Peter March

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Peter March (born November 23, 1952 in Erlangen ) is a German historian and former local politician ( CSU ). From 2004 to 2011 he was head of the Bavarian State Center for Political Education .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1972, März studied history , German and social studies at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and received his doctorate in 1981.

In 1979 he took up a position as a teacher at the high school in Höchstadt an der Aisch . From 1978 to 1984 he was a member of the city ​​council of Herzogenaurach for the CSU and was particularly active in local political culture battles.

In 1984 he was seconded to the Bavarian Ministry of the Interior and in 1988 transferred to the Bavarian State Chancellery . In 1997 March became deputy head of the Bavarian State Center for Political Education , which he took over in 2004.

In a report by the Bavarian Supreme Audit Office (ORH) in 2009, a number of allegations were made about his administration in the state headquarters. Then, in 2004 and 2007, März had the regional headquarters buy up several thousand volumes of his own monograph on the First World War. The state headquarters ran a black box of € 65,000 and offered authors fees twenty percent above the industry rate. The CSU-affiliated publishing house Druckerei und Verlag Ernst Vögel has received orders worth a total of 1.1 million euros. The rules for awarding public contracts had been massively violated, the state headquarters could have received these services in some cases up to 30 percent cheaper. Tips of up to € 1,000 were given during study trips.

According to his own statement, the Minister of Education, Ludwig Spaenle , did not attribute any criminal law significance to the ORH report in 2009 and only disclosed the report in 2011 under pressure from the parliamentary opposition. In March, criminal investigations were initiated and he was also released from the management of the state headquarters.

On July 17, 2012, the ministry informed the parliamentary advisory board of the regional headquarters about the conclusion of the criminal and disciplinary proceedings. There was no criminal behavior, no disciplinary measure had been taken. Against this background, March was rehabilitated. According to the will of the minister, March should take over the management of the state headquarters again. The disciplinary proceedings had been discontinued because of “still minor guilt” by the public prosecutor's office against payment of a sum of money to a non-profit organization. However, after strong resistance from the ranks of the parliamentary advisory council, March asked for other tasks to be delegated. As a ministerial advisor in the Ministry of Culture , he then headed Section III.8 (fundamental issues of Bavarian and German history as well as history and political education in the classroom). This position was created for him.

März is an appointed member of the German Academy for Football Culture and sat on the jury from 2006 to 2010 for the learning impulse - the football education prize of the German Football Culture Prize .

Publications (selection)

  • The Federal Republic between integration with the West and Stalin notes. On the German political discussion in the Federal Republic of 1952 against the background of the Western and Soviet Germany policy. Lang, Frankfurt am Main / Bern 1982, ISBN 3-8204-7018-2 (also Dissertation A, 1981, Philosophical Faculty I, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg).
  • At the forefront of power. Chancellorships and competitors in Germany. Günter Olzog Verlag, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-7892-8085-2 .
  • The First World War. Verlag Ernst Vögel, Stamsried 2004, ISBN 3-89650-193-3 .
  • The German question in history lessons at secondary level I. Munich 1982, ISBN 3-7863-0901-9 .
  • From the founding of an empire to German unity. Lines of development and structures. (= Special print of the Bavarian State Center for Political Education). Munich 1999.
  • Documents on Germany 1944-1994. Munich 2000, ISBN 3-7892-9327-X .
  • To the education system in Bavaria. Keyword: political education, CD-ROM. Carl-Link-Verlag, Kronach 2001.
  • Myths, pictures, facts: In search of the German past , Günter Olzog Verlag, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-7892-8322-2 .
  • as editor for the publisher LPB: Uwe Backes , Imanuel Geist , Eckhard Jesse , Patrick Moreau and Armin Pfahl-Traugher , Political Extremism in Germany and Europe. Put up for discussion. Munich 1993.
  • as editor together with Hans-Joachim Veen and Franz-Josef Schlichting : The consequences of the revolution - 20 years after communism. 8th International Symposium of the Ettersberg Foundation , with contributions by Eckhard Jesse, Hans-Joachim Veen u. a., ISBN 978-3-412-20597-3 .
  • as editor together with Hans-Joachim Veen and Ulrich Mählert : Interactions East-West: Dissidence, Opposition and Civil Society 1975-1989. With contributions by Hubertus Knabe , Bernd Faulenbach u. a. Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-412-23306-8 .

In addition, numerous articles and contributions in scientific publications, e.g. B.

  • Klaus Schönhoven: Wendejahre , review essay in the yearbook Extremism & Democracy , edited by Uwe Backes and Eckhard Jesse , Chemnitz 2005.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Manfred Welker: Pictures, Myths, Facts . Franconian Day of May 4, 2010
  2. ↑ Dr. Peter März, State Center for Political Education, in conversation with Christoph Lindenmeyer , broadcast script of the BR-alpha interview from February 22, 2006, see web links
  3. ↑ Jasmin Off and Mike Szymanski State Center for Political Education - Black Box and Self-Service Süddeutsche Zeitung from August 24, 2011 , accessed on August 24, 2011
  4. ↑ Mike Szymanski: Suspicion of infidelity , Süddeutsche Zeitung August 26, 2011, p. 30.
  5. ↑ Press release Bavarian State Ministry for Education and Culture from July 20, 2012
  6. ↑ The controversial boss will not come back ( Memento from July 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Bayerischer Rundfunk from July 20, 2012, accessed on September 10, 2012
  7. ↑ Organigram of the Bavarian State Ministry for Education and Culture , accessed on September 10, 2012, PDF that cannot be directly linked
  8. ↑ https://www.fussball-kultur.org/adresse/address/peter-maerz
  9. ^ Peter March , German Academy for Football Culture
personal data
SURNAME March, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian, head of the Bavarian State Center for Political Education
DATE OF BIRTH November 23, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH gain