Dieter Bingen

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Dieter Heinrich Bingen (* 1952 in Cologne ) is a German political scientist and contemporary historian .

Career

Dieter Bingen attended the Dreikönigsgymnasium in Cologne from 1963 to 1971 . From 1973 to 1978 he studied political science, constitutional, social and economic history , sociology and educational science at the University of Bonn . In 1977 he went on a three-month research stay in Poland (Instytut Zachodni, PISM). In 1979 he received his doctorate from Hans-Adolf Jacobsen at the University of Bonn. phil. PhD.

From November 1981 to February 1999 he was a research assistant ( Scientific Senior Council ) at the Federal Institute for Eastern and International Studies (BIOSt), Cologne (Research Area II: East Central and Southeastern Europe). In 1981 he again stayed for three months in Poland for research as part of a DFG project at the BIOSt. From 1984 to 1994 he was a lecturer in political science at the University of Bonn. He was a member of the German delegation at the CSCE Implementation Meeting on Human Dimension Issues (Warsaw, September 27 to October 15, 1993). Since 2004 he has been honorary professor for the field of “Cultural Change and Social Transformation Processes in Europe” at the Faculty of Economics at the University of Zittau / Görlitz and, since 2012, has also been a visiting professor for political science at the Technical University of Darmstadt .

From March 1999 to the end of September 2019 Dieter Bingen was director of the German Poland Institute .

Research and publication focus

  • Polish contemporary history and politics
  • Political system of Poland
  • Religion and Church in Poland after 1945
  • Polish foreign and security policy
  • Political systems and system transformation in East Central and Southeast Europe
  • German-Polish relations after 1945
  • Integration Policy in Europe

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • together with Peter Oliver Loew, Poland. Short story of a long story. With illustrations from the Tomasz Niewodniczański collection , Darmstadt 2004.
  • The Republic of Poland. A small political geography, Landsberg 1998; 2nd, updated edition Munich 1999.
  • The Polish policy of the Bonn Republic from Adenauer to Kohl 1949–1991, Baden-Baden 1998.
  • Polityka Republiki Bońskiej wobec Polski. Od Adenauera do Kohla 1949–1991, Kraków 1997 (Polish-language edition).
  • together with Janusz Józef Węc, Die Deutschlandpolitik Poland 1945–1991. From the status quo orientation to the paradigm shift, Kraków 1993 (Zeszyty Naukowe Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego MCXXI. Prace z Nauk Politycznych. Z. 51).
  • The Bonn policy on Germany 1969–1979 in Polish journalism. Frankfurt / M. 1982.
  • The position of the Federal Republic of Germany in international politics from a Polish perspective 1969–1976. Koenigstein / Ts. 1980.

Series Editing

  • Thinking and knowing. A Polish library. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag. 2003-2015. 15 volumes.
  • together with Hans-Jürgen Bömelburg, Peter Oliver Loew, German-Polish history. 5 volumes. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft (published 2014: Volumes II and III)

Editorships

  • with Simon Lengemann: German occupation policy in Poland 1939-1945. A blank space in German memory? Bonn 2019
  • with Andrzej Kaluza, Basil Kerski, Peter Oliver Loew: Polish traces in Germany. A reading book dictionary. Bonn 2018
  • with Marek Halub, Matthias Weber: My Poland - my Poland. Approaches & perspectives. Wiesbaden 2016 (Polish edition: Wrocław 2016)
  • with Maria Jarosz, Peter Oliver Loew : Legitimation and Protest. Social upheavals in Poland, East Germany and other transition countries after 1989 . Wiesbaden 2012
  • with Peter Oliver Loew, Krzysztof Ruchniewicz , Marek Zybura : Adult Neighborhood. German-Polish relations 1991–2011 . Wiesbaden 2011
  • with Krzysztof Ruchniewicz : Country Report Poland. History-politics-economy-society-culture . Bonn 2009 (publisher's edition: Campus Verlag, Frankfurt / Main)
  • with Peter Oliver Loew, Nikolaus Wolff: Interest and conflict. On the political economy of German-Polish relations, 1900–2007 . Wiesbaden 2008
  • with Kazimierz Wóycicki: The Copernicus Group. Interim assessment of a German-Polish discussion group . Wiesbaden 2007
  • with Hans-Martin Hinz: The razing. Destruction and reconstruction of historical buildings in Germany and Poland . Wiesbaden 2005
  • with Anna Wolff-Powęska: neighbors at a distance. Germans and Poles 1998-2004 . Wiesbaden 2005
  • with Włodzimierz Borodziej, Stefan Troebst: Remembering expulsions in Europe? Historical experiences - politics of the past - future concepts . Wiesbaden 2003
  • Manfred Gebhardt , Joachim Küttner: Germans in Poland after 1945. Prisoners and foreigners . Munich 1997.
  • Poland 1980–1984. Permanent crisis or stabilization? Structures and events in politics, society and the economy . Baden-Baden 1985.

Board memberships (selection)

  • Scientific Advisory Board of the Institute for Cultural Infrastructure Saxony - Chairman
  • Jury of the German-Polish Prize
  • Board of Trustees of the Willy Brandt Center for German and European Studies at the University of Breslau
  • Board of Trustees of Friends and Supporters of the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder)
  • Board of Trustees of the German-Polish Society Bundesverband eV
  • Board of Trustees of Porta Polonica, the documentation center for the culture and history of Poles in Germany

Honors

  • 2006: Diploma from the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland "for outstanding services to the promotion of Poland in the world"
  • 2013: Medal "Laude Probus" from the city of Plock
  • 2013: Great Cross of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
  • 2013: Wilhelm Leuschner Medal
  • 2014: Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland
  • 2017: Medal of gratitude from the European Solidarity Center (Europejskie Centrum Solidarnosci), Danzig / Gdansk

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christoph von Marschall: The Sisyphos of Darmstadt. In: www.tagesspiegel.de. September 27, 2019, accessed October 6, 2019 .
  2. ^ Prime Minister Volker Bouffier awards the Wilhelm Leuschner Medal
personal data
SURNAME Bingen, Dieter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bingen, Dieter Heinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne