Gottfried-Karl Kindermann

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Gottfried-Karl Kindermann (born April 13, 1926 in Vienna ) is a German political scientist .

Life

Gottfried-Karl Kindermann, son of the theater scholar Heinz Kindermann , studied in Vienna , Freiburg and Stanford . He was research assistant with Hans Morgenthau at the University of Chicago in the early 1950s. Kindermann occupied the first chair for international politics at the Geschwister-Scholl-Institut of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU) in 1967.

His son Stefan Kindermann is a chess grandmaster .

Teaching

He specialized in the research area Asia and received various awards for this research. As the coordinator for interdisciplinary courses on East and Southeast Asia at the LMU, Kindermann specifically promotes intercultural understanding between Europe and Asia. His work on the comparative analysis of problem structures in divided countries is of particular importance. Kindermann advises Korean decision-makers on reunification issues . His study on East Asia (2001) is one of the classics of German-speaking Asia analysis.

In the field of international relations theory, Kindermann developed the Munich School's neorealism based on Morgenthau's political realism . This approach combines an international structure theory with an elaborate perception approach . With the help of a multi-method analysis, the so-called “international constellation analysis ”, it should be possible for political practitioners to properly assess international problem constellations.

Kindermann's theses on the era of Austrofascism , which he represents as the “first defensive front” against National Socialism , are controversial . In this context, he is accused of partiality in favor of the Fatherland Front and Engelbert Dollfuss, who was murdered by the Austrian National Socialists . His statements between 1933 and 1938 met with a positive response, particularly among ÖVP politicians like Andreas Khol .

One of his students is the FAZ editor Georg Paul Hefty .

He is a longstanding board member of the Society for Foreign Policy .

Awards

Fonts

  • The rise of Korea in world politics . Olzog Publishing House. Munich 2005, ISBN 3-7892-8165-4 .
  • Austria against Hitler - Europe's first defensive front 1933–1938 . Langen Müller Verlag, Bonn 2003, ISBN 3-7844-2821-5 .
  • The Rise of East Asia in World Politics 1840–2000 . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-421-05174-7 .
  • Hitler's defeat in Austria . Hoffmann and Campe Verlag, 1984
  • Basic elements of world politics . Piper Verlag, Munich 1981, ISBN 3-492-00524-1 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Kindermann, Gottfried-Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna