Rudiger Altmann

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Rüdiger Altmann (born December 1, 1922 in Frankfurt am Main ; † February 13, 2000 in Bonn ) was a German publicist , chancellor advisor and political writer.

Life

After studying with Carl Schmitt from 1950 to 1956 at the Marburg Institute for Scientific Politics, Altmann was the first assistant to the socialist political scientist Wolfgang Abendroth . Later, among other things, adviser and speechwriter to Federal Chancellor Ludwig Erhard ( CDU ) and then head of the Eichholz Political Academy of the CDU-affiliated Konrad Adenauer Foundation . Altmann, who for decades dealt with the present and future of Europe and who often referred to Carl Schmitt in his thinking , coined the term “ formed society ” as an advisor to Erhard : The old-style class society had been overcome. At the same time it is endangered by the proliferation of organized interests, which also paralyzes the state's ability to act.

Altmann himself was a leading representative of interests organized by associations for many years: from 1963 to 1978 he was the deputy chief executive of the German Industry and Trade Congress .

The relationship between the conservative intellectual Rüdiger Altmann and the CDU was not free from tension. In particular , he viewed Helmut Kohl as a wrong choice in the Chancellery. Altmann had previously accompanied the social-liberal coalition under Willy Brandt and Helmut Schmidt with critical benevolence. At the end of his life, Altmann published more frequently in the theoretical organ of the SPD , the journal Frankfurter Hefte / Neue Gesellschaft . His estate is in the archive of social democracy .

Fonts

  • The New Society (1959).
  • Adenauer's legacy (1960).
  • The German Risk (1962).
  • The Compromise (1964).
  • Late News from the State (1968).
  • Political Economy of the Free Market , Stuttgart 1976.
  • The future without a world spirit , Stuttgart 1976.
  • Our beyond. Critical review from the ivory tower , Bonn 1982.
  • The wild peace. Notes on a political theory of failure , Stuttgart 1987, ISBN 3-421-06186-6 .
  • Farewell to the State (Frankfurt a. M. 1998), ISBN 3-593-36026-8 .
  • Good morning, Occident! Notes on a political theory of the unification of Europe (from the estate, published in: Frankfurter Hefte , 9/01).

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dirk van Laak : Conversations in the security of silence . Akademie Verlag, 2002, ISBN 978-3-05-003744-8 , p. 262.
  2. ↑ http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/termine/id=29922
personal data
SURNAME Altmann, Rudiger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publicist and political writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 1, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH February 13, 2000
Place of death Bonn