Lars Clausen

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Lars Clausen (1971)

Lars Michael Clausen (born April 8, 1935 in Berlin ; † May 20, 2010 in Hamburg ) was a German sociologist . As a professor of sociology at the University of Kiel , he introduced disaster sociology in Germany and edited the Ferdinand Tönnies complete edition . In 1993/94 he was chairman of the German Society for Sociology (DGS).

Life

Lars Clausen was the son of Jürgen and Rosemarie Clausen . He attended elementary school in Berlin and Prerow / Darß ( New Western Pomerania ). In 1945 his widowed mother fled to Hamburg with her three children . After graduating from high school in 1955 at the Christianeum there , he studied business administration and economics , law , sociology and history at the Free University of Berlin , the Universities of Cologne , Hamburg (1960: Dipl.-Kfm.), At the social research center of the University of Münster in Dortmund , where he Research assistant in the department “Sociology of Developing Countries” was, and was in 1963 at the University of Münster with Helmut Schelsky to the Dr. sc. pol. PhD.

In 1964 Clausen married the literary scholar Bettina Feddersen . He was a research affiliate of the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute in Lusaka ( Zambia ) in 1964/1965 and completed his habilitation in 1967 in Münster for sociology with an empirical study of two large Zambian companies. After teaching at the Universities of Münster and Bielefeld and at the Institute for African Studies in The Hague ( Netherlands ), Clausen was Professor of Sociology at the University of Kiel from 1970 until his retirement in 2000 , where he founded the disaster research center of the Institute for Sociology and headed it until 2002 . In 1991/1992 he was dean of the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences and in 1996/1997 a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin .

In 1955 he received the Scheffel Prize . Clausen was president of the German Africa Society and chairman of the DGS, where he first enforced the jury of the main contributions submitted for the congress in 1993 . From 2003 to 2009 he was chairman of the protection commission at the Federal Ministry of the Interior . From 1978 he was President of the Ferdinand Tönnies Society . In April 1996 he made himself available as one of the messengers to hand over the ransom to end the kidnapping of Jan-Philipp Reemtsma . Clausen was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit (1982) and the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class (1998).

His main focus was on general sociology, economic , industrial , work , cultural , literary and catastrophe sociology (which he introduced in Germany;) in terms of the history of ideas and editing, he was particularly concerned with Ferdinand Tönnies .

In 2000, Clausen gave a personal “Introduction to the Theories of Sociology” in his “very last compulsory lecture” under the title “High School Cultural History as a Path to Sociology”. His farewell lecture was published posthumously in 2015 under the title My Introduction to Sociology. 15 lectures in free speech in book form.

From 2005 to 2010 he worked as an author in the German-language Wikipedia under the pseudonym € pa .

The administrator of the estate was his wife Bettina Clausen.

Civil protection

As early as the late 1970s, Lars Clausen was a member of the protection commission at the Federal Minister of the Interior for a protection data atlas . He continued to advocate comprehensive civil protection :

“It is necessary to start from the vulnerability of our society and to start from the inevitability that the worst (disasters) will indeed occur. Disaster control ranges from state precautions, planning and, upon occurrence: relief to the efforts of the individual, self-protection "

The protection data atlas is designed to close gaps in the organization and self-protection of the population by providing “protection laypeople” with knowledge that enables them to take precautions and to alleviate their effects in the event of a disaster.

Ferdinand Tönnies

Lars Clausen was co-editor of the large Ferdinand Tönnies complete edition and since 1978 president of the sociologically important Ferdinand Tönnies Society (Kiel). Clausen ironically described himself to his students and employees as a "Tönnies functionary " and was at the same time a solid expert on his life and work, as Clausen's public speech on Tönnies' 150th birthday in Kiel shows. There he introduced Tönnies as the founder of sociology in Germany in the 1880s, as a humanist enlightener and politically committed republican, who was still an old man and became a member of the SPD and publicly appeared against the new Chancellor Adolf Hitler at the Das Freie Wort congress . Clausen also recalled Tönnies as a committed sociologist, his " applied sociology " and the philosophical foundation of his theory of society based on the key category of will : "Mind without will would be aimless, will without understanding would be destructive. Fortunately for Tönnies' theory they are one and the same. "

For Clausen, Tönnies' scholarly prose was characterized by careful text structure and well-founded, small-step conceptual structure. Tönnies has shied away from Graecisms and Latinisms , although always formulating with a sound etymology . He took his terms, such as “community” or “public opinion”, from the German language. His texts would have contained learned punchlines, but they never seemed gimmicky. Even in critical statements, for example on political problems of the day, the sociologist was careful to avoid personal insults, although his judgments were clear, often harsh.

Clausen described the rapid academic development of the "farmer's child vom Heubarg" (who completed his habilitation at the age of 26) and his creative intellectual achievements as the "founder" of sociology in Germany as follows:

“The secret of social life is to willingly seize a special, a very unusual chance of survival in the face of the diverse negative forces of all acting people - mutual social affirmation. At first it seems unnatural, negation is the normal case, but precisely because of this, the affirmation requires special explanation. How-do people who are at the same time capable of will and thinking exercise their mutual affirmations, as they perceive or calculate them, that is the special object of knowledge of this new science. "

Works

A list of Clausen's publications can be found in the festschrift for his 60th birthday and for the time afterwards on his website at the University of Kiel.

Honors

selected Writings

  • Elements of a sociology of commercial advertising. West German publishing house, Opladen 1964.
  • On Attitudes Towards Industrial Conflict in Zambian Industry. In: African Social Research. 1966, H. 2, pp. 117-138.
  • Industrialization in sub-Saharan Africa. West German publishing house, Opladen 1968.
  • Stereotypes of occupational accidents and illnesses. Large-scale study from a developing country. In: social world . Vol. 19, 1968, pp. 47-65.
  • The number of different last moves in a game of chess. In: The swallow . 1971, p. 248.
  • The Haitian Revolution as an example for Germany. A note on her influence on Heinrich von Kleist. In: Christiana Albertina. Vol. 13, 1972, pp. 52-54.
  • Talk to Arno Schmidt. In: Frankfurter Hefte . Vol. 28, 1973, pp. 736–747 (numerous reprints), PDF; 63 kB of the Society of Arno Schmidt Readers eV
  • Youth Sociology Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1976.
  • Exchange. Drafts for a sociological theory , Kösel, Munich 1976, ISBN 3-466-32007-0 .
  • with Volker von Borries, Karl Simons: Siedlungssoziologie. Kösel, Munich 1978.
  • In company of course [essay]. In: Sociological Review . Vol. 5., 1982, pp. 399-407.
  • with Wolf R. Dombrowsky : Introduction to the Sociology of Disasters. Federal Office for Civil Protection, Bonn 1983.
  • with Wolf R. Dombrowsky: Warning practice and warning logic. In: Journal of Sociology . Vol. 13, 1984, pp. 293-307.
  • with Bettina Clausen : capable of anything. Attempt of a socio-biography to understand the poet Leopold Schefer. 2 vols. Bangert & Metzler, Frankfurt am Main 1985.
  • Productive work, destructive work. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1988.
  • The hunt for the wall. A trojan problem. Dedicated to Gotthard Günther on the occasion of his 80th birthday (= Klagenfurt Contributions to the Technology Discussion. Vol. 40). Inter-university research institute for distance learning at the Austrian universities, Klagenfurt 1991.
  • Axiomatic in Arno Schmidt's world model. In: Booklets on research by the Arno Schmidt Society. 1992, H. 1, pp. 53-63.
  • The finists . In: Mittelweg 36 . Vol. 1, 1992, H. 5, pp. 18-35.
  • Gross social change. Leske + Budrich, Opladen 1994.
  • The birth of the political from the spirit of music. In: Lars Clausen (Ed.): Societies in transition. Campus, Frankfurt am Main / New York 1996, pp. 33-48.
  • Social warning problems in multi-valued logic. In: Axel Ziemke, Rudolf Kaehr (Ed.): Self-organization. Yearbook for Complexity in the Natural, Social and Human Sciences. Vol. 6: Realities and Rationalities. Berlin 1996, pp. 197-213.
  • Strange year at the Wissenschaftskolleg. In: Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (Ed.): Yearbook 1996/97. Berlin 1998, pp. 21-25.
  • "The cities are coming around a lot lately". A letter about Kiel to Günter Endruweit. In: Gerhard Berger, Petra Hartmann (ed.): Sociology with constructive intent. Festschrift for Günter Endruweit. Hamburg 1999, pp. 11-19.
  • Community. In: Günter Endruweit, Gisela Trommsdorf (Hrsg.): Dictionary of Sociology. 2nd Edition. Lucius & Lucius, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-8282-0172-5 , pp. 183-185.
  • Weak point analysis on the occasion of the Pallas accident . BVA, Bonn 2003.
  • with Elke M. Geenen , Elísio Macamo: Terrible social processes. Theory and Empirical Disaster. Lit, Münster 2003, ISBN 3-8100-1141-X (with an extensive international bibliography and a “catastrophe-sociological glossary”).
  • Introduction to the theories of sociology. In: Stephan Beetz, Ulf Jacob, Anton Sterbling (eds.): Sociology beyond borders. European perspectives. Festschrift for Prof. Dr. Dr. hc Bálint Balla. Krämer, Hamburg 2003, pp. 125-161.
  • In memory of old crimes , published by the Sparkassenstiftung Schleswig-Holstein together with the State Center for Political Education Schleswig-Holstein and the Community Foundation Schleswig-Holstein Memorials. Kiel 2005, DNB 1074705572 .
  • Three sociological approaches to the constitutional crisis. Tönnies - Weber - Schelsky. In: Uwe Carstens et al. (Ed.): Constitution, constitution, constitution. Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2008, pp. 23–39.
  • Tönnies, Ferdinand. In: German Biographical Encyclopedia . 2nd Edition. Vol. X, Saur, Munich 2008, pp. 60-62.
  • Are disasters manageable? - Modern crisis management: experiences and requirements. In: Michael Kloepfer (Ed.): Disaster Law. Basics and perspectives. Nomos, Baden-Baden 2008, pp. 15-19.
  • My introduction to sociology. 15 lectures in free speech. ed. by Jan-Frederik Bandel and Klaus R. Schroeter , with the collaboration of Bettina Clausen , Stroemfeld, Frankfurt am Main 2015, ISBN 978-3-86600-245-6 .

Selected editorships

  • with Bettina Clausen : spectrum of literature. Lexikothek, Gütersloh 1975; numerous improved editions up to 15th 1990.
  • with Franz Urban Pappi : arrival at Tönnies. Mühlau, Kiel 1981.
  • with Volker von Borries, Wolf R. Dombrowsky, Hans-Werner Prahl : Tönnies today. On the topicality of Ferdinand Tönnies. Mühlau, Kiel 1985.
  • with Carsten Schlüter: Community renaissance? Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1990.
  • with Carsten Schlüter: Hundred years of “ Community and Society ”. Leske + Budrich, Opladen 1991.
  • with Carsten Schlüter: "Perseverance, patience and calm". Aspects and sources of Tönnies research. Rolf Fechner, Hamburg 1991.
  • Societies in transition. Campus, Frankfurt am Main / New York 1995.
  • Lead editor, with Alexander Deichsel , Cornelius Bickel , Carsten Schlüter-Knauer, Uwe Carstens : Ferdinand Tönnies complete edition , 24 vols. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York since 1998. In it individual editor of vol. 22: 1932–1936. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1998.
  • with Arno Bammé , Rolf Fechner: Public opinion between new science and new religion. Ferdinand Tönnies' “Critique of Public Opinion” in the international discussion. Profil, Munich / Vienna 2005.
  • with Uwe Carstens, Frank Osterkamp, ​​Carsten Schlüter-Knauer: Reorganization of social benefits. Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2006, ISBN 3-8334-6477-1 .
  • with Uwe Carstens, Alexandre Escudier, Ingeburg Lachaussée: Constitution, Constitution, Constitution. Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2008, ISBN 978-3-8370-4858-2 .

Writings created under his direction

  • Wolf R. Dombrowsky , Jörg Horenczuk, Willi Streitz: Creation of a protection data atlas. Civil protection research, series of publications by the Protection Commission at the Federal Minister of the Interior, Federal Office of Administration (ed.) - Central Office for Civil Protection - on behalf of the Federal Ministry of the Interior. New volume 51, 2003, ISSN  0343-5164 (PDF) .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History of the DGS .
  2. ↑ Wolf R. Dombrowsky : To hell with the hyphen. On the justification of the catastrophes (-) sociology in Germany by Lars Clausen. In: Ders., Ursula Pasero (Ed.): Science, literature, catastrophe. Opladen 1995, pp. 108-122.
  3. ↑ Lars Clausen: High school cultural history as a way into sociology. In: Tönnies forum . Vol. 12, 2003, H. 2, pp. 33-74. Again in: Gustav Mechlenburg (ed.): Culture & Ghosts. Hamburg 2010, pp. 33–73.
  4. ↑ Jürgen Oetting: "Cool, a diver." Lars Clausen as Wikipedia author . In: Tönnies-Forum , vol. 25, 2/2016, pp. 33–38.
  5. ↑ Wolf R. Dombrowsky, Jörg Horenczuk, Willi Streitz: Creation of a protection data atlas. Civil defense research, series of publications by the Protection Commission at the Federal Minister of the Interior. New series Volume 51. Ed. Federal Office of Administration - Central Office for Civil Protection - on behalf of the Federal Ministry of the Interior. 2003 (PDF, p. 11) .
  6. ↑ Lars Clausen: Impending dangers. On the occasion of the second hazard report of the protection commission. Lecture (theses), November 13, 2001, Auditorium maximum, Christian-Albrechts-Universität, Kiel. Kiel transfer. Quoted from Wolf R. Dombrowsky, Jörg Horenczuk, Willi Streitz: Creation of a protection data atlas. Civil defense research, series of publications by the Protection Commission at the Federal Minister of the Interior. New series Volume 51. Ed. Federal Office of Administration - Central Office for Civil Protection - on behalf of the Federal Ministry of the Interior. 2003, p. 38 .
  7. ↑ Lars Clausen 2001. Quoted from Wolf R. Dombrowsky, Jörg Horenczuk, Willi Streitz: Creation of a protection data atlas. Civil defense research, series of publications by the Protection Commission at the Federal Minister of the Interior. New series Volume 51. Ed. Federal Office of Administration - Central Office for Civil Protection - on behalf of the Federal Ministry of the Interior. 2003, p. 39 .
  8. ^ A b Lars Clausen: Ferdinand Tönnies (1855–1936). In: Christiana Albertina. Vol. 63, 2006, pp. 63-69.
  9. ^ Richard Albrecht : Ferdinand Tönnies and the Congress, The Free Word '1933. In: Sociologia Internationalis . Vol. 28, 1990, No. 1, pp. 87-90.
  10. ^ Lars Clausen: Ferdinand Tönnies (1855-1936). In: Christiana Albertina. Vol. 63, 2006, pp. 63-69, here p. 69.
  11. ^ Ferdinand Tönnies: The Breslau event. In: Vossische Zeitung . December 31, 1932, 1998 critical ed. in: TG Vol. 22, pp. 354-356.
  12. ^ Lars Clausen: Ferdinand Tönnies (1855-1936). In: Christiana Albertina. Vol. 63, 2006, pp. 63-69, here pp. 64 f.
  13. ^ Wolf R. Dombrowsky, Ursula Pasero (ed.): Science, literature, catastrophe. Festschrift for the sixtieth birthday of Lars Clausen. Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1995, ISBN 3-531-12785-3 , pp. 364-374.
  14. ↑ Publications ( Memento of July 3, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (University of Kiel).
personal data
SURNAME Clausen, Lars
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Clausen, Lars Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH May 20, 2010
Place of death Hamburg