Majid Sattar

Majid Sattar (born 1970 in Duisburg-Rheinhausen ) is a German journalist , political editor for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and author.

Sattar's parents are from Iraq . He grew up in the Lower Rhine and spent an exchange year in the United States . After graduating from high school, he studied political science and history at the universities of Saarbrücken and Freiburg .

On 26 June 2000 Sattar was at the University of Freiburg with Wolfgang Jäger with a thesis on parliamentary control of the federal government by the Congress of the United States doctorate . In doing so, he investigated the question of how the relationship between the state powers, the legislative and the executive, developed after the Supreme Court had forbidden formalized cooperation in 1983 because of a violation of the principle of the separation of powers , as had previously taken place intensively and successfully in Sattar's eyes ( Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Chadha ). Sattar came to the conclusion that the previous relationship was replaced by a large number of informal channels and thus largely preserved.

His journalistic career began with a traineeship at Heilbronner Voice in 1997/98, during which he then continued to work in the political department and received the Erich Schairer Prize in 1999 . In 2000 he went to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), where he started in the online editorial team ( FAZ.NET ). Sattar has been a political editor for FAZ since 2004, initially in Frankfurt am Main, and since 2010 he has been in the parliamentary editorial office in Berlin. There he mainly dealt with the Foreign Office and the SPD . Since 2018, Sattar has been the FAZ's policy correspondent for North America, based in Washington, DC

In February 2009, Sattar published the political biography of the then FDP chairman Guido Westerwelle . In it he drew the picture of a passionate fighter, but also a careerist: “He lacks a serious passion for the cause and an inner compass to find the path through the small things of politics. No topic drives him, he drives topics. ”The Frankfurter Rundschau found the book to be“ a treasure trove for everyone who sees politics as a sequence of intrigues without principles ”. Westerwelle and Sattar presented the book together with the then Federal Foreign Minister - Westerwelle's direct predecessor and successor - Frank-Walter Steinmeier and in the presence of Hans-Dietrich Genscher . It is sometimes also cited in scientific publications, especially on the subject of informal politics.

Majid Sattar is married and has one son.

Works

• Formal and informal politics. Changes in the legislative-executive relationship using the example of the parliamentary control function in the American system of government (= Ordo politicus. Vol. 36). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-10437-4 (also dissertation, University of Freiburg im Breisgau, 2000).
• “… And that's me!” Guido Westerwelle: A political biography. Olzog, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-7892-8303-1 (preview) .

Web links

• Majid Sattar (sat.). Brief introduction. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , accessed on November 8, 2015.

supporting documents

1. ↑ Publishing information. In: Südwestdeutscher Bibliotheksverbund , accessed on November 8, 2015.
2. ↑ Awards. In: Voice-Medien.de .
3. ↑ Majid Sattar: "... and that's me!" Guido Westerwelle: A political biography. P. 125 f.
4. ↑ ^{a b} Thomas Kröter: Guido Westerwelle: Smart and dispassionate when it comes to content. In: Frankfurter Rundschau , February 13, 2009.
5. ^ Jan Treibel: Formal and informal leading and following in parties. A micropolitical approach to the analysis of internal decision-making processes using the example of the FDP. In: Stephan Bröchler, Timo Grunden (Ed.): Informal Politics. Concepts, actors and processes. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2014, pp. 323-350 (preview) .