Martin Jänicke

Martin Jänicke, 2009

Martin Jänicke (born August 15, 1937 in Buckow ) is a German political scientist specializing in environmental policy .

It was in 1969 when Otto Stammer at the Free University of Berlin with a thesis totalitarian studies on the concept of sovereignty to Dr. phil. PhD. He then became Arnulf Baring's assistant . In 1970 the habilitation followed . From 1971 to 2002 he was Professor of Comparative Analysis in the Political Science Department of the Free University of Berlin . Between 1986 and 2007 he headed the research center for environmental policy there . Jänicke set significant impulses in environmental policy and is considered to be the inventor of the term ecological modernization , which is now widely used internationally.

Jänicke was an advisor to the Federal Chancellery and from 1981 to 1983 a member of the Berlin House of Representatives for the Alternative List . From 1999 to 2007 Jänicke was a member of the Federal Government's Advisory Council for Environmental Issues and was temporarily deputy chairman.

Works

With Philip Kunig, Michael Stitzel: Learning and workbook environmental policy. Politics, law and management of environmental protection in government and companies . Dietz, Bonn 2000, ISBN 3-89331-405-9 .
Megatrend environmental innovation. For the ecological modernization of economy and the state . Oekom Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-86581-097-7 .

Werner Breunig, Andreas Herbst (ed.): Biographical handbook of the Berlin parliamentarians 1963–1995 and city councilors 1990/1991 (= series of publications of the Berlin State Archives. Volume 19). Landesarchiv Berlin, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-9803303-5-0 , p. 192.

personal data
SURNAME	Jänicke, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German political scientist with a focus on environmental policy
DATE OF BIRTH	August 15, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH	Buckow