Joachim Perels

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Joachim Perels (born March 31, 1942 in Berlin ) is a German political scientist .

Life

Joachim Perels is the son of 1945 executed resistance fighter Friedrich Justus Perels and grandson of in Sippenhaft deceased historian Ernst Perels . He studied law, philosophy, sociology and political science in Frankfurt am Main and Tübingen and received his doctorate in 1973 from the law faculty of the University of Frankfurt . Since 1971 he has been working at the University of Hanover (at that time still Technical University), first as administrator of a scientific assistant position at the Department for Science of Politics, from 1975 as Academic Councilor, 1976 as Academic Senior Councilor. In 1978 he completed his habilitation in Political Science in Hanover and has been Professor of Political Science there (now emeritus ) since 1983 .

His areas of work are: democratic constitutional theory , rule structure of state socialism , coming to terms with the Nazi past, after-effects of the Nazi system in the Federal Republic of Germany, punishment of state crimes, political implications of theology .

Among other things, Joachim Perels is co-founder and editor of the journal Kritische Justiz , chairman of the scientific advisory board of the Fritz Bauer Institute and member of the international expert commission for the expansion of the Bergen-Belsen memorial, as well as deputy director of the Institute for Research on Federalism.

In 2012 he was awarded the Fritz Bauer Prize of the Humanist Union .

Fonts (selection)

  • Democracy and Social Emancipation: Contributions to the Constitutional Theory of Civil Society and Socialism. VSA-Verlag, Hamburg 1988, ISBN 3-87975-414-4 .
  • The legal legacy of the “Third Reich”: Damage to the democratic legal system. Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main / New York 1999, ISBN 3-593-36318-6 .
  • Right-wing radicalism - a marginal phenomenon? Critical Analysis. Offizin, Hannover 2003, ISBN 3-930345-40-4 (with Michael Buckmiller ).
  • Disposal of the Nazi regime? Lines of conflict in dealing with the Hitler regime. Offizin, Hannover 2004, ISBN 3-930345-42-0 .
  • Liberation from social immaturity. Contributions to the history and theory of the labor movement. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-61090-9 .
  • "He throws the mighty from their throne and exalts the lowly". Contributions to theology . Peter Lang Edition, Frankfurt am Main 2013, ISBN 978-3-631-62019-9 .
  • National Socialism as a Problem of the Present. Peter Lang Edition, Frankfurt am Main 2015, ISBN 978-3-631-62068-7 .
  • as editor: Martin Niemöller . Conscience before reason of state. Selected writings . Wallstein, Göttingen 2016, ISBN 978-3-8353-1700-0 .

literature

  • Thomas Blanke, Joachim Perels - Christianity, Judaism and Socialism. Keywords for the »vita academica«. In: Kritische Justiz , Volume 40 (2007), Issue 2, pp. 193–195, online version (PDF), accessed on August 10, 2016.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Professional biography information is based on: Joachim Perels, curriculum vitae, University of Hanover
  2. ↑ Awarding of the Fritz Bauer Prize 2012 to Joachim Perels , Humanist Union , accessed on August 10, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Perels, Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin