Carsten Klingemann

Carsten Klingemann (born March 29, 1950 in Celle ) is a German sociologist who was an adjunct professor at the University of Osnabrück until his retirement in 2015 and teaches there in retirement. His teaching focuses on methods of empirical social research and sociological theory . His research focus is the history of sociology in Germany, especially during the National Socialist era . He is co-editor of the yearbook for the history of sociology .

life and work

After attending elementary school in Barnstorf 1957-1961 and 1969 in the Gymnasium Diepholz stored High School studied Klingemann first two semesters mathematics at the University of Hannover . Then he switched to studying sociology, journalism and education at the University of Münster , where he obtained his master's degree in December 1975 and received his doctorate in February 1979 under Sven Papcke and Arno Klönne . In 1980 he received a habilitation grant from the German Research Foundation for his research project on the history of sociology under National Socialism. He completed his habilitation in 1992 at the University of Osnabrück with a cumulative habilitation , which included over twenty of his previous publications.

Klingemann is one of the sociology historians who critically dealt with the presentation, now regarded as a "myth", that sociology played no role in National Socialism and was re-established in Germany after 1945, so to speak. On the other hand, he advocates the thesis that sub-areas of sociology experienced an upswing under the rule of the National Socialists and that empirical sociology, in particular empirical social research , professionalized and institutionalized. After the Second World War, methods of social research were not imported exclusively from the USA , but the first sociology institutes in the Federal Republic of Germany drew methodically from the knowledge of "Reich sociologists".

Klingemann's book “Sociology in the Third Reich” (1996) sparked fierce sociological-historical debates, whereby the boundaries of the factual debate were far exceeded. According to Hans-Georg Soeffner, Klingemann is one of those who have made a name for themselves in “demythologizing” the legend of the non-existence of sociology in Nazi Germany.

Fonts (selection)

Theories and functions of secular state interventionism. Economic intervention models and notions of social order in the Federal Republic of Germany since 1945 . University thesis, Münster 1979 (dissertation University of Münster)
Home sociology or instrument of order. Technical historical aspects of sociology in Germany between 1933 and 1945 , in: M. Rainer Lepsius (ed.): Sociology in Germany and Austria 1918-1945 . Special issue 23 of the Cologne journal for sociology and social psychology , Westdeutscher Verlag, 1981, ISBN 3-531-11575-8 , pp. 273-307. SS 273-307.
Racial Myth and Social Sciences in Germany. A repressed chapter in the history of social science . Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1987, ISBN 3-531-11873-0 (editor).
Sociology in the Third Reich . Nomos-Verlag, Baden-Baden 1996, ISBN 3-7890-4298-6 .
Sociology and Politics. Social science expert knowledge in the Third Reich and in the early West German post-war period . VS, Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2009, ISBN 3-531-15064-2 .

Web links

Carsten Klingemann at the University of Osnabrück

Individual evidence

^ University of Osnabrück, Lecture: Theory of Science , summer semester 2016
^ The year book for the history of sociology was published for 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997/98 by Leske and Budrich, Opladen, Klingemann was always co-editor; In 2007, another yearbook for the history of sociology was published with the subtitle Sociological Heritage: Georg Simmel - Max Weber - Sociology and Religion - Chicago School of Sociology , VS, Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2007, ISBN 978-3-531-15273-8 , as the only one The publisher is named Klingemann.
↑ Silke van Dyk and Alexandra Schauer: "... that official sociology has failed". On sociology under National Socialism, the history of its coming to terms and the role of the DGS. 2nd Edition. Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden 2014, ISBN 978-3-658-06636-9 , p. 86.
↑ Carsten Klingemann: The refusal to analyze National Socialism in West German sociology. On the continuity of empirical sociology before and after the end of the Nazi regime , in: Michaela Christ, Maja Suderland (editors), Sociology and National Socialism: Positions, Debates, Perspectives . Suhrkamp, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-518-29729-2 , pp. 480-507.
↑ Silke van Dyk and Alexandra Schauer: "... that official sociology has failed". On sociology under National Socialism, the history of its coming to terms and the role of the DGS. 2nd Edition. Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden 2014, ISBN 978-3-658-06636-9 , p. 165 f.
↑ Hans-Georg Soeffner in the foreword (reprinted from the first edition) Origin, effect and end of a legend , in: Silke van Dyk and Alexandra Schauer: "... that official sociology has failed". On sociology under National Socialism, the history of its coming to terms and the role of the DGS. 2nd Edition. Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden 2014, ISBN 978-3-658-06636-9 , p. 11.

personal data
SURNAME	Klingemann, Carsten
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Klingemann, Carsten Ernst Adolf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German sociologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	March 29, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH	Celle

[1] University of Osnabrück, Lecture: Theory of Science , summer semester 2016

[2] The year book for the history of sociology was published for 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997/98 by Leske and Budrich, Opladen, Klingemann was always co-editor; In 2007, another yearbook for the history of sociology was published with the subtitle Sociological Heritage: Georg Simmel - Max Weber - Sociology and Religion - Chicago School of Sociology , VS, Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2007, ISBN 978-3-531-15273-8 , as the only one The publisher is named Klingemann.

[3] Silke van Dyk and Alexandra Schauer: "... that official sociology has failed". On sociology under National Socialism, the history of its coming to terms and the role of the DGS. 2nd Edition. Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden 2014, ISBN 978-3-658-06636-9 , p. 86.

[4] Carsten Klingemann: The refusal to analyze National Socialism in West German sociology. On the continuity of empirical sociology before and after the end of the Nazi regime , in: Michaela Christ, Maja Suderland (editors), Sociology and National Socialism: Positions, Debates, Perspectives . Suhrkamp, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-518-29729-2 , pp. 480-507.

[5] Silke van Dyk and Alexandra Schauer: "... that official sociology has failed". On sociology under National Socialism, the history of its coming to terms and the role of the DGS. 2nd Edition. Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden 2014, ISBN 978-3-658-06636-9 , p. 165 f.

[6] Hans-Georg Soeffner in the foreword (reprinted from the first edition) Origin, effect and end of a legend , in: Silke van Dyk and Alexandra Schauer: "... that official sociology has failed". On sociology under National Socialism, the history of its coming to terms and the role of the DGS. 2nd Edition. Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden 2014, ISBN 978-3-658-06636-9 , p. 11.