Peter Glotz
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Prof. Dr. Peter Glotz (born March 6 1939 in Eger, Bohemia (now in the Czech Republik)) is a German social democrat politician (SPD) and social scientist. In 1945, his family was expulsed from Bohemia, and they resettled in Bavaria. He studied Journalism, Philosophy, Germanistics and Sociology in Munich and Vienna and was 1968 promoted Dr. Phil. The next year he became director of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. He became a member of the Bavarian parliament (Landtag) in 1970, and was then a member of the German parliament from 1972 until 1977. 1974-1977 he was a parliamentary state secretary of the federal minister for education and research. From 1977 until 1981 he was a senator for science and research in the state of Berlin, and became again member of the parliament in 1983, resigning in 1996. 1981-1987 he was secretary general of the SPD. Peter Glotz became then director of the University of Erfurt and professor for communication sciences, and is since January 2000 Guest Professor for media and society in the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. In 2002, he was a representative of the German Chancellor to the European Convention. With Erika Steinbach, he is chairman of the foundation Centre Against Expulsions.
Selected works
- Der Weg der Sozialdemokratie - polemische Auseinandersetzung des Autors mit den Jusos in seinem Wahlkreis
- 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