Hans-Helmuth Knütter, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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German opinion journalist, university teacher and non-fiction writer
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Place of Birth: Stralsund, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
About Hans-Helmuth Knütter
- Hans-Helmuth Knütter (born May 9, 1934) is a German political scientist and politician (CDU).
- He habilitated with the work “Die Juden und die deutsche Linke in der Weimarer Republik 1918-1933”.
- Knütter was one of the many doctoral students of Karl Dietrich Bracher.
- From 1972 on, Knütter worked as professor at the University of Bonn und until 1996 managed the Seminar of Political Science there.
- Knütter was given the emeritus status in 1997.
- From 1985 to 1989, Knütter was a member of the Advisory Council of the Federal Agency for Civic Education (Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, (BpB)).
- From 1989 to 1994, he acted as a rapporteur for the Interior Ministry of the Federal Republic of Germany and of the BpB. In the 1970s Knütter's works covered the complex interrelationship of Jewry and left-wing politics; studying totalitarianism, he noted the anti-liberal and anti-pluralistic traits of far-right thinking (Reichling, 1993). Critics have stated that from the early 1990s on, Knütter reflects right-wing conservative views; he has also been publishing in newspapers like Junge Freiheit.
- Knütter is considered an expert on political extremism, and his recent publications mostly criticize left-wing extremism.
- In co-authorship with Stefan Winckler, he has published the work A Handbook of Left-Wing Extremism - an Underestimated Danger (“Handbuch des Linksextremismus - Die unterschätzte Gefahr”), in which the authors claim that the activities of the potentially violent leftist militants - unlike those of the right-wing and far-right spectrum - are not paid due attention by the public.
- Knütter's own positions, on the other hand, have also been questioned, and his right-wing connections mentioned in the yearly reports of the Office for the Protection of Constitution of North Rhine Westphalia.
- Knütter's most recent publication is “Antifascism: the Mental Civil War” (“Antifaschismus : der geistige Bürgerkrieg”), published by the German right-wing association Die Deutschen Konservativen.
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