Bernd Henningsen

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Bernd Henningsen

Bernd Henningsen (born June 22, 1945 in Flensburg ) is a German political scientist and Scandinavian . From the 1990s he worked as a professor in Berlin and Greifswald, where he was founding director of the Northern Europe Institute and the Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg . Honorary and visiting professorships have taken him to Scandinavian universities and beyond. From 2005 to 2010 he was Professor of Scandinavian Studies / Cultural Studies as well as Culture and Politics of Northern Europe and the Baltic Sea Region at the Northern Europe Institute of the Humboldt University in Berlin , since then he has been an honorary professor there . Henningsen is responsible for several series of publications in Berlin's Wissenschafts-Verlag . He was highly honored in Scandinavian countries for his scientific achievements.

Life

Bernd Henningsen was born in Flensburg in Schleswig-Holstein in 1945 as the son of a miller who was supposed to make it to a bank clerk ; his older brother Manfred (* 1938) studied in the USA from 1969 and later became Professor of Political Science at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa . Family contacts existed with Denmark , Bernd learned Danish in his home region . During his school days, he was already enthusiastic about political and historical issues, was involved in the student parliament at the time and in the political working group at schools, and he also began to take a critical look at National Socialism . “Out of admiration for Willy Brandt ” he became a member of the SPD as a schoolboy .

After graduating from the Goethe School in Flensburg in 1966 , he was a reserve officer candidate in the Bundeswehr for two years . After completing his basic training in Leck and Husum, he attended the Air Force officers' school, which was located in Neubiberg near Munich . His "severance payment" received as a reserve officer was to be used from 1968 to finance his first studies in Munich.

From 1968 he studied political science and philosophy at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . The political scientist and history philosopher Eric Voegelin , who taught there, became an important point of reference for him. Henningsen later expanded his curriculum to include Scandinavian studies and became a research assistant at Munich University. During his studies he also dealt with questions of psychology , classical philosophy and Scandinavian literature .

In 1972 he submitted his master's thesis on the Danish philosopher Poul Martin Møller , which had been supervised by the political scientist Jürgen Gebhardt , who moved to Bochum in 1971 . At the time, Henningsen was funded by the SPD-affiliated Friedrich Ebert Foundation and worked as a journalist for the university department of the Munich evening newspaper .

In 1974 he was with Peter J. Opitz , private lecturer at the Geschwister-Scholl-Institut , with the dissertation, The Politics of the Individual, later also translated into Danish . On the genesis of Scandinavian civil theology , on Dr. phil. PhD.

He then worked as an employee and then as a research assistant at the Munich Institute for Nordic Philology. During this time he registered, still unsuccessfully, an expansion of Scandinavian studies to include regional science. Henningsen, who received a grant from the German Research Foundation , completed his habilitation in 1984 at the Faculty of Social Sciences with the thesis The Welfare State of Sweden . His habilitation thesis, published in 1986 by Nomos Verlag , is considered a standard work . From 1987 he was a visiting professor and professor in Minneapolis / Minnesota, Zurich, Hamburg (UniBw), Trier and Nuremberg-Erlangen. He has also worked for the EC poverty reduction program in England and Belgium. From 1990 he then represented a regional and cultural-oriented chair at the Free University of Berlin , and was later appointed to the Academic Council .

In the course of German reunification , he successfully campaigned for the establishment of a central professorship for Scandinavian studies in Berlin. From 1992 to 2002 he was "Professor of Scandinavian Studies / Cultural Studies " at the Humboldt University in Berlin . In addition, he was founding director of the Northern Europe Institute there and head of the affiliated Baltic Sea College . With valuable contacts in German and Scandinavian politics, he became a sought-after specialist advisor and initiator of visiting professorships. He also undertook several research projects, and in 2002 he was among the humanities scholars at his university with the highest level of third-party funding . In 1993/94 he acted as dean of the German studies department at the HU Berlin. a. Trustees and council member of the HU Berlin, DAAD -Gutachter for Northern Europe, Liaison Officer of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation , an associate member of the UK Center of the Humboldt University of Berlin and Chairman of the Planning Commission of the Academic Senate and Board Member of the Finnish Institute in Germany . Henningsen is also a member of the German Society for Political Science .

From 2002 he was Professor of Political Science , Culture and Politics of Northern Europe and the Baltic Sea Region at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald and at the same time founding scientific director of the Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald in 2002/03 , which will become an Art Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton) should. In spite of the fact that the facility was not yet completed from the start, Henningsen tried hard to professionalize it in terms of projects, exhibitions, etc. From 2002 onwards, his scientific conception and financial planning were also approved by the Scientific Advisory Board under Carl Friedrich Gethmann . Probably because the tangible results, unlike in an industrial company, were a long time coming, the foundation board of trustees under Berthold Beitz finally terminated the foundation chairman Henningsen in 2003 " without notice ".

After he was honorary professor from 2003 to 2005, he worked again from 2005 to his retirement in 2010 as professor for Scandinavian Studies / Cultural Studies as well as Culture and Politics of Northern Europe and the Baltic Sea Region at the Northern Europe Institute of the Humboldt University in Berlin; since then he has held an honorary professorship at the institute.

From 2005 to 2010 he was a visiting professor in the Department of Political Science of the University of Copenhagen and from 2003 to 2010 visiting professor at the Center for Germany studies of Södertörn University College in Stockholm, and at the Center for International Studies of the University of Örebro in Sweden.

Henningsen is (co-) editor of the Northern European Studies series ( Nomos Verlag , later Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag (BWV), since 1986), The Cultural Construction of Communities in the Modernization Process (Nomos Verlag, since 1997), Elective Affinities - The North and Germany. Essays on a European history of encounter (BWV, since 1999) and The Baltic Sea Region: Nördliche Dimensions - Europäische Perspektiven (BWV, since 2004) and the specialist journal Nordeuropa forum (Nomos Verlag, later BWV, since 1991).

Private

Henningsen was with the psychoanalyst Franziska Henningsen , born in 1971 . Thiessen († 2015) married and has two children. His sister-in-law Elisabeth Steinhagen-Thiessen is a professor of geriatrics.

Awards

Fonts (selection)

  • Poul Martin Møller or the Danish upbringing of Søren Kierkegaard. A critical monograph with a first translation of his treatise on "Affectation" (= studies on political science ). Academic Publishing Company, Frankfurt am Main 1973, ISBN 3-7997-0225-3 .
  • The politics of the individual. Studies on the genesis of Scandinavian civil theology. Ludvig Holberg, Søren Kierkegaard, NFS Grundtvig (= Studies on theology and intellectual history of the nineteenth century . Vol. 26). Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1977, ISBN 3-525-87481-2 .
  • The welfare state Sweden (= Northern European Studies . Vol. 2). Nomos, Baden-Baden 1986, ISBN 3-7890-1212-2 .
  • (Ed.): Norwegian Political Aspects. A seminar report on foreign and domestic policy issues in the eighties (= Northern European Studies . Vol. 3). Nomos, Baden-Baden 1988, ISBN 3-7890-1515-6 .
  • with Otto Michael Schneider: Sweden . Bucher, Munich a. a. 1989, ISBN 3-7658-0595-5 .
  • with Bo Stråth (Ed.): Germany, Sweden and the Baltic Sea Region (= North European Studies . Vol. 10). Nomos, Baden-Baden 1996, ISBN 3-7890-4308-7 .
  • with Stephan Michael Schröder (ed.): From the end of the Humboldt cosms. Contours of cultural studies (= the cultural construction of communities in the modernization process . Vol. 1). Nomos, Baden-Baden 1997, ISBN 3-7890-4803-8 .
  • with Maria Eysell: Denmark . Bucher, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-7658-1173-4 .
  • with Walter Rothholz (ed.): Aspects of the political culture of Northern Europe. A reader . Verlag Spitz, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-8305-0060-2 .
  • with Reinhold Wulff: The North. Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland . Bucher, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-7658-1293-5 .
  • (Ed.): The North Project. Essays on the construction of a European region (= elective affinity - the north and Germany . Vol. 9). Verlag Spitz, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-8305-0082-3 .
  • (Ed.): Politics, Religion and Community. The cultural construction of meaning (= the cultural construction of communities in the modernization process . Vol. 10). Nomos, Baden-Baden 2005, ISBN 3-8329-1127-8 .
  • with Claudia Beindorf (Ed.): Community. A civil imagination (= the cultural construction of communities in the modernization process . Vol. 2). Nomos, Baden-Baden 1999, ISBN 3-7890-6127-1 .
  • Denmark . Beck, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-57847-2 .
  • with Hendriette Kliemann-Geisinger, Stefan Troebst (eds.): Transnational places of memory. North and South European perspectives (= The Baltic Sea region . Vol. 10). BWV, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-8305-1570-8 .
  • (Ed.): Henrich Steffens: What I experienced. Written down from memory . Golkonda, Berlin, vol. 1, 2014, ISBN 978-3-944720-03-6 ; Vol. 2. 2015, ISBN 978-3-944720-04-3 ; Vol. 3, 2015, ISBN 978-3-944720-14-2 ; Vol. 4, 2016, ISBN 978-3-944720-85-2 ; Vol. 5. 2016, ISBN 978-3-944720-86-9 .
  • with Sven Jochem, Siegfried Frech, Sarah Klemm (eds.): The political Scandinavia. Society, economy, politics & culture . Wochenschau-Verlag, Schwalbach 2015, ISBN 978-3-7344-0050-6 .
  • with Frank Decker , Kjetil Jakobsen (Eds.): Right-wing populism and right-wing extremism in Europe. The challenge of civil society through old ideologies and new media (= International Studies on Populism . Vol. 2). Nomos, Baden-Baden 2015, ISBN 978-3-8487-1206-9 .
  • with Jan Steeger (Ed.): Henrik Steffens : Introduction to the philosophical lectures . Verlag Karl Alber, Freiburg u. a. 2016, ISBN 978-3-495-48493-7 .

literature

  • Norbert Götz, Jan-Hecker Stampehl, Stephan Michael Schröder (eds.): From the old north to the new Europe. Political culture in the Baltic region. Festschrift for Bernd Henningsen . BWV, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-8305-1781-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d e f Norbert Götz, Jan-Hecker Stampehl, Stephan Michael Schröder: Elective affinities with the north or Scandinavian studies as political science: Bernd Henningsen on his 65th birthday . In the S. (Ed.): From the old north to the new Europe. Political culture in the Baltic region. Festschrift for Bernd Henningsen . Berlin 2010, p. 19.
  2. ↑ Profile Manfred Henningsen, socialsciences.hawaii.edu (accessed on December 13, 2016)
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g Norbert Götz, Jan-Hecker Stampehl, Stephan Michael Schröder: Elective affinities with the north or Scandinavian studies as political science: Bernd Henningsen on his 65th birthday . In the S. (Ed.): From the old north to the new Europe. Political culture in the Baltic region. Festschrift for Bernd Henningsen . Berlin 2010, p. 20.
  4. ^ A b c Norbert Götz, Jan-Hecker Stampehl, Stephan Michael Schröder: Elective affinities with the North or Scandinavian Studies as a political science: Bernd Henningsen on his 65th birthday . In the S. (Ed.): From the old north to the new Europe. Political culture in the Baltic region. Festschrift for Bernd Henningsen . Berlin 2010, p. 21.
  5. ^ A b c d e f Norbert Götz, Jan-Hecker Stampehl, Stephan Michael Schröder: Elective affinities with the north or Scandinavian studies as political science: Bernd Henningsen on his 65th birthday . In the S. (Ed.): From the old north to the new Europe. Political culture in the Baltic region. Festschrift for Bernd Henningsen . Berlin 2010, p. 22.
  6. ↑ a b Birgitta Nedelmann: The welfare state Sweden by Bernd Henningsen . In: Politische Vierteljahresschrift 29 (1988) 3, p. 528 f.
  7. ↑ Nikolas Dörr: The Swedish history in the 20th century as an object of German research . In: Jarosław Suchoples, Alexander Mionskowski (ed.): Entbegrenzungen. The 20th century of Northern European history as reflected in German research (= Acta Universitatis Wratislaviensis . No. 2982). Wydawn. Uniw. Wrocławskiego, Wrocław 2007, ISBN 978-83-229-2860-8 , p. 58; Franz-Xaver Kaufmann : Variants of the welfare state. The German welfare state in an international comparison (= Edition Suhrkamp . 2301). Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-518-12301-7 , p. 163, fn. 344.
  8. ^ Norbert Götz, Jan-Hecker Stampehl, Stephan Michael Schröder: Elective affinities with the North or Scandinavian Studies as a political science: Bernd Henningsen on his 65th birthday . In the S. (Ed.): From the old north to the new Europe. Political culture in the Baltic region. Festschrift for Bernd Henningsen . Berlin 2010, p. 25.
  9. ^ A b c Norbert Götz, Jan-Hecker Stampehl, Stephan Michael Schröder: Elective affinities with the North or Scandinavian Studies as a political science: Bernd Henningsen on his 65th birthday . In the S. (Ed.): From the old north to the new Europe. Political culture in the Baltic region. Festschrift for Bernd Henningsen . Berlin 2010, p. 26.
  10. ^ Norbert Götz, Jan-Hecker Stampehl, Stephan Michael Schröder: Elective affinities with the North or Scandinavian Studies as a political science: Bernd Henningsen on his 65th birthday . In the S. (Ed.): From the old north to the new Europe. Political culture in the Baltic region. Festschrift for Bernd Henningsen . Berlin 2010, p. 27.
  11. ^ Norbert Götz, Jan-Hecker Stampehl, Stephan Michael Schröder: Elective affinities with the North or Scandinavian Studies as a political science: Bernd Henningsen on his 65th birthday . In the S. (Ed.): From the old north to the new Europe. Political culture in the Baltic region. Festschrift for Bernd Henningsen . Berlin 2010, p. 27f.
  12. ↑ Norbert F. Pötzl : Beitz. A German story . Heyne, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-453-17955-4 , p. 415.
  13. ^ Norbert Götz, Jan-Hecker Stampehl, Stephan Michael Schröder: Elective affinities with the North or Scandinavian Studies as a political science: Bernd Henningsen on his 65th birthday . In the S. (Ed.): From the old north to the new Europe. Political culture in the Baltic region. Festschrift for Bernd Henningsen . Berlin 2010, p. 28.
  14. ↑ Members: Bernd Henningsen , dgfp.org, accessed on September 10, 2016.
  15. ^ Norbert Götz, Jan-Hecker Stampehl, Stephan Michael Schröder: Elective affinities with the North or Scandinavian Studies as a political science: Bernd Henningsen on his 65th birthday . In the S. (Ed.): From the old north to the new Europe. Political culture in the Baltic region. Festschrift for Bernd Henningsen . Berlin 2010, p. 30.
  16. ↑ a b Norbert F. Pötzl : Beitz. A German story . Heyne, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-453-17955-4 , p. 416.
  17. ↑ a b Norbert F. Pötzl : Beitz. A German story . Heyne, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-453-17955-4 , p. 417.
  18. ^ A b Norbert Götz, Jan-Hecker Stampehl, Stephan Michael Schröder: Elective affinities with the north or Scandinavian studies as political science: Bernd Henningsen on his 65th birthday . In the S. (Ed.): From the old north to the new Europe. Political culture in the Baltic region. Festschrift for Bernd Henningsen . Berlin 2010, p. 31.
  19. ^ A b c d e f Norbert Götz, Jan-Hecker Stampehl, Stephan Michael Schröder: Elective affinities with the north or Scandinavian studies as political science: Bernd Henningsen on his 65th birthday . In the S. (Ed.): From the old north to the new Europe. Political culture in the Baltic region. Festschrift for Bernd Henningsen . Berlin 2010, p. 32.
  20. ^ Norbert Götz, Jan-Hecker Stampehl, Stephan Michael Schröder: Elective affinities with the North or Scandinavian Studies as a political science: Bernd Henningsen on his 65th birthday . In the S. (Ed.): From the old north to the new Europe. Political culture in the Baltic region. Festschrift for Bernd Henningsen . Berlin 2010, p. 23.
personal data
SURNAME Henningsen, Bernd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist and Scandinavian
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Flensburg