Peer Pasternack

Peer Pasternack (* 1963 in Köthen ) is a German social scientist and contemporary historian . He is director of the Institute for University Research (HoF) at the University of Halle-Wittenberg .

Life

Peer Pasternack grew up in Halle-Neustadt , completed an apprenticeship as a vehicle mechanic and was a professional driver for six years . In 1987 he began studying Scientific Communism at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig . From November 1989 to 1995 he acted as student representative in the student council and academic senate of the university. In 1990/91 he was the first Saxon state student representative and from 1991 to 1994 he was the spokesman for the East German Conference of Student Unions (KdS).

Pasternack has been the publisher of hochschule ost magazine since 1991 . leipziger contributions to university & science , which since 2002 under the title the university. journal for education and science appears. 1992–1995 he was also co-managing director of Leipziger Universitätsverlag GmbH.

Pasternack completed his studies in 1994 with a diploma in political science . 1998 doctorate he at the Department of Pedagogy of the University of Oldenburg in Michael Daxner Dr. phil.

From 1996 to 2001 Pasternack was a university researcher and research coordinator at the Institute for University Research (HoF) at the University of Halle-Wittenberg , and from 1997–2002 lecturer in political science at the University of Leipzig . In January 2002 he was appointed State Secretary for Science in the Senate of Berlin as an independent expert . He gave up the office at the end of 2003 in a dispute over further savings in the Berlin university sector. He returned to the Institute for Higher Education Research in 2004 and has been its research director ever since.

In 2005 he completed his habilitation in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Kassel , supervised by Ulrich Teichler . He teaches as a professor at the Institute for Sociology at the University of Halle-Wittenberg. Pasternack's work focuses on university policy analysis, university organization, education and science in regional contexts, and contemporary history of science.

honors and awards

• 1995 Caspar Borner Medal "for services to the renewal of the University of Leipzig".

Book publications

Social science work

As an author

• Humanities in East Germany 1995. An inventory. Comparative study following the study "Humanities in the former GDR (Konstanz 1990)". (PDF; 1017 kB) Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 1996, ISBN 3-931922-16-2 .
• with Barbara M. Kehm: University development as a complexity problem. Case studies of change. (PDF; 710 kB) Beltz Verlag, Weinheim / Basel 2001, ISBN 3-89271-933-0 .
• Politics as a visit. A field report on science policy from Berlin. (PDF; 3.36 MB) UniversitätsVerlagWebler, Bielefeld 2005, ISBN 3-937026-40-1 .
• with Falk Bretschneider: Concise dictionary of the university reform (PDF; 858 kB), UniversitätsVerlagWebler, Bielefeld 2005, ISBN 3-937026-38-X .
• Quality as University Policy? Efficiency and limits of a policy approach , Lemmens Verlag, Bonn 2006, ISBN 3-932306-74-0 .
• with Daniel Hechler: University organization analysis between research and advice , Institute for University Research (HoF), Halle-Wittenberg 2012, ISBN 978-3-937573-29-8 .
• with Steffen Zierold: supraregional based regionality. University contributions to the development of demographically challenged regions . Annotated theses, Institute for University Research (HoF), Halle-Wittenberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-937573-43-4 .
• with Uwe Grelak: The IBA for education. Education as a Resource in Demographic Change : The International Building Exhibition "Urban Redevelopment Saxony-Anhalt 2010", Academic Publishing House, Leipzig 2014, ISBN 978-3-931982-86-7 .
• Quality standards for higher education reforms . An evaluation of the German higher education reform qualities in the last two decades, UniversitätsVerlagWebler, Bielefeld 2014, ISBN 3-937026-92-4 , 978-3-937026-92-3
• The partial academization of early childhood education. A ten-year observation , Akademische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2015, ISBN 978-3-931982-96-6 .
• with Isabell Maue: The BFI Policy Arena in Switzerland. Actor constellation in education, research and innovation policy, unt. v. Daniel Hechler, Tobias Kolasinski and Henning Schulze, BWV Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-8305-3619-2
• 20 years of HoF. The Institute for University Research Halle-Wittenberg 1996-2016 : Prehistory - Development - Results, BWV - Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-8305-3720-5 .
• with Justus Henke: University system financing. Guide through the medium currents , Institute for University Research (HoF), Halle-Wittenberg 2017, ISBN 978-3-937573-58-8
• with Justus Henke and Sarah Schmid: Mission, the third. The diversity beyond university research and teaching: Concept and communication of the Third Mission, BWV - Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-8305-3799-1
• with Benjamin Baumgarth, Anke Burkhardt, Sabine Paschke and Nurdin Thielemann: Three phases. The debate on quality development in teacher training , W. Bertelsmann Verlag, Bielefeld 2017, ISBN 978-3-7639-4381-4 .
• with Daniel Hechler and Justus Henke: The ideas of the university. University concepts and university-relevant science concepts, UniversitätsVerlagWebler, Bielefeld 2018, ISBN 978-3-946017-14-1
• with Sebastian Schneider, Peggy Trautwein and Steffen Zierold: The managed university world. Reforms, organization, digitization and the scientific staff, BWV - Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-8305-3898-1
• with Daniel Hechler and Steffen Zierold: Knowledge opportunities for non-metropolises. Science and urban development in medium-sized cities, BWV - Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-8305-3706-9
• with Daniel Hechler: one-two-four-point zero. Digitization of the university as an organizational problem (= the university 1/2017), Institute for University Research (HoF), Halle-Wittenberg 2017, volume 1 [1] , ISBN 978-3-937573-59-5 ; Episode 2 [2] , ISBN 978-3-937573-61-8

editor

• (Ed.) IV. University reform. Science and universities in East Germany 1989/90 . A retrospective. Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 1993, ISBN 3-929031-12-4 .
• Edited with Jan-Hendrik Olbertz and Reinhard Kreckel: Quality - a key issue in university reform . (PDF; 1.67 MB) Beltz Verlag, Weinheim / Basel 2001, ISBN 3-89271-943-8 .
• Edited with Falk Bretschneider: Academic rituals. Symbolic practice at universities. (PDF; 2.44 MB) Hochschule Ost, Leipzig 1999, ISBN 3-9806319-3-1 .
• (Ed.) Making university budgets more flexible . Manual for staff councils and board members. Schüren Verlag, Marburg 2001, ISBN 3-89472-179-0 .
• (Ed.) Stabilization factors and innovation agencies. The East German universities and the second phase of the construction east. (PDF; 3.38 MB) Akademische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2007, ISBN 978-3-931982-56-0 .
• (Ed.) Relatively prosperous. Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia : The Central German region and its universities. Academic Publishing House, Leipzig 2010, ISBN 978-3-931982-51-5 .
• (Ed.) Universities after the federalism reform . Academic Publishing House, Leipzig 2011, ISBN 978-3-931982-67-6 .
• (Ed.) Beyond the metropolises. Universities in demographically challenged regions , Akademische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2013, ISBN 978-3-931982-83-6 .
• Edited with Justus Henke and Steffen Zierold: Control centers of regional development. Universities in shrinking regions , Academic Publishing House, Leipzig 2015, ISBN 978-3-931982-93-5 .
• Edited with Michael Fritsch and Mirko Titze: Shrinking regions - dynamic universities. University strategies in demographic change, Springer VS-Verlag, Wiesbaden 2015, ISBN 978-3-658-09123-1

Contemporary history work

As an author

• "Democratic Renewal". A university-historical study of the east German university conversion 1989–1995. With two case studies: University of Leipzig and Humboldt University of Berlin. (PDF; 1.39 MB) Beltz - Deutscher Studien Verlag, Weinheim 1999, ISBN 3-89271-894-6 .
• Scholars of the GDR. The GDR as a subject of teaching at German universities 1990–2000. (PDF; 2.4 MB) With employees. v. A. Glück, J. Hüttmann, D. Lewin, S. Schmid and K. Schulze, Institute for University Research, Wittenberg 2001, ISBN 3-89472-179-0 .
• 177 years. Between the closure of the university and the establishment of the Leucorea Foundation: Science and Higher Education in Wittenberg 1817–1994 (PDF; 293 kB). Leucorea Foundation, Wittenberg 2002, ISBN 3-933028-53-1 .
• Science and University in Eastern Europe: History and Transformation. Bibliographic documentation 1990–2005. (PDF; 1.13 MB) Institute for University Research, Wittenberg 2005, ISBN 3-937573-04-6 .
• Science and university history of the Soviet zone, GDR and East Germany 1945–2000 (PDF; 2.63 MB). Annotated bibliography of book publications 1990–2005, CD-ROM edition. With the collaboration of Daniel Hechler, Institute for University Research / Foundation for the Processing of the SED Dictatorship, Wittenberg / Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-937573-08-9 .
• with Daniel Hechler: tradition building, research and work on the image. The East German universities in dealing with their contemporary history , Akademische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2013, ISBN 978-3-931982-75-1
• 50 years of dispute in Halle-Neustadt. Idea and experiment. Living place and provocation , Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 2014, ISBN 978-3-95462-287-0
• Academic medicine in the GDR. 25 years of processing 1990–2014 , Academic Publishing House, Leipzig 2015, ISBN 978-3-931982-92-8
• with Daniel Hechler: Artistic universities in the GDR. 25 years of contemporary historical clarification 1990–2015 : an evaluation with bibliographic documentation, Akademische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2015, ISBN 978-3-931982-99-7
• The GDR social sciences post mortem: A quarter of a century afterlife (1990–2015). Interim conclusion and bibliographic documentation, BWV Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-8305-3620-8
• with Uwe Grelak: Theology in Socialism. Confessional institutions of academic education and research in the GDR. A complete overview, BWV - Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-8305-3736-6
• Five decades, four institutes, two systems. The Central Institute for Higher Education Berlin (ZHB) and its contexts 1964–2014, BWV - Berliner Wissenschaftsverlag, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-8305-3951-3

editor

• (Ed.) College & Church. Theology & Politics. Visiting a network of relationships in the GDR. (PDF; 1.33 MB) Edition Berliner Debatte, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-929666-27-8 .
• (Ed.) A catch-up debate. The inner-German philosophers' dispute 1996/97. (PDF; 2.33 MB) Hochschule Ost, Leipzig 1998, ISBN 3-9806319-0-7 .
• Edited with Monika Gibas : Socialistly housed & artificially. Universities and their buildings in the GDR. (PDF; 694 kB) Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 1999, ISBN 3-933240-32-8 .
• Ed. With Thomas Neie: stud. east 1989–1999. Change in the living environment and student engagement in East Germany (PDF; 681 kB). Edited with the collaboration of Ralph Meder. Academic Publishing House, Leipzig 2000, ISBN 3-931982-21-1 .
• (Ed.) GDR-related university research. A thematic opening balance from the HoF Wittenberg. (PDF; 943 kB) Beltz Verlag, Weinheim / Basel 2001, ISBN 3-89271-934-9 .
• Edited with Jens Hüttmann, Ulrich Mählert: Communicate GDR history. Approaches and experiences in teaching, university teaching and political education. (PDF; 3.04 MB) Metropol-Verlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-936411-50-6 .
• Edited with Jens Hüttmann: Wissensspuren. Education and science in Wittenberg after 1945 (PDF; 9.27 MB). Drei-Kastanien-Verlag, Wittenberg 2004, ISBN 3-933028-85-X .
• Edited with Daniel Hechler, Jens Hüttmann, Ulrich Mählert: Doctorate on German-German contemporary history . Manual, Metropol Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-940938-40-4 .
• Edited with Reinhold Sackmann: Four attempts: Sociology at the University of Halle-Wittenberg. Building blocks for the local biography of the subject from the end of the 19th to the beginning of the 21st century, Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 2013, ISBN 978-3-95462-070-8
• (Ed.) Shortly before the present. 20 years of contemporary history activities at the Institute for University Research Halle-Wittenberg (HoF) 1996–2016 , BWV - Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-8305-3796-0

literature

• Pasternack, Peer , in: Friedhelm Golücke : Author's lexicon for student and university history. SH-Verlag, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-89498-130-X . P. 259.

Web links

• Literature by and about Peer Pasternack in the catalog of the German National Library
• Peer Pasternack's website
• Institute for University Research Halle-Wittenberg (HoF)