Hohenzollern dispute: Max Weber would have made short work – culture

Max Weber’s speech “Politics as a Profession”, given in 1919 after the war and in the middle of the Munich Revolution, has become the basics of politics with his distinction between ethics of conviction and ethics of responsibility. No introductory course in political science can do without this noble couple, no Sunday speaker would want to forego explaining his heavy burden in office with St. Max, and also with his interpreter Hans Maier, who like Weber the statesman as “entangled in the political Company and its demon, endangered in its soul “, as one who” nevertheless strives to act morally by considering the consequences of his actions and from here – not from the relieving consciousness of his politically untested attitude – makes his decisions ” .