Rudolf Hamann

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Rudolf Hamann (* 1937 in Bremen ) is a German sociologist .

Hamann studied sociology, history and political science in Freiburg and Hamburg, was founded in 1964 at the Faculty of the University of Hamburg with a thesis on Pareto's elite theory and its place in modern sociology to Dr. phil. PhD. For several years he was a lecturer at the Hamburg Institute for Teacher Training and at the Army Officer School II in Hamburg. From 1974 to 2000 he worked at the Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences at the University of Hamburg , initially as a lecturer. With the help of a two-year grant from the German Research Foundation , he completed his habilitation in 1979 with the thesis Revolution and Evolution. On the importance of a historically accentuated sociology that was accompanied by Heinz Kluth . He then became a private lecturer in sociology there.

He was full-time senior scientific director in the social sciences department at the command academy of the Bundeswehr in Hamburg. According to Uwe Hartmann, he is one of those “military-critical intellectuals [...] who were in the service of the Bundeswehr” and at the same time contributed to the “tensions between intellectuals and the military”.

Fonts (selection)

  • Dispute over a misunderstood reform. A contribution to inner guidance . v. Decker, Hamburg 1970.
  • Army sidelined? (= Critical science ). Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1972, ISBN 3-455-09061-3 .
  • Political Sociology for Social Studies. An introduction to the political-social system of the Federal Republic (= critical science ). Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1974, ISBN 3-455-09110-5 .
  • Revolution and evolution. On the importance of a historically accentuated sociology (= sociological writings . Vol. 34). Duncker and Humblot, Berlin 1981, ISBN 3-428-04859-8 .
  • (Ed.): The "southern dimension" of the East-West conflict. The involvement of the superpowers in crises and wars in the Third World (= military, armaments, security . Vol. 34). Nomos-Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden 1986, ISBN 3-7890-1233-5 .
  • with Volker Matthies (ed.): Soviet foreign policy in transition. An interim balance sheet for the years 1985–1990 (= military, armaments, security . Vol. 54). Nomos-Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden 1991, ISBN 3-7890-2177-6 .
  • with Bernd Molter: Citizens in uniform put to the test. Of the need for a training reform for staff officers of the Bundeswehr (= WIFIS aktuell . 14). Ed. Temmen, Bremen 1999, ISBN 3-86108-011-7 .
  • Military violence in the risk society. A criticism of the expanded concept of security (= WIFIS aktuell . 4). Ed. Temmen, Bremen 2000, ISBN 3-86108-004-4 .

Web links

  • Rudolf Hamann in the Hamburg professors' catalog (accessed on February 20, 2017) 

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gerd Kaldrack : The social role of the company commander. A contribution to Inner Leadership by Wolfgang R. Vogt; Dispute over a misunderstood reform. A contribution to the Inner Guidance by Rudolf Hamann . In: Zeitschrift für Politik NF 17 (1970) 4, p. 489.
  2. ↑ Rudolf Hamann: Revolution and Evolution. On the importance of a historically accentuated sociology . Berlin 1981, p. 7.
  3. ↑ Uwe Hartmann : Intellectuals and their confrontation with the military - limits, possibilities, expectations . In: Helmut R. Hammerich , Uwe Hartmann, Claus Freiherr von Rosen : The Limits of the Military (= Yearbook Inner Leadership . 2010). Hartmann, Miles-Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-937885-30-8 , p. 37.
personal data
SURNAME Hamann, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen