Peter Glotz (6 March 1939 – 25 August 2005) was a German social democratic politician (

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) and social scientist. Peter Glotz was born in Cheb, 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. His family was expelled from Czechoslovakia in September 1945 and settled in Franconia. He studied Journalism, Philosophy, Germanistics, and Sociology at the

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and the University of Vienna, and became a doctor of philosophy in 1968. Glotz became director of the Ludwig Maximilian University in 1969 and a member of the Landtag of Bavaria in 1970. He was a member of the

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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 parliament again in 1983, resigning in 1996. He was secretary general of the SPD from 1981 to 1987. Glotz then became founding director of the University of Erfurt (1996–1999) and professor for communication sciences. From January 2000 until his death in Zürich, Glotz was a Professor for media and society at the

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Switzerland ). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...

. In 2002, he was a representative of the German Chancellor to the European Convention. With Erika Steinbach, he was chairman of the ''

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'' foundation.

Selected works

* Der Weg der Sozialdemokratie – ''the author takes on the ardent young socialists in his constituency'' * ''Die deutsche Rechte, Eine Streitschrift,'' DVA * ''Der Irrweg des Nationalstaats. Europäische Reden an ein deutsches Publikum'', DVA * ''Manifest für eine Neue Europäische Linke'', Wolf Jost Siedler Verlag, Berlin 1985 – ''Manifesto for a new European left'' * “Democracy? The Threatened Utopia: An Interview with Norberto Bobbio”
''Telos''
82 (Winter 1989–90). New York: Telos Press. * ''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 Ron Sommer (born July 29, 1949 in Haifa, Israel, as Aaron Lebowitsch) is a manager and former CEO of Deutsche Telekom. Sommer is Chairman of the International Advisory Council of the Russian Sistema Group, where he was elected to the Executive Bo ...

: Der Weg der Telekom, Hoffmann und Campe 2001 * ''Die Vertreibung – Böhmen als Lehrstück'', Ullstein 2003

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