Renate Damus

Renate Damus (born February 19, 1940 in Karlsruhe , † October 17, 1992 in Osnabrück ) was a German political scientist and politician for the Greens .

In 1971 Renate Damus received her doctorate from the Free University of Berlin with the dissertation Ernst Bloch - Hope as a principle, principle without hope . Since 1974 she has taught as a professor with a focus on planned economy systems at the University of Osnabrück . In connection with the establishment of this university and the planned appointment of the Marxist economist Ernest Mandel , she was referred to in the press as a leading “communist professor”. From 1990 to 1991 she was Federal Board Spokeswoman for the Greens. Before that, she had already been secretary in the party's federal executive committee. She belonged to the inner-party Left Forum movement.

Fonts (selection)

• Ernst Bloch. Hope as a principle, principle without hope . Hain, Meisenheim am Glan 1971 (dissertation, FU Berlin).
• Decision-making structures and functional problems in the GDR economy . Suhrkam, Frankfurt am Main 1973, ISBN 3-518-00649-5 .
• Real socialism as a system of rule using the example of the GDR. Critique of Post-Capitalist Society . Focus-Verlag, Lahn-Giessen 1978, ISBN 3-920352-28-9 .
• Comecon, Economic Cooperation in Eastern Europe , Leske and Budrich, Opladen 1979, ISBN 3-8100-0269-0 .
• The legend of system competition. Capitalist and real socialist industrial society , Campus, Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 3-593-33590-5 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Renate Damus: Comecon, economic cooperation in Eastern Europe . Leske and Budrich, Opladen 1979, ISBN 3-8100-0269-0 , information about the author, p. 4 (not numbered).
2. ^ Report in DIE WELT on July 17, 1975 on page 3
3. ↑ Daniela Forkmann (ed.): The party chairman in the Federal Republic of Germany. 1949-2005 . Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2005, ISBN 3-531-14516-9 , p. 187.