Ulrich Albrecht

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Ulrich Albrecht (born January 30, 1941 in Leipzig ; † December 26, 2016 in Berlin ) was an internationally known German peace researcher and university professor . He dealt with technical developments in the arms sector , the dynamics of arms races and arms control efforts , as well as the effects of armaments and the military on states and the living conditions of people. He combined engineering and political peace research and thus laid the foundations for scientific peace research.

Life

Ulrich Albrecht first completed an engineering degree in aircraft construction in Hamburg, where he also worked as a student trust student for the Protestant student community . In 1970 he did his doctorate in Stuttgart on the global arms trade . In 1972 he became professor for peace and conflict research at the Otto Suhr Institute and was Vice President of the Free University of Berlin in 1982/1983 . In the early 1970s he co-founded the Military Policy Study Group . In the 1980s, he criticized the so-called retrofitting associated with the NATO double resolution and advocated arms conversion projects . After the change of power in the GDR in 1990 he worked as the head of the planning staff of the foreign minister there, Markus Meckel, and tried to implement his ideas on peace policy. From 1971 to 1973 and from 1998 to 2002 he was chairman of the Peace and Conflict Research Working Group . For many years he sat on the advisory board of the journal Science and Peace and also supported the journal Antimilitarismus-Information (ami) . For many years he was involved in the Pugwash conferences , in which natural scientists and social scientists worked together for peace and disarmament, and which were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1995 . In the Evangelical Church he was also active in synodal work .

Due to a stroke in the summer of 2001, he remained partially paralyzed and dependent on a wheelchair for the last 15 years of his life. Still, he sat until 2005 continued his work as a university teacher, but had to leave in the retirement change.

Works (selection)

  • Ulrich Albrecht: The liquidation of the GDR. The "2 + 4 negotiations". An inside report . Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1992, ISBN 978-3-531-12322-6 .
  • Ulrich Albrecht: Armaments in Conversion? Current developments in changes in employment relationships in the defense industry and in the armed forces in Europe . In: Contributions to conversion research . tape 1 . Lit, Münster, Hamburg 1994, ISBN 978-3-486-24572-1 .
  • Ulrich Albrecht: International Politics. Introduction to the system of international rule . Oldenbourg, Munich, Vienna 1999, ISBN 978-3-486-24572-1 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b The OSI says goodbye to Ulrich Albrecht (PDF). In: www.polsoz.fu-berlin.de. January 2017. Retrieved March 11, 2017 .
  2. ↑ a b Ute Finckh-Krämer : Obituary Ulrich Albrecht . In: FriedensForum , issue 2/2017 . 2017, ISSN  0939-8058 , p. 23 .
personal data
SURNAME Albrecht, Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German peace researcher and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH December 26, 2016
Place of death Berlin