Klaus von Trotha

Klaus von Trotha (* 7. October 1938 in Berlin ) is a Baden-Wuerttemberg politicians of the CDU , the 1976 to 2001 the parliament of Baden-Wuerttemberg belonged and from 1991 to 2001 member of the state government of Baden-Wuerttemberg.

education and profession

After graduating from high school in Berlin-Steglitz in 1957, Klaus von Trotha studied law and political science in Berlin , Bonn and Munich and was a trainee lawyer in Munich, Bonn and Strasbourg .

After passing the second state examination in law, he became a member of the teaching staff at the University of Konstanz in 1967 , initially as administrative director of the Center for Educational Research. He then taught public law in the field of political and administrative science as an academic senior councilor until 1990. In addition, from 1970 to 1980 he had a teaching position for school and civil service law at the Weingarten University of Education .

Political activity

From 1976 to 2001 Klaus von Trotha represented the constituency of Constance in the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg. From 1991 to 1992 he was Minister for Science and Art, from 1992 to 1996 Minister for Science and Research and from 1996 to 2001 Minister for Science, Research and Art (Cabinet of Prime Minister Erwin Teufel).

From 1980 to 1991 he was a member of the broadcasting council of Südwestfunk for the state parliament, most recently as chairman of the legal committee. From 1991 to 1997 he represented the state government on the television council of the Second German Television. From 1996 to 2001 he was the representative of the German federal states appointed by the Federal Council in the Council of Research Ministers of the European Union.

Sociopolitical engagement

Klaus von Trotha has been a member of the CDU since 1968 . From 1970 to 1989 he was district chairman of the CDU in Konstanz and u. a. Deputy State Chairman of the Protestant Working Group Baden and Deputy Chairman of the Federal Media Policy Committee.

From 1992 to 2001 he was also Chairman of the Foundation Administration of the Carl Zeiss Foundation . From 2001 to 2011 he was a member of the presidium of the Institute for Foreign Relations (ifa) in Stuttgart, and from 2007 to 2012 he was chairman of the board of the IZ Klima - Information Center for CO2 Technologies eV in Berlin.

Klaus von Trotha remained actively involved in higher education throughout his political career: he was a member of the board of trustees and later a member of the university council of the Andrássy University in Budapest from 2001 to 2011. From 2002 to 2016 he was chairman of the board of trustees, later of the university council of the SRH University of Economics and Media Calw , from 2004 to 2008 member of the board of directors of Heilbronn Business School as well as member of the advisory board for the promotion of the university rectors' conference in Berlin from 2006 to 2015. Since 2009 he has been deputy chairman of the board of trustees of the IB University Berlin .

Also for the Academic Exchange Service e. V. (DAAD) in Berlin, he performed a variety of tasks from 2002 to 2010, including a. in Shanghai, Beijing, Tokyo, Kiev, Cairo and Rome. In Germany he also worked for the Dieter Schwarz Foundation in Heilbronn, and from 2005 to 2012 he participated in the Winter School of the ESMU (European Center for Strategic Management of Universities) in Barcelona, ​​and later in Valencia.

Cultural engagement

Klaus von Trotha has also been involved in a wide range of cultural activities: From 2002 to 2016 he was President of the International Hermann Hesse Society. V. in Calw, from 2002 to 2011 he was chairman of the board of trustees of the German Schiller Foundation from 1859 in Weimar, from 2003 to 2007 chairman of the board of trustees of the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart and president of the regional association of music schools in Baden-Württemberg in Stuttgart from 2003 to 2009. Furthermore He has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the Theodor Heuss Foundation in Stuttgart since 1991 and of the Board of Trustees of the Trebbia Foundation in Prague since 2008.

Awards

Klaus von Trotha has received numerous awards for his services. In 1980 he received the Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon, in 1987 the Federal Cross of Merit First Class and in 1998 the Grand Federal Cross of Merit.

In 2003 he was also awarded the Baden-Württemberg Medal of Merit.

Two universities have awarded him honorary doctorates, in 1995 the University of Massachusetts (LL.D.) and in 1998 Kettering University (D.Litt) in Flint / Michigan.

Private

Klaus von Trotha is with the sociologist and cultural scientist Prof. Dr. Caroline Y. Robertson-von Trotha married. He has a son.

Publications

• (with Robertson-von Trotha, Caroline Y.): Education for everyone - on the difficult path to equal opportunities , in: Schraut, Sylvia / Steinbach, Peter / Gall, Wolfgang M./Weber, Reinhold (ed.): Human rights and history . The 13 Offenburg demands of the people of 1847 , Stuttgart 2015, pp. 213–223.
• Carl-Dietrich and Margarete von Trotha. Kreisau and the Kreisau District , Göttingen 2012.
• The mobility of the immovable - On the status of the university reform debate in Germany , in: Kämmerer, Jörn Axel / Rawert, Peter (ed.): University location Germany. Legal Framework - Political Challenge, Cologne 2003, pp. 3–18.
• Internationalization as an object of training and further education at German universities , in: Krystek, Ulrich / Zur, Eberhard (ed.): Handbuch Internationalisierung, 2nd edition Berlin, Heidelberg 2002, pp. 231–248.
• Achievement and quality - attempt at a differentiated consideration of the promotion of achievement elites, in: Ellermann, Horst (Hrsg.): Rohstoffbildung, Berlin 1999, S. 186–200.
• Counter-realities and systematic thinking , in: Ring, Klaus / von Trotha, Klaus / Voss, Peter: Reading in the Information Society - Perspectives of Media Culture, Baden-Baden 1997.
• Europe as an idea - requirements for teacher training in the light of an emerging European identity , in: Gross, Helmut / Kuropka, Joachim (ed.): Europe’s small universities, Münster 1997, pp. 132–158.
• (with Knorr, Heribert): The role of the countries and regions in European research and technology policy , in: Sturm, Roland (Ed.): The requirements of the subsidiarity principle, Baden-Baden 1996, pp. 75–92.
• Federalism as a factor of order , in: Vogel, Bernhard: Federalism in probation: the German states facing the challenge of progressive EC integration, Cologne 1992, pp. 151–158.
• Quality of teaching , in: Lammert, Norbert (Ed.): Personality development and job market orientation, Baden-Baden 1992, pp. 142–154.
• The political magazines - thoughts on the relationship between media and democracy , in: Leibinger, Rudolf / Sund, Horst (Hrsg.): Zwischenbilanz - Festschrift for Lothar Späth, Konstanz 1988, pp. 205–215.

Web links

• Website from Klaus von Trotha
• Works by and about Klaus von Trotha  in the German Digital Library