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

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( Social Democratic Party) and

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. Peter Glotz was born in

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, to a German father and a

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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

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. He studied Journalism, Philosophy, Germanistics, and Sociology at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and the

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, and became a doctor of philosophy in 1968. Glotz became director of the Ludwig Maximilian University in 1969 and a member of the

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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

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, 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

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(1996–1999) and professor for communication sciences. From January 2000 until his death in

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, Glotz was a Professor for media and society at the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland. In 2002, he was a representative of the German Chancellor to the European Convention. With Erika Steinbach, he was chairman of the '' Centre Against Expulsions'' 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: Der Weg der Telekom, Hoffmann und Campe 2001 * ''Die Vertreibung – Böhmen als Lehrstück'', Ullstein 2003

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