Alfons Söllner

Alfons Söllner (born April 6, 1947 in Hardeck , Bavaria ) is a German political scientist .

Söllner studied political science, philosophy, sociology and German studies in Regensburg and Munich from 1967 to 1973 . In 1977 he received his doctorate from Kurt Sontheimer . From 1979 to 1984 he worked at the Free University of Berlin . In 1986 he completed his habilitation at the Otto Suhr Institute there . He represented professorships in Hamburg and Bremen and was a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin. From 1994 to 2012 he was Professor of Political Theory and History of Ideas at the Technical University of Chemnitz and has been Liaison Lecturer at the Fulbright Commission since 2003 .

With his study “German Political Scientists in Emigration” he made a significant contribution to the history of political science.

Fonts

History and Rule - Studies in Materialistic Social Science 1929–1945. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1979, ISBN 3-518-07524-1 .
Neumann as an introduction. SOAK, Hannover 1982, ISBN 3-88209-042-1 .
(Ed.): On the archeology of democracy in Germany. Volume 1: Analyzes of Political Emigrants in the American Secret Service: 1943–1945. Frankfurt 1982, ISBN 3-434-00521-8 .
Peter Weiss and the Germans. The emergence of a political aesthetic against repression. Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1988, ISBN 3-531-12004-2 .
with Wolfgang Luthardt (Ed.): Otto Kirchheimer: Constitutional State, Sovereignty, Pluralism. Otto Kirchheimer in memory , Opladen 1989.
German political scientists in emigration. Your acculturation and impact history, including a bibliography. Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1996, ISBN 3-531-12935-X .
(Ed.): Totalitarianism. A history of ideas from the 20th century. Academy, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-05-003122-0 .
Crítica de la política. Emigrantes alemanes en el siglo XX. Biblioteca de Signos, Ciudad de México 2001.
Vanishing points. Studies on the history of political ideas in the 20th century. Nomos, Baden-Baden 2006, ISBN 3-8329-2260-1 .
Totalitarianism - a necessary figure of thought in the 20th century? - Five historical stations of the concept of totalitarianism (= Philosophical Conversations , Volume 39). Helle Panke - Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Berlin, Berlin 2015.

Literature by and about Alfons Söllner in the catalog of the German National Library
Alfons Söllner on the website of the Technical University of Chemnitz