Klaus Meschkat

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Klaus Meschkat (born October 29, 1935 in Berlin ) is a German sociologist and professor emeritus at the University of Hanover .

Life

Klaus Meschkat was a student of the philosopher Rudolf Schottlaender at the Georg-Herwegh-Gymnasium in Berlin-Hermsdorf , who recommended him for the German National Academic Foundation “after a first-class Abitur” . In 1954 he began studying sociology and Eastern European history at the Free University of Berlin (FU) and in 1957 became its AStA chairman. From 1958 to 1959 he was chairman of the Association of German Student Unions . In 1965 he was promoted to Dr. phil. doctorate and then worked until 1968 as a research assistant at the Eastern European Institute of the FU. In 1967 he co-founded the Republican Club in West Berlin. He stayed in Colombia 1970–1972 and 1974 doing research . Since 1975 he has been a professor at the Institute for Sociology at the University of Hanover ( retired since 2000 ). Study trips took him to several Latin American countries. In 1988 he received a one-year academy scholarship from the Volkswagenwerk Foundation for a book project about Colombia in the 1920s.

He was visiting professor several times, for example at New York University , in Medellín / Colombia 1969/70, in Concepción / Chile in 1973 and in Cali / Colombia in 1985.

His teaching and research focus are: Political sociology of developing countries, primarily Latin America ; Development policy of the Federal Republic; International labor movement , especially trade unions in developing countries; post-revolutionary societies in Latin America and Africa; Theories of imperialism and contemporary development theories; social movements in Colombia, Chile , Bolivia and Nicaragua .

Meschkat is a member of Attac's Scientific Advisory Board .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rudolf Schottlaender, In spite of all this, a German. My path in life since the beginning of the century. Herder, Freiburg, 1986. p. 74: "Klaus Meschkat, as a pupil a dignified and independent, on the whole a little brittle-looking youth."
  2. ↑ Interview with Klaus Meschkat: "We all expected that there would be the coup"
  3. ^ Members of the scientific advisory board. In: Attac. Retrieved July 13, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Meschkat, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 29, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin