Winfried Bottcher

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Winfried Böttcher (born March 11, 1936 in Morbach ) is a German political scientist . Böttcher is a professor emeritus at the Institute for Political Science (IPW) at RWTH Aachen University in the field of international relations. He was director of the Klaus Mehnert Institute at the Kaliningrad State Technical University .

Life

After graduating from the Nikolaus-von-Kues-Gymnasium in Bernkastel-Kues in 1956, Böttcher studied mechanical engineering at RWTH Aachen University from 1958, which he took with the 1st state examination in 1963 in the subjects of production engineering, company organization and ergonomics and after completing his legal clerkship in 1965 finished the 2nd state examination. As early as 1963, Winfried Böttcher had started a second degree in the fields of modern history, economics and political science at RWTH. From 1965 to 1967 Böttcher studied and conducted research at the London School of Economics . He continued his studies from 1967 at RWTH Aachen University, where he became a scientific assistant to the chair holder, Klaus Mehnert .

In 1970, Böttcher completed his doctorate with the dissertation "The English image of Germany 1960–1966". From 1971 to 1973 Winfried Böttcher was the founding senator of the Fernuniversität Hagen . From 1970 Böttcher worked as an academic councilor and later as senior councilor at the Institute for Political Science at RWTH Aachen University. In 1973 he was appointed professor with a focus on international politics, peace politics and European politics.

Böttcher held numerous visiting professorships a. a. in Budapest, Gdansk, Kiev, Moscow, Plovdiv, Prague and Minsk. He is an honorary doctor of the Universities of Moscow and Kaliningrad and an honorary professor in Minsk.

Act

Winfried Böttcher is one of the leading German scientists on the subject of "Europe" at the interface between science and politics. The research and publication focus of Böttcher is on international relations, on East-West relations and in particular on European politics and related integration theories.

For Böttcher, the requirements of European integration are linked to the realization that the nation state must be overcome. It fulfilled its historical function. Böttcher advocates a political order “from below” based on the principle of subsidiarity with extensive regional autonomy. In Böttcher's research results, the main features for a sustainable Europe are differentiated in a model of a new federal system of the three levels “peoples, states and regions”.

Scientific institutes

In 1982 Böttcher founded the “Institute for European Politics” at RWTH Aachen University. From 1990 to 1996 he was first the founder and then head of the "Europa-Centrum-Maas-Rhein" (ECMR).

After his retirement at RWTH Aachen University, Winfried Böttcher founded the “Europa-Institut Klaus Mehnert” (EIKM) in 2005, which he headed from 2005 to 2015 as scientific director. The EIKM at the Kaliningrad State Technical University offered a one-year postgraduate European course. There were 30 places available, 18 for Russian and 12 for non-Russian citizens. It is the only postgraduate European course in Russia, also in German.

Private life

From 1969 to 1979 Winfried Böttcher was a member of the Aachen City Council for the SPD . Böttcher is a scientific advisor and board member of the European Association GPB (Eschweiler).

Winfried Böttcher is married and has one daughter.

Fonts (selection)

  • British ideas for Europe - books and brochures, a specialist bibliography 1940–1970 , (as publisher) [German - English - French], Düsseldorf 1971
  • Germany from a British perspective 1960–1972 , Frankfurt am Main 1972
  • Peace policy (with Hubert Groten / Jürgen Jansen), Baden-Baden 1975
  • The British Parliament and Europe 1940–1972 , Eine Fachbibliographie (as ed.) [German - English - French], Baden-Baden 1975
  • Social Europe 1993 - Another Illusion (as publisher), Baden-Baden 1990
  • Region - International Forum for Local, Regional and Global Development (as ed.), Opladen 1998
  • European Perspectives (as ed.), Münster-Hamburg-London 2002
  • Subsidiarity for Europe (together with Johanna Krawczynski), Münster / Hamburg / London 2002
  • Another Europe - From the nation states to the regions , Baden-Baden 2011
  • Classics of European thought, ideas of peace and Europe from 700 years of European cultural history , (as publisher), Baden-Baden 2014
  • Thinking about Europe. A selection from forty years. Edited and introduced by Jürgen Lauer, Nomos, Baden-Baden 2016
  • The "new folders" of Europe at the Congress of Vienna 1814/1815 (as publisher), Baden-Baden 2017
  • Europe's Forgotten Visionaries - Reconsideration in Times of Acute Crises (as publisher), Baden-Baden 2019

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brochure ( Memento of August 17, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) of the Kaliningrad State Technical University (PDF). Retrieved May 5, 2017.
  2. ↑ Der Spiegel 14/1974 of April 1, 1974.
  3. ↑ Winfried Böttcher on the website of the European Association GPB. Retrieved May 5, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Böttcher, Winfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Morbach