Nina Leonhard

Nina Leonhard (* 1972 in Berlin ) is a German political scientist and sociologist .

Life

Leonhard studied political science at the Free University of Berlin and at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris from 1992 to 1996 with a Bavarian scholarship for gifted students and the German National Academic Foundation . She obtained the German-French diploma in political and social sciences (1995) and a diploma in political sciences (1996). As part of a "cotutelle de thèse" process, she was supported by the German National Academic Foundation under Gesine Schwan and Marie-Claire Lavabre with the dissertation Political and Historical Consciousness in Transition to Dr. phil. PhD.

From 2001 to 2008 she was a research assistant at the Social Science Institute of the Bundeswehr (SOWI) in Strausberg. In 2005/06 she conducted research at the Center de recherches politiques de Sciences Po in Paris with a grant from the DAAD and the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme . From 2009 to 2016 she was a lecturer in general sociology and political science at the command academy of the Bundeswehr (FüAkBw) in Hamburg. Since 2016 she has been project manager in the research area of military sociology at the Center for Military History and Social Sciences of the Bundeswehr in Potsdam.

In 2008/09 and 2011 she received a habilitation grant from the Federal Foundation for Coming to terms with the SED dictatorship . In 2016 the habilitation and the award of the venia legendi for sociology at the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster followed . Since 2011 she has been giving seminars at the Institute for Sociology there. In 2014, the publication “Integration and Memory” was awarded the Thomas A. Herz Prize for qualitative social research from the German Sociological Society.

She is series editor at the Springer VS publishing house ( Social Memory, Recalling and Forgetting - Memory Studies ).

Political and historical consciousness in transition. The political significance of the National Socialist past over three generations in East and West Germany (= politics and history . Volume 3). Lit, Münster u. a. 2002, ISBN 3-8258-5983-5 .
(Ed. With Ines-Jacqueline Werkner ): Upswing or decline? Religion and Belief in the Military and Society at the Beginning of the 21st Century . Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 2003, ISBN 3-631-51610-X .
(Ed. With Ines-Jacqueline Werkner): Military sociology. An introduction . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2005, ISBN 3-531-14284-4 . (2nd edition 2012)
(Ed. With Sven Bernhard Gareis ): Marching together. Franco-German armed forces cooperation as a paradigm for European armed forces? (= Series of publications by the Social Science Institute of the Bundeswehr . Volume 5). VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2008, ISBN 978-3-531-15715-3 .
(Ed. With Susanne Ehrlich, Horst-Alfred Heinrich, Harald Schmid): Difficult memory. Political Science and National Socialism. Contributions to the controversy over continuities after 1945 . Nomos, Baden-Baden 2015, ISBN 978-3-8487-1074-4 .
(Ed. With Jürgen Franke): Military and violence. Social science and ethical perspectives (= social science writings . Vol. 50). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-428-14581-2 .
Integration and memory. NVA officers in reunified Germany . UVK, Konstanz 2016, ISBN 978-3-86764-648-2 .

↑ Nina Leonhard: Foreword . In: Ders .: Political and historical consciousness in transition . Münster 2002, p. 9.

^ Nina Leonhard , University of Münster, accessed on December 1, 2014.

personal data
SURNAME	Leonhard, Nina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German political scientist and sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH	1972
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin