Klaus Gilgenmann

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Klaus Gilgenmann (* 1943 ; † June 29, 2012 ) was a German sociologist and political activist.

Live and act

Gilgenmann studied sociology , psychology and educational science at the Free University of Berlin from 1963 to 1970 . At that time he was active in the area of Commune I and was arrested on April 5, 1967 together with Dieter Kunzelmann , Rainer Langhans and Fritz Teufel , because these people were suspected of having planned an attack on American Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey . However, the Communards had to be released from custody the next day. With Jan-Carl Raspe and others, Gilgenmann was on the Berlin state board of the Socialist German Student Union and was one of the founders of Commune 2 . In the SDS, Gilgenmann was a leader with Jürgen Horlemann and Peter Gäng in the SDS working group "South Vietnam" founded in early 1965.

From 1970 Gilgenmann was a research associate at the Institute for Sociology in the Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences at Freie Universität, where he earned a doctorate in 1975 with a study on the social organization of educational processes. rer. pole. PhD. He then became Academic Councilor at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Osnabrück , where he was active in teaching and research until 2008 in the areas of educational sociology, which he considered in the context of the functionalist theory of social systems, general sociologies and organizational sociology.

His main research interest was an evolutionary theoretical model of social change in which he wanted to link micro- and macro-theoretical social science theories. Even after his retirement in 2008, he headed the Social Science Colloquium of the Faculty of Social Sciences at Osnabrück University.

Publications (selection)

Books

  • The increasing improbability of intergenerational communication . Osnabrück social science manuscripts, Department of Social Sciences, University of Osnabrück 1988
  • Educational communication. Three contributions to the sociology of education . Osnabrück 1991
  • Cultural inheritance: upbringing and education from an evolutionary perspective . Edited with Peter Mersch, Alfred K. Treml, Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2013, ISBN 978-3-8391-4415-2 .

items

  • "Communication - a zipper model". In: Social Systems (Journal) No. 3, 1997, Issue 1
  • "Homo - socciologicus - sapiens. On the evolutionary theoretical embedding of sociological human models ”. In: Journal of Sociology , Volume 35, Issue 5, October 2006
  • “Autopoiesis and self socialization. On the system-theoretical reconstruction of socialization theory. ”In: Journal for Sociology of Education and Socialization 1986

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biographical data and career: “A passionate scientist and valued colleague - The University of Osnabrück mourns the loss of a university lecturer (retired) Dr. Klaus Gilgenmann. “ University of Osnabrück : Press release No. 184/2012 , July 9, 2012
  2. ↑ Martin Klimke, Joachim Scharloth : 1968. Handbook on the culture and media history of the student movement. Springer Verlag 2016 ( ISBN 9783476000903 ), p. 109
  3. ↑ "Twenty Years After. Conversation with Peter Gäng, member of the working group Vietnam of the Berlin SDS 1964 and from 1966 second federal chairman of the SDS. “In: Werner Balsen, Karl Rössel: Hoch die Internationale Solidarität. On the history of the third world movement in the Federal Republic. Cologne 1986
  4. ↑ Klaus Gilgenmann: The form of social organization of educational processes. A contribution to the theoretical foundations of the study of education in civil society. Berlin, Freie Univ., Faculty 11 - Philosophy a. Sozialwiss., Diss., 1975.
personal data
SURNAME Gilgenmann, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist and political activist
DATE OF BIRTH 1943
DATE OF DEATH June 29, 2012