Margareta Mommsen

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Margareta Mommsen , also Margareta Mommsen-Reindl (born February 17, 1938 in Horn (Lower Austria) as Margareta Reindl) is a political scientist of Austrian origin.

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Margareta Mommsen studied political science and Eastern European history at the Université Libre de Bruxelles and the University of Heidelberg . In 1972 she received her doctorate in Heidelberg with Carl Joachim Friedrich with the thesis Die Österreichische Proporzdemokratie und die Habsburg . She was an editorial assistant in the Politische Vierteljahresschrift (PVS), of which she was a member of the editorial board (at least in the 1970s).

Mommsen was a research assistant at the Ruhr University in Bochum . There she completed her habilitation in 1985. In 1986/87 Mommsen was a substitute professor at the University of Duisburg . In 1988/89 she taught as a professor of political science at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg. From 1989 until her retirement in 2003 she held the chair for political science at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . She is currently a lecturer at the Munich School of Politics .

Her main research interests are the political system in Russia , the political systems of Eastern Europe and the successor states of the Soviet Union as well as system comparison and system change.

Margareta Mommsen is the widow of the historian Hans Mommsen , she lives in Feldafing .

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Monographs

  • with Angelika Nussberger : The Putin System. Directed democracy and political justice in Russia. Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 3-406-54790-7 .
  • Who rules in Russia? The Kremlin and the Shadows of Power (= Beck'sche Reihe. Vol. 1413). 2nd revised and expanded edition, Beck, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-406-51118-X .
  • Where is Russia going? A great power between anarchy and democracy (= Beck'sche series. Vol. 1002). Beck, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-406-37392-5 .
  • Help me find my right Propylaen-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1987, ISBN 3-549-06670-8 .
  • as Mommsen-Reindl: The Austrian proportional democracy and the Habsburg case (= Böhlaus Zeitgeschichtliche Bibliothek. Vol. 1). Böhlau, Vienna a. a. 1976, ISBN 3-205-07126-3 (also: Heidelberg, dissertation).

Editorships

  • with Hans-Henning Schröder : Gorbachev's revolution from above. Dynamics and resistance in the reform process of the USSR (= Ullstein. Bd. 34448). Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main 1987, ISBN 3-548-34448-8 .
  • Nationalism in Eastern Europe. Dangerous Paths to Democracy (= Beck'sche Reihe. Vol. 477). Beck, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-406-34069-5 .

literature

  • Mommsen, Margareta. In: Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar. Bio-bibliographical directory of contemporary German-speaking scientists. Volume 3: M-SD. 26th edition. de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 2014, ISBN 978-3-11-030256-1 , p. 2461.

Web links

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Short biography in: Osteuropa , 31, 1981, p. 252.
  2. ↑ See Udo Bermbach (Ed.): Political Science and Political Practice. Conference of the German Association for Political Science in Bonn, autumn. Opladen 1977. ( Side view on Google Books .)
personal data
SURNAME Mommsen, Margareta
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mommsen-Reindl, Margareta; Reindl-Mommsen, Margareta; Reindl, Margareta (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH February 17, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Horn (Lower Austria)