Wolfram Beyer (political scientist)

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Wolfram Beyer 2008 in the House of Democracy and Human Rights in Berlin

Wolfram Beyer (born November 6, 1954 in Berlin ) is a German political scientist , pacifist , author and musician .

Life

Beyer studied political science at the Otto Suhr Institute of the Free University of Berlin with Ossip K. Flechtheim , Johannes Agnoli , Theodor Ebert and Ekkehart Krippendorff . In 1978 he did a traineeship in the Brussels office of War Resisters' International (WRI). In the mid-1970s he gained his first experience with nonviolent actions and got in touch with the magazine Graswurzelrevolution and later belonged to the editorial team of the magazine Graswurzelrevolution (GWR). In 1979 he was the Federal German coordinator of the international disarmament drive Brussels-Warsaw (4th International Nonviolent March for Demilitarization). 1979/80 Beyer was a member of the editorial collective of the magazine Antimilitarismus-Information (ami) and from 1988 to 1992 he was on the board of WRI. Since 1978 he has been involved in the International of War Resisters 'International (IDK) and has published numerous articles on the subjects of conscientious objection , anarchism and the history of War Resisters' International. For the IDK he was responsible as editor of IDK publications and IDK periodicals (Antimilitaristischer Informationsdienst (AID) and IDK series of publications). Between 1995 and 2015, Beyer's thematic focus was secular humanism and pacifism. In 2000 he was the editor of a collection of texts for the Humanist Association of Germany (Landesverband Berlin) and the IDK. He was a member of the HVD and the International Federation of Non-Denominational and Atheists . Since around 2008, when the Carl von Ossietzky Medal was awarded, he has been increasingly committed to human and civil rights. He supported the work of the International League for Human Rights (ILMR eV), for example as a musician in the Metaphone ensemble on the occasion of the award of the Carl von Ossietzky Medal in 2016.

Awarding of the Carl von Ossietzky Medal 2008. Wolfram Beyer played the clarinet at the KlezMischpoche for the Anarchists Against the Wall and the Palestinian Citizens' Committee

Since the late 1980s Beyer played in various music ensembles. (Fromage Diatonique, KlezMischpoche, I Felici) With Fromage Diatonique a CD was created. Beyer played various woodwind instruments (recorders, shawm (Pommer), Bb clarinet and tenor saxophone) in the fields of early music, folk, dance and swing music and also symphonic wind music in the wind orchestra.

During his employment , Beyer worked in the areas of social work and was active in refugee aid, advice and support for asylum seekers, then as deputy administrative manager in a hospital for geriatric psychiatry and later in the care of mentally handicapped people. In the area of ​​community-oriented social work, with a focus on public relations, he worked as the editor in charge for a district newspaper in Berlin-Reinickendorf.

Publications

As an author

  • War Resisters' International (WRI) - with special reference to the period 1921–1939 , Berlin 1985, Writings of the Libertarian Forum Berlin, No. 3, 2nd edition, Internationale der Kriegsdienstungsgemeinschaft, IDK Berlin 2018 ISBN 978-3-9816536 -4-9
  • Anarchistic aphorisms as literary-political elaborates / by Utz Schneppe. Libertarian Forum Berlin 1986
  • Pacifism and Antimilitarism. An introduction to the history of ideas , Schmetterling , Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 3-89657-666-6 .

As editor

Articles in magazines and books

  • Interview with Johannes Agnoli , in: Schwarzer Faden No. 131, Anarchist Vierteljahresschrift, January 1984 (Reprint in: Johannes Agnoli - 1968 and the consequences, Freiburg i. Br .: ça ira Verlag 1998, (Title: “Marx, der Staat, the anarchy "))
  • ... see, a person! About Helene Stöcker , in: The free society , quarterly magazine for social criticism and liberal socialism, No. 15, Hanover 1986
  • Arthur Ponsonby (1871-1946). War prevention through refusal , in: Rajewsky / Riesenberger: Against the War, Great Pacifists from Kant to Böll, Munich 1987 (Beck Verlag)
  • Marx and Bakunin in one front? On the topicality of the social revolution , in: Anarchismus heute, positions, Verlag Schwarzer Nachtschatten Bösdorf 1991, pp. 9-25 (Turkish translation: Marx ve Bakunin ayni cephede mi? Toplumsal devrimin güncelligi üzerine Ayrinti Yayinlari, Istanbul 1999, ISBN 975-539-256 -4 )
  • Albert Camus - a libertarian , in: Albert Camus: Neither victims nor executioners, published by the Internationale der Kriegsdienstgegner /innen eV (IDK Berlin) in the publication series of the Libertarian Forum, Oppo Verlag Berlin 1991
  • The flaw in the peoples' army , in: Peace News No 2447, London June-August 2002 (controversy Karl Liebknecht / Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis ), online
  • Freedom without violence: for a non-violent, domineering society , in: HJ Degen, Jochen Knoblauch : Anarchismus 2.0, Schmetterling Verlag Stuttgart 2009

Web links

Commons : Wolfram Beyer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Antimilitarismus information : (. 1st-10 August 1979) Documentation of disarmament trip Brussels-Warsaw, Red Wolfram Beyer, Berlin 1979. ISSN  0342 to 5797
  2. ↑ Wolfram Beyer: Pacifism and Antimilitarism. An introduction to the history of ideas, Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 3-89657-666-6 (blurb)
  3. ↑ http://www.idk-info.net
  4. ↑ Beyer, Wolfram (Ed.): Refuse military service - pacifism today. Homage to Ossip K. Flechtheim
  5. ↑ Beyer, Wolfram (ed.): Refuse war services - Pacifism current. Libertarian and Humanist Positions. Oppo-Verlag Berlin 2011 his article is online: Archive link ( Memento from March 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ http://ilmr.de
  7. ↑ Ensemble Metaphone (2016) website: http://publicsolidarity.de/2016/12/07/verleihung-der-carl-von-ossietzky-medaille-2016/ Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch? v = GfAY4LIUOUw
  8. ↑ Wolfram Beyer - musician . In: in-berlin.de .
  9. ↑ KlezMischpoche_featuring_Ofer_Golany . In: labsaal.de .
  10. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of October 4, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  11. ^ DNB, catalog of the German National Library . In: d-nb.de .
  12. ↑ All about the Auguste: the district newspaper , ISSN  1611-9959 , German National Library http://d-nb.info/1005215561
personal data
SURNAME Beyer, Wolfram
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH November 6, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin