Rudiger Kipke

Rüdiger Kipke (born February 5, 1942 in Wolmirstedt , Saxony-Anhalt ) is a German political scientist , legal scholar and Slavist .

Life

Kipke is Professor of Political Science at the University of Siegen . He is an expert on Eastern Europe, especially the Czech Republic , Slovakia and Hungary .

He studied law, political science and Slavic studies at the Georg-August University in Göttingen , the Free University of Berlin ( West Berlin ) and the Charles University in Prague from the summer semester 1963 to the winter semester 1969/70. In July 1974 the doctorate to Dr. jur. with the dissertation topic The Principles and Foundations of Federalism in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic. In April 1984 he received his habilitation. He wrote his habilitation thesis on the subject of the committees of inquiry of the German Bundestag. Practice and reform of the parliamentary inquiry. In the same year he received the Venia Legendi in political science.

Kipke has been teaching at the University of Siegen since 1990. Between March 1994 and April 1997 he was visiting professor of political science at Charles University in Prague and from September 2001 to March 2002 at Leiden University in the Netherlands . He has also held teaching positions at various universities in Germany and abroad.

Bibliography (selection)

• The principles and foundations of federalism in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic. Goettingen 1974.
• The committees of inquiry of the German Bundestag - Practice and reform of the parliamentary inquiry. Berlin 1985.
• Students at work. The internship in social science studies. (with F. Nickolmann), Münster 1986.
• The reactivation of the Western European Union. On the perspective of European security policy. Munster 1988.
• The control function of the German Bundestag. Instruments and institutions of parliamentary control. Polis 1991 (series of the distance university in Hagen ), Hagen 1991.
• Farewell to Czechoslovakia. Contributions to the causes and consequences of the Czech-Slovak separation. (Ed. with Karel Vodička ), Cologne 1993 (Czech edition with the title: Rozloučení s Československem. Prague 1993).
• Introduction to Political Science. (with Jürgen Bellers ), 4th edition, Munich 2006.
• Identity, Integrity, Integration. Contributions to the political history of ideas in the Czech Republic. (Ed.), Münster 1997.
• Slovak Republic. Political Development Studies. (with Karel Vodička), Münster 2000.
• The political systems of the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Wiesbaden 2002.
• The Hungarian political system. Wiesbaden 2005.
• The Beneš Decrees - Post-War Order or Ethnic Cleansing: Can Europe Provide an Answer? (Ed. with H. Timmermann and E. Voráček), Münster 2005.
• Hungary 1956. On the history of a failed popular uprising. (Ed.), Wiesbaden 2006.
• The Armenian-Azerbaijani Relationship and the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. VS Verlag, Wiesbaden 2012.

Web links

• Literature by and about Rüdiger Kipke in the catalog of the German National Library
• Page from Kipke at the University of Siegen
• Rüdiger Kipke's own website