Max Schmidt (political scientist)

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Max Schmidt (1st from left) in 1980

Max Schmidt (born January 6, 1932 in Mühlhausen ; † January 8, 2018 ) was a German political scientist and SED functionary. He is considered one of the pioneers of peace and conflict research in the GDR .

Life

Schmidt, the son of a waiter, was employed by the employment office and at the Mühlhausen court after graduating from high school. From 1951 he worked for the SDAG Wismut in Oberschlema . In 1953 he joined the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED). He passed the technical school teacher examination for social sciences at the administration school "Edwin Hoernle" in Weimar and was then a teacher at this school. From 1954 to 1957 he studied political science and law at the Academy for Political Science and Law of the GDR and in Berlin; then he completed postgraduate studies in Moscow . He received his doctorate in 1972 at the Institute for Social Sciences (IfG) at the Central Committee of the SED with a topic from the field of imperialism theory ; 1984 followed the habilitation .

From 1959 he was a research assistant in the Department of State and Legal Issues at the Central Committee of the SED, from 1965 to 1973 sector head and deputy head of department in the Western Department of the Central Committee of the SED.

From 1973 to 1990 Schmidt was director of the Institute for International Politics and Economics in East Berlin (successor to Herbert Häber ); there he was also active as a full professor for political economy from 1980 . From 1974 he was a professor at the IfG. Until its dissolution he was a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR , within which he co-founded and headed the Scientific Council for Peace Research . At the end of the 1980s he was a board member of the International Institute for Peace in Vienna. From 1982 he was Vice President of the Peace Council of the GDR . From 1985 he worked at the Institute for East-West Security Studies in New York , from 1986 at the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg and until 1989 at the conflict research institute SIPRI in Stockholm. In 1988 he became a board member and chairman of the scientific advisory board of the International Institute for Peace in Vienna. In 1992 he was given early retirement.

Schmidt was a member of the Leibniz Society of Sciences in Berlin . 1995-1998 he was a research associate for international issues of PDS - group in the German Bundestag .

Schmidt last lived in Peuschen and died two days after his 86th birthday.

Awards

Fonts

  • (as ed.): US military policy on war course , 1984, ISBN 3-88012-706-9
  • Imperialist strategy and politics in the system conflict , in: IPW research booklet, issue 4/1985
  • (with Wolfgang Schwarz): For the future of mankind: new thinking and acting , 1988, ISBN 3-329-00422-3
  • Security through the Security Council? Can the United Nations Security Council be democratized? In: Violent peace according to the will of the only world power? Ways out of danger. Contributions to the 11th Dresden Peace Symposium on February 22, 2003. (Ed.) Dresdener Studiengemeinschaft Sicherheitspektiven (DSS) e. V .: DSS working papers , Dresden 2003, issue 65, pp. 42–58.
  • Europeanization of Peacekeeping - Does the OSCE Still Make Sense? In: Common Security - A Difficult Learning Process. Prof. Dr. Rolf Lehmann on his 70th birthday. (Ed.) Dresdener Studiengemeinschaft Sicherheitsppolitik (DSS) e. V .: DSS working papers, Dresden 2005, issue 70, pp. 81–99. urn : nbn: de: bsz: 14-qucosa2-340207

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice , in: Thüringer Allgemeine from January 20, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Schmidt, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist, SED functionary
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Mühlhausen / Thuringia
DATE OF DEATH January 8, 2018