Gerd Meyer (political scientist)

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Gerd Meyer (born July 8, 1942 in Berlin ) is a German political scientist .

Life

Meyer studied political science , history and German studies in Hamburg , Tübingen and at the Free University of Berlin from 1961 to 1968 after graduating from Scharnhorstgymnasium in Hildesheim . In 1969 he received his doctorate as Dr. phil. with a thesis on Soviet Germany policy in 1952. 1969/70 he stayed for research at Harvard University , where he was an associate at the Russian Research Center . He completed his habilitation1970 to 1976 in political science with a thesis on "Bureaucratic rule in the USSR". In 1977 he was appointed professor of political science at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen . From 1979 to 1981 and 1994/95 he was director of the Institute for Political Science there. In 1984 he was visiting professor at Columbia University . From 1986 to 1991 he was the spokesman for the interdisciplinary working group on GDR and German research and the GDR state research focus at the University of Tübingen. In 1991 he held another visiting professorship at the Graduate School for International Studies in Denver . In 1991/92 he was Dean of the Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Tübingen. In 1994 and 1997 he was visiting professor at the Universities of St. Petersburg and Moscow , in 1995 at the Jackson School for International Studies at the University of Washington in Seattle , in 2001 at the Collegium Civitas in Warsaw , again at Lomonossow University in Moscow in 2002 and at the Central European University in Budapest . Meyer retired on October 1, 2007 .

Awards

Fonts (selection)

  • The Soviet policy on Germany in 1952 , Böhlau, Cologne 1970 (Research Reports and Studies on Contemporary History, Volume 24).
  • Bureaucratic socialism. An analysis of the Soviet system of rule , Frommann-Holzboog, Stuttgart 1977 (Problemata, Volume 65), ISBN 3-7728-0672-4 .
  • Socialist systems. Theory and structure analysis; a study book , Leske & Budrich, Opladen 1979, ISBN 3-8100-0236-4 .
  • The GDR power elite in the era Honecker , Francke, Tübingen 1991 (Tübingen Central and Eastern European Studies, Volume 3), ISBN 3-7720-1829-7 .
  • (together with Angela Hermann): "... normally someone would have had to intervene". Civil courage in everyday life of vocational school students; a pilot study , Wochenschau-Verlag, Schwalbach 1999, ISBN 3-87920-486-1 .
  • Freedom from what, freedom for what? Political psychology and alternatives to humanistic politics with Erich Fromm . Presentation - Interpretation - Critique , Leske & Budrich, Opladen 2002, ISBN 978-3-8100-3396-3 .
  • Lively democracy: civil courage and courage in everyday life. Research results and practical perspectives , Nomos, Baden-Baden 2004, ISBN 3-8329-0444-1 .
  • (together with Rolf Frankenberger): Postmodernism and personality. Theory - Empiricism - Perspectives , Nomos, Baden-Baden 2008, ISBN 978-3-8329-3366-1 .
  • Courage and moral courage. Basics and social practice , Budrich, Opladen 2014, ISBN 978-3-8474-0172-8 .

as editor

  • GDR today. Change tendencies and contradictions of a socialist industrial society , Narr, Tübingen 1988, ISBN 3-87808-567-2 .
  • The political culture of Poland , Francke, Tübingen 1989 (Tübingen studies on society, politics and culture of socialist countries, volume 1), ISBN 3-7720-1820-3
  • Way of life and social upheaval in East Germany , Palm a. Enke, Erlangen 1992 (Jenaer Reden und Schriften, NF 3.1992), ISBN 3-7896-0603-0 .
  • The political cultures of East Central Europe in transition , Francke, Tübingen 1993 (Tübingen Central and Eastern European Studies, Volume 5), ISBN 3-7720-1818-1 .
  • Political Culture in Germany - Challenges and Perspectives. Symposium in honor of Erhard Eppler , Nomos, Baden-Baden 2003, ISBN 978-3-8329-0015-1 .
  • Learning civil courage. Analyzes - Models - Working Aids , Institute for Peace Education, Tübingen 2004.
  • Formal institutions and informal politics in central and eastern Europe. Hungary, Poland, Russia and Ukraine , Leske & Budrich, Opladen 2006, ISBN 978-3-86649-060-4 .
  • Focal points of political culture in Poland and Germany , Dom Wydawn. Elipsa, Warszawa 2007, ISBN 83-7151-752-1 .

Festschrift

  • Rolf Frankenberger (Ed.): Political Psychology and Political Education. Gerd Meyer on his 65th birthday , Wochenschau-Verlag, Schwalbach 2007, ISBN 978-3-89974375-3 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Prof. em. Dr. Dr. hc Gerd Meyer ( Memento of the original from July 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen. Retrieved May 26, 2012.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.uni-tuebingen.de
  2. ↑ oral information from Rainer Zirbeck , honorary chairman of the Association of Alumni and Friends of the Scharnhorstgymnasium zu Hildesheim e. V. and schoolmate of Gerd Meyer

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personal data
SURNAME Meyer, Gerd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH July 8, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin