Menno Aden (born 18 November 1942 in
Berchtesgaden
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) is a German academic, politician and translator.
Aden studied law at the
University of Bonn
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and taught at
.
After having been a member of the
Christian Democratic Union for 30 years, Aden resigned in protest over
Angela Merkel
Angela Dorothea Merkel (; ; born 17 July 1954) is a German former politician and scientist who served as Chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021. A member of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), she previously served as Leader of the Oppo ...
's policies, and was elected to the
Essen City Council in 2014, representing the
Alternative for Germany
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party.
He then left that party and served on the council as an
independent
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* Independents (artist group), a group of modernist painters based in the New Hope, Pennsylvania, area of the United States during the early 1930s
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until 2020. Aden has written numerous articles for a wide variety of publications including the ''
Junge Freiheit
The ''Junge Freiheit'' (JF, "Young Freedom") is a German weekly newspaper on politics and culture that was established in 1986. It has been described as conservative, right-wing, nationalistic and as the "ideological supply ship of right-wing pop ...
'' newspaper.
He has been criticized for
Holocaust revisionism
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Aden served as President of the
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Mecklenburg The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Mecklenburg (german: Evangelisch-Lutherische Landeskirche Mecklenburgs; abbreviated ELLM) was a Lutheran church in the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, serving the citizens living in Mecklenburg. The seat of ...
from 1994 to 1996.
He has translated
Richard Francis Burton
Sir Richard Francis Burton (; 19 March 1821 – 20 October 1890) was a British explorer, writer, orientalist scholar,and soldier. He was famed for his travels and explorations in Asia, Africa, and the Americas, as well as his extraordinary kn ...
's ''
The Kasidah
''The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî'' (1880) is a long English language poem written by "Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî", a pseudonym of the true author, Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890), a well-known British Arabist and explorer. In a note ...
'' into German, as well as many poems by
Alexander Pushkin
Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (; rus, links=no, Александр Сергеевич ПушкинIn pre-Revolutionary script, his name was written ., r=Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin, p=ɐlʲɪkˈsandr sʲɪrˈɡʲe(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ ˈpuʂkʲɪn, ...
, Michail Lermontow, Fjodor Tjutschew and other Russin poets.
Aden is author of numerous legal works, i.a. the pioneering "Internationale Handelschiedsgerichtsbarkeit - Kommentar zu den Verfahrensordnungen" 1988; 2002(International Commercial Arbitration, Commentary to Arbitration Rules) .
References
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Living people
1942 births
German Lutherans
Politicians from Essen
Alternative for Germany politicians
Independent politicians in Germany
People from Berchtesgaden
English–German translators
Translators of Alexander Pushkin
University of Bonn alumni