Udo Knapp

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Udo Knapp (born May 5, 1945 in Altenburg ) is a German political scientist and politician . He was the last chairman of the SDS .

Life

Udo Knapp was born in Altenburg ( Thuringia ). In 1960 the family moved to Hanover . After graduating from high school, he studied political science at the Free University in Berlin from 1966 to 1972 . From 1972 he worked as a clerk at the Spandau district office in youth development. He and his colleague Götz Aly did their doctorate at the Free University with a joint, controversial dissertation, which dealt with the questionable activities of the municipal youth leisure work in Spandau.

politics

Knapp changed sides several times; he was initially involved in the SDS in West Berlin, where he became SDS chairman. He headed the SDS until the organization dissolved itself in 1970. In 1969, Knapp became a pioneer and member of the Red Cell Movement. As a result, numerous red cells formed at the FU and TU Berlin , such as the Red Cell German Studies, the RotZePs (psychology) or RotZPhysik (physics). They were assigned to the student party initiative PL / LI (Proletarian Left / Party Initiative) and thus were direct opponents of the KSV and its KPD / AO until about 1975 , which only dissolved in 1980.

Udo Knapp was a member of the ÖTV and in the 1980s he was an assistant to the Green Party for its MPs Hans-Christian Ströbele , Waltraud Schoppe and for the leaders of the "Greens" in the Bundestag. When his last deputy Otto Schily joined the party , Knapp switched to the SPD in the 1990s.

From 1994 he was deputy district administrator of the island of Rügen for the SPD until he was voted out of office in 1996. Then he worked for the construction east in the Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Housing .

Fonts

  • with Götz Aly : State youth care and the needs of young people. A critical analysis of the work of the Office for Youth Care (Jug VI) of the Youth and Sport Department of the Spandau District Office of Berlin in the years 1972–1977. Dissertation at the Free University of Berlin 1978, together with Götz Aly: pp. 3–154, Udo Knapp pp. 155–295).
  • The risk. Ecological realpolitik: pragmatic, non-state, majority-conscious, green. Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 1991, ISBN 3-8218-0455-6 .
  • Knapp is the author of numerous position papers and political documents.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ in: Cicero online from October 20, 2012
  2. ↑ cf. Gunnar Hinck: "Dissertation Götz Aly / Udo Knapp ( Memento of the original from October 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. ( PDF; 70 kB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gunnarhinck.de
  3. ↑ September 6, 1996: Die Zeit-online by deselecting Knapp with a red felt
personal data
SURNAME Knapp, Udo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist and politician (SDS)
DATE OF BIRTH May 5, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Altenburg