Ulrich Schlie

Ulrich Schlie (2019)

Ulrich Stefan Schlie (born May 27, 1965 in Nuremberg ) is a German historian and political official . From November 2005 to March 2012 he was head of the planning team , from April 2012 to February 2014 he was head of the Politics department in the Federal Ministry of Defense . During this time his extensive story about the struggle between Habsburg and Prussia appeared. Since August 2015, Schlie has held the Chair of Diplomacy II at the Andrássy University in Budapest .

Life

Ulrich Schlie graduated from high school in Röthenbach an der Pegnitz in 1984 and then completed his basic military service in Amberg and Regensburg .

science

After completing his military service, he began studying history, political science, Romance studies and economics at the Universities of Erlangen and Bonn and the London School of Economics and Political Science . He completed his studies with the academic degree Magister Artium (MA) and was awarded a doctorate in 1992 with a thesis supervised by Klaus Hildebrand . phil. PhD .

He has written books and articles on European history since the 18th century as well as on German history in the 19th and 20th centuries and on foreign and security policy.

He is a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), Atlantik-Brücke and the Political-Military Society (PMG) and President of the Board of Directors of the Carl Jacob Burckhardt Foundation in Vinzel, Switzerland .

Ulrich Schlie gave his habilitation lecture on the German diplomat Ulrich von Hassell in February 2020 at the Andrássy University in Budapest.

politics

Since then he has worked for the Foreign Office and the chairman of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group , Wolfgang Schäuble (CDU). He was a lecturer at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris and was an advisor to the Hessian Prime Minister Roland Koch (CDU) from 2003 to 2005 , responsible for foreign policy and European affairs.

Franz Josef Jung (CDU), who headed the Hessian State Chancellery under Roland Koch until 2000 and chaired the Hessian CDU parliamentary group from 2003 to 2005, took Schlie with him to Berlin. Here, in 2005, after Angela Merkel's election as Chancellor , Jung was appointed to her cabinet and took over the post of Federal Minister of Defense. In this position, Jung filled the post of head of the planning staff , which is often occupied by a lieutenant general , with Schlie, who also took over this staff from November 2005 to March 2012 under the ministers Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg (2009-2011) and Thomas de Maizière (2011–2013). From April 1, 2012, he took over the Politics department at the BMVg, which, in addition to de Maizière, he briefly headed under Ursula von der Leyen (from 2013), so that he served a total of four ministers in nine years.

Science again

After leaving the BMVg in July 2014, he returned to science, initially as a Fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University and since August 2015 as holder of the Diplomacy II Chair at Andrássy University Budapest . In 2018 he published a biography of the Hitler assassin Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg , whose Christian motivation he underlines. He opposes the interpretation put forward in the most recent research discussion about the Stauffenberg biography by Thomas Karlauf (2019), which tries to reduce Stauffenberg's actions to the influence of Stefan George and his worldview and which leaves the influence of Catholicism on his motivation too far behind .

In the 2020 summer semester, he and Matthias Herdegen will offer a seminar on current problems in international law together with Matthias Herdegen at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn .

Private

Schlie is married and has two sons and a daughter.

literature

Literature by and about Ulrich Schlie in the catalog of the German National Library

Web links

Commons : Ulrich Schlie - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Ulrich Schlie: The duel. The battle between Habsburg and Prussia for Germany. Propylaen Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-549-07401-5 ; Review by Lothar Höbelt in the FAZ on February 23, 2014.
↑ ^a ^b Dr. Ulrich Schlie ( Memento from December 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (CV on andrassyuni.eu).
↑ Habilitation lecture by Dr. Ulrich Schlie / AUB. Retrieved February 12, 2020 .
^ Ulrich Schlie: Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg. Biography. Herder Spectrum, Freiburg im Breisgau / Basel / Vienna 2018, ISBN 978-3-451-03147-2 .
↑ Ulrich Schlie: Faith, Love, Assassination. In: Herder Korrespondenz 73 (2019), Issue 7 (July), pp. 40–44 ( online : PDF; 2.3 MB); here: p. 40.

predecessor	Office	successor
Franz HU Borkenhagen	Head of the Planning Staff of the Federal Minister of Defense 2005–2012	----
----	Head of the Politics Department at the Federal Ministry of Defense 2012–2014	Géza Andreas von Geyr

personal data
SURNAME	Close, Ulrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Schlie, Ulrich Stefan (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German historian
DATE OF BIRTH	May 27, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH	Nuremberg

[1] Ulrich Schlie: The duel. The battle between Habsburg and Prussia for Germany. Propylaen Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-549-07401-5 ; Review by Lothar Höbelt in the FAZ on February 23, 2014.

[:0-2] Dr. Ulrich Schlie ( Memento from December 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (CV on andrassyuni.eu).

[3] Habilitation lecture by Dr. Ulrich Schlie / AUB. Retrieved February 12, 2020 .

[4] Ulrich Schlie: Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg. Biography. Herder Spectrum, Freiburg im Breisgau / Basel / Vienna 2018, ISBN 978-3-451-03147-2 .

[5] Ulrich Schlie: Faith, Love, Assassination. In: Herder Korrespondenz 73 (2019), Issue 7 (July), pp. 40–44 ( online : PDF; 2.3 MB); here: p. 40.