Wilhelm Wolfgang Schütz
Wilhelm Wolfgang Schütz (born October 14, 1911 in Bamberg ; † April 15, 2002 in Cologne ) was a German publicist , writer and politician or political advisor. Schütz repeatedly came forward with idiosyncratic thoughts on Germany's policy and pushed for an active policy of reunification. The political scientist Christoph Meier describes Schütz as the inventor of the " New Ostpolitik ".
Life
Wilhelm Wolfgang Schütz was the son of a long-established, formerly Jewish family of manufacturers from Bamberg who later converted to Protestant Christianity.
He studied political science , modern history, German literature and art history at the universities of Munich and Heidelberg , where in 1934 he received a doctorate in political science. phil. PhD .
In 1935 he emigrated to England with his then wife, the journalist Barbara Sevin, and worked as a journalist and correspondent for various newspapers. From 1941 to 1951 he was the London correspondent for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung . When he returned to Germany, he advised Jakob Kaiser as Federal Minister for All-German Issues from 1951 to 1957 and was executive chairman of the Trustees of Indivisible Germany from 1954 to 1972 .
In the meantime he was also a consultant to Willy Brandt and as such did preparatory work for Brandt's meeting with Willi Stoph in Erfurt in 1970 . In 1970 Schütz moved to Switzerland , had been a member of the SPD since 1972 and a supporter of Willy Brandt's New Ostpolitik .
From 1974 he was editor-in-chief of the St. Galler Tagblatt , but after six months he gave up this post and later retired to the Eifel . He is buried in the village cemetery in Marmagen .
Honors
On March 4, 1999, Schütz was awarded the Order of Merit of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia .
Fonts (selection)
- German Home Front . Together with Barbara Schütz-Sevin, 1943. (An early account of the German resistance movement.)
- Organic foreign policy. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt (DVA) Stuttgart 1951.
- Germany on the edge of two worlds. Requirements and tasks of our foreign policy. 1952.
- We want to survive. Foreign Policy in the Atomic Age. 1956.
- Probation in the Resistance - Thoughts on German Fate. DVA, Stuttgart 1956.
- Models of Germany Policy - Paths to a New Foreign Policy. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1966.
- What is Germany? Memorandum. 1967.
- Germany Memorandum. A memorandum and its consequences. S. Fischer - Kleine Fischer-Bücherei, Frankfurt a. a. 1968.
literature
- Christoph Meyer: The dual strategy of Germany policy - Wilhelm Wolfgang Schütz and the Kuratorium Indivisible Germany 1954–1972. Olzog, Landsberg am Lech 1997, ISBN 978-3-7892-9389-4 .
- Christoph Meyer: Keeping Germany together. Wilhelm Wolfgang Schütz and his “Indivisible Germany” , In: Germany Archive of the Federal Agency for Civic Education , July 25, 2014.
- Alexander Gallus: Schütz, Wilhelm Wolfgang. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3 , p. 667 f. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Wilhelm Wolfgang Schütz in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual references and footnotes
- ↑ Christoph Meyer: The inventor of the new Ostpolitik - Wilhelm Wolfgang Schütz. Article on the homepage of the Herbert and Greta Wehner Foundation on Schützen's 90th birthday in 2001
- ↑ Merit holders since 1986. State Chancellery of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, accessed on March 11, 2017 .
- ↑ Therein formulated the thesis, according to which the Federal Republic and the GDR are two states, but one nation, with the conclusion that after recognizing these realities, both German states should establish equal relations with one another, coining the maxim "politics of small steps" as a basic idea Ostpolitik
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schütz, Wilhelm Wolfgang |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist, publicist and political advisor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 14, 1911 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bamberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 15, 2002 |
| Place of death | Cologne |