Björn Pätzoldt

Björn Pätzoldt (born June 1, 1944 in Liegnitz , Lower Silesia Province ) is a German political scientist and publisher .

Life

Shortly before the end of World War II , his family fled the Soviet troops from Silesia to Berlin , where Pätzoldt spent his childhood and youth until his family moved to Lower Saxony in 1961 after the Berlin Wall was built . After graduating from the Free Waldorf School in Hanover in 1964 , Pätzoldt hired a South African freighter as a “deck hand” and, after arriving in Cape Town , hitchhiked across the African continent. For a while he worked in Namibia , what was then South West Africa, as an editor for the Windhoeker Allgemeine Zeitung and later got caught up in the civil war in the Congo province of Katanga . After his return to Germany, he processed these experiences in numerous radio reports as well as in his short story Draußen ist Freiheit: A German Post-War Biography, published in 2009 under the pseudonym “Nandinda” .

In 1965 he started at the University of Hamburg to study political science , economic and social history , economics , law and social psychology , as he 1970 Diploma - political scientist graduated. During the student riots in 1967/68 Pätzoldt was chairman of the General Student Committee (AStA) at the University of Hamburg. In 1967 Pätzoldt joined the Social Democratic Party (SPD), but left the party a year later in protest against the emergency laws passed with the approval of the majority of the SPD parliamentary group in the Bundestag, which contain restrictions on fundamental rights. From 1968 to 1969 he was a board member of the Association of German Student Associations (VDS) and a member of the board of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) from 1968 to 1970. From 1970 to 1972, Pätzoldt was a lecturer in political science at the University of Hamburg. After graduating as Dr. rer. pole. with a dissertation on "Cultural Imperialism and Foreign Studies - A Partial Analysis of Foreign Cultural Policy and Educational Aid of the Federal Republic of Germany" (1971/72) he held a five-semester guest professorship for political sociology at the Otto Suhr Institute of the Free University of Berlin and was temporarily head of department at the Central Institute for Social Science Research (ZI 6) at the Free University of Berlin. His teaching and research activities focused on colonialism, imperialism theory, workers' immigration and immigration law.

In 1974 Pätzoldt was the correspondent of the Evangelical Press Service (epd) at the third UN Conference on the Law of the Sea in Caracas, Venezuela. In 1974 he also moderated the merger of the Federal Agency for Development Aid (BfE) and the German Development Agency for Developing Countries (GAWI) to form the Society for Technical Cooperation (GTZ) under the leadership of Development Aid Minister Egon Bahr.

Björn Pätzoldt then worked as an independent organizational consultant, moderator and mediator for industry and ministries, among others, until 2008. From 1974 to 1979 he moderated rehabilitation projects in the correctional facility (JVA) Berlin-Tegel. Until 2008, he also ran Perspol-Verlag in Hamburg. From 1975 to 1979 Pätzoldt was the project manager of a communication project funded by the Volkswagenwerk Foundation, “Lernstatt im Wohngebiet”, aimed at integrating the foreign resident population in Berlin's working-class district of Wedding . With the focus on adult work, women and youth work as well as a comprehensive offer to support socially disadvantaged people, the learning center in the residential district continues to this day.

Pätzoldt was married to the Iranian writer Torkan (1941–2019) and is the father of the actress and singer Marjan Shaki .

Works (selection)

• Aliens Act as an instrument of rule or the emancipatory power of an alternative . in: student policy 1/1970, research institute of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Bonn-Bad Godesberg 1970.
• Revolution, development policy and council democracy - attempt to conceptualize a socialist alternative . in: Development aid between restoration and revolution , writings of the Kübel Foundation 2; Bensheim 1970.
• Foreign workers policy and immigration law in the FRG and West Berlin. Documents to tighten the foreigner legislation, parts 1–4 . in: berliner extradienst 75–78 / VI, September 1972.
• Foreign studies in Germany. A contribution to the criticism of imperialism . Pahl-Rugenstein, Cologne 1972, ISBN 3-7609-0065-8 .
• The disenfranchisement of foreign workers through the immigration law. Legal history of worker immigration in Germany . in: Das Argument 86, Issue 5/6; Karlsruhe 1974.
• FRG imperialism and the Arab pogrom. Foregrounds and backgrounds of the post-Olympic persecution of foreigners. On the expulsion policy of the Federal Republic of Germany . in: Gilbert Mury: Black September ; Wagenbach, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-8031-1048-3 .
• Revolution on the Seas - The Third UN Conference on the Law of the Sea in Caracas; in: Development Policy 10/1974, Evangelischer Pressedienst, Frankfurt am Main 1974
• Study place in the residential district. Communication project with foreigners in Berlin-Wedding . Project manager B. Pätzoldt; Ed. Institute for Future Research, Cooperative Work Didactics; Campus, Frankfurt am Main, New York 1978, ISBN 3-593-32353-2 .
• Nandinda, that's how it is - that's how it seems: The Six Gates to Wisdom. Dialogues between father and son . Perspol, Hamburg 1984, ISBN 3924235015 .
• Courage as a motivating factor. A contribution to the corporate culture and leadership ethics of the future. Manual for leadership seminars . Perspol, Hamburg 1988, ISBN 3-89226-004-4 .
• Nandinda, Outside is Freedom: A German Post-War Biography, German Literature Society, Berlin 2009, ISBN 9783940490544 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Institute for Future Research / Cooperative Work Didactics: Learning place in the residential district. Communication project with foreigners in Berlin-Wedding , Campus Verlag Frankfurt am Main 1978.
2. ↑ http://www.lernstatt-ev.de/