Otfried Nassauer

Otfried Nassauer (* 1956 in Siegen ; † October 1 or 2, 2020 in Berlin ) was a German journalist and peace researcher who “ shaped the discussions about current German and international military and security policy for over four decades ”.

Life

Nassauer studied Protestant theology in Hamburg . In the 1980s and 1990s he worked as a non-party in the specialist group “Peace and International Affairs” of the Greens as well as in the federal working group “Peace” of the Greens.

Shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall , he organized a meeting between officers from the National People's Army from the Friedrich Engels military academy in Dresden and those from the command academy of the Bundeswehr in Hamburg.

In 1991 Nassauer founded the Berlin Information Center for Transatlantic Security (BITS). As its head for almost three decades, he dealt in particular with security policy developments such as arms control of nuclear weapons and land mines as well as German arms exports .

Nassauer published in the taz , the Neues Deutschland , the Spiegel , the Friedensforum , the Junge Welt , Compact , Magazin 2000plus and The European . With more than 150 contributions from 1993 onwards, Nassauer shaped the NDR-Info series Armed Forces and Strategies in particular .

Appreciation

Nassauer died on the night of October 1 to October 2, 2020 at the age of 64 in Berlin. The taz editor-in-chief Ulrike Winkelmann described it in her obituary as "irreplaceable" and as a walking encyclopedia :

"But Otfried knew every damn screw on the combat drones that the Bundeswehr wanted to procure, on the submarines that were delivered to Israel , on the Leopard tanks that Saudi Arabia wanted to buy from Krauss-Maffei Wegmann ."

The security policy journalist Thomas Wiegold , who especially for his blog Eyes straight ahead! known, described him as "one of the best - and at the same time least publicly known - experts on German armaments policy". Michael Brzoska , long-time director of the Hamburg Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy (IFSH), also praised Nassauer as "one of the most prominent German military experts and peace researchers". He emphasized:

“Otfried Nassauer burned for what he did. [...] Commitment to the things that were important to him went to Otfried Nassauer through personal recognition and material remuneration. Above all, he was interested in education, in empowering others in non-governmental organizations , science and politics to question official representations and positions as critically as he did himself. "

The New Germany raised his role as a multiplier for the peace movement out:

“Otfried Nassauer will be missing. He was a good friend and colleague to some, a clever partner to many and an extremely important advisor for tens of thousands - without their knowing it - when they stood up against the mania for arms and the dangers of war. "

Publications

Intervene for a new world order? , in: Does the West still exist on the question of war or peace? Contributions to the 12th Dresden Peace Symposium on February 14, 2004. (Ed.) Dresdener Studiengemeinschaft Sicherheitspektiven (DSS) e. V .: DSS working papers , Dresden 2004, issue 69, pp. 14-29.

Web links

Literature by and about Otfried Nassauer in the catalog of the German National Library
Otfried Nassauer (director) portrait at BITS
Transatlantic Security "German foreign policy must be careful" , Deutschlandfunk February 17, 2017, Otfried Nassauer in conversation with Susanne Schrammar
Announced US exit from the nuclear disarmament treaty: The wavering of the European security architecture , SWR 2 October 22, 2018, Otfried Nassauer in "The Political Interview"

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b Michael Brzoska: Protagonist for Peace - Obituary for Otfried Nassauer. In: Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg. October 5, 2020, accessed October 5, 2020 .
↑ Otfried Nassauer. The man, the vision. Die Tageszeitung , October 13, 2001, accessed on November 14, 2017 .
↑ ^a ^b Andreas Flocken: Obituary for Otfried Nassauer. In: Armed Forces and Strategies. NDR Info, October 5, 2020, accessed on October 5, 2020 .
↑ Otfried Nassauer's TAZ article
↑ Publications: sorted by date. List. bits.de, accessed on November 15, 2017 .
^ Otfried Nassauer: Stuck zuck. On the Defense Policy Guidelines: Nothing is impossible. Junge Welt , May 23, 2003, accessed November 15, 2017 .
^ Otfried Nassauer: Dolphins with an atomic appetite. About the Israeli Dolphin-class submarines , Compact No. 04/2012.
↑ Büchel Angst nuclear weapons site in the Eifel. In: Magazin 2000plus . No. 311, 3/2012, pp. 68-71.
^ Otfried Nassauer's article in The European
↑ Ulrike Winkelmann: Obituary for Otfried Nassauer: Persevering for peace. In: taz. October 4, 2020, accessed October 4, 2020 .
↑ Thomas Wiegold: Otfried Nassauer will be missing: first the facts, then the opinion. In: eyes straight ahead! October 4, 2020, accessed October 4, 2020 .
↑ René Heilig: Otfried Nassauer will be absent - Renowned peace researcher has died. An obituary. In: New Germany. October 4, 2020, accessed October 4, 2020 .

personal data
SURNAME	Nassauer, Otfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German journalist and peace researcher
DATE OF BIRTH	1956
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wins
DATE OF DEATH	before October 2, 2020
Place of death	Berlin

[:1-1] A ^b Michael Brzoska: Protagonist for Peace - Obituary for Otfried Nassauer. In: Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg. October 5, 2020, accessed October 5, 2020 .

[taz2001-2] Otfried Nassauer. The man, the vision. Die Tageszeitung , October 13, 2001, accessed on November 14, 2017 .

[:0-3] Andreas Flocken: Obituary for Otfried Nassauer. In: Armed Forces and Strategies. NDR Info, October 5, 2020, accessed on October 5, 2020 .

[4] Otfried Nassauer's TAZ article

[bits-5] Publications: sorted by date. List. bits.de, accessed on November 15, 2017 .

[jw-6] Otfried Nassauer: Stuck zuck. On the Defense Policy Guidelines: Nothing is impossible. Junge Welt , May 23, 2003, accessed November 15, 2017 .

[dolfin-7] Otfried Nassauer: Dolphins with an atomic appetite. About the Israeli Dolphin-class submarines , Compact No. 04/2012.

[8] Büchel Angst nuclear weapons site in the Eifel. In: Magazin 2000plus . No. 311, 3/2012, pp. 68-71.

[9] Otfried Nassauer's article in The European

[10] Ulrike Winkelmann: Obituary for Otfried Nassauer: Persevering for peace. In: taz. October 4, 2020, accessed October 4, 2020 .

[11] Thomas Wiegold: Otfried Nassauer will be missing: first the facts, then the opinion. In: eyes straight ahead! October 4, 2020, accessed October 4, 2020 .

[12] René Heilig: Otfried Nassauer will be absent - Renowned peace researcher has died. An obituary. In: New Germany. October 4, 2020, accessed October 4, 2020 .