Gunter Runkel

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Gunter Runkel (born August 14, 1946 in Lahnstein ; † August 17, 2020 ) was a German sociologist and sexologist . He was a professor at the University of Lüneburg and there director of the Institute for Future and Innovation Research. In his works he combined the system, action and evolution theory.

Life

From 1968 to 1974 Runkel studied at the universities of Mainz , Marburg and Hamburg . In 1974 he received his doctorate in Hamburg, in the same year he began teaching at the University of Lüneburg. In 2002 he completed his habilitation there.

Gunter Runkel was President of the German Society for Social Science Sex Research from 2002 to 2006 . He was on the board of the International Academy of Science (H&E), member of the “Sociological Theory” section of the German Society for Sociology and the Science Council for “Sexual Sociology” at the University of Shanghai . Runkel was visiting professor of sociological theory, sexual sociology and family sociology at Central Connecticut State University (USA). His focus was on general sociology and sexual sociology.

Gunter Runkel was also involved in the Alternative for Germany (AfD), was chairman of the Lüneburg city association until 2018 and ran unsuccessfully in the 2017 federal election at number 25 on the state list of AfD Lower Saxony . From November 1, 2016 to January 30, 2020, he was a member of the council of the Hanseatic City of Lüneburg and from May 13, 2019 to March 9, 2020, he was a member of the district council of the Lüneburg district .

Publications (books)

  • Leisure time and cultural development (together with others) (Hamburg 1970)
  • Drive and function, illustrated by the connection between sexuality and ideology (Diss. Hamburg 1974)
  • Sexuality and ideologies (Weinheim. Basel 1979)
  • Sociology of Play (Frankfurt am Main 1986)
  • Urban redevelopment in Lahnstein (2nd edition, Lüneburg 1990)
  • Health (Ed.) (Lüneburg 1993)
  • The game in society (Münster / Hamburg / London: LIT Verlag, 2003)
  • Cooperative, representation and participation (Münster / Hamburg / London: LIT Verlag, 2003)
  • Together with Günter Burkart (ed.) (Luhmann and the culture theory, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2004)
  • Together with Günter Burkart (ed.) (Functional systems of society. Contributions to the system theory of Niklas Luhmann, Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2005)
  • General sociology. Social theory, social structure and semantics (2nd, revised and expanded edition, Munich / Vienna: Oldenbourg Verlag, 2005)
  • Die Stadt (Ed.) (3rd expanded edition, Hamburg: LIT Verlag, 2007)
  • Evolution and Sexuality (Münster: LIT-Verlag, 2010)
  • Sexuality in Society (2nd revised and expanded edition, Münster. Hamburg. London: LIT-Verlag, 2010)
  • Europe and the Euro (Aachen: Shaker Verlag, 2015)
  • The future of Europe. The fall of Europe. (Baden-Baden: Nomus Verlag, 2016)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Obituary notice of the Lüneburg district. Retrieved August 29, 2020 .
  2. ^ AfD Lüneburg. Retrieved August 16, 2016 .
  3. ^ Citizen information system of the Hanseatic City of Lüneburg. Retrieved August 29, 2020 .
  4. ^ List of members of the Lüneburg district. Retrieved August 29, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Runkel, Gunter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist, sexologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Lahnstein
DATE OF DEATH 17th August 2020