Ferdinand Tönnies Society

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Student residence and domicile

The Ferdinand-Tönnies-Gesellschaft e. V. (FTG) was founded in Kiel in 1956 on the initiative of archivist Wilhelm Kähler . It is a non-profit registered association. According to the statutes, the company promotes student and working young people and civic education . As a scientific society, it is also devoted to dealing with the work of the sociologist and philosopher Ferdinand Tönnies (1855–1936), one of the founders of German sociology . Its president since 2010 has been Alexander Deichsel , who was elected to succeed the late Lars Clausen , while Ana Isabel Erdozáin acts as vice-president. Sebastian Klauke is the managing director.

On behalf of the FTG, the text-critical edition of his printed complete works has been published since 1998, the Ferdinand Tönnies complete edition in 24 volumes. The FTG also publishes the half-yearly magazine Tönnies-Forum and the publication series of the Ferdinand-Tönnies-Gesellschaft . It organizes lectures and specialist conferences such as the (so far ten) Tönnies Symposia (Kiel 1980, Kiel 1983, Kiel 1987, Klagenfurt 2004, Kiel 2005, Paris 2007, Husum 2011, 2013 and 2015, Kiel 2019).

At her domicile in Kiel- Schreventeich she runs a student residence , the Ferdinand Tönnies house .

See also

literature

  • Uwe Carstens: Chronicle of the Ferdinand-Tönnies-Gesellschaft , FTG, Kiel 1992, ISSN  0942-0843
  • Uwe Carstens: From 1992 to 2016 - 24 years of FTG (Tönnies-Forum, special volume 2016), FTG, Kiel 2016, ISSN  0942-0843

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Klauke has been managing director since May 2016, succeeding Uwe Carstens , who has been FTG managing director since 1992.

Coordinates: 54 ° 19 '46.9 "  N , 10 ° 7' 17.3"  E