Heinz Sahner

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Heinz Sahner (born October 23, 1938 in Charge , Sudetenland ) is a German sociologist . Until his retirement in 2004, he taught as a professor at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg .

Life

After training to become an electrical mechanic and a technician exam , Sahner attended evening grammar school from 1960 to 1964 until he graduated from high school. After studying at the University of Cologne , he became only the degree of a graduate economist / social science direction and was at 1973 Erwin K. Scheuch and René King doctorate.

He then went to the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel as an academic adviser , where he completed his habilitation in 1981 . From 1982 to 1992 he was professor of sociology at what was then Lüneburg University . From 1992 he was professor for general sociology at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (from 1992 to 1994 as founding professor ), since 2004 he has retired.

Sahner's research focuses on the structural analysis of modern societies, the analysis of the transformation process after unification with the help of aggregate and survey data, the interest organizations in East and West Germany and urban and regional sociology.

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