Paul Noack

This article is about political scientist and journalist Paul Noack. For the musician see Paul Noack-Ihlenfeld .

Paul Robert Karl Noack (born September 28, 1925 in Hagen / Westphalia , † April 15, 2003 ) was a German political scientist and journalist .

Life

Noack was born in 1925 as the son of a commercial director. After serving in the war and being a prisoner of war , he began studying German , Romance languages , art history and English . He studied at the Universities of Freiburg im Breisgau , Geneva and Paris . In 1953 he was at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Freiburg with a dissertation fantasy and realism in the novels Achim von Arnim to Dr. phil. PhD.

He then published as a political editor from 1954 to 1958 in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . Noack was a trial reporter a. a. at the trial of Otto John . From 1958 to 1968 as deputy editor-in-chief of the Münchner Merkurs .

From 1968 Noack taught as a full professor for political science at the University of Education in Munich and from 1982 professor for political science at the Geschwister-Scholl-Institut at the University of Munich, where he retired in 1986. He was co-editor of the magazine politics and history in the classroom .

He was u. a. Deputy Chairman of the Theodor Heuss Foundation , Honorary President of the German-French Societies for Munich and Upper Bavaria and Head of the Political Club of the Evangelical Academy in Tutzing .

Among other things, he was a speaker at the Veldensteiner Kreis .

Noack was married and the father of two children.

Fonts (selection)

• Tobias travels to Canada , Ensslin a. Laiblin, Reutlingen 1963.
• The League of Unknowns , Ensslin et al. Laiblin, Reutlingen 1966.
• Germany from 1945 to 1960. An outline of domestic and foreign policy . Olzog, Munich 1960.
• The intellectuals. Effect, failure, merit . Olzog, Munich 1961.
• The German post-war period. With the most important documents in the appendix . Olzog, Munich 1966.
• International politics. An introduction . DTV, Munich 1970.
• What is politics? An introduction to their science . Droemer-Knaur, Stuttgart 1973, ISBN 3-426-04556-7 .
• The failure of the European Defense Community. Decision-making processes before and after August 30, 1954 (= Bonner Schriften zur Politik und Zeitgeschichte . Volume 17). Droste, Düsseldorf 1977, ISBN 3-7700-0452-3 .
• The manipulated revolution. From the Bastille to our time . Piper, Munich 1978, ISBN 3-492-02380-0 .
• Can democracy still be governed? List, Munich 1980, ISBN 3-471-78217-6 .
• with Henning Behrens : Theories of international politics . DTV, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-423-04414-4 .
• Corruption - the other side of power . Kindler, Munich 1985, ISBN 3-463-40015-4 .
• The third force? Polemic for a contemporary liberalism . List, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-471-78222-2 .
• (Ed.): Freedom must be fought for. Hildegard Hamm-Brücher - Profile of a Politician . Piper, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-492-11439-3 .
• Olympe de Gouges , 1748-1793. Courtesan and campaigner for women's rights . DTV, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-423-30319-0 .
• Germany, your intellectuals. The art of sidelining. [About the nation's know-it-alls] . Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main 1993, ISBN 3-548-35308-8 .
• Carl Schmitt . A biography . Ullstein, Berlin 1996. ISBN 3-548-35581-1 .
• A history of the future (= series of publications on extremism and democracy , volume 9). Bouvier, Bonn 1996. ISBN 3-416-02648-9 .
• Ernst Jünger . A biography . Fest, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-8286-0024-7 .
• Elisabeth Christine and Friedrich the Great . A woman's life in Prussia . Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-608-94292-0

Awards

• 1986: Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon
• 1994: Culture Prize of the City of Germering

literature

• Paul Noack , in Internationales Biographisches Archiv 12/1999 from March 15, 1999 (cs) Supplemented by news from MA journal up to week 41/2001, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of the article freely available)

Web links

• Literature by and about Paul Noack in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Paul Noack  in the German Digital Library
• Paul Noack in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors
• Search for "Paul Noack" in the SPK digital portal of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation