Karl Schmitt (political scientist)

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Karl Schmitt (born June 4, 1944 in Säckingen ) is a German political scientist .

Life

From 1963 to 1968 , Schmitt studied political science , sociology , history and Romance studies at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn , the University of Toulouse and the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg . He then did research at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan . In 1977 he was at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Freiburg with the dissertation Political Education in the GDR. Objectives, methods and results of political education at the general schools of the GDR for Dr. phil. PhD. In 1985 he completed his habilitation with the thesis Confession and Electoral Behavior in the Federal Republic of Germany and became a private lecturer.

From 1986 to 1992 he was Professor of Political Science at the University of Cologne . In 1992 he switched to the professorship for political science at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena . In 2008 he retired.

Schmitt was chairman of the German Society for Political Science from 1999 to 2001 .

He is married and has three children.

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • Political education in the GDR. Aims, methods and results of political instruction in the general schools of the GDR (= history, politics . Volume 2). Schöningh, Paderborn u. a. 1980, ISBN 3-506-15102-9 .
  • Confession and voting behavior in the Federal Republic of Germany (= Ordo politicus . Volume 27). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-428-06761-4 .
  • With Jürgen Maier: Municipal management personnel in transition. Exchange, recruitment and orientation in Thuringia (= cities and regions in Europe . Volume 15). VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2008, ISBN 978-3-531-15825-9 .

Editorships

  • Elections, party elites, political attitudes. More recent research results (= empirical and methodological contributions to social science . Volume 6). Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 1990, ISBN 3-631-42177-X .
  • With Reimund Seidelmann: Germany and Europe. Opening of the Institute for Political Science at Friedrich Schiller University Jena (= Jena Contributions to Political Science . Volume 1). Böhlau, Weimar u. a. 1994, ISBN 3-412-01994-1 .
  • The constitution of the Free State of Thuringia (= Jena contributions to political science . Volume 3). Böhlau, Weimar u. a. 1995, ISBN 3-412-07195-1 .
  • Thuringia. A political regional studies (= Jena contributions to political science . Volume 4). Böhlau, Weimar u. a. 1996, ISBN 3-412-10895-2 . (2nd edition, Nomos, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-8329-4891-7 )
  • With Michael Edinger: Israel in the 1990s and German-Israeli relations . Universitätsverlag Jena, Jena 1996, ISBN 3-925978-55-0 .
  • Five years of reorganization of the education system in the new federal states (= publications of the Hellmuth-Loening Center for Political Science Jena . Volume 3). Berlin Verlag Arno Spitz, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-87061-572-9 .
  • Politics and Space (= publications of the German Society for Political Science . Volume 19). Nomos, Baden-Baden 2002, ISBN 3-7890-7947-2 .
  • Challenges of representative democracy (= publications of the German Society for Political Science . Volume 20). Nomos, Baden-Baden 2003, ISBN 3-8329-0124-8 .
  • With Torsten Oppelland : parties in Thuringia. A handbook (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties . Volume 16). Droste, Düsseldorf 2008, ISBN 978-3-7700-5292-9 .

literature

  • Norbert Beleke (Ed.): Who is who? The German who's who . 45th edition, Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 2006, ISBN 978-3-7950-2042-2 , p. 1185.
  • Michael Edinger, Andreas Hallermann: Political Culture in East Germany. Supporting the political system using the example of Thuringia [Professor Dr. Karl Schmitt on his 60th birthday]. Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 2004, ISBN 3-631-52391-2 .
  • Antonius Liedhegener, Torsten Oppelland (ed.): Party democracy in probation. Festschrift for Karl Schmitt (= Jena contributions to political science . Volume 14). Nomos, Baden-Baden 2009, ISBN 978-3-8329-4679-1 .

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personal data
SURNAME Schmitt, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH June 4, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Säckingen