Lutz Unterseher

Lutz Unterseher

Lutz Unterseher (* 1942 in Greifswald ) is a German sociologist , military expert, security policy advisor and writer .

Life

From 1962 to 1968 he studied sociology and law at the University of Frankfurt . During this time he was a member of the Social Democratic University Association (SHB) and 1963/64 chairman of the Frankfurt group. In 1964 he was elected regional chairman of the SHB in Hesse and held this office for one year. In 1968/69 Unterseher was co-editor of the student newspaper DISKUS . During his studies he specialized in the fields of legal and military sociology . The diploma thesis dealt with the legal dogma history of the employment contract with socio-political references. From 1968 to 1971 Unterseher was a research assistant at the Institute for Social Research , where he was in charge of a project that examined the function of trade unions in late capitalism. During this time, Unterseher began his dissertation , which was supported from 1971 with a performance grant from the Hessian state government. In 1975 he completed his doctorate with a study on the social function of collective labor law .

Since 1963 numerous stays in Israel . Getting to know the cooperative system and the military organization. Admission into an Israeli family. This “elective affinity” still exists today. 1994-1995 exploration work within the framework of an EU-funded project on the use of renewable energies in the context of the Oslo process. The project ended with the assassination of Prime Minister Rabin. This deepened Unterseeer's growing alienation from the country's political system.

As one of the younger supporters of the Attorney General Fritz Bauer , U. is one of four editors and co-founder and author of the quarterly critical justice 1968. Resigned after political disputes with the editorial team in 1971.

Relocation from Frankfurt / M. to Bad Godesberg . 1973: Public relations for DATUM e. V. (Regional and Urban Planning), Chairman: Hans Koschnick , 1974: Speechwriter for the Federal Minister for Research and Technology Hans Matthöfer , 1975–83 Head of the Organizational Research Department at the Institute for Applied Social Science (Infas). Areas of research: media effects, image and internal organizational decision-making of trade unions, reputation of the armed forces and defense motivation, public relevance of defense policy.

1975-1979 Conception and editing of the annual publication Transfer and here the special issue of equal opportunities in the welfare state , election research , planning in the public sector , urban and regional research as well as youth culture .

1983-2000: Partner in the social research institute SALSS. Research areas: media effects, health behavior, addiction problems in large organizations, hospitals: patient and employee satisfaction, job satisfaction of former regular soldiers.

1980: Co-founder and then chairman of the Alternative Security Policy Study Group (SAS) for many years . Criticism of defense planning: national and alliance-related, exploration of structural alternatives to increase security-political stability, performance: development and optimization of the "spider-in-the-web" model: a systematic linking of quasi-stationary, decentralized light components with heavy intervention forces, which are affected by the Reduce the synergy of both components and bind them to the area to be defended (confidence-building defense). Transfer of the terrestrial approach to air and sea. Close cooperation with the Commonwealth Institute in Cambridge, MA ( Project on Defense Alternatives ).

1983-1991: Advisory member of the Security Policy Commission at the SPD party executive , one of the spokesmen for the unilateralists (“independent steps towards disarmament”) against the bilateralists ( Egon Bahr ). 1984: Expert before the Defense Committee of the Bundestag on the subject of "Alternative strategies". 1983-1991 and 1998-2006: Security policy advisor to SPD members of the Bundestag.

According to Matthew Evangelista (The Transnational Movement to End the Cold War, Ithaca, NY 1999): conceptual influence on Andrei Kokoschin, Gorbachev's advisor, who significantly influenced his independent measures of disarmament and defensive rearmament.

1998: Political science habilitation at the University of Münster with a study on the implementation of the categorical imperative in defense planning.

In 2000 moved to Berlin. 2001-2007: Partner in the social research institute UP / Team (Unterseher / Palm). Research areas: training needs of staff and works councils, use of building materials and environmental protection, response to public awareness campaigns.

1988 - present: teaching assignments at German universities (Konstanz, Münster, Oldenburg and Osnabrück) on security-political and cultural-sociological topics. Sporadic lecturing at military academies on four continents.

Works

• Movement, movement! To criticize entrenched ideas about war. Hamburg 1987, Security and Peace (S + F), Nomos Verlag, Vol. 5, Issue 2/1987, pp. 90–97.
• Defending Europe: Toward a stable conventional deterrent. In: Henry Shue (Ed.): Nuclear Deterrence and Moral Restraint. Cambridge 1989, pp. 293-342, ISBN 0-521-38063-4 .
• Volker Kröning, Lutz Unterseher, Günter Verheugen (editor): Defensive and Intervention: The Future of Confidence-Building Defense. Bremen 1998, 1st edition, Edition Temmen, ISBN 9783861087304 .
• Defensive without alternative: categorical imperative and military power. Wiesbaden 1999, German University Press , ISBN 9783824443512 .
• Volker Kröning , Lutz Unterseher, Günter Verheugen : Hegemony or Stability: Alternatives to the Militarization of Politics. Bremen 2002, Edition Temmen, ISBN 9783861083689 .
• Create peace with other weapons? Alternatives to military muscle play. Wiesbaden 2011, VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, ISBN 9783531179513 .
• Low blows; The enemy in the soft abdomen: To criticize the military threat to the enemy hinterland. Berlin 2013, Lit Verlag, ISBN 9783643121134 .
• The Dilemma of Military Security: Three Decades of Critical Reports. Wiesbaden 2014, Springer Fachmedien, ISBN 9783658080068 .
• World War I: Trauma of the 20th Century. Wiesbaden 2014, Springer Fachmedien, ISBN 9783658050436 .
• The First World War. Wiesbaden 2014, Springer Fachmedien, ISBN 9783658052294 .
• Hitler's system or the destruction of society. Biography: Geschichte Bd. 2, Berlin 2015, Lit Verlag, ISBN 9783643136565 .
• Antifritz: Homage to Prince Heinrich of Prussia. Berlin 2015, Lit Verlag, ISBN 9783643131515 .
• Railroad and War: Theory and Practice of Friedrich Engels, Helmuth von Moltke, William Sherman. Berlin 2017, Lit Verlag, ISBN 9783643138828 .
• About the conceptual poverty of German social democrats, security policy and other perspectives. Berlin 2017, Lit Verlag, ISBN 9783643138002 .
• Military theorists in the crosshairs: Liddell Hart and the weight of criticism. Berlin 2018, Lit Verlag, ISBN 9783643141101 .
• Sascha Lange, Lutz Unterseher: Wars of our time: a typology and the focus of Syria. Berlin 2018, Lit Verlag, ISBN 9783643142689 .
• Faces of War: Highlights and Visions. Berlin 2019, Lit Verlag, ISBN 9783643144621 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Lutz Unterseher in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Profile on the website of the University of Münster

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bjørn Møller: Dictionary of Alternative Defense. L. Rienner Publishers, Boulder 1995, ISBN 1555873863 , p. 346.