2 NOVEMBER 2009, MONDAY, 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 10<\/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
A spokesman for the German federal interior ministry said that the decision to hire former members of the East German secret police (Stasi) for employment in the West German Federal Office of Criminal Investigation was based on the unification treaty between East and West Germany. The spokesman said, \u201cUnder that treaty, the West German civil service was to accept employees of the former East German interior ministry, together with \u2013 in a few individual cases \u2013 employees of the former Ministry for State Security.\u201d (The \u201cMinisterium fuer Staatssicherheit\u201d was the full name of the Stasi.) One of these individuals now belongs to Chancellor Merkel\u2019s personal security detail. Instead of being directly assigned to her, however, he is supposed to do reconnaissance work as part of one of the advance teams.<\/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 2 NOVEMBER 2009, MONTAG, 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 10<\/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 Ein Sprecher des Bundesinnenministeriums begr\u00fcndete die \u00dcbernahme von fr\u00fcheren Stasi-Mitarbeitern durch das BKA wie folgt: “Aufgrund des Einigungsvertrages sind sowohl vom Innenministerium der DDR als auch in wenigen Einzelf\u00e4llen aus dem Bereich der Staatssicherheit Mitarbeiter \u00fcbernommen worden.” Einer von ihnen geh\u00f6rt auch zum Personenschutzkommando von Merkel. Er soll aber nicht zu ihrem direkten Schutz eingesetzt sein, sondern nur f\u00fcr die Aufkl\u00e4rung in einem Vorkommando.<\/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\/ 2 NOVEMBER 2009, MONDAY, DUSSELDORF, GERMANY The Technical University of Munich* \u2013 At German Universities and Elsewhere in the Country, Bureaucrats of Every Kind Reign Supreme \u2013 10 (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-2003","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\/2003","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=2003"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2005,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003\/revisions\/2005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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