Karl-Heinz Breier

Karl-Heinz Breier (* 1957 ) is a German political scientist and university lecturer in political science .

Breier studied political science, education and philosophy in Munich and Augsburg . He was a scholarship holder of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation and from 1987 to 1994 research assistant in political science at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg . In 1992 he received his doctorate from this university with a thesis on Hannah Arendt . From 1995 to 2002 he worked at the Technical University of Munich and then as an assistant at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel , where he qualified as a professor in the field of political education and political ideas. His habilitation thesis was awarded the Wolf-Erich-Kellner Prize in 2001. From 2002 to 2004 he was a private lecturer and senior research assistant for economics / politics and their didactics in Kiel. Between 2002 and 2006 he represented professorships at the Universities of Kiel, Bonn and Erfurt . From 2007 he managed the professorship for political science and its didactics at the University of Vechta. Since 2009 he has been professor for didactics in the social sciences, with a focus on political education, at the University of Vechta .

Publications

• (with Martin Schwarz, Peter Nitschke ): Basic Concepts of Politics , 2nd edition, Nomos Verlag, Baden-Baden 2017.
• (Ed. With Alexander Gantschow ): From the ethos of freedom to the order of freedom. Statehood at Karl Jaspers , Nomos Verlag, Baden-Baden 2017.
• (with Alexander Gantschow): Political existence and republican order. Hannah Arendt's understanding of the state , Nomos Verlag, Baden-Baden 2012.
• Hannah Arendt read intercultural , Bautz Verlag, Nordhausen 2007.
• (with Alexander Gantschow): Introduction to Political Theory , Lit-Verlag, Berlin 2006.
• Guiding principles of freedom. Political education as citizen education , Wochenschau Verlag, Schwalbach / Ts. 2003.
• Hannah Arendt for an introduction , Junius, Hamburg 1992 (Zugl .: Hamburg, Univ. Der Bundeswehr, Diss., 1991); 4th edition, Hamburg 2011; Dutch 2002.

Web links

• Breiers website at the University of Vechta