Michael Schwab-Trapp

Michael Schwab-Trapp (* 1957 ; † December 14, 2004 ) was a German sociologist .

Life

After graduating as a sociologist in 1990 at the University of Duisburg , he worked on Thomas Aage Herz's research project on Nazi conflicts since 1945 at the University of Siegen . After his doctorate in 1994 and his habilitation in Siegen , he taught there as a private lecturer .

Conflict, culture and interpretation. A discourse analysis of the public dealings with National Socialism . Opladen 1996, ISBN 3-531-12842-6 .
as editor with Thomas Herz: Contested past. Discourses on National Socialism since 1945 . Opladen 1997, ISBN 3-531-13037-4 .
as editor with Sighard Neckel : Orders of violence. Contributions to a political sociology of violence and war . Opladen 1999, ISBN 3-8100-2306-X .
War discourses. The changing political culture of war 1991–1999 . Leverkusen 2002, ISBN 3-8100-3386-3 .
Fight the terror. From the attack on the World Trade Center to the start of the Iraq war. An empirical study of the political culture of Germany in the second decade after reunification. With an afterword by Trutz von Trotha . Cologne 2007, ISBN 3-89645-727-6 .

Trutz von Trotha, University of Siegen: Obituary for private lecturer Dipl.-Soz. Dr. phil. habil. Michael Schwab-Trapp (1957-2004). Research area “Modernization as an Action Problem” at the Institute for Sociology at the Technical University of Dortmund, accessed on January 21, 2020 .