Peter Glotz | |
|---|---|
 Peter Glotz | |
| Member of theBundestag | |
| In office 1972–1977 | |
| In office 1983–1996 | |
| Secretary of State of the Federal Minister for Education and Research | |
| In office 1974–1977 | |
| Senator for Science and Research in the state ofBerlin | |
| In office 1977–1981 | |
| Secretary general of the SPD | |
| In office 1981–1987 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1939-03-06)6 March 1939 |
| Died | 25 August 2005(2005-08-25) (aged 66) |
| Political party | SPD |
Peter Glotz (6 March 1939 – 25 August 2005) was a Germansocial democraticpolitician andsocial scientist.
Peter Glotz was born inCheb,Czechoslovakia, to a German father and aCzech mother. His father, an insurance clerk joined the Nazi Party and administered a small"Aryanized" Jewish factory in Prague.[1][2] His familywas expelled from Czechoslovakia in September 1945 and settled inFranconia.[3][4][5] He studied Journalism, Philosophy, Germanistics, and Sociology at theLudwig Maximilian University of Munich and theUniversity of Vienna, and became a doctor of philosophy in 1968.
Glotz became director of Ludwig Maximilian University in 1969 and a member of theLandtag of Bavaria in 1970. He was a member of theGerman 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 ofBerlin, 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 theUniversity of Erfurt (1996–1999) and professor of communication sciences.
From January 2000 until he died inZürich, Glotz was a Professor of media and society at theUniversity of St. Gallen inSwitzerland. In 2002, he was a representative of the German Chancellor to theEuropean Convention. WithErika Steinbach, he was chairman of theCentre Against Expulsions Foundation.
