27 OCTOBER 2009, TUESDAY, DUSSELDORF, GERMANY<\/p>\n
The Technical University of Munich* \u2013 At German Universities and Elsewhere in the Country, Bureaucrats of Every Kind Reign Supreme \u2013 7<\/p>\n
(NOTE: This report illustrates just how long and persistent German institutional memory can be, and who can embody it, even in cases where there may not be a direct link with a German university like the Technical University of Munich.)<\/p>\n
Klaus Schroeder, who heads a group at Berlin\u2019s Free University that is researching the communist East German state, says that what is required is complete transparency. His assumption now is that there are several tens of thousands of former \u201cunofficial employees\u201d of the Stasi (i.e., informers) who are now working in German government ministries and departments. \u201cWe\u2019re talking about an extent of involvement that no one had ever even dreamed of,\u201d said Schroeder in an interview with the Financial Times Deutschland. \u201cThe background checks that were carried out were routine and superficial,\u201d he added. He said that customs officials and personal security personnel were handled with too much consideration, since they were considered politically harmless.<\/strong><\/p>\n (To be continued)<\/p>\n Source: Sueddeutsche Zeitung, “Dimensionen, die bisher keiner geahnt hat”, 09 July 2009.<\/p>\n *The Technical University of Munich, officially recognized by the German government as an \u201celite university,\u201d is now ranked 55 among the world\u2019s universities. That is still, for example, seven places below Seoul National University of South Korea. (The Times of London, Higher Education Supplement [THES], World University Rankings, 2009)<\/p>\n \u201cWhile the traditional study-abroad sites for Americans \u2014 Britain, Italy, Spain and France \u2014 still attract more students from the United States, the report found that China is now the fifth-most-popular destination.\u201d \u2013 The New York Times, 17 November 2008<\/p>\n And what about Germany?<\/em><\/p>\n Novel: http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/revision<\/p>\n \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014-<\/p>\n 27 OKTOBER 2009, DIENSTAG, D\u00dcSSELDORF, DEUTSCHLAND<\/p>\n Die Technische Universit\u00e4t M\u00fcnchen* \u2013 An deutschen Unis und anderswo im Land: Es herrscht B\u00fcrokraten aller Art \u2013 7<\/p>\n (Bemerkung: Dieser Bericht veranschaulicht, wie umfangreich und hartn\u00e4ckig das Langzeitged\u00e4chtnis deutscher Einrichtungen sein kann, und wer es verk\u00f6rpern kann, auch in F\u00e4llen, worin es keine unmittelbare Verbindung mit einer deutschen Universit\u00e4t wie der Technischen Universit\u00e4t M\u00fcnchen geben mag.)<\/p>\n Klaus Schroeder, Leiter des Forschungsverbundes SED-Staat der Freien Universit\u00e4t Berlin, forderte eine Offenlegung. Er gehe von mehreren zehntausend ehemaligen inoffiziellen Mitarbeitern der Stasi in Ministerien und Beh\u00f6rden aus. “Das sind Dimensionen, die bisher keiner geahnt hat”, sagte Schroeder der FTD. “Die \u00dcberpr\u00fcfungen waren sehr standardisiert und oberfl\u00e4chlich”, kritisierte er. So seien Zollbeamte oder Personensch\u00fctzer zu gro\u00dfz\u00fcgig behandelt worden, da sie politisch als eher unbedenklich gegolten h\u00e4tten. Quelle: S\u00fcddeutsche Zeitung, \u201eDimensionen, die bisher keiner geahnt hat”, 09.07.2009<\/p>\n *Die Technische Universit\u00e4t M\u00fcnchen, eine durch die deutsche Regierung anerkannte \u201eElite-Universit\u00e4t\u201c, steht jetzt an der 55. Stelle in der Welt; d.h., zum Beispiel, immer noch 7 Stellen unter der Seoul National University von S\u00fcdkorea. (The Times of London, Higher Education Supplement [THES], World University Rankings, 2009)<\/p>\n \u201eUnter Amerikanern, die im Ausland studieren, sind die beliebtesten L\u00e4nder Gro\u00dfbritannien, Italien, Spanien, Frankreich und China.\u201c \u2013 The New York Times, 17.11.2008.<\/p>\n Und was ist mit Deutschland?<\/em><\/p>\n Novel: http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/revision\/ 27 OCTOBER 2009, TUESDAY, DUSSELDORF, GERMANY The Technical University of Munich* \u2013 At German Universities and Elsewhere in the Country, Bureaucrats of Every Kind Reign Supreme \u2013 7 (NOTE: This report illustrates just how long and persistent German institutional memory can be, and who can embody it, even in cases where there may not be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[383],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tu-munich"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1990"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1992,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1990\/revisions\/1992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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