Ludger Kühnhardt

Ludger Kühnhardt (2017)

Ludger Kühnhardt (born June 4, 1958 in Münster , Westphalia ) is a German political scientist . Since 1997 he has been director at the Center for European Integration Research (ZEI) at the University of Bonn and at the same time professor at the Institute for Political Science and Sociology there.

Journalistic training and activity

After graduating from high school in Ibbenbüren, Kühnhardt completed an editorial training at the German School of Journalism in Munich between 1977 and 1978 . He then worked as a freelance journalist , mainly for the Deutsche Zeitung / Christ und Welt (later merged to form Rheinischer Merkur ), Deutsche Welle and Westdeutscher Rundfunk . In 1979 he was awarded the Catholic German Journalism Prize. Kühnhardt carried out extensive journalistic reporting trips through Asia and Africa and made documentaries in South Korea , Bangladesh and India . He did his community service in the care of refugees ( boat people ) from Vietnam .

Scientific career

He completed his studies in history , philosophy and political science in 1983 with a doctorate under Karl Dietrich Bracher at the University of Bonn. His dissertation is entitled The Refugee Question as a World Order Problem . In preparation for his doctorate, research studies took him to the archives of the League of Nations and the UNHCR in Geneva and various refugee camps around the world. Kühnhardt undertook postgraduate studies in 1983/84 at the Sophia University Tokyo and at the International Christian University Tokyo and in 1984/85 at Harvard University . He then worked as the last scientific assistant to Karl Dietrich Bracher before his retirement in Bonn. In January 1987 he received his habilitation from the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Bonn. His habilitation thesis entitled The Universality of Human Rights. Study on the history of ideas determination of a key political term is considered a standard work.

Career history

From March 1987 to June 1989 Kühnhardt worked as a speechwriter for Federal President Richard von Weizsäcker in the Office of the Federal President . He then carried out research studies at St Antony's College , Oxford. In 1990/91 he held a substitute professorship for political science at Bonn University and from 1990 to 1992 a visiting professor in the history seminar of the University of Jena , which supported the development of political science there after German reunification. In 1991 Kühnhardt was appointed by the Baden-Württemberg Minister of Science to the Chair of Scientific Policy (in the successor to Arnold Bergstraesser and Wilhelm Hennis ) at the University of Freiburg . In 1994/95 he worked as dean of his faculty there in the academic self-administration.

In 1997 Ludger Kühnhardt was appointed director of the Center for European Integration Research (ZEI) at the University of Bonn, which was founded in the course of the scientific expansion of Bonn . This call was connected with a simultaneous appointment as professor for political science at the Bonn seminar for political science (today Institute for political science and sociology). Together with Jürgen von Hagen (economist) and Christian Koenig (legal scholar), Kühnhardt built up the ZEI as an internationally networked research, advisory and further education institution. He declined calls to Vienna and Hong Kong.

Visiting professorships and extended research stays led Kühnhardt to the St Antony's College of Oxford University , the University of Cape Town , the College of Europe , at the Institute for Human Sciences at the Stanford University , the Dartmouth College ( New Hampshire ), the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars ( Washington, DC ), the Seoul National University , the University of Canterbury in Christchurch , the Tongji University in Shanghai and the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina in Florianópolis, as well as regularly to the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Alta Scuola di Economia e Relazioni Internazionali) in Milan, the Diplomatic Academy Vienna and the Mediterranean Academy of Diplomatic Studies (MEDAC) in Malta .

Awards

In 2004 he was awarded the European Science Prize of the European Cultural Foundation .

family

Ludger Kühnhardt is married to the Hungarian Enikö Noemi Kühnhardt, née Auer. You have two children. Kühnhardt is Roman Catholic.

Publications

• Christian social teaching in concrete terms. Munich 1977.
• The German parties and development policy. Hanover 1980.
• Children of prosperity. In search of the lost meaning. Munich 1981.
• The land of 500,000 villages. Stories from rural India. Trichur 1982.
• The refugee question as a world order problem. Forced mass migrations in history and politics. Vienna 1984.
• The universality of human rights. Study on the history of ideas determination of a key political term. Munich 1987. Licensed edition Federal Agency for Political Education, Bonn 1987. 2nd edition 1991.
• with Hans-Gert Pöttering : United States of Europe. Approaches to values ​​and goals. Zurich 1991.
• with Hans-Peter Schwarz (Ed.): Twelve Neighbors - One Europe. Germany and the European future from the perspective of the diplomats in the surrounding countries. Bonn, Berlin 1991.
• Paths to Democracy. Contributions from political science. Jena, Erlangen 1992.
• Levels of Sovereignty. Understanding of the state and self-determination in the third world. Bonn, Berlin 1992.
• European Union and federal idea. Munich 1993.
• with Ulrich Zwiener et al. (Ed.): European challenges today. Tolerance and trust in new togetherness. Jena, Erlangen 1994.
• with Hans-Gert Pöttering: World partner European Union. Zurich 1994.
• with Gerd Leutenecker, Martin Rupps and Frank Waltmann (eds.): The double experience of German dictatorship. Third Reich and GDR - a historical-political-scientific comparison. Frankfurt am Main 1994. 2nd edition 1996.
• Revolution times. The year of change in 1989 in a historical context. Munich 1994. (Turkish edition 2003.)
• Everyone for himself and everyone against everyone. State and future of common sense. Freiburg 1994.
• In the midst of upheaval. Historical-political approaches to questions of the time. Bonn 1995.
• From the eternal search for peace. Immanuel Kant's vision and Europe's reality. Bonn 1996.
• Beyond divisions and after. Essays on democracy, the Germans and Europe. Frankfurt am Main, New York 1996.
• with Hans-Gert Pöttering: continent Europe. Zurich 1998. (Czech edition 2001.)
• Future thinker. Proven ideas of political order for the third millennium. Baden-Baden 1999.
• with Alexander Tschubarjan (Ed.): Russia and Germany on the way to an anti-totalitarian consensus. Baden-Baden 1999 (Russian edition 2000.)
• with Dario Valcarcel (ed.): Spain and Germany as EU partners. Baden-Baden 1999 (Spanish edition 2000.)
• with Hüseyin Bagci and Jackson Janes (eds.): Parameters of Partnership. The US-Turkey-Europe. Baden-Baden 1999.
• with Michael Rutz (ed.): The rediscovery of Europe. A walk through the past and present. Stuttgart 1999.
• From Germany to Europe. Spiritual cohesion and foreign policy context. Baden-Baden 2000.
• The European Union - questions about enlargement. Berlin 2001. 3rd edition 2003 (published by the Foreign Office and the Representation of the European Commission in Germany).
• with Ulrich Zwiener et al. (Ed.): Human values. Reconciliation. Jena, Erlangen 2002.
• Atlantic bridge. Fifty years of German-American partnership. Berlin 2002.
• Constituting Europe. Identity, institution-building and the search for a global role. Baden-Baden 2003.
• with Mamoru Takayama (ed.): Human rights, cultures and violence. Approaches to intercultural ethics. Baden-Baden 2005.
• Expansion and deepening. The European Union in a fresh start. Baden-Baden 2005.
• with Michael Gehler et.al. (Ed.): Towards a European Constitution. A Historical and Political Comparison with the United States , Vienna 2005.
• with Marcus Höreth and Cordula Janowski (eds.): The European Constitution. Analysis and evaluation of your structural decisions. Baden-Baden 2006.
• European Union - The second founding. The changing rationale of European integration. Baden-Baden 2008 (2nd extended edition 2010).
• Crises in European integration. Challenges and responses 1945-2005. Oxford, New York 2009.
• Region-Building, Vol. I. The Global Proliferation of Regional Integration. Oxford, New York 2010.
• Region-Building, Vol. II. Regional Integration in the World: Documents. Oxford, New York 2010.
• Europe: internal constitution and turn to the world. Determining the position of the European Union. Baden-Baden 2010.
• Africa Consensus. New Interests, Initiatives and Partners. Washington DC / Baltimore 2014.
• with Tilman Mayer (Ed.): Bonner Enzyklopädie der Globalität . 2 volumes, Wiesbaden 2017 (English version: The Bonn Handbook of Globality. 2 vol., Cham 2019)
• The Global Society and Its Enemies. Liberal Order Beyond the Third World War. Cham 2017.
• with Christian Koenig (Ed.): Governance and Regulation in the European Union. A reader. Baden-Baden 2017.
• Richard von Weizsäcker (1920-2015). Snapshots and ways of thinking of a European statesman. Bonn 2020.
• Identity and world capability. Reflections from a troubled Europe. Baden-Baden 2020.

Web links

Commons : Ludger Kühnhardt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Ludger Kühnhardt in the catalog of the German National Library
• Ludger Kühnhardt on the website of the Center for European Integration Research at the University of Bonn