Institute for Political Science Erlangen

The Institute for Political Science is the political science institute of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg , located at Kochstrasse 4 in Erlangen . The institute is integrated into the Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy of the Philosophical Faculty. It was founded in 1961 by Waldemar Besson and was initially located in Erlangen Castle . It is the largest political science institute in Northern Bavaria .

Organization and study

The Institute for Political Science is divided into four chairs and two professorships . In addition to the chairs for classical political science fields, political theory , comparative political science and in Erlangen on the Middle East , Germany's only chair for human rights and human rights policy has existed since 2009 . The institute has a department for political science teacher training on the Nuremberg campus of the FAU Philosophical Faculty (“Campus Regensburger Strasse”).

In addition to the bachelor's and master's degree in Political Science and teacher training courses in social studies , the institute also offers a Masters in Human Rights and, in cooperation with other institutes, a Masters in Middle East Studies . Around 1,000 people study at the institute.

The institute, together with other Bavarian universities, is part of the Bavarian Center for Political Theory with the associated Bavarian Doctoral College for Political Theory.

Libraries and Research Centers

The institute has its own institute library as part of the Erlangen-Nuremberg University Library with around 35,000 volumes.

Connected to the institute are two research centers that are available to interested researchers for scientific purposes: The Gerlach archive with 17,000 documents is the estate of the Prussian politician Ernst Ludwig von Gerlach , which also includes parts of the Raumer family archive . The private library of the German-American philosopher Eric Voegelin with 5,000 volumes also belongs to the institute (see Eric Voegelin library ).

Personalities of the institute (selection)

Gotthard Jasper Waldemar Besson Wolf-Dieter fool Kurt Tudyka Kurt Lenk Jürgen Gebhardt

Johannes Görg Roland Sturm Heinrich Pehle Heiner Bielefeldt Thomas Demmelhuber Clemens Kauffmann

Alexander Schölch Thomas Philipp Christoph Schumann Howard Loewen Omar Kamil Stefan Fröhlich

Konrad Loew Tilo Schabert Armin Scherb Johannes Varwick Heinz-Volker Rausch Mark R. Thompson

Petra Bendel Bettina Westle Sabine Kropp Stephan Bierling Andreas M. Rauch Klaus Rothe

Klaus Brummer Michaela Pfadenhauer Friedrich von Krosigk Julia Oberhofer Petra Zimmermann-Steinhart

literature

• 50 years of political science in Erlangen. Speeches during the celebration of the Institute for Political Science of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg in the auditorium of the Erlangen Palace on May 27, 2011 . Erlangen University Speeches No. 76/2012, 3rd episode.

Web links

• official homepage

Individual evidence

1. ↑ About the chair . Institute for Political Science at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg. Retrieved October 27, 2017.
2. ↑ Via the institute library . Institute for Political Science at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg. Retrieved October 27, 2017.
3. ^ Rohrbecker Archive / Raumer Archive . Institute for Political Science at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg. Retrieved October 27, 2017.
4. ↑ About the library . Institute for Political Science at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg. Retrieved October 27, 2017.

Coordinates: 49 ° 36 ′ 1 ″  N , 11 ° 0 ′ 59.6 ″  E