Institute for Political Science and Sociology

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Institute for Political Science and Sociology
(IPWS)
founding 2006
Seat Lennéstrasse 25-27
53113 Bonn
Germany
main emphasis Social science
people Manuel Becker (Managing Director)
Jörg Blasius (Managing Director)
Employees 102 academic staff
less assistants
Website wikimediafoundation.org
Villa am Hofgarten 15 , seat of the library of the Institute for Political Science and Sociology

The Institute for Political Science and Sociology (IPWS) at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn was created in 2006 from the merger of two previously separate seminars from the 1950s ( political science ) and 1970s ( sociology ). The managing director is the sociologist Jörg Blasius , his deputy the political scientist Wolfram Hilz. It is responsible for the series Bonner Schriften zur Politik und Zeitgeschichte founded in 1969 by Karl Dietrich Bracher .

history

Political Science Seminar

After Karl Dietrich Bracher was appointed as an adjunct professor at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, the Department of Political Science was established in 1959 . Bracher brought his assistant Hans-Helmuth Knütter to Bonn from the Free University of Berlin . In the following years the scientists Francis Ludwig Carsten (London), Hans Kohn (New York), Richard Löwenthal (Berlin), Eduard Heimann (Hamburg), Alfred Grosser (Paris), Karl Wolfgang Deutsch (Harvard), Marc Bloch (Paris) and Ludwig Jedlicka (Vienna) invited to give guest lectures.

During the West German student movement of the 1960s there were protests at the seminar. Some students responded negatively with the Democratic Center (ADM). In 1969 another chair for political science was set up and a seminar council was set up to work out a university reform. Various left-wing groups such as the Socialist Group (SG) protested against Manfred Funke's assistant and Hans-Helmuth Knütter's deputy chair for Karl Dietrich Bracher. In 1973 a symposium of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) was held at the seminar . In addition, with the support of the German Society for Peace and Conflict Research (DGFK), the Carl von Ossietzky Guest Professorship for Peace and Conflict Research was established. The Norwegian peace researcher Johan Galtung became the first professor .

The seminar gained national prestige as a kind of "interface between politics and history". Research focusses that have received national attention to this day are the topics of democracy , dictatorship , extremism and totalitarianism . Many publications are currently among the standard works in this area. The establishment of the science location of the old federal capital Bonn benefited. Tilman Mayer and Volker Kronenberg spoke in the festschrift for the 50th anniversary of the institute in 2009 of an “unmistakable tradition”. The majority of political scientists in the Bundestag were trained in Bonn. Recently, the Bonn tradition line has also been popularized in the media by scientists such as Frank Decker .

Sociology seminar

The Sociology Department was founded in 1974 when the subject was incorporated into the Philosophical Faculty. Martinus Emge, Justin Stagl and Alfred Bellebaum played a key role in the development. In the period that followed, a cultural-sociological focus developed at the seminar.

Joint institute

In 2006 the Political Science Seminar and the Sociology Seminar merged for financial policy reasons. Political scientist Tilman Mayer became the first director. It cooperates with the Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC), the Center for Development Research (ZEF) and the Bonn Academy for Research and Teaching of Practical Politics (BAPP) initiated by Bodo Hombach .

Institute library

In 1960, the Political Science Seminar was funded by the Rockefeller Foundation for building up its own library collection . In 1977 a library donation, including a multi-volume Encyclopædia Britannica , was made by representatives of the United States Embassy in Bonn. The current inventory comprises around 40,000 copies.

Bonn writings on politics and contemporary history

In 1969 the first volume of the series of publications Bonner Schriften zur Politik und Zeitgeschichte published by the management of the Department of Political Science was published by the Droste publishing house in Düsseldorf. People like Ulrich von Alemann , Karl Dietrich Bracher, Manfred Funke, Hans-Helmuth Knütter, Patrik von zur Mühlen , Paul Noack and Hans-Gert Pöttering published in the series.

Personalities (selection)

Professors

Alumni

literature

  • Hans Günter Brauch : Developments and results in peace research 1969–1978. An interim balance sheet and specific proposals for the 2nd decade , Haag u. Herchen, Frankfurt a. M. 1979, ISBN 3-88129-220-9
  • Ulrike Quadbeck: Karl Dietrich Bracher and the beginnings of Bonn political science , Nomos, Baden-Baden 2008, ISBN 978-3-8329-3740-9
  • Tilman Mayer and Volker Kronenberg (eds.): Streitbar für die Demokratie. Bonn Perspectives of Political Science and Contemporary History 1959–2009 , Bouvier, Bonn 2009, ISBN 978-3-416-03248-3

Web links

Commons : Am Hofgarten 15 (Bonn)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans Günter Brauch: Developments and results in peace research 1969–1978. An interim balance sheet and specific proposals for the 2nd decade , Haag u. Herchen, Frankfurt a. M. 1979, ISBN 3-88129-220-9 , p. 45
  2. ↑ Information from the Federal Government, factual report 1977 on the Federal Research Report, printed matter 8/1116, p. 71 ( PDF )
  3. ↑ Cord Arendes : Contemporary History (after 1945). History of Political Science in Bonn (review). Baden-Baden 2008, in: H-Soz-u-Kult , September 10, 2009.
  4. ↑ Hagen Haas: Bonn political scientists celebrate 50 years of existence . In: General-Anzeiger , February 3, 2009.
  5. ^ Description of the Institute for Political Science and Sociology on the homepage of the Bonn University Library
  6. ^ Reference in the catalog of the German National Library