Gerhard Kümmel

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Gerhard Kümmel (* 1964 ) is a German political scientist and military sociologist . He is scientific director at the Center for Military History and Social Sciences of the Bundeswehr and chairman of the working group for the military and social sciences .

Life

From 1985 to 1991 , Kümmel studied political science , sociology and history at the Philipps University of Marburg (MA). A fellow of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation , he was in 1994 when Wilfried von Bredow at the Faculty of Social Science and Philosophy with a thesis on Transnational economic cooperation in a turbulent international to Dr. phil. PhD. In 1992 he was a research fellow at the German Historical Institute (DHI) in Washington, DC, USA. From 1995 to 1997 he was a post-doc fellow of the German Research Foundation (DFG). In 1997 he worked as a lecturer for the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) at the University of Victoria in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.

From 1997 to 2012 he was a research assistant at the Social Science Institute of the Bundeswehr (SOWI) in Strausberg. In 1998 he became a project manager at SOWI. From 2006 to 2012 he headed the research focus “ Transformation of the Bundeswehr ”. In 2013 he finally became head of the research area “Military Sociology” at the Center for Military History and Social Sciences of the Bundeswehr in Potsdam. The Scientific Director's current research interests include women in the military , military families and armed forces in post-heroic society. In 1999 he also took on a political science and sociological teaching position at the University of Potsdam , where he has been teaching military sociology in the Military Studies course since 2007 .

Since 2010 Kümmel has been President of the ISA Research Committee “Armed Forces and Conflict Resolution” of the International Sociological Association and since 2000 Chairman of the Working Group on the Military and Social Sciences (AMS), which publishes the military and social sciences series at Nomos Verlag . In addition, he is u. a. Member of the German Society for Sociology and the German Association for Political Science . Kümmel is also associate editor of the journal Armed Forces & Society and a member of the scientific advisory board of the journal for foreign and security policy .

Awards

Fonts (selection)

Kümmel is the editor of numerous publications a. a .:

  • with: Thomas Jäger , Wilfried von Bredow : European Security . Macmillan, Basingstoke 1997, ISBN 0-312-17534-5 .
  • with Andreas Prüfert: Military Sociology. The Richness of a Discipline (= Inner Leadership Forum . Volume 9). Nomos, Baden-Baden 2000, ISBN 3-7890-6999-X .
  • Science, politics and policy advice. Exploring a difficult relationship . Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-631-52004-2 .
  • with Thomas Jäger, Marika Lerch , Thomas Noetzel : Security and Freedom. Foreign policy, domestic policy and the history of ideas. Festschrift for Wilfried von Bredow (= Inner Guidance Forum . Vol. 22). Nomos, Baden-Baden 2004, ISBN 3-8329-0443-3 .
  • Servant of two masters. Soldiers between the Bundeswehr and family . Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-631-53357-8 .
  • with Thomas Jäger: Private Military and Security Companies. Chances, Problems, Pitfalls and Prospects . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2007, ISBN 978-3-531-14901-1 .
  • Giuseppe Caforio , Bandara Purkayastha: Armed Forces and Conflict Resolution. Sociological Perspectives (= Contributions to Conflict Management, Peace, Economics and Development . Volume 7). Emerald Group Publishing, Bingley 2008, ISBN 978-1-84855-122-0 .
  • with Helena Carreiras: Women in the Military and in Armed Conflict (=  series of publications by the Social Science Institute of the Bundeswehr . Volume 6 ). 1st edition. Springer VS , Wiesbaden 2008, ISBN 978-3-531-15834-1 (English).
  • with Giuseppe Caforio, Christopher Dandeker : Armed Forces, Soldiers and Civil-Military Relations. Essays in Honor of Jürgen Kuhlmann (= series of publications by the Social Science Institute of the Bundeswehr . Volume 7). VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2009, ISBN 978-3-531-91409-1 .
  • with Angelika Dörfler-Dierken : Identity, self -image , job description. Implications of the new operational reality for the Bundeswehr (= series of publications by the Social Science Institute of the Bundeswehr . Volume 10). VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2010, ISBN 978-3-531-17518-8 .
  • with Henrik Fürst: Core Values ​​and the Expeditionary Mindset: Armed Forces in Metamorphosis (= Military and Social Sciences . Volume 45). Nomos, Baden-Baden 2011, ISBN 978-3-8329-6514-3 .
  • with Joseph Soeters: New Wars, New Militaries, New Soldiers? Conflicts, the Armed Forces and the Soldierly Subject (= Contributions to Conflict Management, Peace, Economics and Development . Volume 19). Emerald Group Publishing, Bingley 2012, ISBN 978-1-78052-638-6 .
  • with Bastian Giegerich : The Armed Forces. Towards a Post-Interventionist Era? (= Series of publications by the Center for Military History and Social Sciences of the Bundeswehr . Volume 14). Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2013, ISBN 978-3-658-01286-1 .
  • with Angelika Dörfler-Dierken: On the pulse of the Bundeswehr. Military sociology in Germany between science, politics, the armed forces and society (= ZMSBw series of publications, Volume 1). Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2015, ISBN 978-3-658-11493-0 .
  • with Phil C. Langer : “We are the Bundeswehr.” How much diversity do the armed forces need? . Hartmann, Miles-Verlag, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-945861-03-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gerhard Kümmel: Acknowledgments . In: Ders .: Transnational economic cooperation in a turbulent international . Stuttgart 1995, p. 16 f.
personal data
SURNAME Caraway, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist and military sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1964