Wolfgang R. Vogt

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Wolfgang Rainer Vogt (* 1940 ) is a German sociologist and peace researcher .

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After graduating from high school in 1960, Vogt did military service in the Bundeswehr and later became a reserve officer in the army. From 1962 to 1967 he studied social sciences at the University of Hamburg ; his diploma thesis as a qualified sociologist was published in 1966 under the title The social position of the company commander in a basic training unit of the Bundeswehr . He then worked as a lecturer at the Army Officer School II and as a lecturer at the university and at the Institute for Teacher Training in Hamburg. At the end of the 1960s, he was seconded to Bernhard Fleckenstein for two months as a social science employee in the keynote address of the Defense Commissioner of the German Bundestag Matthias Hoogen . In 1971 he was one of the speakers at the first meeting of the working group for the military and social sciences led by Fleckenstein . A year later he was in Economic and Social Sciences of the University of Hamburg by Janpeter Kob funded dissertation The institution of the Commissioner for Dr. rer. pole. PhD. Heinz Kluth was a co-reviewer of the work. It was considered authoritative in specialist circles.

According to Johannes M. Becker, he was in charge of a “critical group of lecturers” at the command academy of the Bundeswehr in Hamburg, which had been shaped by the social-liberal federal government from the late 1960s; from 1971 to 2005 he was a lecturer in sociology in the social sciences department, most recently as senior scientific director. Among other things, scientists from the department there addressed specific aspects understood as social problems in their publications. While he was still in charge of the ad hoc group " Military Sociology" at the 23rd Sociology Conference of the German Society for Sociology in 1986 , two Sociology Days later in 1990 he explicitly addressed the allegedly neglected topics of peace and disarmament and organized the group "Peace and Military Sociology ". With his critical stance, Vogt is quite controversial; According to Uwe Hartmann, he is one of those “military-critical intellectuals [...] who were in the service of the Bundeswehr” and at the same time contributed to the “tensions between intellectuals and the military”.

From 1992 to 1997 he was chairman of the Bonn Working Group for Peace and Conflict Research (AFK) and from 1996 to 2000 chairman of the editorial board of the journal Science and Peace . In 2000 he became the jury chairman of the Göttingen Peace Prize of the Roland Röhl Foundation. He also became scientific director of the "European Museum for Peace", which opened in 2001 at Schlaining Castle in Stadtschlaining in Burgenland (Austria). In 2003 he became an honorary professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Philosophy at the Philipps University of Marburg . He was u. a. Chairman of an evaluation report on the think tank Bonn International Center for Conversion published on behalf of the Ministry of Science in North Rhine-Westphalia .

Since 2006 he has been a member of the youth crime working group of the State Council for Crime Prevention in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. He also founded the non-profit Kulturforum Pampin GmbH, of which he is co-managing director. From 2008 to 2011 he was a member of the cultural advisory board in the CDU-led Ministry for Education, Science and Culture of the State of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania .

According to Klaus Ebeling , Anja Seiffert and Rainer Senger from the Social Science Institute of the Federal Armed Forces , he went back in 1980 in an essay ( civil-military conflicts in the democratic industrial society ) - refuted by the world wars - "incompatibility theorem" and then defended it in the course of the Time “in radicalized form”. In 1986 he pointed it out in a contribution ( Military violence and social development ) with regard to the atomic age , which Gerhard Kümmel and Heiko Biehl from the Center for Military History and Social Sciences of the Bundeswehr recognized as a noteworthy theoretical draft. Following Wilfried von Bredow , Kümmel rejects Vogt's radical perspective, as can be found in the anthology Security Policy and Armed Forces in the Legitimation Crisis (1983) and in the double volume Armed Forces in Changing Society (1986/88). In Vogt's informative comparison of “military logic” and “civil logic” in the article Military - An Institution in Search of Legitimation (1992), von Bredow identified an “ideal-typical exaggeration” and referred to mixed forms in practice. Ulrike C. Wasmuth rejects Vogt's theorem considering the category “gender”. There are structures of violence in society, so the military and civil society - contrary to Vogt's assumption - are compatible with one another. Also Hanne-Margret Birckenbach , which is based on empirical evidence, at any rate as regards its equivalence thesis skeptical.

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Monographs

  • The social role of the company commander. A contribution to inner guidance . v. Decker, Hamburg 1970.
  • Military and democracy. Functions and conflicts of the institution of the defense commissioner . v. Decker, Hamburg 1972, ISBN 3-7685-0472-7 . (also dissertation, University of Hamburg, 1972)

Editorships

  • (Ed.): Security Policy and Armed Forces in the Legitimacy Crisis. Analysis of the process of delegitimization of the military in the age of nuclear weapons . Nomos-Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden 1983, ISBN 3-7890-0857-5 .
  • (Ed.): Dispute Peace. Positions and analyzes on security policy and the peace movement (= law, justice, current affairs . Vol. 40). Müller, Juristischer Verlag, Heidelberg 1984, ISBN 3-8114-7684-X .
  • (Ed.): Armed forces in a changing society . 2 volumes, Leske and Budrich, Opladen 1986/88.
  • 1986: The military as a counterculture (= armed forces in a changing society . 1). ISBN 3-8100-0524-X .
  • 1988: The armed forces as lifeworld (= armed forces in the course of society . 2). ISBN 3-8100-0532-0 .
  • (Ed.): Fear of Peace. About the difficulties of peace building for the year 2000 (= WB-Forum . 46). Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1989, ISBN 3-534-80108-3 .
  • (Ed.): Courage for Peace. About the possibilities of peace building for the year 2000 (= WB-Forum . 58). Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1990, ISBN 3-534-80109-1 .
  • (Ed.): Peace as a civilization project - new challenges for peace and conflict research. 25 years of AFK (= series of publications of the Working Group for Peace and Conflict Research eV (AFK) . Vol. 21). Nomos-Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden 1995, ISBN 3-7890-3704-4 .
  • with Eckhard Jung (Ed.): Culture of Peace. Paths to a world without war . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1997, ISBN 3-534-13838-4 .
  • (Ed.): Violence and conflict management. Findings - Concepts - Action (= series of publications of the Working Group for Peace and Conflict Research eV (AFK) . Vol. 24). Nomos-Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden 1997, ISBN 3-7890-4733-3 .
  • (Ed.): Peace culture instead of culture war. Strategies of cultural civilization and sustainable peace-building (= series of publications of the Working Group for Peace and Conflict Research eV (AFK) . Vol. 26). Nomos-Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden 1999, ISBN 3-7890-6259-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gerd Kaldrack : The social role of the company commander. A contribution to Inner Leadership by Wolfgang R. Vogt; Dispute over a misunderstood reform. A contribution to the Inner Guidance by Rudolf Hamann . In: Zeitschrift für Politik NF 17 (1970) 4, p. 489.
  2. ↑ List of authors . In: Wolfgang R. Vogt (Hrsg.): Armed forces in the change of society . Volume 1: the military as a counterculture . Opladen 1986, p. 308.
  3. ↑ Bernhard Fleckenstein : 25 years AMS . in: Paul Klein , Andreas Prüfert (eds.): Military and science in Europe - critical distance or helpful addition? 25 years of the Military and Social Sciences Working Group (= Military and Social Sciences . Volume 23). Nomos Verlag, Baden-Baden 1998, ISBN 3-7890-5758-4 , p. 12.
  4. ↑ Bernhard Fleckenstein : 25 years AMS . in: Paul Klein , Andreas Prüfert (eds.): Military and science in Europe - critical distance or helpful addition? 25 years of the Military and Social Sciences Working Group (= Military and Social Sciences . Volume 23). Nomos Verlag, Baden-Baden 1998, ISBN 3-7890-5758-4 , p. 13.
  5. ↑ Wolfgang R. Vogt: Military and Democracy. Functions and conflicts of the institution of the defense commissioner . Hamburg 1972, p. Vi.
  6. ↑ See Donald Abenheim : Bundeswehr and Tradition. The search for the valid legacy of the German soldier (= contributions to military history . Volume 27). Oldenbourg, Munich a. a. 1989, ISBN 3-486-55371-2 , p. 116, footnote 15; Leo Kissler : The public function of the German Bundestag. Theory, empiricism, reform (= contributions to political science . Vol. 25). Duncker and Humblot, Berlin 1976, ISBN 3-428-03591-7 , p. 263, fn. 262.
  7. ↑ Johannes M. Becker : The military in (West) Germany and its legitimation - illustrated using crises . In: Johannes M. Becker, Gertrud Brücher (eds.): The War of Yugoslavia. An interim balance. Analyzes of a republic in rapid change (= series of publications by the Marburg Scientists for Peace and Disarmament Research (AMW) and the Interdisciplinary Working Group on Peace and Disarmament Research at the Philipps University of Marburg (IAFA) . Vol. 23). Lit, Münster u. a. 2001, ISBN 3-8258-5520-1 , p. 18, fn. 16.
  8. ^ Wilfried von Bredow : Military and Democracy in Germany. An introduction (= study books foreign policy and international relations ). VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2008, ISBN 978-3-531-15712-2 , p. 52.
  9. ↑ Jürgen Friedrichs (Ed.): 23rd German Sociologists' Day 1986. Section and ad hoc groups . Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1987, ISBN 3-531-11864-1 , p. 806.
  10. ↑ Martin Grundmann : Conversion - Research and Planning: Introduction . In: Wolfgang Glatzer (Hrsg.): 25th German Sociological Congress 1990. The modernization of modern societies. Sections, working and ad hoc groups, teaching committee . Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1991, ISBN 3-531-12184-7 , p. 630.
  11. ↑ Wolfgang Glatzer (Ed.): 25th German Sociological Conference 1990. The modernization of modern societies. Sections, working and ad hoc groups, teaching committee . Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1991, ISBN 3-531-12184-7 , p. 22.
  12. ↑ Dirk Koob : German military policy in the nineties. How (self) organized is the Bundeswehr? (= Political Science Series . Vol. 8). Tectum-Verlag, Marburg 1999, ISBN 3-8288-8080-0 , p. 69.
  13. ↑ Uwe Hartmann : Intellectuals and their confrontation with the military - limits, possibilities, expectations . In: Helmut R. Hammerich , Uwe Hartmann, Claus Freiherr von Rosen : The Limits of the Military (= Yearbook Inner Leadership . 2010). Hartmann, Miles-Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-937885-30-8 , p. 37.
  14. ↑ Appointment as honorary professor , uni-marburg.de, February 19, 2017.
  15. ↑ Youth Crime Working Group , kriminalpraevention-mv.de, accessed on February 20, 2016.
  16. ^ Sabine Collmer : Social Change and Armed Forces . In: Sven Bernhard Gareis , Paul Klein (ed.): Handbook of the military and social science . 2nd, updated and expanded edition, VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2006, ISBN 3-531-34446-3 , p. 152 f.
  17. ↑ Klaus Ebeling , Anja Seiffert and Rainer Senger : Ethical Foundations of Inner Leadership (= SOWI working paper . No. 132). Strausberg 2002, p. 20, footnote 6.
  18. ↑ Gerhard Kümmel , Heiko Biehl : Indicator of civil-military relations. The contribution of polls and attitudes research to military sociology . In: Heiko Biehl, Harald Schoen (Hrsg.): Security policy and armed forces in the judgment of the citizens. Theories, methods, findings (= series of publications by the Center for Military History and Social Sciences of the Bundeswehr . Vol. 15). Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2015, ISBN 978-3-658-08607-7 , p. 22.
  19. ^ Gerhard Kümmel : The Military and its Civilian Environment. Reflections on a Theory of Civil-Military Relations . In: Connections: The Quarterly Journal 1 (2002) 4, pp. 63-82, here: 64, fn. 4.
  20. ^ Wilfried von Bredow : The future of the Bundeswehr. Society and armed forces in transition (= Analyzes . Vol. 45). Leske and Budrich, Opladen 1995, ISBN 3-8100-1255-6 , p. 22.
  21. ↑ Ulrike C. Wasmuth : Why do wars remain socially acceptable? To the female face of war . In: Cilja Harders , Bettina Roß (ed.): Gender relations in war and peace. Perspectives of the feminist analysis of international relations (= politics and gender . Vol. 6). Leske and Budrich, Opladen 2002, ISBN 3-8100-3190-9 , p. 92.
  22. ^ Hanne-Margret Birckenbach : Attitudes of young people to the military. Empirical findings on the incompatibility theorem . In: Jürgen Friedrichs (Ed.): 23rd German Sociologists' Day 1986. Section and ad hoc groups . Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1987, ISBN 3-531-11864-1 , p. 645.
personal data
SURNAME Vogt, Wolfgang R.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vogt, Wolfgang Rainer (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist and peace researcher
DATE OF BIRTH 1940