Heiner Bielefeldt

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Heiner Bielefeldt (born April 12, 1958 in Titz-Opherten ) is a German theologian , philosopher and historian . He holds the chair for human rights and human rights policy at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg . From June 2010 to October 2016, Bielefeldt was the UN Human Rights Council's special rapporteur on freedom of religion and belief .

Career

Bielefeldt studied philosophy and catholic theology in Bonn and Tübingen (exams 1981 and 1982). He then studied history in Tübingen (exam 1988). From 1983 to 1990 he worked as a research assistant, later as a research assistant on the "Interdisciplinary Research Project Human Rights" at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Tübingen . In 1989, Bielefeldt received his doctorate there with a thesis on social contract theories. phil.

From 1990 to 1992 he worked at the chair for public law and legal philosophy at the Law Faculty of the University of Mannheim . He then moved to the chair for public law and legal philosophy at the Law Faculty of Heidelberg University. 1993/94 spent a research and teaching stay at the “Faculty of Law” and at the “Department of Philosophy” of the University of Toronto as a fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation . In February 2000 he completed his habilitation in philosophy at Faculty 9 (Cultural Studies) at the University of Bremen .

In April 2000 Bielefeldt was appointed university lecturer at Bielefeld University, combined with teaching duties in the faculties of law and education. From 2003 to 2009 Bielefeldt was director of the German Institute for Human Rights in Berlin. In 2007 he was appointed honorary professor at the Law Faculty of Bielefeld University.

Since 2009 he has held the newly created chair for human rights and human rights policy at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. The chair is based at the Institute for Political Science there ; Bielefeldt's teaching activities cover the disciplines of political science , philosophy, law and history.

Fields of activity

Since April 1995 Bielefeldt has been a member of the interdisciplinary research group for multi-ethnic conflicts at the University of Bielefeld , Faculty of Education. From this research group, the Institute for Interdisciplinary Conflict and Violence Research (IKG) emerged in 1996 under the direction of Wilhelm Heitmeyer .

Bielefeldt is involved in interreligious dialogue and was a member of the board of trustees of the Muslim Academy in Germany . He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Christian-Islamic Society . In addition, Bielefeldt is a member of the German Society for Research into Political Thought (DGEPD) and on the advisory board of the Zeitschrift für Menschenrechte (ZfMR). Regarding the issue of circumcision, he describes a general ban on religious circumcision as disproportionate.

On June 18, 2010, Bielefeldt was appointed by the UN Human Rights Council to succeed Asma Jahangir as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion and Belief.

Bielefeldt told the UN General Assembly's Human Rights Committee in 2010 at the 65th UN General Assembly: “Small communities such as Jehovah's Witnesses , Baha'is , Ahmadis, Falun Gong and others are sometimes stigmatized as ' cults ' and often encounter social ones Prejudices that can expand into full-fledged conspiracy theories ”.

For 2017 he was awarded the Alfons Auer Ethics Prize .

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Awards

Fonts

Monographs

  • Modern freedom and political justice. Perspectives of social contract theories. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1990.
  • On the ethos of human rights democracy. An introduction using the example of the Basic Law. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1991.
  • Recovery of the political. An introduction to Hannah Arendt's political thinking. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1993.
  • Fight and decision. Political existentialism with Carl Schmitt, Helmuth Plessner and Karl Jaspers. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1994.
  • Philosophy of human rights. Foundations of a worldwide ethos of freedom. Scientific Book Society Darmstadt and Primus, 1998.
    Portuguese translation: Filosofia dos direitos humanos. Fundamentos de um ethos de liberdade universal. Editora Unisinos, Sao Leopoldo 2000.
  • Kant's symbolism. A key to the critical philosophy of freedom. Alber, Freiburg i.Br. 2001. (Practical Philosophy Series. Volume 69).
    English version: Symbolic Representation in Kant's Practical Philosophy. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2003.
  • Muslims in the secular constitutional state. Integration opportunities through religious freedom. transcript, Bielefeld 2003.
  • Human rights in the immigrant society. Plea for an enlightened multiculturalism. transcript, Bielefeld 2007.
  • Outdated model of human dignity? Why it is in question and why we have to defend it , Herder Verlag, Freiburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-451-32508-3 .
  • Freedom of Religion or Belief. An International Commentary , Oxford OUP, 2016.

Editing of edited volumes

  • with Winfried Brugger and Klaus Dicke : Dimensions of human freedom. Johannes Schwartländer on his 65th birthday. Attempto, Tübingen 1988 ISBN 3-89308-004-X .
  • with Winfried Brugger and Klaus Dicke: Human dignity and rights. Johannes Schwartländer on his 70th birthday. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1992.
  • with Volkmar Deile and Bernd Thomsen: Human rights before the turn of the millennium. amnesty international publication. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1993.
  • with Wilhelm Heitmeyer : Politicized Religion. Origins and manifestations of modern fundamentalism. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1998.
  • with Heike Alefsen, Bernd Thomsen, Katharina Wegener (Red.): Human rights in transition. Fifty years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Edited by Amnesty International. Luchterhand, Neuwied 1998.
  • with Jörg Lüer: Rights of national minorities. Ethical justification, legal anchoring and historical experience. transcript, Bielefeld 2004.
  • with Petra Follmar-Otto: Conceptual and editorial work for: Federal Ministry for Family, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth, Forced Marriage in Germany. German Institute for Human Rights, Baden-Baden, 2007
  • with Franz-Josef Hutter , Sabine Kurtenbach, Carsten Tessmer: Human rights issues . Loeper Literaturverlag, Karlsruhe, 2008
  • with Volkmar Deile, Brigitte Hamm, Franz-Josef Hutter, Sabine Kurtenbach, Hannes Tretter: Yearbook Human Rights 2009: Religious Freedom, Vienna: Böhlau, 2008
  • with Marianne Heimbach-Steins: Religions and religious freedom. Human rights perspectives in the field of tension between mission and conversion. Würzburg, 2010
  • with Andreas Frewer: The human right to health. Normative foundations and current discourses . Transcript-Verlag, Bielefeld, 2016
  • with Caroline Welsh, Christoph Ostgathe, Andreas Frewer: Autonomy and human rights at the end of life. Basics, experiences, reflections from practice. Transcript-Verlag, Bielefeld, 2016

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Moldova: UN human rights expert calls for more fostering of religious diversity , UN News Center, September 9, 2011, accessed February 10, 2018
  2. ↑ a b Zeitschrift für Menschenrechte, Journal for Human Rights, Menschenrechtsabkommen , Wochenschauverlag, Volume 11, No. 1, 2017, accessed on February 10, 2018
  3. ↑ Religious circumcisions (www.aerzteblatt.de August 6, 2012)
  4. ^ "German is the new UN religious commissioner", DW-WORLD.DE/Deutsche Welle
  5. ↑ Louis Charbonneau, UN envoy defends Falun Gong, "evil cult" for China , Reuters, October 21, 2010, accessed February 10, 2018
  6. ↑ a b Michael Frammelsberger, Honor, For Human Rights on the move , Schwäbisches Tagblatt, November 16, 2017, accessed on February 10, 2018
  7. ^ Advisory Board, Commonwealth Initiative for Freedom of Religion or Belief (CIFoRB) , Member of the Advisory Board, 2016, accessed February 10, 2018
  8. ↑ About us , German Commission Justitia Et Pax, accessed on February 10, 2018
  9. ↑ Advisory Board of the Migration Law Network , Academy of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart, 2007, accessed on February 10, 2018
  10. ^ Foundation Board of Trustees , Hirschfeld Eddy Foundation, accessed on February 10, 2018
  11. ^ Team , project group (Chair for Christian Social Teaching and General Sociology of Religion at the University of Bamberg), 2016, accessed on February 10, 2018
  12. ↑ About us, Advisory Board of the Federal Anti-Discrimination Agency, Federal Anti-Discrimination Agency, press release, June 17, 2010, accessed on February 10, 2018
  13. ↑ https://www.kcid.fau.de/das-projekt/wissenschaftlicher-beirat/
  14. ↑ https://www.pol.phil.fau.de/person/heiner-bielefeldt/
  15. ↑ Commitment to human rights: University of Tübingen honors Heiner Bielefeldt , Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, September 18, 2017, accessed on February 10, 2018
  16. ↑ Federal Cross of Merit for Prof. Heiner Bielefeldt , FAU human rights expert receives the Cross of Merit 1st Class, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, October 5, 2017, accessed on February 10, 2018
  17. ↑ a b list of publications , Prof. Heiner Bielefeldt, December 2016, accessed on February 10, 2018
  18. ↑ Biographical Sketch: Prof. Dr. Heiner Bielefeldt , accessed on February 10, 2018


personal data
SURNAME Bielefeldt, Heiner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian, philosopher and historian
DATE OF BIRTH April 12, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Titz-Opherten