Dolf Sternberger (originally ''Adolf Sternberger''; 28 July 1907 in
Wiesbaden
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– 27 July 1989 in
Frankfurt/Main
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) was a
German
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philosopher
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and political scientist at the University of Heidelberg. Dolf Sternberger is known for his concept of citizenship in contemporary German political thought, and for coining the term "
constitutional patriotism
Constitutional patriotism (german: Verfassungspatriotismus) is the idea that people should form a political attachment to the norms and values of a pluralistic liberal democratic constitution rather than to a national culture or cosmopolitan s ...
" (''Verfassungspatriotismus'') in 1979, on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Federal Republic of Germany.
[Jan-Werner Muller]
''Constitutional Patriotism''
Princeton University Press, 2008, p. 21.
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Bernhard Vogel
Bernhard Vogel (; born 19 December 1932) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). He was the 4th Minister President of Rhineland-Palatinate from 1976 to 1988 and the 2nd Minister President of Thuringia from 1992 to 2003. ...
: ''Dolf Sternberger und die Politische Wissenschaft''. Heidelberg 2008.
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"Sprachkritik", Nazism, and the German Conscience: the Career of Dolf SternbergerDolf-Sternberger-Gesellschaft e.V.
20th-century German philosophers
1907 births
1989 deaths
German political scientists
Grand Crosses 1st class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
Heidelberg University faculty
German male writers
Hessischer Rundfunk people
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung people
German magazine founders
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