Rolf-Richard Grauhan

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Rolf-Richard Grauhan

Rolf-Richard Grauhan (born December 21, 1934 in Senftenberg , † October 3, 1979 in Bremen ) was a German lawyer , political scientist and professor at the University of Bremen .

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Rolf-Richard Grauhan was the son of the doctor and professor Max Grauhan and Gertrud geb. Piehl and the youngest of five siblings. He attended school in Senftenberg. The family moved to Travemünde in 1946 . After graduating from the Johanneum in Lübeck , Grauhan studied law , sociology , political science, political science and modern history in Heidelberg , Berlin and Kiel from 1954 to 1959 . He passed the first state examination in law in 1957 at the Schleswig Higher Regional Court . In 1959 he received his doctorate from the Law Faculty of Heidelberg University with a dissertation Is there a Pouvoir Neutre in the Federal Republic of Germany ? .

From 1960 to 1963 he completed his legal preparatory service in Baden-Württemberg and passed the second state law examination in Stuttgart in 1963 . From 1961 to 1965 he was a research assistant at the Institute for Political Science at Heidelberg University. From 1960 to 1964, under the direction of Dolf Sternberger, empirical studies were carried out on the selection and position of mayors in 20 major German cities with mayor, magistrate and southern German council constitutions. A research stay to study Swedish local government reform took him to Stockholm and Upsala in 1964 . He then took part until 1965 in a research program of the "Center for International Affairs" at Harvard University under the direction of Carl J. Friedrich . The topic was the “Community Formation in Europe” with a study of the Franco-German community sisterhood with a one-month research stay in France .

Grauhan worked in the administrative service of the city of Munich from 1965 to 1967 , worked on the advisory staff of Lord Mayor Hans-Jochen Vogel and was appointed to the municipal legal council. In 1967 he was transferred to the University of Konstanz as Academic Councilor . There he qualified as a professor in 1968 for the "Political Science" department at the Faculty of Social Sciences with the title Political Administration. Selection and position of the Lord Mayors as heads of administration in major German cities . He was appointed Scientific Council in 1969. His commitment at the University of Konstanz was aimed at founding a new administrative science course that established itself. It was Grauhans concern that, in addition to legal training, the social sciences, sociology and political science are included.

From 1971 to 1979 Grauhan was Professor of Political Science in research and teaching at the University of Bremen . Here local politics was at the center of his scientific interest. In 1972 he was the founder of the "Local Political Research" working group in the German Political Science Association . Training as a lawyer was also his main concern, until the end he worked on the implementation of a lawyer training course with social science content to better prepare for everyday working life. In 1978 in his house in Travemünde, the “Travemünder Quintett”, to which he belonged, developed the application concept for the “Research Focus on Reproductive Risks, Social Movements and Social Policy”, which later became the Center for Social Policy in Bremen (ZeS). The aim of Grauhan's theoretical work was - as he himself noted in notes - to design an alternative form of social organization in which the separation of economic and political “spheres” should be abolished. Grauhan worked out this structural alternative most clearly in the essay Commune as a structural type of political production .

He published numerous articles on urban planning and political science studies on local self-government.

Grauhan was married to Gisela born in 1961. Michael and had two children. His sister was the nursing scientist Antje Grauhan (1930–2010).

He ended his life by suicide on October 3, 1979 , which caused great consternation.

Memberships and functions

  • Chairman of the Political Science Department at the University of Konstanz (1968/69)
  • Board member of the Student Union of the University of Konstanz (1969/71)
  • Member of the "Central Commission" (transitional senate) of the University of Bremen (1971/72)
  • Member of the Commission for Information and Publicity at the University of Bremen (1972/73)
  • Member of the "Social Science" section (from 1974)
  • Member of the training and examination office for one-stage legal training
  • Member of the advisory board of the German Association for Political Science, (1971–1973)
  • Chairman of the "Local Political Research" working group, (1972–1974)
  • Member of the Research Committee on Local Politics of the International Political Science Association
  • Member of the Austrian Society for Political Science
  • Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Federal Research Center for Regional Planning and Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg

Publications (selection)

  • Is there a “pouvoir neutre” in the Federal Republic? Dissertation, Heidelberg 1959.
  • Models of political administration. University Press Konstanz, 1969.
  • Political administration, selection and position of the mayors as heads of administration in major German cities. Rombach, Freiburg i. Br. 1970.
  • Metropolitan Politics - Texts for the Analysis and Criticism of Local Democracy. (Ed.) Bertelsmann-Fachverlag, Gütersloh 1972, ISBN 978-3-570-08638-4 .
  • with Wolf Linder: Politics of Urbanization. Athenäum-Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt 1974, ISBN 978-3-8072-4030-5 .
  • Local policy research. Parts 1 and 2 (Ed.) Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1974.
  • Limits to progress? Contradictions of social rationalization. Beck, Munich 1975, ISBN 978-3-406-04930-9 .
  • with Rudolf Hickel : Crisis of the tax state? Contradictions, perspectives, evasive strategies. (Ed.) Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1978.
  • Bureaucratic State-Political Production and Self-Administration. Articles from 1975–1979. Verlag Universität Bremen, research focus on reproductive risks, social movements and social policy, 1981.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolf-Dieter Narr : Obituary Rolf-Richard Grauhan. In: Politische Vierteljahresschrift, Vol. 21, No. 2 (1980), pp. 212-214.
  2. ↑ Claudia Münch: Emancipation of the local level? Municipalities on the way to Europe. Wiesbaden 2006
  3. ↑ Travemünder houses No. 74. In: Gemeinnütziger Verein zu Travemünde eV Accessed on November 15, 2019 (German).
  4. ↑ Comprehensive research institutions in the northwest. Generations of founders in the social sciences. Reprint of the University of Bremen.
  5. ^ Rolf-Richard Grauhan: Bureaucratic State-Political Production and Self-Administration, essays from 1975–1979. Working papers of the research focus on reproductive risks, social movements and social policy, University of Bremen, 1981.
  6. ↑ Konstanzer Universitätszeitung and Hochschulnachrichten: Models of political administration. Inaugural lecture by Privatdozent Dr. Rolf Grauhan; No. 22, March 1969.
  7. ↑ Scientific curriculum vitae
  8. ↑ Rolf Grauhan is dead. In: BUZ, Volume 7, No. 19.
  9. ↑ Manfred Weber: Reform ruin Bremen . In: The time . August 29, 1980, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed November 15, 2019]).
  10. ^ Supplement to BUZ, Volume 7, No. 10: Obituaries: Ulrich Mückenberger , Alexander Wittkowsky , Rudolf Hickel
  11. ↑ Interviews and discussions with assistants, colleagues, friends
personal data
SURNAME Grauhan, Rolf-Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, political scientist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Senftenberg
DATE OF DEATH 3rd October 1979
Place of death Bremen