Michael Dreyer (political scientist)

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Michael Dreyer (born November 3, 1959 in Timmendorfer Strand ) is a German political scientist . Since 2005 he has been an adjunct professor for political theory and the history of ideas at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena .

Life

From 1978 to 1982 Dreyer studied political science, history and folklore in Kiel and Lexington , Kentucky . He received his master's degree with a thesis on the Kentucky political system. 1986 he did his doctorate in Kiel with Ulrich Matthée with a thesis on the German federalism theory in the 19th century.

Dreyer was a scholarship holder of the German Research Foundation (DFG) from 1986 to 1988 and 1989/90, and a John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow at the Center for European Studies, Harvard University , Cambridge , Massachusetts in 1988/89 . In 1990/91 he was a lecturer at the Institute for Political Science at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel. From 1995 to 2002 he worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Political Science at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and at Friedrich Schiller University Jena. From 2002 to 2005 he was DAAD professor at Northwestern University, Evanston , Illinois . In 2002 he completed his habilitation in Jena with a thesis on “ Hugo Preuß (1860–1925). Biography of a Democrat ”.

Dreyer's research interests are the history of ideas of the 19th and 20th centuries in Germany and the USA , the constitutional order, political theory and international impact of the Weimar Republic , the political system of the USA (especially the Supreme Court ), minorities and political theory, federalism and the Theory of revolution.

Dreyer heads the Weimar Republic Research Center at the University of Jena together with Andreas Braune and is chairman of the "Weimar Republic eV" association

In 2003 he was awarded the Wolf-Erich-Kellner Prize for his habilitation thesis .

Publications

Monographs

  • Hugo Preuss (1860-1925). Biography of a Democrat . Franz Steiner, Stuttgart 2018 (= Weimar Writings on the Republic , Vol. 4), ISBN 978-3-515-12168-2 .
  • with Oliver Lembcke : The German discussion about the war guilt question 1918/19. Duncker et al. Humblot, Berlin 1993, ISBN 978-3-428-07904-9 .
  • Federalism as a regulatory and normative principle. The federal thinking of the Germans in the 19th century. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 1987, ISBN 978-3-8204-0167-7 .

Editorships

  • with Andreas Braune : breakdown, departure, demolition? The November Revolution as an event and place of remembrance. Franz Steiner, Stuttgart 2019 (= Weimar Writings on the Republic , Vol. 6), ISBN 978-3-515-12219-1 .
  • with Andreas Braune: Republican everyday life. Weimar democracy and the search for normality. Franz Steiner, Stuttgart 2017 (= Weimar Writings on the Republic , Vol. 2), ISBN 978-3-515-11952-8 .
  • with Andreas Braune: Weimar as a challenge. The Weimar Republic and democracy in the 21st century. Franz Steiner, Stuttgart 2016 (= Weimar Writings on the Republic , Vol. 1), ISBN 978-3-515-11591-9 .
  • with Matthias Enders, Jörg Hebenstreit, Markus Lang and Werner Kremp: Always on the Defensive? Progressive Movement and Politics in the US in the Obama Era. Trier 2015 (= Atlantic Texts , Vol. 40), ISBN 978-3-86821-585-4 .
  • with Klaus Ries : romance and freedom. Interplay between aesthetics and politics. Winter, Heidelberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-8253-6190-7 .
  • with Michael Forster, Kai-Uwe Hoffmann and Klaus Vieweg : The education of modernity. Francke, Tübingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-7720-8469-0 .
  • with Klaus Dicke : Weimar as a political city of culture. A historical and political city guide. Verlag Jena 1800, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-931911-28-7 .
  • with Markus Kaim and Markus Lang (eds.): America research in Germany. Topics and institutions of political science after 1945. Steiner, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 978-3-515-08466-6 .
  • Emanuel Lasker: How Wanja became a master. A story from the world of chess. Excelsior, Berlin 2001, ISBN 978-3-935800-01-3 .
  • with Ulrich Sieg : Emanuel Lasker - chess, philosophy, science. Philo, Berlin 2001, ISBN 978-3-8257-0216-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Homepage of "Weimarer Republik eV"
  2. ↑ Prize winners of the Wolf Erich Kellner Prize. (PDF) Wolf-Erich-Kellner-Gedächtnisstiftung, accessed on December 9, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Dreyer, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd November 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Timmendorfer beach