Harald Bergsdorf

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Harald Bergsdorf (* 1966 in Bonn ) is a German political scientist specializing in extremism research .

Life

Harald Bergsdorf is the son of political scientist Wolfgang Bergsdorf .

From 1988 to 1992 he studied Political Science , Modern History and Romance / Italian Studies at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn , the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg and in 1993 with a DAAD scholarship at the Sorbonne in Paris. From 1994 to 1998 he was a research assistant in the German Bundestag . In 2000 he was at Wolfgang Jäger at the University of Freiburg with the political science dissertation Unequal siblings. The German Republicans (REP) compared to the French Front National (FN) for Dr. phil. PhD .

Bergsdorf, a member of the CDU , was a speaker in the Thuringian Ministry of the Interior in Erfurt until 2005 and then a keynote speaker for the CDU parliamentary group in the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia in Düsseldorf. Subsequently, until 2011 he was head of the “State Coordination Office against Right-Wing Extremism” in the State Center for Civic Education North Rhine-Westphalia in Düsseldorf.

He was also a lecturer in political science at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (2005) and the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn (2007). His publications focus on right-wing and left-wing extremist parties. He published several books (including one with Rudolf van Hüllen ), articles and essays, etc. a. in the magazine for politics , in the magazine for parliamentary questions , in the magazine totalitarianism and democracy and in the yearbook extremism & democracy .

Work and reception

Astrid Geisler remarked in the taz about Bergsdorf's 2007 book Die neue NPD. Anti-democrats on the rise , it is “lean” and “thin”. It is also regrettable that the extremism researcher ignores the results of a study by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation , according to which "most Germans with a right-wing extremist view of the world by far [...] still voted CDU / CSU or SPD". For Sebastian Rehse, however, Bergsdorf endeavors to achieve “conceptual clarity” in his criticism in the magazine for parliamentary questions. He made a conscious attempt to “grasp the term extremism free from ideological blow”. Bergsdorf also distinguishes between “extremism and populism”. He offers a “general introduction” for the “academic audience” into the subject and convinces with a “calm and analytical way”. However, there is a lack of justification for the content. Unfortunately, the impression arises as if the "attempt at a short but thematically [..] all-encompassing all-round approach" had been undertaken.

In 2008 Bergsdorf published Die neue Linke. Party between continuity and change of course . Johannes Mehlitz, who reviewed the book in the Zeitschrift für Politik , described it as a “compact, easy-to-read analysis of the” party. It is suitable for both scientists and laypeople. Bergsdorf approaches the matter with a "distanced view". The book helps "to remedy an information deficit and to counteract a distorted public perception in a targeted manner". Jacqueline Boysen, on the other hand, pointed out on Deutschlandfunk that the author, although he was also a "keynote speaker in the parliamentary group of the North Rhine-Westphalian CDU and in the office of the Thuringian Minister of the Interior", "regrettably failed to grasp the complexity of the 'left' " with his work on the party Die Linke . Sometimes the “bloodless” work reads “simply embarrassing”. The author, who "tries to get at the 'left' with his tools as an extremism researcher" and has produced "long loops about the meaningfulness of the systematic comparison of right-wing and left-wing extremist movements", shows "foaming at the mouth". He conveys a sub-complex picture of his subject.

In 2011 together with Rudolf van Hüllen authored book Links Extreme - Germany underestimated danger? Bergsdorf dealt more generally with the left edge of the political spectrum in Germany, although again a significant part of the work of the party was dedicated to Die Linke . The book was received controversially. The small party MLPD filed an injunction against statements concerning them in the book, with which the plaintiffs were partially successful.

Fonts (selection)

  • Unequal siblings. The German Republicans (REP) compared to the French Front National (FN) (= European university publications / 31). Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3-631-36824-0
  • The new NPD. Anti-democrats on the rise . Olzog, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-7892-8228-7
  • The new "left". Party between continuity and change of course . Bouvier, Bonn 2008, ISBN 978-3-416-03181-3
  • Facts instead of legends. Arguments against the “left” Lafontaines and Gysis . Bouvier, Bonn 2009, ISBN 978-3-416-03246-9 .
  • Facts instead of fakes. Arguments against right-wing extremist slogans . Olzog Verlag, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-7892-8274-4
  • Defend the culture of freedom argumentatively. Liberal society against right-wing extremism and other freedom enemies (= PositionLiberal, 91). Liberal Institute, Potsdam 2010
  • with Rudolf van Hüllen : Left-wing extremists - Germany's underestimated danger? Between the arson attack and the Bundestag mandate . Schöningh, Paderborn [a. a.] 2011, ISBN 978-3-506-77242-8

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Friedrich Burschel: Constitutional Protection Science Journalism . Rosa Luxemburg Foundation , May 29, 2013, accessed on January 19, 2019 .
  2. ^ CDU Rüngsdorf: Dr. Heckes and vom Kolke nominated with an overwhelming majority. Press release. CDU Bonn, November 21, 2003, accessed on January 19, 2019 .
  3. ↑ See Buchwerbung Schöningh-Verlag: Archive link ( Memento of the original from September 14, 2016 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. . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lehmanns.de
  4. ↑ Harald Bergsdorf: Defend the culture of freedom argumentatively. Liberal society against right-wing extremism and other freedom enemies (=  PositionLiberal . Band 91 ). 3. Edition. Liberal Institute of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom , Potsdam 2011, p. 2 ( full text at freiheit.org , PDF).
  5. ↑ Astrid Geisler: The spiritual and moral hereditary burden. In: taz.de . November 24, 2007, accessed January 19, 2019 .
  6. ^ Sebastian Rehse: New treatises on the NPD. Competent introduction, analytical depth . In: Journal for Parliamentary Questions 39 (2008) 3, pp. 662–666, here: pp. 663 f.
  7. ^ Johannes Mehlitz: Harald Bergsdorf. The new left. Party between continuity and change of course . In: Zeitschrift für Politik 56 (2009) 1, p. 112 f.
  8. ↑ Jacqueline Boysen: Bright Red Paperback. In: deutschlandfunk.de . May 26, 2008. Retrieved January 19, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Bergsdorf, Harald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn