Karl Johannes Newman

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Karl Johannes Newman (born July 9, 1913 in Hohenelbe ( Vrchlabí ) / Bohemia; † unknown) was a German-British political scientist .

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Karl Johannes Newman (actually: Neumann) was born in 1913 in the Bohemian Hohenelbe (Vrchlabí), in 1931 he passed the Abitur examination in Olomouc and studied law and political science at the University of Prague from 1931 to 1935 . From 1935 to 1938 he was a trainee lawyer in Prague, and in 1938 he received his doctorate. iur. utr. in Prague. As chairman of the Free Association of Socialist Academics at the University of Prague, he was arrested by the Gestapo in 1939 , but in the same year he managed to escape to Great Britain via Germany and the Netherlands. Until 1944 he studied at the universities of Oxford and London. In 1940 he was a member of the British, 1942 to 1943 of the Czech army in exile, and from 1943 to 1945 he was head of the university department of the Czech government in exile. In 1944 he graduated from Oxford University . From 1945 to 1946 he was lecturer (lecturer) for modern history at Oxford, until 1948 lecturer for contemporary history and political science at University College Southampton of the University of London , 1949 to 1951 lecturer or professor at the University of Natal (South Africa), from 1951 to 1961 Professor of Political Science at Dacca University (East Pakistan, today Bangladesh), also visiting professor at Columbia University New York (1958–1959), University of Cologne (1961) and Islamabad University (1977–1979), finally from 1962 to 1978 Professor of Political Science at the University of Cologne .

During his stay in Dacca he worked on the constitution of Pakistan.

Fonts (selection)

  • Essays on the Constitution of Pakistan. Including the draft and final constitutions of Pakistan with comments . Pakistan Co-operative Book soc., Dacca 1956.
  • The development dictatorship and the constitutional state . Athenaeum, Cologne 1963.
  • Destruction and self-destruction of democracy. Europe 1918–1938 . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1965 (2nd edition 1984, English edition udT European democracy between the wars , London 1970).
  • Who is driving the Federal Republic where? Verlag Wissenschaft und Politik, Cologne 1968 (3rd edition 1969) (= examination of the book by Karl Jaspers , "Where does the Federal Republic drive?", Munich 1966).
  • Political-sociological problems of the extra-parliamentary opposition with special consideration of the interaction and mutual interchangeability of right and left radicalism . Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1974, ISBN 3-531-02343-8 .
  • (as editor): Pakistan 35 years after the founding of the state. State concept and Islamic self-image, security problems, economic and development policy . German-Pakistani Forum, Hamburg 1983.
  • Pakistan under Ayub Khan, Bhutto and Zia-ul-Haq . Weltforum-Verlag, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-8039-0327-0 .

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SURNAME Newman, Karl Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Neumann, Karl Johannes (birth name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-British political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Hohenelbe , Bohemia
DATE OF DEATH 20th century or 21st century