Burkard Steppacher

Burkard Steppacher (* 1959 in Wiesentheid ) is a German political scientist and employee of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation .

Life

Burkard Steppacher first completed an apprenticeship as a banker and worked in this profession. In the 1980s he studied philosophy , political science and journalism at the LMU Munich , the University of Friborg and the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen . In 1992 he was in Tübingen with a dissertation on European policy of Switzerland to Dr. rer. oec. PhD . He has been working for the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) since 1991, where he has been head of the European Policy Research Department since 1998. From 2001 to 2003 he was also head of the KAS “Future of European Order” project.

In the 1990s, Steppacher was a long-standing executive board member of the German-Polish Society DPG Cologne-Bonn and has been a volunteer member of the German-Polish Society Federal Association since 1998 . Through these functions he had many contacts with Poland , in particular with Lech Wałęsa , Tadeusz Mazowiecki , Jerzy Buzek and Aleksander Kwaśniewski . In 2008 he was awarded the Gold Cross of Merit of the Republic of Poland for his services to German-Polish friendship .

Since the mid-1990s, he has been teaching at the University of Cologne at the Department of Political Sciences and the Research Institute for Political Sciences and European Issues. In 2009 he was appointed honorary professor at the suggestion of the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences . There he is connected to the Jean Monnet Chair of the institute.

Steppacher has published numerous scientific papers and articles.

Burkard Steppacher has been a member of the Catholic student association KDStV Tuiskonia Munich in the CV since 1982 .

Fonts (selection)

• Steps towards the Europeanization of Switzerland. Political system and business associations in the years 1985-1990 , Lang 1992, ISBN 3631456441 (dissertation)
• Europe after the EC summit in Maastricht , Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung 1993 (5th edition), together with Melanie Piepenschneider
• The way to German unity , Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung 1994, together with Karl-Rudolf Korte , Matthias Zimmer
• The European Economic Area (EEA) - a model for Central and Eastern Europe? , Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung 1994, ISBN 3-930163-50-0 , together with Jutta-B. Böhle-Joester
• Regional and structural policy of the EU and national interests , Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung 1996, ISBN 3-931575-07-1
• The European Union before a new round of enlargement , Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung 1997
• EU Charter of Fundamental Rights: Objectives - Methods - Assessment , Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung 2000
• Synopsis: current proposals for the European constitutional discussion , Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung 2002, together with Markus Kraft
• The European Convention: mandate, composition, problem areas , Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung 2002, together with Udo Margedant
• Change of key in Switzerland: The triad of people's rights, concordance and renewed magic formula after the national and Senate elections in 2003, in: Journal for Parliamentary Questions (ZParl), 36th year (2005), no. 2, pp. 311-325.
• Switzerland: The Crisis of Concordance , in: Blätter für Deutsche und internationale Politik, 53rd vol., No. 2/2008, pp. 19–22.
• What defines Europe: names, dates and facts about the European Union , Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung 2009, ISBN 3940955841 (editor)
• The EFTA states, the EEA and Switzerland , in: Werner Weidenfeld / Wolfgang Wessels (eds.), Yearbook of European Integration 2011, Baden-Baden 2012, pp. 329–332.
• Iceland , in: Werner Weidenfeld / Wolfgang Wessels (eds.), Yearbook of European Integration 2011, Baden-Baden 2012, pp. 511–512.
• Neighbors in Europe, door to door. German-Polish relations artfully conveyed , in: The Political Opinion. Monthly magazine on questions of time, No. 506/507, January / February 2012, pp. 120–125. [1]
• Crunching concordance: Parliamentary and government elections in Switzerland , in: KAS Auslandsinformationen, No. 3, 2012, pp. 56–71. [2]
• Creaky Concordance System. Parliamentary and Governmental Elections in Switzerland , in: KAS International Reports, No. 3, 2012, p. 53-67. [3]
• Poland, Germany and European unification , in: Beate Neuss / Antje Nötzold (eds.), Poland as the engine of the European integration process. Review of the Polish Presidency, Baden-Baden 2013, pp. 145–162.
• German Christian Democrats in the European Commission and their work in political networks , in: Hanns Jürgen Küsters (Hrsg.): German European Politics Christian Democrats. From Konrad Adenauer to Angela Merkel (1945–2013), Düsseldorf 2014, pp. 89–115. [4]
• Swiss European Policy at the Crossroads , in: integration 2/2016, pp. 107–122. [5]

Web links

• Literature by and about Burkard Steppacher in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website of Burkard Steppacher (University of Cologne)
• Burkard Steppacher (KAS) website