28 OCTOBER 2009, WEDNESDAY, 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 8<\/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
Gerhard Ruden, the official responsible for Stasi documents in Saxony-Anhalt, believes that a new background check for all those in the civil service is required. \u201cIt\u2019s a question of the health of the political system,\u201d says Ruden. His reports show that under the former East German government, among 6,375 workers in ministries, institutes, and the state legislature, there were indications of full-time Stasi (i.e., secret police) employees and informers. More than 4,400 of these Stasi members continued to be employed after German reunification.<\/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 28 OKTOBER 2009, MITTWOCH, 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 8<\/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 Der Landesbeauftragte f\u00fcr Stasi-Unterlagen in Sachsen-Anhalt, Gerhard Ruden, h\u00e4lt eine neue \u00dcberpr\u00fcfung der Besch\u00e4ftigten im \u00f6ffentlichen Dienst f\u00fcr erforderlich. “Das ist eine Frage der politischen Hygiene”, sagte Ruden. Aus seinen Berichten ergibt sich, dass sich damals bei 6375 Besch\u00e4ftigten in Ministerien, nachgeordneten Einrichtungen und dem Landtag Hinweise auf eine hauptamtliche oder eine inoffizielle Stasi-Mitarbeit (IM) ergaben. Mehr als 4400 dieser Stasi-Mitarbeiter wurden weiterbesch\u00e4ftigt.<\/strong><\/p>\n (Fortsetzung folgt.)<\/p>\n 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\/ 28 OCTOBER 2009, WEDNESDAY, DUSSELDORF, GERMANY The Technical University of Munich* \u2013 At German Universities and Elsewhere in the Country, Bureaucrats of Every Kind Reign Supreme \u2013 8 (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-1993","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\/1993","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=1993"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1995,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993\/revisions\/1995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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