Friedhelm Neidhardt
Friedhelm Walter Neidhardt (born January 3, 1934 in Gadderbaum near Bielefeld) is a German sociologist and university professor. He retired in 2001 .
Friedhelm Neidhardt studied economics, philosophy and psychology at the Universities of Hamburg and Kiel , then started studying sociology at Indiana University in Bloomington (USA). Neidhardt received his doctorate in this subject in 1962 in Kiel.
From 1961 he was Karl Martin Bolte's assistant at the Hamburg Academy for Economics and Politics and followed him to Munich . In 1968 he completed his habilitation there in sociology and in the same year was appointed to a chair at the Hamburg Academy. He then accepted a position in Tübingen in 1971 and in Cologne in 1975 . There he became co-editor of the Cologne journal for sociology and social psychology (KZfSS) in 1978 . He held this office until 1992.
In 1988/89 Friedhelm Neidhardt moved from Cologne to the Institute for Sociology at the Free University of Berlin, where he held a special professorship until 1999.
From 1994 to 2000 he was President of the Berlin Science Center for Social Research in Berlin.
Awards
- 2008: Federal Cross of Merit (1st class)
literature
- Bernhard Schäfers : Neidhardt, Friedhelm. In: Wilhelm Bernsdorf , Horst Knospe: Internationales Soziologenlexikon. Volume 2: Articles about living sociologists or those who died after 1969. 2nd, revised edition. Enke, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-432-90702-8 , p. 613 f.
Web links
- Literature by and about Friedhelm Neidhardt in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Neidhardt, Friedhelm |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Neidhardt, Friedhelm Walter (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sociologist and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 3, 1934 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gadderbaum near Bielefeld |