Peter Glotz, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Peter Glotz

German politician

Date of Birth: 06-Mar-1939

Place of Birth: Cheb, Karlovy Vary Region, Czech Republic

Date of Death: 25-Aug-2005

Profession: politician, political scientist, university teacher, sociologist

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About Peter Glotz

  • Peter Glotz (6 March 1939 – 25 August 2005) was a German social democratic politician (Social Democratic Party) and social scientist. Peter Glotz was born in Cheb, Czechoslovakia, (in German Eger), 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 fled from Czechoslovakia in September 1945 and settled in Franconia.
  • He studied Journalism, Philosophy, Germanistics, and Sociology at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich 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 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 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 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.

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