Lothar Rühl

Lothar Rühl (1987)

Lothar Rühl (born January 14, 1927 in Cologne ) is a German political scientist , journalist and publicist . For many years he worked for Die Welt and ZDF in Brussels and Paris. From 1982 to 1989 he was State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Defense .

Life

Rühl was born in 1927 as the son of a chemist and attended a secondary school in Plauen . In 1944/45 he was called up for military service with the paratroopers with whom he took part in the Battle of Berlin .

In 1946 he passed his Abitur in Mülheim an der Ruhr and studied law, political science and history at the University of Bonn and the Sorbonne (among others with Raymond Aron ) and at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris (Sciences Po). After the diploma in political science, he was in 1971 when Alfred Grosser in Paris with a thesis on French military policy from 1958 to 1968 to the Dr. rer. pole. PhD. In 1986 he qualified as a professor at the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Cologne with the thesis The Security of Europe under the Conditions of Global Strategic Parity , a research assignment from the Fritz Thyssen Foundation .

In 1949 he became a correspondent for the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency in Bonn. He also worked for Spiegel from 1954 to 1959 in Paris. In 1960 he became an employee and later a correspondent for the daily newspaper Die Welt in Paris and a reporter for the Hessischer Rundfunk . Between 1969 and 1973 Rühl was deputy editor-in-chief of Welt in Hamburg and until 1980 head of the ZDF studio in Brussels, where he specialized in security policy.

In 1981, at the request of the FDP, he became Deputy Government Spokesman of the social-liberal federal government as Ministerialdirektor . From 1982 to 1989 he was a permanent state secretary in the Federal Ministry of Defense under Defense Minister Manfred Wörner . In 1989 he came back to the world and published articles in the FAZ and NZZ.

In 1993 he became Associate Professor for Political Science at the Research Institute for Political Science and European Issues at the University of Cologne and as such he also works with the Center for European Integration Research (ZEI) at the University of Bonn .

From 1991 to 1999 he was a member of the Governing Board of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute , from 1992 to 1998 a member of the Advisory Board of the Federal Academy for Security Policy and board member of the Foundation for Science and Policy SWP Ebenhausen / Berlin; from 2004 to 2007 member of the Academic Advisory Council of the NATO Defense College Rome. He is u. a. Member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies , the Clausewitz Society and the German Society for Foreign Policy .

In 2008 he gave the Manfred Wörner speech at the Federal Academy for Security Policy.

Rühl is married.

Awards (selection)

• 1967 and 1971/72: Theodor Wolff Prize
• four times with the Federal Order of Merit awarded since 1974 most recently in 1989 with the Great Cross of Merit with Star,
• twice with the Great Golden Decoration of Honor of the Republic of Austria , twice with the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic , most recently as a Knight of the Grand Cross, Knight of the Grand Cross of the Royal. Spanish Order of Civil Merit, Commander of the Order of the Legion of Honor of the French Republic, Grand Officer of the Royal Belgian Crown Order , the Portuguese Maritime Prince Heinrich Order and the Brazilian Order of the Southern Cross , Knight Commander with a star of the Pope. St. New Year's Eve and holder of numerous other high foreign awards.
• 2014: Manfred Wörner Medal

Fonts (selection)

• Vietnam. Fire source of a world conflict (= Ullstein books . No. 621). Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 1966.
• Power politics and peace strategy . With an introduction by Johannes Steinhoff , Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1974, ISBN 3-455-06355-1 .
• Israel's last war . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1974, ISBN 3-455-06357-8 .
• Russia's path to world power . Econ-Verlag, Düsseldorf u. a. 1981, ISBN 3-430-17836-3 .
• Medium-range weapons in Europe, their importance in strategy, arms control and alliance politics (= international politics and security . Vol. 24). Nomos, Baden-Baden 1987, ISBN 3-7890-1354-4 .
• Turning point in Europe The changing world of states and alliances . DVA, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-421-06560-8 .
• The rise and fall of the Russian Empire. The way of a millennial state . DVA, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-421-06534-9 .
• Germany as a European power. National interests and international responsibility . Bouvier, Bonn 1996, ISBN 3-416-02449-4 .
• The kingdom of good. Power Politics and America's Global Strategy . Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-608-94130-4 .

literature

• Lothar Rühl , in Internationales Biographisches Archiv 51/2006 of December 23, 2006 (cs), in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)

Web links

Commons : Lothar Rühl  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Lothar Rühl in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Lothar Rühl  in the German Digital Library
• Search for "Lothar Rühl" in the SPK digital portal of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation
• Short biography of Lothar Rühl in the armed forces

Individual evidence

1. ^ Speech by State Secretary a. D. Lothar Rühl on the occasion of General Steinhoff's 100th birthday . In: Clausewitz-Gesellschaft (Ed.): Yearbook 2013 . Volume 9, Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-9810794-9-4 , p. 18.
2. ↑ Theodor Wolff Prize: Prize winners from 1962 to 1997 ( Memento of the original from December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.