Manfred Mols

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Manfred Heinrich Mols (born February 27, 1935 in Bochum ; † May 3, 2016 in Weiler bei Bingen ) was a German political scientist .

Manfred Mols attended high school for mathematics and science. He then completed an apprenticeship as an industrial clerk in hard coal mining at the Hibernia mining company in Herne . He worked there until 1958. During this time he attended the evening high school in Gelsenkirchen. With the best high school diploma to date, the director of studies proposed him for a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation . Mols began studying political science, sociology and philosophy at the University of Freiburg in 1959 . He also studied in Glasgow and Munich. When Dieter Oberdörfer he became in 1966 a doctorate in Freiburg with a thesis on the importance of integrating teaching Rudolf Smend . From 1966 to 1968 he was a research assistant at the University of Freiburg. From 1966 he dealt with Mexico at the Arnold Bergstraesser Institute . From 1968 to 1969, Mols was a visiting scholar at Stanford University . Between 1969 and 1971, Mols was visiting professor at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City . The stay brought him closer to Mexican history and the political system. From 1971 to 1972 he was a research assistant at the University of Freiburg. Mols taught at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz from 1973 until his retirement in 2001 . At the Institute for Political Science he was head of the department "Political Studies Abroad and Development Policy". As an academic teacher, he supervised around forty dissertations. Ernesto Garzón Valdés came to Mainz as a result of his efforts . In 1981 Valdes received a professorship with the title "State and Society in Latin America" ​​and developed a lively lecture and publication activity. Important symposia on Latin America and later on Asia were held in Mainz because of Mols. Under Mols, Mainz became an important place for Latin American research. From 1981, Asia moved into the focus of his research.

Mols carried out research on regionalism, cooperation and integration in Latin America and Southeast Asia. He also worked on concepts of state and society from a comparative perspective, the relations between Latin America and Germany and between Latin America and Asia. His account of Mexico in the 20th century (1981) was for many years the most comprehensive country monograph on Latin America in Germany. In 1994 he presented an Introduction to Political Science, which was published in six editions by 2009.

He was a founding member of IRELA ( Instituto de Relaciones Europeo-Latinoamericanas ) in Madrid and was a board member of ADLAF ( German Research Group on Latin America ) from 1975 to 1996 . Mols was on the Advisory Board of the Latin American History Yearbook and editor of Latin American Research. He has taught as visiting professor at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and at the Australian National University in Canberra . Mols participated in the UNESCO project “Political study of history”, in which a total of 17 world civilizations were examined. He was awarded the Order of Mexicana del Águila Azteca and the Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany (2007) for his services to scientific relations with Latin America .

Fonts

  • Political science. An introduction (= UTB. Vol. 1789). 6th, fundamentally revised and changed edition. Schöningh, Paderborn 2009, ISBN 978-3-8252-1789-1 .
  • Integration and cooperation in two continents. The striving for unity in Latin America and Southeast Asia (= writings of the Mainz Philosophical Faculty Society. Vol. 15). Steiner, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-515-06694-2 .
  • with Manfred Wilhelmy von Wolff and Hernán Gutiérrez: Regionalism and Cooperation in Latin America and Southeast Asia. A political science comparison (= political science perspectives. Vol. 7). Lit, Münster et al. 1993, ISBN 3-89473-621-6 .
  • Development discussion and development practice in Latin America, Southeast Asia and India (= Political Science Perspectives. Vol. 1). Lit, Münster et al. 1993, ISBN 3-88660-767-4 .
  • Mexico in the 20th century. Political system, government process and political participation (= International Present. Vol. 4). Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 1981, ISBN 3-506-74013-X .
  • Mexico. The institutionalized revolution (= Böhlau-Politica. Vol. 1). Böhlau, Cologne et al. 1976.
  • General State Doctrine or Political Theory? Interpretations of their relationship using the example of Rudolf Smends' integration theory. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969 (At the same time: Freiburg University dissertation, 1966. Under the title: The importance of Rudolf Smends' integration theory for political theory)

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Nikolaus Werz: In memoriam: Manfred Mols (1935-2016). In: Yearbook of Latin American History. 53 (2016), pp. 11–13, here: p. 11.
  2. ↑ Federal Cross of Merit: State Secretary Dzwonnek honors Manfred Mols
personal data
SURNAME Mols, Manfred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mols, Manfred Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Bochum
DATE OF DEATH May 3, 2016
Place of death Hamlet near Bingen