Rainer Eisfeld

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Rainer Eisfeld (born April 4, 1941 in Berlin ) is a German political scientist .

Life

Eisfeld was born as the only son of the city ​​inspector Bruno Eisfeld, who died in the war on November 17, 1943, and his wife Ella (née Wille). After graduating from the municipal grammar school in Bonn in 1959, he worked as a clerk for foreign rights at the Rohr book and press agency in Augsburg. In 1960/61 he began studying economics at the Saarland University in Saarbrücken. He graduated from this in 1966 with a diploma.

Eisfeld received his doctorate in political science in 1971 with Christian Graf von Krockow and Iring Fetscher at the University of Frankfurt am Main. From 1974 until his retirement in 2006 he was Professor of Political Science at the University of Osnabrück .

In 1989 he received an academy scholarship from the Volkswagen Foundation . In 1995 and again in 2000 he was visiting scholar at the Center for European & Russian Studies at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) , and in 2005 at the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Arizona in Tucson . In 2002 he was visiting professor in the Department of Political Science at UCLA. From 2000 to 2006 he was chairman of the Research Committee on Socio-Political Pluralism of the International Political Science Association (IPSA) , in 2006 he was elected to the Executive Committee of IPSA (re-election in 2009).

Eisfeld attacked in his book Expatriated yet tanned: German Political Science 1920–1945 (1991) the idea of ​​the German University of Politics in Berlin as a stronghold of Weimar democracy . He showed how important representatives of the subject ( Arnold Bergstraesser and Theodor Eschenburg ) had tried to come to terms with the National Socialist regime. In 2013, the German Political Science Association (DVPW) abolished its Lifetime Achievement Prize, named after Theodor Eschenburg, as a result of Eschenburg's involvement in the National Socialist “Aryanization” of Jewish companies, which was uncovered by Eisfeld.

Eisfeld wrote several books that deal with science fiction and its environment. In the 1950s he also worked as a translator, for example he translated Alfred Elton van Vogt's novels The Expedition of Space Beagle and World of Zero-A , at that time under the pseudonym Armin von Eichenberg, also used by Walter Ernsting .

In 1994 Eisfeld became a member of the Board of Trustees of the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Concentration Camp Memorials .

Others

In 1995 the City Council of Osnabrück decided on the basis of a joint initiative by Eisfeld with his theological colleagues Horst G. Pöhlmann and Reinhold Mokrosch to name a square in front of the Paulus Church in Osnabrück after the Protestant pastor Richard Karwehl. In 1936 Karwehl was the only Osnabrück preacher (and one of 7 pastors of the regional church) to refuse the oath of allegiance to Hitler ordered by regional bishop Marahrens.

Fonts

  • Pluralism between liberalism and socialism. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart et al. 1972, ISBN 3-17-231011-6 (Dissertation University of Frankfurt am Main 1971; Italian edition: Bologna 1976; Croatian edition: Zagreb 1992).
  • Socialist pluralism in Europe. Approaches and failure using the example of Portugal. Verlag Wissenschaft und Politik, Cologne 1984, ISBN 3-8046-8613-3 .
  • Expatriated and yet tanned. German political science 1920–1945. With a tribute to the author by Hubertus Buchstein . 1st edition. Nomos-Verlags-Gesellschaft, Baden-Baden 1991, ISBN 3-7890-2393-0 . (2nd revised edition, Baden-Baden 2013, ISBN 978-3-8487-0554-2 .)
  • Wild Bill Hickok. Western myth and reality (= rororo 9575, rororo non-fiction ). Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-499-19575-5 .
  • with Michael Th. Greven and Hans Karl Rupp: Political Science and Regime Change in 20th Century Germany. Nova Science Publ., New York 1996, ISBN 1-56072-412-9 .
  • Moonstruck. Wernher von Braun and the birth of space travel from the spirit of barbarism. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1996, ISBN 3-498-01660-1 . (New edition (with new foreword and afterword): zu Klampen Verlag, Springe 2012, ISBN 978-3-86674-167-6 .)
  • As teenagers dreamed. The magical 50s. Nomos-Verlags-Gesellschaft, Baden-Baden 1999, ISBN 3-7890-6327-4 .
  • with Wolfgang Jeschke : Mars fever. Departure to the red planet. Fantasy and reality. Droemer Knaur, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-426-27288-1 .
  • Controversial Political Science. Studies on democratization, political culture and scientific responsibility. With an introduction by Michael Th. Greven . Nomos, Baden-Baden 2006, ISBN 3-8329-2050-1 .
  • The future in your pocket. Science fiction and SF fandom in Germany. The pioneering years 1955–1960. von Reeken, Lüneburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-940679-11-6 .
  • Farewell to space operas. Science fiction as an image of time and a criticism of time. Comments from 25 years. With a preliminary remark by Wolfgang Jeschke and a contribution by Jörg Weigand . von Reeken, Lüneburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-940679-47-5 .
  • Radical Approaches to Political Science. Roads Less Traveled. With an introduction by Klaus von Beyme . Budrich, Opladen et al. 2012, ISBN 978-3-8474-0028-8 .
  • Political Science: Reflecting on Concepts, Demystifying Legends. With an Introduction by John Trent. Budrich, Opladen et al. 2016, ISBN 978-3-8474-0506-1 .
  • Empowering Citizens, Engaging the Public: Political Science for the 21st Century. Palgrave Macmillan, London 2019, ISBN 978-981-1359-28-6 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cf. Stefan Scheil : Transatlantic Interactions. The change of elites in Germany after 1945 , Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-428-13572-1 , pp. 42–45.
personal data
SURNAME Eisfeld, Rainer
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eichenberg, Armin von (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH April 4, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin