Berlin-Brandenburg.

Works (selection)

Books:

  • SPD and Bonn State: A Confrontation with the State Concepts of Right-Wing SPD Leaders. Berlin 1964
  • USA: The rise and decline of bourgeois democracy. Berlin 1976
  • The UK Political System: From the English Bourgeois Revolution to the Present. Berlin 1982 (licensed edition Cologne 1982, Russian edition Moscow 1984)
  • The US Political System: Past and Present. Berlin 1980, 1982, 1987 (licensed edition Cologne 1980, 1982, 1987, Bulgarian edition Sofia 1983)
  • The political system of the FRG: past and present. Berlin 1985 (with contributions from Ekkehard Lieberam, Roland Meister, Wolfgang Menzel, Rolf Reissig, Gerhard Riege)
  • The political mechanism of the EC . Berlin 1986 (editor)
  • The French Political System: From the French Revolution to the Present. Berlin 1989

Brochures:

  • The formula of "social democracy" , in: On the critique of bourgeois ideology (58), edited by Manfred Buhr, Berlin 1975
  • Civil political system and system theory, contradictions and tendencies , WJ Gulijew, BP Löwe, K.-H. Röder, in: On the Critique of Civil Ideology (85), edited by Manfred Buhr, Berlin 1978
  • Karl Marx and the political theory of the present (editor and author), 1., 2. and 3rd edition, Berlin 1983 (including contributions by Wolfgang Eichhorn I, Manfred Kossok and Eberhard Poppe)
  • The future of the state (Editor and Author), Sage Publications, Beverly Hills, California, 1985
  • Political Theory and Social Progress (editor and author), Berlin 1986 (including contributions by Uwe-Jens Heuer and Werner Kalweit)
  • The civil constitutions of the present (editor and author), Berlin 1986
  • Peace and the Political Theory of the Present (editor and author), Berlin 1988 (with contributions by Anatoli A. Gromyko, Erich Hahn, Herbert Hörz, Hermann Klare and Hermann Klenner)
  • Associations and association theories in state monopoly capitalism (editor and author), Berlin 1989
  • Comparative constitutional development of developed capitalist industrial countries (meeting reports of the AdW of the GDR), Berlin 1989

Essays:

  • Ernst Forsthoff's adaptation to imperialism of the seventies , in: Staat und Recht, 7/1971
  • On the process of research planning in the GDR , in: Evaluation et controle du financement de la recherche scientifique, Bruxelles 1977
  • Quelques questions sur l'ethique marxiste et son effet sur le travail scientifique , in: Ethiques contexte politique criteres de choix de la science, Mons 1977
  • The Problemacy of the Realization of Scientific- Technological Progress within a Developed Socialist Industrial Country , in: The Controls of Technocracy, Rio de Janeiro 1979
  • On the conservative concept of expanding presidential power in the USA , in: Neue Justiz, 5/1981
  • German Democratic Republic , Karl-Heinz Röder and Jörg Franke, in: International Handbook of Political Science, edited by William G. Andrews, Westport, Connecticut 1982
  • Correspondence between Karl-Heinz Röder and Jürgen Kuczynski , in: Jürgen Kuczynski, Gesellschaft im Untergang, Berlin 1984
  • Karl Polak's contribution to the analysis and criticism of bourgeois statehood , in: Karl Polak on his 80th birthday (meeting reports of the AdW of the GDR), Berlin 1987
  • State theory , in: Encyclopedia of Bourgeois Philosophy in the 19th and 20th Centuries, Manfred Buhr (Ed.), Leipzig 1988
  • On elections in the USA , in: Einheit, 8/1988
  • Rejection of confrontational doctrines: Report from the XIV. World Congress of Political Sciences in Washington, DC , in: Neues Deutschland from 17./18. September 1988
  • Election funding in the USA , in: Neue Justiz, 10/1988
  • Socialist constitutional theory and socialist constitutional law in the dialogue and in the dispute of ideologies , in: Staat und Recht, 6/1989
  • Political Science in the German Democratic Republic , in: Political Science and Politics, Washington, DC, September 1989
  • Actively helping to shape the future pan-European legal area , in: Neues Deutschland from 13./14. January 1990
  • Softening of the bones of law what? , in: Staat und Recht, 4/1990
  • Trendsetting in the design of the round table , in: Neues Deutschland from 28./29. July 1990
  • State-theoretical remarks on the rule of the Jacobins , in: The French Revolution of 1789 and its significance in world history (session reports of the AdW of the GDR), 1990

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gerhard Lehmbruch: In Memoriam Karl-Heinz Röder. Participation (IPSA Journal) Spring / Printemps 1991, volume. 15, No. 1, p. 4.
  2. ↑ Peter C. Ludz: The GDR on the XI. World Congress for Political Science. Germany Archive, 10/1979, p. 1077 ff.
  3. ^ Hubertus Buchstein and Gerhard Göhler: After the Revolution: Political Science in East Germany. PS: Political Science and Politics, Vol. 23, No. 4, 1990, pp. 668-673
personal data
SURNAME Röder, Karl-Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political and legal theorists
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Schmalkalden
DATE OF DEATH January 3, 1991
Place of death Berlin