Michael striker

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Michael Martin Stürmer (born September 29, 1938 in Kassel ) is a German historian and journalist . From 1973 to 2003 he taught as a professor for Middle and Modern History at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg .

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Michael Stürmer, son of the composer Bruno Stürmer and a violinist, graduated from the Friedrichsgymnasium Kassel in 1956 , studied history , philosophy and languages ​​at the London School of Economics and Political Science (among others with Michael Oakeshott ), at the Free University of Berlin (among others with Gordon A. Craig ) and the Philipps University of Marburg . His dissertation, completed in 1965 and supervised by Erich Matthias , deals with the relationship between coalition and opposition in the Weimar Republic .

After that was striker research assistant at the business school of Mannheim , in 1971 was followed by Helmut Boehme sponsored habilitation and lectureship at the Technical University of Darmstadt . In 1970/71 he was a lecturer at the University of Sussex .

From 1973 to 2003, Stürmer was Professor of Medieval and Modern History at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg . In 1976/77 he was a guest at Harvard University , 1977/78 at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton , 1983/84 at the Center for International Studies at the University of Toronto and 1984/85 at the Sorbonne in Paris and repeatedly at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Bologna . He refused calls to Kiel and Berlin. His academic students include Klaus Jürgen Bade , Eckart Conze , Anselm Doering-Manteuffel , Michael Klein , Dieter Rossmeissl , Rudolf Schlögl , Hans-Ulrich Thamer and Rainer Trübsbach .

Striker was instrumental in the historians' dispute . He advocated the thesis rejected by Jürgen Habermas and Martin Broszat of identity through history.

Stürmer was a foreign policy advisor to Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl ( CDU ) from 1980 to 1986 . In 1984 he was appointed to the board of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation . From 1985 to 1987 Stürmer was a member of the founding committee of the Academy of Sciences in Berlin . From 1988 to 1998 he was director of the Science and Politics Foundation , at that time the Research Institute for International Politics and Security in Schäftlarn -Ebenhausen. In 1999/2000 he was a fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin .

From 1984 to 1994, Stürmer was an editorial writer for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . From 1994 to 1998 he was a guest columnist for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung . Since September 1998 he has been the chief correspondent for Welt and Welt am Sonntag . He is also the author of articles on Deutschlandfunk for Deutschlandradio Kultur .

Stürmer is married to the Israeli representative of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Berlin , Dorit Brandwein-Stürmer, and has four children.

In Uwe Krüger's study of the influence of elites on leading media , Michael Stürmer is counted among the journalists most closely linked to so-called elites . Particularly in the areas of security, defense and foreign missions of the Bundeswehr, it is evident that his articles depict the discourse of the elites, spread their arguments and promote more military engagement. The image of threats and conflicts conveyed corresponds to official military-political doctrines. Propaganda techniques would be used to spread it.

Awards

Fonts (selection)

  • Coalition and Opposition in the Weimar Republic. 1924–1928 (= contributions to the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Vol. 36), Droste, Düsseldorf 1967.
  • The restless realm. Germany 1866-1918. Wolf Jobst Siedler, Berlin 1983, ISBN 978-3-88680-051-3 .
  • The art of balance. Propylaea, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-54907-138-8 .
  • The limits of power. Encounter of the Germans with history. Siedler, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-88680-134-9 (essay; with a list of the cited and further literature and a list of images).
  • The century of the Germans. Goldmann, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-44215-145-7 .
  • World without a world order. Who will inherit the earth? Murmann, Hamburg 2006, ISBN 3-938017-61-9 .
  • Russia. The land that comes out of the cold , Murmann, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-86774-042-5 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Stürmer: Coalition and Opposition in the Weimar Republic. 1924–1928 (=  contributions to the history of parliamentarism and political parties , vol. 36), Droste, Düsseldorf 1967.
  2. ^ His position in the historians ' dispute, SWR / 3sat, May 18, 2006.
  3. ^ Fania Oz-Salzberger : Israelis in Berlin .
  4. ↑ Uwe Krüger : Power of opinion. The influence of elites on leading media and alpha journalists - a critical network analysis. Herbert von Halem, Cologne 2013, ISBN 978-3-86962-070-1 .
personal data
SURNAME Striker, Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Striker, Michael Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH September 29, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel