The Eschenburg Controversy in German Political Science

This article discusses one of the latest accounts of recent German 'Vergangenheitsbewältigung', the controversy over Theodor Eschenburg. The controversy started in the spring of 2011 within the German Political Science Association (DVPW). The debate produced numerous articles in German new...

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Published in:	Redescriptions : yearbook of political thought, conceptual history and feminist theory Vol. 20; no. 1; pp. 85 - 115
Main Author:	Hubertus Buchstein
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Helsinki University Press 01-04-2017
Subjects:	aryanisation commemoration german 'vergangenheitsbewältigung' german political science association politics of the past theodor eschenburg
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Summary:	This article discusses one of the latest accounts of recent German 'Vergangenheitsbewältigung', the controversy over Theodor Eschenburg. The controversy started in the spring of 2011 within the German Political Science Association (DVPW). The debate produced numerous articles in German newspapers and more than two dozen contributions in political science journals between 2011 and 2016. It was the most heated historico-political dispute among German political scientists after 1945. The article discusses the pros and cons in this controversy and explains why the debate became so heated. In addition, it discusses the factors that influenced political scientists to take sides in the controversy. The author, a former president of DVPW, was actively involved in this debate which brought the association to the brink of division at its climax in 2013.
ISSN:	2308-0914
DOI:	10.7227/R.20.1.6