Matthias Quent

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Matthias Quent (* 1986 in Thuringia ) is a German sociologist and right-wing extremism researcher .

Matthias Quent, 2019

Life

Quent grew up in Thuringia and studied sociology , political science and modern history at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena and the University of Leicester . In 2012, he was awarded the young talent award in the research area right-wing extremism / neo-Nazism at the Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences for his master's thesis . From 2011 to 2016 he was a research assistant and doctoral candidate at the Institute for Sociology at the University of Jena. In 2016 Quent was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD.

Quent's main areas of work are political sociology and public sociology . His research is on racism , radicalization , right-wing extremism , right-wing terrorism and vigilantism . Quent has published several writings, including in Auspolitik und Zeitgeschichte and Berliner Debatte Initial .

In 2012 Quent worked as an expert in the investigative committee "Right-wing Terrorism and Authorities" of the Thuringian State Parliament . In 2016 the city of Jena awarded him the price for moral courage .

He is the founding director of the Institute for Democracy and Civil Society (IDZ) , a non-university research institution sponsored by the Amadeu Antonio Foundation . The institute is the implementation of an agreement of the coalition agreement concluded in 2014 by the Thuringian state government and started work on August 1, 2016. His appointment as director of the IDZ was criticized by the Thuringian parliamentary groups of the AfD and the CDU , because Quent was previously an employee of the LEFT MP Katharina König-Preuss and, according to media reports, had announced that Quent would be appointed director before the institute was founded. The position was also not advertised publicly. After an anonymous criminal complaint, the responsible public prosecutor dealt with the allegation. The then CDU parliamentary group leader Mike Mohring also criticized that the IDZ was designed to take on tasks of the protection of the constitution; unlike this, however, it is not subject to any parliamentary control .

Public appearances and journalistic activities

As an expert in the fields of right-wing extremism , vigilantism , political violence and terrorism , Quent is present in national and international media as well as in civil society organizations, including courage against right-wing violence and trade unions such as the GEW .

Fonts (selection)

  • Multi-level analysis of right-wing extremist attitudes: causes and distribution in different socio-economic regions of Hesse and Thuringia (= thematic writings - series Political Sociology. Vol. 1). Meine, Magdeburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-941305-32-8 .
  • with Peter Schulz: Right-wing extremism in local contexts. Four comparative case studies. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2015, ISBN 978-3-6580-7369-5 .
  • Racism, radicalization, right-wing terrorism. How the NSU came about and what it reveals about society. Beltz Juventa, Weinheim 2016, ISBN 978-3-7799-3435-6 (also dissertation, University of Jena, 2015).
  • with Daniel Geschke and Eric Peinelt : They didn't take us seriously. A study of the experiences of right-wing violence victims with the police. Ezra, Jena 2014, ISBN 978-3-00-046922-0 .
  • Germany far right: How the right are reaching for power and how we can stop them. Piper Verlag, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-492-06170-4 .

Articles in anthologies and specialist journals

  • The "Volkstod" and the remnants. Right-wing extremist offers and power gains in drifting and rural regions. In: Berliner Debatte Initial . Vol. 25, 2014, No. 1, pp. 40-53.
  • with Raj Kollmorgen : innovation and reciprocity. On the importance of social innovation relationships in the development of right-wing extremism. In: Berliner Debatte Initial. Vol. 25, 2014, No. 1, pp. 5-17.
  • Special case east - normal case west? About the danger of covering up the causes of right-wing extremism. In: Wolfgang Frindte et al. (Ed.): Right-wing extremism and "National Socialist Underground". Interdisciplinary debates, findings and balance sheets. VS Verlag for Social Sciences, Wiesbaden 2015.
  • New vigilantism in the old world. Vigilante groups, violence against refugees and the ambivalence of right-wing terror. In: Berliner Debatte Initial. Vol. 26, 2015, pp. 122-134.
  • Obfuscation, radicalization and new confusion: Dangerous implications and consequences of the NPD ban procedure. In: Johannes Lichdi (Ed.): Can the NPD be banned because of acts of non-party neo-Nazis? Investigations into racist actors in East German regions and the consequences of an NPD ban. Thinking ahead, Dresden 2016.
  • Vigilantism - the staging of right-wing vigilante groups. In: Alexander Häusler , Fabian Virchow (Ed.): New social movement from the right? Fears of the future, relegation of the center, resentment. VSA, Hamburg 2016, pp. 84–94.
  • Vigilante justice in the name of the people? Vigilantist terrorism. In: From Politics and Contemporary History . No. 24–25 / 2016, pp. 20–26.
  • Right Violence in Saxony: Local Differences. In: Gert Pickel , Oliver Decker (Hrsg.): Extremism in Saxony. Seemann and Henschel, Leipzig 2016.

Awards

The SPD , close by Friedrich Ebert Foundation has Quents book Germany far right in 2020, with its annual award Political Book Award.

Web links

Commons : Matthias Quent  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.piper.de .
  2. ↑ FORENA Young Talent Award awarded for the first time ( Memento from October 4, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Website of the research focus right-wing extremism / neo-Nazism at the University of Düsseldorf. Retrieved July 13, 2016.
  3. ↑ Employee profile , IDZ website, accessed on November 15, 2019.
  4. ↑ Matthias Quent receives the 15th Jena Civil Courage Prize , Thüringische Landeszeitung , June 28, 2016, accessed on July 13, 2016.
  5. ↑ Profile of the IDZ , website of the IDZ, accessed on October 3, 2017.
  6. ↑ a b Dispute about the fight against the right , Der Tagesspiegel from August 10, 2016, accessed on April 7, 2019.
  7. ^ Klüngel im Kampf gegen Rechts , Deutschlandfunk , August 4, 2016, accessed on November 15, 2019.
  8. ↑ Is right-wing extremism a typical problem in East Germany? (Interview). Courage against right-wing violence, October 26, 2015. Accessed July 13, 2016.
  9. ↑ Education & Science 03/2016 (interview). GEW, March 2016. Retrieved July 13, 2016.
  10. ↑ piper.de
personal data
SURNAME Quent, Matthias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Thuringia