Thomas Ellwein

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Thomas E. Ellwein (born July 16, 1927 in Hof ; † January 6, 1998 in Schliersee ) was a German political scientist . He made a major contribution to the institutionalization of the discipline and was considered the doyen of administrative science . Initially professor at the Frankfurt University of Education and President of the German Student Union , he was in a leading role in the reform of the Bundeswehr from the 1970s; u. a. he acted as the founding director of the Social Science Institute of the Bundeswehr and as the founding president of the University of the Bundeswehr Hamburg . He later held a chair at the University of Konstanz . He was involved in various scientific fields. a. Chairman of the German Association for Political Science .

Life

Ellwein was born into a Lutheran family of teachers and pastors; his father was the senior consistorial councilor Theodor Ellwein and his uncle Eduard Ellwein was also a pastor and Protestant theologian. He attended schools in Augsburg , Weilburg , Ansbach and Berlin and put a 1,943 claims to Notabitur from. He was then called in as an air force helper , later for the Reich Labor Service (1944) and the Wehrmacht (1945). At the end of the Second World War, he was taken prisoner by the US as a tank pioneer . For a short time he worked as an unskilled worker and Protestant district youth warden.

After studying theology, history and law at the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen in 1950 when constitutional lawyer Hans Helfritz to the High Faculty of Law of the Promotion ( The influence of the North American Federal Constitutional Law on the proceedings of the National Assembly in Frankfurt in 1848-49 ) to Dr . jur. During this time he received a scholarship from the German Academic Scholarship Foundation .

He was chief editor and part-time lecturer at the Munich School of Politics in Munich and was the first managing director of the Bavarian State Center for Homeland Service in Munich from 1955 to 1958 (today: Bavarian State Center for Political Education ). In 1959/60 he was a substitute professor at the University of Education in Berlin . He was a member of the founding college and from 1961 to 1970 was a full professor of political education at the University of Education , which was outsourced by the University of Frankfurt am Main . In 1962 he became director of the seminar for political education and in 1964/65 university president.

From the 1970s he played a key role in reorganizing the education and training of the Bundeswehr, so his name stands for the so-called Ellwein concept . In 1974 he was the founding director of the Munich Social Science Institute of the Bundeswehr (SOWI), which was subordinate to the Federal Ministry of Defense . From 1974 to 1976 Ellwein was then President of the newly created University of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg , whose founding committee he was already a member in 1972.

In 1976 he was appointed full professor for domestic politics and public administration at the University of Konstanz , where he taught until 1989. There he profiled a diploma course in administrative sciences and contributed significantly to the public reputation of the faculty.

In the 1960s and 1970s Ellwein was also a political commentator for ZDF and a radio commentator for Bavarian Broadcasting . He was also a member of the German Press Council . From 1964 he was head of the Frankfurt Student Union and from 1967 to 1975 President of the German Student Union . From 1978 to 1981 he was chairman of the German Association for Political Science (DVPW), he was also a member of the electoral law commission of the German Bundestag and from 1981 to 1983 as chairman of a commission for legal and administrative simplification of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia . He was also a recognized DFG expert reviewer, from 1992 to 1996 he headed the specialist committee for social sciences.

Ellwein worked as a journalist and journalist in Erlangen and Munich after the war . He was later co-editor of the series Political Behavior (1969 ff.) As well as the journal Staatswissenschaften und Staatspraxis and the Erziehungswissenschaftliches Handbuch (1974). In 1963 Ellwein wrote what was then the standard work for the field of political systems "The Government System of the Federal Republic of Germany", which was published by Westdeutscher Verlag (Cologne and Opladen).

He was socialized rather conservatively from his origins, later he took liberal positions, which led to displeasure in conservative circles in Bavaria. From 1960 he was a member of the SPD . In 1976 he ran unsuccessfully as a direct candidate in the Bundestag election in the Munich-Land constituency . In the 1980s he left the party again.

Ellwein, baptized as a Protestant, was married and the father of three children.

Awards

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • The legacy of the monarchy in the German state crisis. On the history of the constitutional state in Germany . Isar Verlag, Munich 1954.
  • Does the German school cultivate civic awareness? A report on the civic education in the higher schools of the Federal Republic . Isar Verlag, Munich 1955.
  • Clericalism in German Politics (= Heisse Eisen , Volume 1). Isar Verlag, Munich 1955.
  • With Oswald von Nagy: Small book studies for political education . Juventa Verlag, Munich 1956.
  • With Anton Fingerle : Reason and Faith in Political Education and Upbringing. A conversation about political education in schools (= school policy forum . Volume 1). Cornelsen, Berlin a. a. 1958.
  • What happens in elementary school? A report . Cornelsen, Berlin a. a. 1960.
  • The government system of the Federal Republic of Germany. Guide and source book (= The Science of Politics . Volume 1). Westdeutscher Verlag, Cologne a. a. 1963. (With Joachim Jens Hesse : The government system of the Federal Republic of Germany . 10th edition, Nomos, Baden-Baden 2012, ISBN 978-3-8329-5089-7 )
  • Political behavior . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1964. (6th edition, Kohlhammer, Stuttgart et al. 1968)
  • Introduction to government and administration (= politics, government, administration . Volume 1). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart a. a. 1966.
  • With Joachim Hirsch : Book Studies on Politics . Juventa Verlag, Munich 1966.
  • Politics and planning . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart a. a. 1968.
  • With Ralf Zoll: civil service, aspiration and reality. On the development and problems of the public service . Bertelsmann University Press , Düsseldorf 1973, ISBN 3-571-09001-2 .
  • With Ekkehard Lippert, Ralf Zoll: Political participation in the Federal Republic of Germany (= writings of the Commission for Economic and Social Change . Volume 89). Schwartz, Göttingen 1975, ISBN 3-509-00895-2 .
  • Government and administration. A critical introduction . Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1976, ISBN 3-531-11356-9 .
  • Trade unions and public service. To the development of the civil service policy of the DGB . Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1980, ISBN 3-531-11513-8 .
  • With Ralf Zoll: Wertheim. Politics and power structure of a German city (= political behavior . Volume 9). Juventa Verlag, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-7799-0089-0 .
  • With Wolfgang Bruder: Innovation-oriented regional policy (= contributions to social science research . Volume 31). Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1982, ISBN 3-531-11584-7 .
  • The German university from the Middle Ages to the present day . Athenaeum, Königstein 1985, ISBN 3-7610-8379-3 . (2nd edition, Hain, Frankfurt am Main 1992, ISBN 3-445-08581-1 ; licensed edition, Fourier, Wiesbaden 1997, ISBN 3-925037-90-X )
  • Administration and administrative regulations. Necessity and opportunity for regulatory simplification . Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1989, ISBN 3-531-12059-X .
  • With Joachim Jens Hesse: The overwhelmed state . Nomos, Baden-Baden 1994, ISBN 3-7890-3573-4 .

Editorships

  • With Ralf Zoll : Political behavior. Studies and materials on the conditions and forms of political participation . Juventa Verlag, Munich 1972 ff.
  • Christian Freedom and Bonding in Politics . From the estate of his father Theodor Ellwein, Olzog, Munich a. a. 1964.
  • University of the Federal Armed Forces between training and university reform. Aspects and documents of the establishment in Hamburg . Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1974, ISBN 3-531-11286-4 .
  • Policy field analyzes 1979. Scientific Congress of the DVPW, 1. – 5. October 1979 at the University of Augsburg. Conference report . Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1980, ISBN 3-531-11519-7 .
  • Law and administrative simplification in North Rhine-Westphalia. Report and suggestions . Kohlhammer, Cologne 1983, ISBN 3-555-30248-5 .
  • With Wolfgang Bruder: Ploetz, the Federal Republic of Germany. Data, facts, analyzes . Ploetz, Freiburg im Breisgau a. a. 1984, ISBN 3-87640-084-8 .
  • With Joachim Jens Hesse: Administrative simplification and administrative policy . Nomos, Baden-Baden 1985, ISBN 3-7890-1119-3 .
  • With Joachim Jens Hesse: Political Science. Forgotten discipline or new challenge? Nomos, Baden-Baden 1990, ISBN 3-7890-1999-2 .
  • With Everhard Holtmann : 50 years of the Federal Republic of Germany. Framework conditions - developments - perspectives (= Political Quarterly Journal . Special Issue 30). Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen u. a. 1999, ISBN 3-531-13182-6 .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Ellwein: The Influence of the North American Federal Constitutional Law on the Negotiations of the Frankfurt National Assembly in 1848/49 . Dissertation, University of Erlangen, o. P.
  2. ↑ Honorary doctorates of the faculties. In: Directory of people and courses. Spring trimester 2001. University of the Federal Armed Forces Munich, Neubiberg 2001, pp. 14–15.
personal data
SURNAME Ellwein, Thomas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ellwein, Thomas E.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist and administrative scientist
DATE OF BIRTH July 16, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH court
DATE OF DEATH January 6, 1998
Place of death Schliersee