Peter Juling

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Peter Juling (born July 1, 1931 in Berlin ) is a German journalist , publicist and liberal politician who worked and published primarily in the context of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) . He lives in Bonn .

Life

The one from Pankow and in the Soviet occupation zone resp. Juling, who lived in the GDR , joined the (West) Berlin FDP in October 1949 and shortly afterwards began studying political science at the German University of Politics , which he successfully completed in 1955. After starting his career as a journalist with various stations, Juling became editor of the FDP weekly newspaper “ Das Freie Wort ” in Bonn in 1962 . When this was discontinued in 1964, he switched to the “ Braunschweiger Zeitung ” as a political editor , and then returned to the FDP's federal office as a press officer and advisor for intra-German relations in 1972 after an interim position with press work for the EKD in Gütersloh . At the end of 1975, Federal Minister of the Interior Werner Maihofer appointed Juling to assist in the public relations work of his ministry, before he was appointed editor-in-chief of the magazine “ Das Parlament ” at the Federal Agency for Political Education at the turn of the year 1976/77 . Juling remained in this position until he retired in autumn 1991.

Juling was politically active, above all, in the preparatory organizations of the FDP: He was a member of the Liberal Student Union of Germany , which he also represented in the university parliament of the Free University of Berlin . In addition, he worked for the German Young Democrats and, above all, in the Association of Liberal Academics , in whose Presidium he sat from 1961 to 1963 and from 1969 to 1973 and of which he was President from 1977 to 1979. In addition, he advised federal technical committees of the FDP and the party's church commission for many years.

Juling was a member of the Advisory Board of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation from 1977 to 1990 and was also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Wolf Erich Kellner Memorial Foundation .

Publications (selection)

  • Programmatic development of the FDP 1946 to 1969. Introduction and documents. Verlag Anton Hain, Meisenheim am Glan 1977, ISBN 3-445-01529-5 .
  • als Hrsg .: What does liberal mean today? Bleicher, Gerlingen 1983, ISBN 3-921097-37-1 .
  • Karl-Hermann Flach . The third way - the liberal reform. In: Claus Hinrich Casdorff (Ed.): Democrats. Profiles of our republic. Athenaeum, Königstein 1983, ISBN 3-7610-8263-0 , pp. 132-142.
  • with Gerhart Baum : The ups and downs of the Liberals from 1848 to today. Bleicher, Gerlingen 1983, ISBN 3-88350-007-0 .
  • A good thing about politics. A collection of political quotes from A to Z. Bleicher, Gerlingen 1983, ISBN 3-88350-386-X .
  • with Ella Barowsky (Ed.): Hans Reif - Liberalism from critical reason. Legacy of a free democrat and European. Nomos, Baden-Baden 1986, ISBN 3-7890-1298-X .
  • Culture mosaic. Quotes from A to Z. Bleicher, Gerlingen 1994, ISBN 3-88350-370-3 .
  • with Volker Erhard, Ulrich Josten and Wolfgang Möhring (eds.): Commitment to freedom and democracy. Contributions to the history of the Liberal Student Union of Germany (LSD). Bussert & Stadeler, Jena / Quedlinburg 2001, ISBN 3-932906-31-4 .

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Individual evidence

  1. According to information from the archive of liberalism of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom in Gummersbach .