Ekkehard Klausa

Ekkehard Klausa (2009)

Ekkehard Klausa (born October 9, 1941 in Gliwice ) is a book author and lecturer in sociology .

education and study

Ekkehard Klausa was the son of Udo Klausa , district administrator of the district Bendsburg , born in occupied Poland, and his wife Alexandra von Schweinitz, born. In 1961 he passed his Abitur at the Humboldt Gymnasium in Düsseldorf .

He studied law and sociology at the Free University of Berlin (FU Berlin) and the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main , spent a year in literary and theater studies in the USA, obtained his doctorate in law in 1971 and qualified as a professor in sociology in 1979. As an assistant professor , he taught sociology of law at the Free University of Berlin from 1973 to 1980 and did research at the University of Berkeley for a year .

Professional career

Since 1964 Klausa writes trained newspaper editor , regularly as a freelancer mainly in the time , where he in 1984 three months an intern . From 1980 he worked for two years as a senior government councilor in the Federal Ministry of the Interior , from 1984 as a government director in the Berlin Senate Chancellery , initially for two years as speech writer for the governing mayor Richard von Weizsäcker , then responsible for the memorials in the state of Berlin. In this function he moved to the Senate Department for Science, Research and Culture until his retirement in 2002. At the same time, he has been teaching as a private lecturer at the Institute for Sociology at the Free University of Berlin since 1980.

Since 2002 he has been teaching American students in a special program (FU Berlin Studies) at the FU. He is a volunteer at the Research Center for the History of Resistance, a joint institution of the Free University of Berlin and the German Resistance Memorial Center , where he has his office.

Publications (selection)

Books

• Honorary judges. Their selection and function, empirically investigated. Athenaeum, Frankfurt 1972
• Sociological truth between subjective fact and scientific value judgment. Knowledge-sociological considerations, based on Alvin Gouldner. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-428-03279-9
• German and American law teachers. Paths to a Sociology of Jurisprudence. Nomos, Baden-Baden 1981 (Ed. Together with Erhard Blankenburg and Hubert Rottleuthner )
• The reawakened conscience. Conservatives in the resistance against National Socialism (= writings of the German Resistance Memorial Center, Series A: Analyzes and Representations, Volume 16). Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-86732-345-1

Articles and contributions

in anthologies on the sociology of law and science as well as the history of National Socialism and the politics of memory, z. B .:

• Prussian soldier tradition and resistance. The Potsdamer Infantry Regiment 9, between "Day of Potsdam" and July 20, 1944. In: Jürgen Schmädeke and Peter Steinbach (eds.): The resistance against National Socialism. Piper, Munich and Zurich 1985, pages 533-545
• The German memorial religion of the Holocaust. In: Mercury. 9/10 1999, pages 911-921
• Ordinary Germans. The Jewish image of the conservative resistance. In: Johannes Tuchel (ed.): The forgotten resistance. Göttingen 2005, pages 183-207

Web links

• Literature by and about Ekkehard Klausa in the catalog of the German National Library
• Ekkehard Klausa homepage with vita