22 Facts About Christoph Butterwegge

Christoph Butterwegge was born on 26 January 1951 and is a German political scientist and poverty researcher.

Long active in political circles, Butterwegge was a member of the Social Democratic Party from 1970 to 1975 and again from 1987 to 2005.

Christoph Butterwegge received 128 votes on 12 February 2017, coming in second place to former Vice Chancellor Frank-Walter Steinmeier of the SPD.

Christoph Butterwegge took lectures for sociology and social and political science in various universities and technical colleges in Duisburg, Fulda, Magdeburg, and Munster.

Christoph Butterwegge lectured at the academy for Labor and Politics as well as at the Research and Education Center for the History of the Workers Movement in the State of Bremen.

In 1990, at the University of Bremen, Christoph Butterwegge habilitated in the field of political science with a study on the theory and practice of Austrian social democracy.

Since 2011, Christoph Butterwegge has been the managing director of the Institute for Comparative Education and Social Services at the University of Cologne.

Prominent former students of Christoph Butterwegge include Kemal Bozay, Thomas Gesterkamp, Gudrun, Hentges, Michael Klundt, and Samuel Salzborn.

Since May 2013, Christoph Butterwegge has written guest columns for FOCUS Online in addition to articles for ZEIT, Die Tageszeitung, Frankfurter Rundschau, Freitag, the Mittelbayerische Zeitung, The Young World, and the Federal Center for Political Education.

Christoph Butterwegge is married to social scientist and Die Linke politician Carolin Butterwegge.

Christoph Butterwegge's work focused on the history of German social democracy as well as questions on the theory of state and democracy.

At the beginning of the 1980s, Christoph Butterwegge began writing on Friedenspolitik and disarmament.

Since 1990, Christoph Butterwegge has focused on the subjects of right-wing extremism, racism, youth violence, violence prevention, and migration policy.

For many years, Christoph Butterwegge has been publicly featured on various topics and has been interviewed by various newspapers, radio stations, and television station.

Christoph Butterwegge has argued that both globalization and demographic change have been abused to justify profound market-driven changes in society, such as the dismantling of the welfare state and a largely antisocial reform policy.

In emphasizing the benefits of people, Christoph Butterwegge sees the danger of "ethnicizing social conflicts".

Christoph Butterwegge joined the Social Democratic Party in July 1970 and was active in the Dortmund branch of the Jusos, the SPD's youth organization.

Christoph Butterwegge later documented and commented on the process that led to his explosion, as well as the motives for his involvement in the Jusos in his book Parteiordnungsverfahren in der SPD.

In 1983, shortly after the election of Helmut Kohl of the CDU as Chancellor, Christoph Butterwegge applied for readmission into the SPD.

Christoph Butterwegge derided said policies as neoliberal and argued that they would result in poorer conditions for the weakest in society: the poor, the elderly, the long-term unemployed, the mentally ill, and people with disabilities.

Christoph Butterwegge argued that neoliberalism was no longer an economic theory, but rather a social ideology that enables right-wing populism, nationalism, and racism.

Christoph Butterwegge has argued that, as former state responsibilities such as managing the education and penal system have been privatized and thus commodified, the power of the democratic state has been decreased relative to the power of the individual interests of private investors.