Paul Klein (sociologist)

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Paul Klein (born January 10, 1941 in St. Wendel ) is a German military sociologist and psychologist. He was Senior Scientific Director and Deputy Head of the Social Science Institute of the Bundeswehr (SOWI) in Strausberg.

Life

Klein grew up in Saarland . After graduating from high school in St. Wendel in 1962, he joined the army of the German Armed Forces as a reserve officer candidate . From 1962 to 1965 he served as a temporary soldier (SaZ 3) in the mountain troops and most recently held the rank of lieutenant colonel in the reserve .

After serving in the 231 Mountain Hunter Battalion in Bad Reichenhall , he studied psychology , sociology , pedagogy and library science at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen and the University of Hamburg from 1966 to 1971 . He finished his studies in 1971 as a qualified psychologist in 1971. From 1971 to 1974 he was head of the psychological service at the district military replacement office in Wiesbaden .

He was then at Rudolf Bergius at the Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Education at the University of Tübingen with a dissertation judgments young French workers on German before, during and after a year working stay in Germany for Dr. rer. soc. PhD. In 1974 he became a research assistant at the Social Science Institute of the Bundeswehr (SOWI) in Munich / Strausberg. There he was initially project manager and rose to senior scientific director and deputy institute director. In addition, from 1977 he was a lecturer, deputy professor and visiting professor at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich and the University of Toulouse . In 2004 he was retired.

He published numerous writings. He has made particular contributions to the military multinationality (studies on the German-French Brigade and the 1st German-Dutch Corps ), the military sociology and the population surveys of the SOWI. In addition, he made important contributions to research into the corps of non-commissioned officers , the defense structure and the future of the armed forces.

He is honorary chairman and member of the Working Group on the Military and Social Sciences (AMS).

Klein is married and has one son. He lives in the Munich district .

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • Judgments of young French employees about Germans before, during and after a one-year work stay in Germany (= European university publications . Series 6: Psychology . Volume 22). Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 1976, ISBN 3-261-02028-8 .
  • with Ekkehard Lippert: Military and Society. Bibliography on military sociology (= writings of the library for contemporary history . Issue 19). Bernard & Graefe, Munich 1979, ISBN 3-7636-0219-9 .
  • Pitfall intrigue. Recognize intrigues in the company in good time and defend them effectively (= paths to professional success ). WEKA-Verlag, Kissing 1980, ISBN 3-8111-5850-3 .
  • with Sabine Collmer , Ekkehard Lippert, Georg-Maria Meyer: Unity on command? Conscripts and the German Unification Process . Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1994, ISBN 3-531-12579-6 .

Editorships

  • The strained backbone? NCOs of the Bundeswehr . Nomos, Baden-Baden 1983, ISBN 3-7890-0862-1 .
  • with Detlef Bald : The defense structure of the nineties. Reservist army, militia or ...? (= Military and social sciences . Volume 1). Nomos, Baden-Baden 1988, ISBN 3-7890-1568-7 .
  • Franco-German defense cooperation. The example of the Franco-German Brigade (= military and social sciences . Volume 4). Nomos, Baden-Baden 1990, ISBN 3-7890-2048-6 .
  • Conscription and conscript today (= military and social sciences . Volume 6). Nomos, Baden-Baden 1991, ISBN 3-7890-2266-7 .
  • Co-determination in the armed forces (= military and social sciences . Volume 8). Nomos, Baden-Baden 1991, ISBN 3-7890-2363-9 .
  • with Rolf P. Zimmermann: Exemplary? An interim balance sheet on the integration of the National People's Army into the Bundeswehr (= military and social sciences . Volume 11). Nomos, Baden-Baden 1993, ISBN 3-7890-2908-4 .
  • with Andreas Prüfert: Military training today and in the future (= military and social sciences . Volume 15). Nomos, Baden-Baden 1994, ISBN 3-7890-3469-X .
  • with Dieter Walz: The resistance against National Socialism and its significance for society and the Bundeswehr today (= military and social sciences . Volume 16). Nomos, Baden-Baden 1995, ISBN 3-7890-3817-2 .
  • with Rolf P. Zimmermann: The future defense structure of the Bundeswehr. Necessary adaptation or path to a two-class army? (= Military and social sciences . Volume 18). Nomos, Baden-Baden 1997, ISBN 3-7890-4601-9 .
  • with Andreas Prüfert: The military and science in Europe - critical distance or helpful addition? 25 years of the Military and Social Sciences Working Group (= Military and Social Sciences . Volume 23). Nomos, Baden-Baden 1998, ISBN 3-7890-5758-4 .
  • with Andreas Prüfert, Günther Wachtler : The military at the center of social science research. Articles and bibliography. The work of Ekkehard Lippert (= military and social sciences . Volume 21). Nomos, Baden-Baden 1998, ISBN 3-7890-5577-8 .
  • with Rolf P. Zimmermann: Aspects of the eastward expansion of NATO (= military and social sciences . Volume 26). Nomos, Baden-Baden 1999, ISBN 3-7890-6260-X .
  • with Dieter Walz: The Bundeswehr on the threshold of the 21st century (= military and social sciences . Volume 27). Nomos, Baden-Baden 2000, ISBN 3-7890-7013-0 .
  • with Karl W. Haltiner : Europe's armies in transition (= military and social sciences . Volume 29). Nomos, Baden-Baden 2002, ISBN 3-7890-8142-6 .
  • with Franz Kernic , Karl W. Haltiner: The European armed forces in transition. A comparative analysis . Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 2005, ISBN 3-631-53366-7 .
  • with Sven Bernhard Gareis : Military and Social Science Manual. 2nd Edition. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2006, ISBN 3-531-34446-3 .

literature

  • Gerhard Kümmel , Sabine Collmer (Ed.): Soldier - Military - Politics - Society. Facets of military-related social science research. liber amicorum for Paul Klein (= military and social sciences . Volume 35). Nomos, Baden-Baden 2003, ISBN 3-8329-0381-X .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Gerhard Kümmel , Sabine Collmer : Foreword . In: ders (Ed.): Soldier - Military - Politics - Society. Facets of military-related social science research. liber amicorum for Paul Klein (= military and social sciences . Volume 35). Nomos, Baden-Baden 2003, ISBN 3-8329-0381-X , pp. 7-9.
  2. ↑ a b Heinz-Jürgen Ebenrett: Why Paul Klein likes to commute to Strausberg and why his reservist heart belongs to the army . In: Gerhard Kümmel , Sabine Collmer (Ed.): Soldier - Military - Politics - Society. Facets of military-related social science research. liber amicorum for Paul Klein (= military and social sciences . Volume 35). Nomos, Baden-Baden 2003, ISBN 3-8329-0381-X , pp. 49-61.
  3. ^ Paul Klein: Judgments of young French employees about Germans before, during and after a one-year work stay in Germany (= European university publications . Series 6: Psychology . Volume 22). Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 1976, ISBN 3-261-02028-8 , p. 7.
  4. ↑ Hans-Viktor Hoffmann (Ed.): Youth, State and Duties. Documentation for the 5th Strausberg Symposium from December 1–4, 1998 (= publications of the Bundeswehr Academy for Information and Communication . Volume 23). Nomos, Baden-Baden 2000, ISBN 3-7890-6922-1 , p. 288.
  5. ↑ Editor: New Chair at AMS , mil-soz.de, April 17, 2017, accessed on May 22, 2017.
  6. ↑ Bernhard Fleckenstein : 25 years AMS . In: Paul Klein, Andreas Prüfert (ed.): Military and science in Europe - critical distance or helpful addition? 25 years of the Military and Social Sciences Working Group (= Military and Social Sciences . Volume 23). Nomos Verlag, Baden-Baden 1998, ISBN 3-7890-5758-4 , pp. 9-15.
personal data
SURNAME Little Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German military sociologist and psychologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 10, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Wendel