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Peter Glotz

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(politician)
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Born6 March 1939
Cheb, Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia
Died25 August 2005 (Age 66)
Zurich, Switzerland
NationalityGerman
PartySPD

Peter Glotz was a German social democratic politician and social scientist. He attended the 1990 Bilderberg meeting.

Background

Peter Glotz was born in Cheb (Eger), Czechoslovakia, to a German father and a Czech mother. His father, an insurance clerk joined the Nazi Party and administered a small "Aryanized Jewish factory in Prague.[1][2] His family was expelled from Czechoslovakia in September 1945 and settled in Bavaria.[3][4][5]

Education

He studied Journalism, Philosophy, German, and Sociology at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and the University of Vienna, and became a doctor of philosophy in 1968.

Career

Glotz became director of Ludwig Maximilian University in 1969 and managing director of a research institute in Munich until 1972.

He was a member of the Landtag of Bavaria in 1970. He was a member of the German parliament from 1972 to 1977 and a parliamentary state secretary of the Federal Minister for Education and Research from 1974 until 1977.

From 1977 to 1981 Glotz was a senator for science and research in the state of Berlin, and became a member of the Bundestag again in 1983, resigning in 1996. He was administrative secretary general of the SPD from 1981 to 1987.

At the beginning of his party career, Glotz belonged to the left wing, but with increasing age he approached neoliberal positions. He was one of the pioneers in the SPD for the introduction of tuition fees at Germany's universities. He also supported the Agenda 2010 of the red-green federal government and called for further "reforms" in labor and economic policy. Furthermore, on behalf of the SPD-led federal government, he was involved in the drafting of a European Constitution that ultimately did not enter into force.

After leaving the Bundestag in 1996, Glotz was the first rector of the re-established University of Erfurt until 1999. He achieved success there, above all, with the establishment of the Faculty of Philosophy and Political science, the Max Weber College, as well as with the construction of the library and with contacts to business. From 2000 to 2004 he was a permanent visiting professor for Media and Society at the Institute for Media and Communication Management at the University of St. Gallen (Switzerland). Since 2000, together with Erika Steinbach, he was chairman of the Center Against Expulsions Foundation.

He was curator of the Initiative Neue Soziale Marktwirtschaft.

In 1995, in a comment in Spiegel magazine, Glotz sharply criticized the plans for NATO's eastward expansion, which he described as unnecessary and as a "support program for Great Russian nationalists", it would "neuroticize the Russians" and "stall the democratic experiment in Russia".[6][7]


 

Events Participated in

EventStartEndLocation(s)Description
Bilderberg/199010 May 199013 May 1990New York
US
Glen Cove
38th Bilderberg meeting, 119 guests
Convention on the Future of Europe28 February 200218 July 2003Attempt to create constitution for a United States of Europe. Handpicked participants dominated by Bilderbergers.
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