Christian Graf von Krockow (Rumbian in Pomerania, May 26, 1927 - Hamburg, March 13, 2002) was a German political scientist, historian and writer. Von Krockow is a noble Kashubian family. After World War II he fled to West Germany, where he studied philosophy with Martin Heidegger. He studied sociology, philosophy and state law in Göttingen and Durham. Von Krockow was co-founder of the Carl von Ossietzky University in Oldenburg.
Between 1961 and 1969 he was professor of political science at several universities, first of all in Göttingen. Afterwards also in Frankfurt and Saarbrücken. In 1969 he gave up his education tasks because he did not "buy more" the rebel students. He lived in the future as a writer. Von Krockow graduated from Carl Schmitt et al. in 1955, after which he reiterated it in his 1958 "Die Entscheidung - Eine Untersuchung über Ernst Jünger, Carl Schmitt and Martin Heidegger". He suggested that the three philosophers so much professed the subjective arbitrariness in their work to lay the foundation for the philosophical legitimacy of national socialism. A connection that was not laid anywhere in those years.
The Second World War is the central moment in Von Krockow's work. On the one hand, he lost his birthplace (he fled), which then came under Poland. On the other hand, through the war he saw the old Europe and the associated ideals of Bildung and Enlightenment wiped away. The Holocaust therefore wanted to see him as a symbolic destruction of the Enlightenment of Freedom and Equality.
Before the polemology as science was established, Von Krockow researched various peace-related topics. Thus he published his "Soziologie des Friedens - Drei Abhandlungen zur Problematik des Ost-West-Konflikts". In this context, he embarked on Willy Brandt's Ost Politik, committed himself to reconciliation with Poland, and considered the recognition of the Oder Neighbor border as a prerequisite for lasting peace in Europe.
In 1993, Von Krockow in Leiden held the annual Huizing lecture, on the subject of Difficult Neighborhood: about the history and future of German-Dutch relations. Working
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