Peter Haungs

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Peter Haungs (born April 12, 1939 in Lahr ; † May 24, 1994 in Trier ) was a German political scientist who dealt in particular with party democracy. From 1972 he was professor at the University of Trier and from 1987 to 1989 chairman of the German Society for Political Science .

Life

Haungs was the son of a master painter . He studied political science , history and constitutional law at the universities of Freiburg im Breisgau (1958 to 1959), Berlin (1959 to 1960) and Heidelberg (from 1960). His academic teachers included a. Werner Conze and Dolf Sternberger . In 1966 he became President of the Reich and parliamentary cabinet government with Sternberger at the Philosophical Faculty of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg with a dissertation . A study of the government system of the Weimar Republic from 1924 to 1929 for Dr. phil. PhD.

During the time of the West German student unrest in the 1960s , he became Sternberger's research assistant at the Institute for Political Science there; after his death (1989) he published his works. In 1970 he represented Hans Buchheim's professorship at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz and then Sternberger's in Heidelberg. Studying for several months took him to the Institut d'études politiques de Paris , where he familiarized himself with the French political system . In 1971 he became a professor at the University of Trier , initially as a scientific adviser and head of department. In 1972 he was appointed professor for political science at the Trier-Kaiserslautern University.

Haungs acted as dean (1983 to 1985) of Faculty III, as chairman of the assembly (1993 to 1994) and as a member of the Senate of the University of Trier. He was also a co-founder and from 1987 to 1989 chairman of the German Society for Political Science (DGfP). After reunification, he helped set up the political science department at the Universities of Rostock and Erfurt . Haungs has published extensive books, articles in edited volumes and journal articles, etc. a. in the yearbook for politics and the yearbook extremism & democracy ; he mainly dealt with the sub-discipline of government : he did research in the field of election analysis , turned to party research and devoted himself to comparative research on democracy . The book Party Democracy in the Federal Republic of Germany is now considered a standard work . He was also co-editor of the series of articles on contemporary history and the journal Politische Bildung .

He was a member of the CDU , which he also knew how to criticize from an academic point of view. Haungs advocated both constitutional patriotism and national unity . In retrospect, Haungs is considered to be a relevant, competent and mediating scientist in the eyes of his student Eckhard Jesse .

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • With Bernhard Vogel : Election campaign and voter tradition. A study of the federal election of 1961 (= Political Research . Volume 7). Westdeutscher Verlag, Cologne a. a. 1965.
  • Reich President and Parliamentary Cabinet Government. A study on the government system of the Weimar Republic from 1924 to 1929 (= Political Research . Volume 9). Westdeutscher Verlag, Cologne a. a. 1968.
  • Party democracy in the Federal Republic of Germany (= contributions to contemporary history . Volume 3). Colloquium Verlag, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-7678-0491-3 . (2nd edition, 1981)

Editorships

  • Res publica. Constitutional Studies. Dolf Sternberger on his 70th birthday . Fink, Munich 1977, ISBN 3-7705-1602-8 .
  • 40 years of Rhineland-Palatinate. A political geography . Schmidt, Mainz 1986, ISBN 3-87439-126-4 .
  • With Eckhard Jesse : parties in crisis? Domestic and foreign perspectives . Verlag Wissenschaft und Politik, Cologne 1987, ISBN 3-8046-8694-X .
  • Europeanization of Europe? (= Publications of the German Society for Political Science . Volume 6). Nomos, Baden-Baden 1989, ISBN 3-7890-1804-X .
  • With Klaus Landfreid, Elsbeth Orth, Bernhard Vogel: Schriften, 1989 / Dolf Sternberger . Part 10: Constitutional Patriotism . Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1990, ISBN 3-458-16085-X .
  • Science, theory and philosophy of politics. Concepts and problems (= publications of the German Society for Political Science . Volume 7). Nomos, Baden-Baden 1990, ISBN 3-7890-2029-X .
  • Politics without trust? (= Publications of the German Society for Political Science . Volume 8). Nomos, Baden-Baden 1990, ISBN 3-7890-2158-X .
  • With Karl Martin Graß , Hans Maier , Hans-Joachim Veen : Civitas. Dedications for Bernhard Vogel on his 60th birthday (= studies on politics . Volume 19). Schöningh, Paderborn 1992, ISBN 3-506-79319-5 .

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Eckhard Jesse : Peter Haungs (1939–1994) . In: Politische Vierteljahresschrift 36 (1995) 1, pp. 91–93.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Bernhard Vogel : On the death of Peter Haungs . In: Zeitschrift für Politik 41 (1994) 3, pp. 345–346.
  3. ↑ Peter Haungs died . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , May 28, 1994, No. 122, p. 4.
personal data
SURNAME Haungs, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH April 12, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Lahr
DATE OF DEATH May 24, 1994
Place of death trier