Lothar Bossle

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Lothar Bossle (born November 10, 1929 in Ramstein ; † December 17, 2000 in Würzburg ) was a German sociologist . He was a professor at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg and the University of Education in Lörrach , advisor to the CDU politicians Helmut Kohl and Hans Filbinger, and president of the private institute for research on democracy .

Life

Training and career start

Lothar Bossle studied political science and sociology in Munich and Berlin ; In 1959 he graduated with a diploma. From 1960 to 1963 he was Gerhard Möbus' research assistant at the Bundeswehr School for Inner Guidance in Koblenz . He then worked from 1963 to 1965 as an assistant at the Institute for Political Science at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz . In 1965 he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD. From 1966 he was a lecturer in political science at the University of Applied Sciences in Worms . In the 1970s he taught at the Lörrach University of Education .

As a student, Bossle was a member of the SPD and temporarily held the office of deputy chairman of the West Berlin SDS . After the Godesberg program was passed , he turned away from the SDS and the SPD in 1959 and joined the CDU in Rhineland-Palatinate . Here he was employed as a consultant to Helmut Kohl and then to Hans Filbinger.

Sociology professorship

Since the early 1970s, Bossle supported Franz Josef Strauss , who in 1977 helped him to his chair at the University of Würzburg . At Strauss's instigation, Bossle was selected from among 55 competitors by the then Minister of Education and Cultural Affairs, Hans Maier , and placed on the chair of sociology against the votes of the academic senate, the appeal committee and the faculty council, which provoked massive protests among the students.

International Society for Human Rights

Bossle also became a member of the board of trustees of the International Society for Human Rights (ISHR). As such, he justified the Greek military dictatorship and maintained contacts with the Chilean military junta under Augusto Pinochet , which enabled him, among other things, to travel to the otherwise isolated Colonia Dignidad . Together with the President of the ISHR Board of Trustees, Ludwig Martin , he warned the Chilean government authorities in 1987 that if the crimes in Colonia Dignidad became known, relations between Germany and the Pinochet regime could deteriorate.

Institute for Democracy Research

On behalf of the Institute for Democracy Research, Bossle edited the series of speeches as a professor in Würzburg . In 1981 Bossle became president of the private institute for democracy research in Würzburg, which became known as the "Doktorfabrik". The Bavarian state parliament therefore dealt with the "Bossle case" several times. Checks showed that only one of the numerous doctoral theses had a second reviewer from the subject. The other sociology professor in Würzburg, Wolfgang Lipp , stated that he had "never seen" many alleged doctoral theses. Bossle's approach to doctoral procedures at his chair has been repeatedly questioned in the media regarding his seriousness.

After the death of Franz Josef Strauss , Bossle continued to receive support from the CSU, but has now also come under fire within the CSU. Science Minister Wolfgang Wild (CSU) declared in 1989 that Bossle had "overstepped the curve". In 1989 Bossle handed over the management of the Institute for Democracy Research to the CDU politician Heinrich Lummer .

further activities

This was followed by a visiting professorship at the Technical University of Dresden . Efforts to appoint him there were dashed in 1991: he is "in our field without reputation", wrote the chairman of the German Society for Sociology , Professor Bernhard Schäfers , to the Saxon Minister of Education Hans Joachim Meyer in February .

Bossle took part in events of the Paneuropean Union and the Unification Church . He belonged to the group of supporters and permanent speakers of the association for the promotion of psychological knowledge of human nature . In 1994 he appeared as a speaker at the historical revisionist contemporary history research center in Ingolstadt .

Bossle was a member of the board of trustees at the Weikersheim Study Center , which he headed scientifically. He was also a member of the board of trustees of the Ludwig Frank Foundation for a Free Europe and the Brüsewitz Center . Bossle was also a member of the scientific advisory board of the Hanns Seidel Foundation and belonged to the papal order of knights of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem . Since 1984 he was chief commander there . He was also President of the Gertrud von le Fort Society.

In the winter semester of 1973 Bossle became a member of the Catholic student association WKSt.V. Unitas Hetania in Würzburg.

Together with his wife he owned the Creator-Verlag , in which two thirds of the doctoral theses were published. Together with the medical historian Gundolf Keil and the historian Joseph Joachim Menzel, Bossle founded the Gerhard Möbus Institute in Würzburg in 1982 . In 1983 Bossle co-founded the Margret Boveri Foundation. From 1986 Bossle was co-editor of the Silesian Research . With Keil and Menzel and Eberhard Schulz, he edited the anthology National Socialism and Resistance in Silesia in 1989 .

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Footnotes

  1. ^ Tilman Fichter , Siegward Lönnendonker , Kleine Geschichte des SDS , Rotbuch Verlag 1977, p. 160 and there in relation to the Spiegel , 31st year, no. 24, 6th July 1977
  2. ^ Günter Platzdasch: The so-called International Society for Human Rights p. 3
  3. ↑ Südwest-Presse October 29, 2012 / Mauricio Weibel: Colonia Dignidad: What did Pinochet's friends on the Rhine know?
  4. ↑ Christiane Schlötzer-Scotland, "Uprising in the« Doktorfabrik ». CSU is also losing patience with sociology professor Bossle ” , in: Süddeutsche Zeitung , February 20, 1992, p. 21
  5. ↑ a b c Magic and Mysticism . In: Der Spiegel . No. 30 , 1989, pp. 69-70 ( online ).
  6. ↑ cf. z. B. sueddeutsche.de: The fear of déjà-vu with further evidence
  7. ↑ The time 41/1991: The professor with the bad reputation of 4 October 1991
  8. ↑ Wolfgang Burr (ed.): Unitas manual . tape 5 . Verlag Franz Schmitt, Bonn 2005, ISBN 3-87710-502-5 , p. 236 .
  9. ^ Gundolf Keil: Foreword. In: Medical historical messages. Journal for the history of science and specialist prose research. Volume 34, 2015 (2016), pp. 7–11, here: p. 7.
  10. ↑ http://www.wuerzburgwiki.de/wiki/Lothar_Bossle
  11. ^ Lothar Bossle, Gundolf Keil, Josef Joachim Menzel, Eberhard Günter Schulz. (Ed.): Silesia as an object of interdisciplinary research. Sigmaringen 1986 (= Silesian Research. Volume 1).
  12. ^ Lothar Bossle, Gundolf Keil, Josef Joachim Menzel, Eberhard Gunter Schulz (eds.): National Socialism and Resistance in Silesia. (= Silesian research. Volume 3). Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1989, ISBN 3-7995-5853-5 .
personal data
SURNAME Bossle, Lothar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Ramstein
DATE OF DEATH December 17, 2000
Place of death Wurzburg