Klaus Motschmann
Klaus Motschmann (born March 4, 1934 in Berlin ; † December 9, 2016 there ) was a German political scientist .
Life
Klaus Motschmann studied Protestant theology , modern history and political science in East and West Berlin . In 1969 he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD . From 1972 to 1997 he taught as a professor of political science at the Berlin University of the Arts .
Motschmann belonged to the board of trustees of the Conservative Action . He was with Lothar Bossle , Gerd-Klaus Kaltenbrunner , Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn , Alfred Schickel , Hans Sedlmayr , Gustav Sichelschmidt , and Wolfgang Strauss editor of the Society of Conservative Journalism published (Bonn-Bad Godesberg) magazine Conservative today (1970 –1979), press organ of the Frankfurt Round Table . Conservative Today merged with Criticón magazine in 1980 . From 1980, following the merger with Criticón, he was co-editor and co-editor of the magazine. Furthermore, he was a permanent contributor, columnist and advisor to the weekly newspaper Junge Freiheit until his death .
He was a member of the board of the Evangelical Emergency Community in Germany and first signatory of the " Stop the Left Trend Action ".
Motschmann published, among other things, in the conservative Lutheran magazine Renewal and Defense of the "Evangelical Emergency Community". He was also editor of the publication for decades. In addition, he worked with the conservative Catholic organizations of the Christoferuswerk and the KOMM-MIT youth publisher.
In 2002 Motschmann was one of 22 professors who issued a joint statement against practicing homosexuals in the parish office. In 2010 he was one of the first signatories of the “Manifesto against the Left Trend” in the CDU.
Klaus Motschmann was assigned to the New Right in public opinion .
Fonts (selection)
- Rule of the minority. The betrayed base . Wirtschaftsverlag Langen-Müller / Herbig, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-7844-7102-1
- Myth socialism. On the difficulties of demythologizing an ideology . In: Mut , Asendorf 1990, ISBN 3-89182-043-7 .
- (Ed.) Farewell to the West? The modern in crisis . Leopold Stocker Verlag , Graz, ISBN 978-3-7020-0798-0
- (Ed.) Witness and Resistance - The Christian in cultural and church struggles of our time . Uhldingen-Mühlhofen 2007, ISBN 978-3-9810006-6-5
- Dialogue between Christianity and Marxism? In: Helmut Matthies , Jens Motschmann (ed.): Rotbuch Kirche . Seewald Verlag , Stuttgart 1976, jens-motschmann.de ( Memento from January 30, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
Web links
- Literature by and about Klaus Motschmann in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Prof. Klaus Motschmann died at the age of 82 . idea , December 10, 2016, accessed December 11, 2016.
- ^ Inventory list of the journal archive of the Duisburg Institute for Linguistic and Social Research November 3, 2010
- ^ Klaus Schönekäs: Federal Republic of Germany . In: New rights and right-wing extremism in Europe: Federal Republic, France, Great Britain . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 1990, ISBN 978-3-322-94353-8 .
- ^ Sebastian Dittrich: Magazine portrait: Criticón . In: Uwe Backes , Eckhard Jesse (ed.): Yearbook Extremism & Democracy (E & D), 19th year 2007, pp. 263–288
- ↑ Anton Maegerle : “Young Freedom” authors and their political environment . ( Memento from December 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF) In: Perspektive , 21, Issue 18, 2003, pp. 57–81, here p. 63.
- ↑ Thomas Klaus: Right Christians on God's behalf! The “Party of Christians who are faithful to the Bible” is often underestimated. In: Antifaschistische Nachrichten 13/1998. Archived from the original on January 11, 2007 ; accessed on December 11, 2016 .
- ↑ Alice Brauner-Orthen : The New Right in Germany: Anti-Democratic and Racist Tendencies . Springer-Verlag, 2013.
- ↑ Richard Stöss : The "new right" in the Federal Republic . In: The rebirth of nationalist thought. Danger to democracy. Research institute of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation , Bonn 1995, pp. 111–127, here p. 111.
- ↑ Hans Sarkowicz: Apo from the right . In: Die Zeit , No. 5/1994
- ↑ Answer of the Federal Government to the small question of the MP Ulla Jelpke and the group of the PDS - printed matter 13/1771 - the »Evangelische Notgemeinschaft in Deutschland e. V. «(ENiD), the» Evangelical Central Office for Weltanschauungsfragen «(EZW) and right-wing extremism
- ↑ Anton Maegerle : “Young Freedom” authors and their political environment . December 2003
- ↑ Christian Meyer: The enemy image of the “multicultural society” in the “Young Freedom” and the “Nation and Europe” . (PDF) Dissertation, FU Berlin, 2013
- ↑ Klaus Kornexl: The worldview of the intellectual right in the Federal Republic of Germany Illustrated using the example of the weekly journal JUNGE FREIHEIT . ( Memento of March 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF) In: Contributions to Political Science , Volume 9
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Motschmann, Klaus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German political scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 4, 1934 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 9, 2016 |
| Place of death | Berlin |