Michael Daxner

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Michael Daxner (2011)

Michael Daxner (born October 27, 1947 in Vienna ) is a German-Austrian social scientist.

Life

After completing his school education in Vienna, Daxner did basic military service in the Austrian Armed Forces from 1965 to 1966 . He then studied at the Universities of Vienna and Freiburg i. Brsg. English studies, education, philosophy or the humanities and social sciences. In 1970 Daxner became a consultant at the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research , while he was writing a dissertation on Ernst Bloch , with which he was awarded a doctorate in 1972 at the University of Vienna. phil. received his doctorate .

In 1974 the University of Osnabrück appointed him professor for university didactics . In 1986 Daxner was elected President of the University of Oldenburg and confirmed for a second term until 1998. Then Daxner switched to a professorship for sociology and Jewish studies . 2000–2002 Daxner was responsible for education and science at UNMIK in Kosovo. From 2003 consulting and research in Afghanistan. From 2009 to 2018 Daxner is also a Senior Fellow at the Berghof Foundation. He has been retired since March 2011. From 2009 Daxner worked at the Collaborative Research Center 700 at the Free University of Berlin and until 2018 headed the sub-project C9: “Security and Development in Northeast Afghanistan”. In 2015 Daxner became CEO of Daylight Consultants GmbH, which conducts research on Afghan topics.

Prizes and awards

Memberships and other functions

  • 2003–2007 member of the Brandenburg State University Council
  • 2007–2009 President of the Observatory of the Magna Charta, Bologna (member of the Board since 2001)
  • 2011 member of the University Council of Marburg University.
  • 2011 member of the advisory board at Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich Studienwerk ELES
  • 2017 Research Director of the Global Citizenship Alliance
  • 2018 Co-Speaker of the Heinrich Böll Foundation Brandenburg

Publications (selection)

  • The restoration of the college . Cologne 1993, ISBN 3-927760-20-X .
  • with Eveline Goodman-Thau (Ed.): Break and Continuity. Jewish thought in European intellectual history . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-05-002785-1 .
  • Can the university still be saved? Ten suggestions and a vision . Reinbek 1996, ISBN 3-499-13763-1 .
  • The blocked university - Why the knowledge society needs another university . Frankfurt am Main / New York 1999, ISBN 3-593-36271-6 .
  • Anti-Semitism makes Jews . Merus, Hamburg 2007 ISBN 978-3-939519-17-1
  • with Thorsten Bonacker, Jan H. Free, Christoph Zürcher (eds.): Interventionskultur. VS, Wiesbaden 2010, ISBN 978-3-531-16302-4 .
  • Reclaiming Afghanistan. In: World Policy Journal. Volume 28 (2011), 2, pp. 69-78.
  • The intervention society of Afghanistan. In: Operations. 195/2011.
  • with Urs Schrade: Human rights discount through UN peacekeeping? In: Sheets for German and international politics. Volume 56 (2011), 12, pp. 34-37.
  • with Hannah Neumann (ed.): Heimatdiskurs - How the foreign missions of the Bundeswehr change Germany. Transcript, Bielefeld 2012, ISBN 978-3-8376-2219-5
  • A Society of Intervention . BIS, Oldenburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-8142-2358-2
  • with Marion Näser-Lather, Silvia Nicola (Eds.): Conflict Veterans. Cambridge Scholars, Newcastle 2018 ISBN 978-1-5275-0786-9

Web links

  • Blog: wordpress michaeldaxner.com

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ uni-oldenburg.de
  2. ↑ blog.alumni.uni-oldenburg.de
  3. ^ Global Citizenship Alliance. Retrieved January 22, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Daxner, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Austrian social scientist
DATE OF BIRTH October 7, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna