Günter Maschke (15 January 1943 – 7 February 2022) was a German political scientist. He was known as a supporter of the ''

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''.

Biography

An activist within the far-left in his youth, Maschke left Germany to escape military service in

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, Switzerland, and Austria. Settling in

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, he promoted ideas of the

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and organized extra-parliamentary opposition groups. He was arrested in 1967 for protesting against the

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and fled to Cuba, where he went into exile. There, he served in the

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, but was later expelled from

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for "counter-revolutionary activities". He was then forced to return to Germany and serve a one-year prison sentence for evading military service. After his release, Maschke became a journalist for ''

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'', but left the newspaper due to controversy over his obituary of

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. He then went on to study counter-revolutionary doctrinaires such as

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and

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. During this time, he worked for multiple newspapers, including ''

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''. Maschke died in

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on 7 February 2022, at the age of 79.

Publications

Monographs

*''Kritik des Guerillero. Zur Theorie des Volkskriegs'' (1973) *''Der Tod des Carl Schmitt. Apologie und Polemik'' (1987) *''Das bewaffnete Wort. Aufsätze aus den Jahren 1973–1993'' (1997) *''„Verräter schlafen nicht“'' (2011)

Editing

*''Carl Schmitt. Staat – Großraum – Nomos. Arbeiten von Carl Schmitt aus den Jahren 1916–1969'' (1995) *''Carl Schmitt. Frieden oder Pazifismus? Arbeiten zum Völkerrecht und zur internationalen Politik 1924–1978'' (2005) *''Juan Donoso Cortés. Essay über den Katholizismus, den Liberalismus und den Sozialismus und andere Schriften aus den Jahren 1851 bis 1853'' (2018)

Translations

*''Außerhalb des Spiels'' (1971)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Maschke, Günter 1943 births 2022 deaths People from Erfurt German political scientists German opinion journalists Translators from Spanish German activists German Peace Union politicians Communist Party of Germany members Sozialistischer Deutscher Studentenbund members New Right (Europe)