Wolf Schluchter

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Wolfgang "Wolf" Schluchter (born February 22, 1944 in Stuttgart ; † May 14, 2018 ) was a German social scientist . From 1994 to 2012 he held the chair for social-scientific environmental issues at the Brandenburg Technical University Cottbus .

life and work

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After completing secondary school, Wolf Schluchter completed an apprenticeship as a mechanic in a steelworks near Stuttgart. He passed his Abitur at an evening school and then took up a degree in economics and sociology at the University of Heidelberg . After graduation he was working family in the era of National Socialism doctorate . He then worked in the Karlsruhe Nuclear Research Center and in the Obrigheim , Gundremmingen A nuclear power plants and briefly in Würgassen .

After quitting his position in Würgassen in 1976, he moved to the Battelle Institute in Frankfurt am Main. There he was entrusted with a project based on his knowledge of reactor technology , in which a 1: 1 replica of a nuclear reactor, which is heated with electrical heating elements rather than nuclear fission , is to be researched into how nuclear power plants behave in the event of an accident and how to operate can prevent possible accidents. Under the impression of the incident in Gundremmingen on January 13, 1977, in which the Danube was heavily radioactively contaminated , Schluchter published his work Police and Science, United against Citizens' Initiatives , which appeared in July of the same year. As a result of this publication, he was released from the institute without notice , charged with high treason , but not convicted, and banned from his profession . In addition, the American military police searched his home and confiscated his scientific manuscripts.

Schluchter joined the anti-nuclear movement after his dismissal . He became a founding member of the Greens and took part in demonstrations such as the Gorleben Trek in 1979 and the Battle of Brokdorf . In 1983 the professional ban was lifted. On the same day he got a job at the Free University of Berlin, initially as a research assistant. Just one year later he was appointed professor at the same university. As a result, he traveled to the GDR and was given a visiting professorship at the Humboldt University in Berlin . He was the first West German university professor in the GDR.

In the GDR, there were only limited opportunities to express one's opinion on the Chernobyl disaster due to a lack of freedom of expression. Nevertheless, Schluchter was involved in founding the first environmental library in the GDR. After the fall of the Wall , he initially kept his position at the HU Berlin until he was appointed to the chair for social-scientific environmental issues at the Brandenburg Technical University (BTU) Cottbus in 1994 . It is the only chair in the world with this name to date. Schluchter also headed the Cottbus Human Ecological Center, which was founded in 1999. In 2000 he started the En-O-Trak project , which enables farmers to convert their tractors into block-type thermal power stations during downtimes and thus generate electricity .

In February 2008 he went on a research trip to Islamabad (Pakistan), where he was awarded the title of honorary professor. The Academic Senate of the BTU elected Schluchter as its chairman on February 26, 2009. He held this office until February 10, 2011.

On July 8, 2010, BTU Cottbus was the first university in Germany to be awarded the EMAS environmental management certificate, for which he played a decisive role as environmental officer. A short time later he brought out his detective novel The uncanny logic of Halma . At the same time he took part in the protests against Stuttgart 21 and against the Castor transport to Gorleben in November 2010.

On April 5, 2011, he organized an online petition entitled Science for Nuclear Exit , which was submitted to Chancellor Angela Merkel on April 30, 2011 .

On February 29, 2012 Professor Schluchter retired and then worked on his triplex concept for the participation of citizens in planning projects.

Wolf Schluchter died in May 2018 at the age of 74.

Awards

Publications (selection)

  • Lothar Knopp and Wolfgang Schluchter: Euthanasia - A changing taboo subject? Springer, Berlin 2004, ISBN 978-3-540-22238-5 .
  • Wolf Schluchter u. a .: The crisis as an opportunity . Deutscher Buchverlag, Oldenburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-86622-031-7 .

Fiction

  • The sinister logic of the Halma . Detective novel. Deutscher Buchverlag, Oldenburg and Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-86622-101-7 .
  • The unholy radiance of the Grail . Detective novel. Deutscher Buchverlag, Oldenburg and Stuttgart 2015, ISBN 978-3-86622-103-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ tu-cottbus.de  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.tu-cottbus.de  
  2. ↑ Prof. Wolf Schluchter has died. Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg, May 17, 2018, accessed on May 19, 2018 .
  3. ^ Wolfgang Schluchter: Police and science, united against citizens' initiatives. In: Psychology Today . Beltz, Weinheim 1977
  4. ^ Margit Anders: NEW at the BTU: Human Ecological Center. . BTU Cottbus, November 4, 1999, accessed June 12, 2011.
  5. ↑ Rolf Bartonek: How the free time of tractors can be curtailed. In: Lausitzer Rundschau , July 11, 2006, accessed June 12, 2011.
  6. ^ Education is Key to a sustainable society and basic element of progress, German Scholar. International Islamic University of Islamabad . Accessed June 12, 2011. On this website, Schluchter is confused with his namesake and specialist colleague from Heidelberg. The photo actually comes from him.
  7. ↑ BTU with a newly constituted Senate and a new Senate Chairman. In: Niederlausitz aktuell , March 5, 2009, accessed June 12, 2011.
  8. ^ Daniel Häfner: BTU with a new Senate. (PDF; 2.49 MB) In: Blicklicht 3-11 , p. 9, accessed on June 12, 2011.
  9. ↑ Joint press release of the Ministry for the Environment, Health and Consumer Protection and the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus - July 8, 2010 - BTU Cottbus receives environmental certificate . BTU press office, accessed on April 2, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Wolf Schluchter: Scientists for the exit from nuclear energy (homepage of the initiative). Accessed June 12, 2011.
  11. ↑ Aris Christidis: "Science for Nuclear Exit" (press release). In: Gießener Zeitung , April 30, 2011, accessed June 12, 2011.
  12. ↑ Wolf Schluchter: Triplex-Participation (homepage of the project). Accessed June 7, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Gorges, wolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schluchter, Wolfgang (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German social scientist
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH May 14, 2018