Gert Schäfer (political scientist)

Gert Schäfer (born April 16, 1941 in Stuttgart ; † October 16, 2012 in Hanover ) was a German political scientist .

Schäfer studied political science , sociology , economics , philosophy , history and German at the universities of Tübingen and Frankfurt am Main and received his doctorate in 1973 at the then Technical University of Hanover and then worked as an academic adviser at the seminar for the science of politics . In 1977 he completed his habilitation there. From 1982 he was Professor of Political Science at the University of Hanover with a focus on political theory and political sociology .

Schäfer was editor of the magazine links from 1970 to 1975 .

Fonts (selection)

• Violence and politics. Studies on National Socialism and Total Domination , ed. Peter Schyga. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2014 ISBN 978-3-8487-1361-5 .
• Against the current. Political science as criticism . Hanover: Offizin, 2006, ISBN 978-3-930345-54-0
• Violence, ideology and bureaucracy. The failure of an experiment of the century , Mainz: Decaton-Verlag, 1994. ISBN 3-929455-28-5
• The Communist International and Fascism , Offenbach: Verlag 2000, 1973
• The CDU state. Analysis of the constitutional reality of the Federal Republic , 2 volumes, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, ​​1969.

Web links

• Literature by and about Gert Schäfer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Gert Schäfer on the website of the University of Hanover (with list of publications)