Peter Glotz

Prof. Dr. Peter Glotz (March 6, 1939–August 25, 2005) was a German social democratic politician (SPD) and social scientist.

Glotz was born in Eger, Sudetenland (now Cheb, Czech Republic), to a German father and Czech mother. His family was expelled from Bohemia in 1945 and resettled in Franconia. He studied Journalism, Philosophy, Germanistics, and Sociology at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich and the University of Vienna, and became a doctor of philosophy in 1968.

Glotz became director of the Ludwig Maximilians University in 1969 and a member of the Landtag of Bavaria in 1970. He was a member of the German parliament from 1972–1977 and a parliamentary state secretary of the Federal Minister for Education and Research from 1974–1977.

From 1977–1981 Glotz was a senator for science and research in the state of Berlin, and became a member of the parliament again in 1983, resigning in 1996. He was secretary general of the SPD from 1981–1987. Glotz then became director of the University of Erfurt and professor for communication sciences.

From January 2000 until his death in Zürich, Glotz was a Guest Professor for media and society at the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland. In 2002, he was a representative of the German Chancellor to the European Convention. With Erika Steinbach, he was chairman of the "Centre Against Expulsions" foundation.

Selected works

* Der Weg der Sozialdemokratie - "the author takes on the ardent young socialists in his constituency"
* Die deutsche Rechte, Eine Streitschrift, DVA
* Der Irrweg des Nationalstaats, Europäische Reden an ein deutsches Publikum, DVA
* Die Linke nach dem Sieg des Westens, DVA 1992
* Die beschleunigte Gesellschaft: Kulturkämpfe im digitalen Kapitalismus, Kindler 1999
* Von Analog nach Digital: Unsere Gesellschaft auf dem Weg zur digitalen Kultur, Huber 2000
* Ron Sommer: Der Weg der Telekom, Hoffmann und Campe 2001
* Die Vertreibung - Böhmen als Lehrstück, Ullstein 2003

External links

* http://www.mcm.unisg.ch/org/mcm/web.nsf/wwwPubMitarbeiterEng/B1174908722F6220C1256AC500460985