Hermann Schwengel
Hermann Schwengel (* 1949 in Rahden ; † December 7, 2014 ) was a German sociologist and university professor .
Life
Schwengel grew up in Wehe and graduated from high school in 1969 at Söderblom-Gymnasium in Espelkamp.
After studying philosophy , politics and education in Konstanz , Marburg and Zurich , Schwengel received his doctorate in 1978 at the Philipps University of Marburg on the revision of Marx's social theory . He was then an assistant professor at the Free University of Berlin . From 1985 to 1986 he conducted research at the City University of New York . In 1987 he received his habilitation with a thesis on political and social modernization in the United States. After a research stay at Lancaster University , he returned to the Free University of Berlin in 1990 as a senior assistant.
In 1994 he accepted the professorship for sociology at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg , which Heinrich Popitz previously held. In Freiburg he was, among other things, Dean of the Philosophical Faculty and Vice-Rector for Research. Most recently he headed the Institute of Sociology together with Ulrich Bröckling and Nina Degele . Schwengel retired in September 2014 . A little later he died after a short, serious illness.
Schwengel was a member of the Fundamental Values Commission of the Social Democratic Party of Germany and the Board of Trustees of the Institute for Cultural Policy of the Cultural Political Society . He was also co-editor of the journals Ästhetik & Kommunikation and Theory, Culture & Society .
Publications
- Beyond the ideology of the center. A structural revision of Marx's social theory , Guttandin and Hoppe, Marburg / Lahn 1978, ISBN 3-922140-00-9 (dissertation)
- The little leviathan. Political civilization around 1900 and the American dialectic of modernization and modernity , Athenaeum, Frankfurt am Main 1988, ISBN 3-610-09717-5
- Editor, with Frithjof Hager : Who stages life? Models of future socialization , Fischer , Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-596-12958-3
- Globalization with a European face. The struggle for the political form of the future , Aufbau-Verlag , Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-351-02476-2
- with Boike Rehbein : Theories of Globalization , UVK , Konstanz 2008, ISBN 978-3-8252-3052-4
Web links
- Literature by and about Hermann Schwengel in the catalog of the German National Library
- Hermann Schwengel's CV at the Institute for Sociology at the University of Freiburg
- Obituary for Hermann Schwengel from December 10, 2014 in the Badische Zeitung
- Obituary for Hermann Schwengel by Ulrich Bröckling at the Institute for Sociology at the University of Freiburg
Individual evidence
- ^ Landlust day before. Landlust - to live on the blessings in the country. Evangelical Lutheran parish Rahden; March 13, 2014.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schwengel, Hermann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sociologist and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rahden |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 7, 2014 |