Christoph Butterwegge

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Full Name	Christoph Butterwegge
Occupation	Political Scientist
Date Of Birth	Jan 26, 1951(1951-01-26)
Age	73
Country	Germany
Birth City	Albersloh
Horoscope	Capricorn

Christoph Butterwegge Biography

Christoph Butterwegge is one of the most popular and richest Political Scientist who was born on January 26, 1951 in Albersloh, Germany. Christoph Butterwegge (born 26 January 1951) is an German politician and researcher in the field of poverty. From 1998 to 2016 , he taught political Science within the Institute for Comparative Education and Social Sciences at the Humanities Faculty of the University of Cologne and is an active part of the Research Center for Intercultural Studies (FiSt).

Butterwegge was a lecturer in sociology and political and social science at various universities and technical schools located in Duisburg, Fulda, Magdeburg and Munster. From 1987 until 1989, Butterwegge was a scientist employee in the Department of Education and Society at the University of Bremen. He also taught at the academy of 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, Butterwegge habilitated in the field of political science with a study on the theory and practice of Austrian social democracy. From 1991 to 1994, he worked as a research assistant at the Bremen Foundation for Arms Conversion and Peace Research. From 1994 to 1997, he represented a C-3 professorship for social policy at the Department of Social Sciences at the Potsdam University of Applied Sciences, where he was awarded a C-4 professorship for political science. Since 2011, Butterwegge has been the managing director of the Institute for Comparative Education and Social Services at the University of Cologne. Prominent former students of Butterwegge include Kemal Bozay, Thomas Gesterkamp, Gudrun, Hentges, Michael Klundt, and Samuel Salzborn.

Butterwegge was a staunch critic of the Kohl government and accused the CDU/CSU – FDP coalition of dismantling the social state. In 1998, he criticized the coalition government of the SPD and Alliance 90/The Greens, headed by Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, for not providing an alternative to neoliberal governance, and believed that their policy program had submitted to the interests of business. In 2005, due to his disillusionment with the SPD’s choice to serve as junior members in a grand coalition government headed by Angela Merkel of the CDU, he left the party and justified his decision to leave the day. In a press conference in Cologne, he argued that the best interests of left-wing SPD supporters were served by voting for Party of Democratic Socialism or WASG.

In 1983, just after being elected Helmut Kohl of the CDU as Chancellor, Butterwegge filed for readmission to the SPD. It was a process that took a few years to complete and was officially completed on January 1, 1987, when the future the Chancellor Gerhard Schroder, who had worked with Butterwegge during his time at the Jusos personally, endorsed his admission into the party.

Christoph Butterwegge Net Worth

Christoph Butterwegge is one of the richest Political Scientist from Germany. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Christoph Butterwegge 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Butterwegge was a member of The Social Democratic Party in July 1970. He was active in his local Dortmund branch of Jusos The SPD’s youth-oriented organization. As an active part in this Marxist-influenced Juso Left movement He was elected an official participant on the Juso district executive committee. In this post Butterwegge was a vocal opposition to the new Chancellor, and party member Helmut Schmidt and accused him for tampering with the rights of the workers. In 1975 Butterwegge was ejected by the SPD. 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.

Christoph Butterwegge graduated from Max Ludwig Planck grammar school in Dortmund in 1970 . He then pursued studies in philosophy, sociology as well as law as well as the Ruhr-University Bochum. In 1975, he earned the degree of social sciences and later by obtaining an M.A. in philosophy. In 1980 He was a student with Detlev Albers from his University of Bremen with the dissertation SPD and Staat heute (“SPD and state today”).

Since 1990, Butterwegge has focused on the subjects of right-wing extremism, racism, youth violence, violence prevention, and migration policy. Other areas of work are globalization, neoliberalism, the welfare state, demographic change, poverty – particularly child and elderly poverty – as well as generational justice. For many years, Butterwegge has been publicly featured on various topics and has been interviewed by various newspapers, radio stations, and television station.

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Over the course of Gerhard Schröder’s tenure as Chancellor, Butterwegge grew more and more discontent with his party’s conduct in government. Butterwegge was a staunch critic of the so-called Riester-Rente, a grant-aided privately funded pension scheme named after then-Minister of Labour and Social Affairs Walter Riester, as well as the provisions of the Agenda 2010 welfare reforms. 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. He argued that neoliberalism was no longer an economic theory, but rather a social ideology that enables right-wing populism, nationalism, and racism.

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Christoph Ranked on the list of most popular Political Scientist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Germany. Christoph Butterwegge celebrates birthday on January 26 of every year.