Bernhard Fleckenstein (sociologist)

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Bernhard Fleckenstein (* 1940 in Erfurt ) is a former German ministerial official and military sociologist . He was director and professor of the Social Science Institute of the Bundeswehr .

Life

Fleckenstein did military service in the German armed forces after graduating from high school in 1960 . His last rank was lieutenant colonel of the reserve of the Air Force . From 1962 to 1968 he studied sociology , politics and economics at the University of Frankfurt am Main ( graduate sociologist). In 1977 he earned a Master of Public Administration degree from Harvard University .

In 1969 he became a research associate in the office of the Defense Commissioner of the German Bundestag and deputy chief officer . In 1971 he headed the founding conference of the Working Group on the Military and Social Sciences (AMS) in Kiel. From 1972 to 1982 he was a member of the planning staff of the Federal Minister of Defense in Bonn as a senior government councilor or government director . In 1982/83 he worked in staff department I ( internal management , personnel and training) in the command staff of the armed forces (Fü S). From 1984 to 1997 he was director and professor of the Social Science Institute of the Bundeswehr (SOWI) in Munich. During his tenure, the institute moved to Strausberg against great opposition.

He published in the fields of youth sociology , military sociology and security policy (including in magazines such as Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte , Armed Forces & Society and trade union monthly magazines ).

Fonts (selection)

In addition to the SOWI working papers , the following articles were published:

  • (Ed.): Bundeswehr und Industriegesellschaft (= Defense Scientific Research / Department of the Military, State and Society. Volume 2). Boldt, Boppard 1971, ISBN 3-7646-1550-8 .
  • with Klaus-Peter Kothe: Soldier and Society . Verlag Wissenschaft und Politik, Cologne 1981, ISBN 3-8046-8600-8 . (also published in the series of publications of the Federal Agency for Civic Education )

Contributions to edited volumes

  • The becoming of the citizen army. The development of the Bundeswehr from its beginnings to the present. In: Ralf Zoll (Ed.): How integrated is the Bundeswehr? On the relationship between the military and society in the Federal Republic (= Piper Social Science . Volume 41). Piper, Munich a. a. 1979, ISBN 3-492-02466-1 , pp. 98-123.
  • 25 years of AMS. In: Paul Klein , Andreas Prüfert (ed.): Military and science in Europe - critical distance or helpful addition? 25 years of the Military and Social Sciences Working Group (= Military and Social Sciences . Volume 23). Nomos Verlag, Baden-Baden 1998, ISBN 3-7890-5758-4 , pp. 9-15.
  • Germany. Forerunner of a Postnational Military? In: Charles C. Moskos , John Allen Williams , David R. Segal (Eds.): The Postmodern Military. Armed Forces After the Cold War . Oxford University Press, New York 2000, ISBN 0-19-513329-3 , pp. 80-100.
  • On the social acceptance of Bundeswehr missions abroad. In: Martina Timmermann (Ed.): Working in times of change - 40 years of Mid-Atlantic Clubs. Festschrift, dedicated to the MAC founders and drivers HW Lessing and Dr. F. Krüger-Sprengel (= series of publications on international politics . Volume 38). Kovač, Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-8300-6936-2 , p. 99 ff.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Bernhard Fleckenstein (Ed.): Bundeswehr und Industriegesellschaft (= Defense Scientific Research / Department of the Military, State and Society. Volume 2). Boldt, Boppard 1971, ISBN 3-7646-1550-8 , p. 290.
  2. ↑ a b Ralf Zoll (Ed.): How integrated is the Bundeswehr? On the relationship between the military and society in the Federal Republic (= Piper Social Science . Volume 41). Piper, Munich a. a. 1979, ISBN 3-492-02466-1 , p. 248.
  3. ↑ Bernhard Fleckenstein: 25 years AMS. In: Paul Klein , Andreas Prüfert (ed.): Military and science in Europe - critical distance or helpful addition? 25 years of the Military and Social Sciences Working Group (= Military and Social Sciences . Volume 23). Nomos Verlag, Baden-Baden 1998, ISBN 3-7890-5758-4 , p. 9.
  4. ^ Ernst-Christoph Meier : SOWI 35. 35 years of the Social Science Institute of the Bundeswehr . Published by the Social Science Institute of the Bundeswehr, Strausberg 2009, p. 5 (PDF)
  5. ^ Ernst-Christoph Meier : SOWI 35. 35 years of the Social Science Institute of the Bundeswehr . Published by the Social Science Institute of the Bundeswehr, Strausberg 2009, p. 12 (PDF)
personal data
SURNAME Fleckenstein, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ministerial official and military sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Erfurt