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This thesis examines the political messages enshrined in and transmitted by the Ravensbrück women's concentration camp memorial in the former German Democratic Republic between 1945 and 1989. I argue that the ideology displayed at the site was the product of contestation and streamlining during the 1950s between the regime and intellectuals. Initially after the war, the memorial practices at the site varied and were not overtly political. By 1959, the regime successfully monopolized and instrumentalized the history of the camp, setting in stone an official narrative that upheld the legitimacy of the East German state but excluded the voices of the vast majority of victims. However, a subjective antifascism that was at odds with the master narrative pushed for a pluralization of public memory, particularly in the 1980s. Thus, a wider range of victim groups, hitherto ignored or marginalized, were accommodated room next to the glorified communist prisoners.

Die Idee von Währungswettbewerb ist der innovativste und zugleich umstrittenste Vor-schlag, wie das bestehende Finanzsystem verändert werden kann. Jedoch hat der geistige Vater dieser Idee, Friedrich August Hayek, sehr oft eine ökonomische Analyse mit einer mehr oder weniger pamphletartigen Beschreibung des politischen Systems verbunden. Diese Arbeit versucht daher Hayeks Idee zu überdenken und auf die ökonomische Bedeutung und Auswirkungen einzugehen. Der erste Teil der Diplomarbeit untersucht das aktuelle Finanzsystem und betont dabei die Bedeutung der Institutionen Geld, Finanzintermediäre und Zentralbanken. Der nächste Teil ist einer kurzen Untersuchung der Inflation gewidmet, deren Vermeidung den Ausgangspunkt von Hayeks Überlegungen darstellt. Der Hauptteil entwickelt eine Typologie des Währungswettbewerbes und analysiert deren Aussichten im aktuellen Finanzsystem. Die Arbeit schließt mit den Perspektiven einer möglichen Geldpolitik mit Währungswettbewerb als realisierbare Alternative., The idea of currency competition is the most innovative and controversial proposal about an alteration of the current monetary system. However, the intellectual creator of this idea, Friedrich August Hayek, combined often an economic analysis and a more or less pamphlet-like description of the political process. Therefore the thesis tries to revisit Hayek’s idea and focus on the economic implications and effects. The first part of the thesis examines the current financial system and stresses the relevance of its institutions money, financial intermediation and central banking. The next part is dedicated to a brief examination on inflation whose avoidance forms the starting point in Hayek’s considerations. The main part develops a typology of currency competition and analyses their prospects in the current financial system. The thesis closes with perspectives on a possible future of monetary policy with currency competition which is a viable alternative.

Let G be a finite group with BN-pair and Coxeter system (W, R). Let A be the generic ring corresponding to (W, R) in the sense of Tits, defined over the polynomial ring D = Q[u[sub r], r ε R]. Let k be any field of characteristic zero. For the homomorphism φ : D —> k defined by φ(u[sub r]) = q[sub r], q[sub r] the index parameters of G, the specialzed algebra Aφ,[sub k] is isomorphic to the Hecke algebra H[sub k](G, B) of G with respect to a Borel subgroup B of G, while for the specialization defined by φ(u[sub r]) = 1, r ε R, Aφ,[sub k] is isomorphic to the group algebra kW. As G the Hecke algebra H[sub k](G, B) affords the induced representation 1[sup G sub B], the G irreducible representations of G appearing in 1[sup G sub B] can be obtained from the representations of H[sub k](G, B). In this thesis, we obtain all the irreducible representations, defined over the quotient field of D, of the generic ring corresponding to a Coxeter system of classical type. The method employed involves a generalization of Young's construction of the semi-normal matrix representations of the symmetric group. We also obtain an explicit formula for the generic degree of these representations in terms of the hook lengths of Young diagrams. Thus the degrees of all the irreducible constituents of 1[sup G sub B] are obtained for the families of Chevalley groups A[sub l](q), B[sub l](q), A[sup 1 sub 2l](q²), A[sup 1 sub 2l-1](q²), D[sup 1 sub l](q²) and for D[sub l](q), l odd. Also, most of the degrees are obtained for D[sub l](q), l even.