Rudolf Hrbek

Rudolf Hrbek at a conference in Tübingen on the federal characteristics of the EU, 2015

Rudolf Peter Hrbek (* 23. September 1938 in Prague ) is emeritus professor of political science at the University of Tübingen .

Life

He studied political science, history and English literature in Tübingen and Munich and received his doctorate in 1968 . The Habilitation took place in 1973. Since 1976 he was a full professor of political science at the University of Tuebingen. He retired in 2006. He was a permanent visiting professor at the College of Europe in Bruges , Belgium, and he held other visiting professorships in the United States, Thailand and Italy.

His research focused on the political systems of the states of Western Europe, federalism , political parties, European integration and the politics of the European Union .

Honors

• 2006: Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany

Fonts

• with Wilfried Keutsch: Society and State in Great Britain. A political geography . Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1971, ISBN 3-484-40031-5
• The SPD - Germany and Europe. The attitude of social democracy to the relationship between politics in Germany and integration with the West (1945-1957) , 1972 (cf. Diss. Univ. Tübingen 1968)
• with Sabine Weyand : Subject: Europe of the regions. Facts, Problems, Perspectives , 1994, ISBN 3-406-37475-1
• The Maastricht Treaty and the European Union's democratic deficit. On the way to stronger democratic legitimation? , in: Albrecht Randelzhofer et al. (Hrsg.): Gedächtnisschrift für Eberhard Grabitz , 1995, ISBN 3-406-38520-6 , pp. 170-193.
• ed. with Volker Schwarz (Ed.): 40 Years of the Treaty of Rome. The German contribution. Documentation of the conference on the occasion of the 90th birthday of Dr. hc Hans von der Groebe n. Nomos, Baden-Baden 1998, ISBN 3-7890-5435-6
• (as editor): European Parliament elections 2004 in the ten new EU member states: towards the future European party system , 2005, ISBN 3-8329-1446-3
• (as editor with Martin Große Hüttmann): Hope Europe - The EU as a space and goal of migration , series of publications by the European Integration Working Group, Volume 96, Nomos-Verlag, 2017; ISBN 3-8487-3729-9

literature

• Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar , Edition 2009, Volume 2, p. 1749.
• Biographical information as the author of an article in: Richard T. Griffiths (Ed.): Socialist parties and the question of Europe in the 1950's , 1993, ISBN 90-04-09734-1 , p. 274.

Web links

• CV at the European Center for Research on Federalism (EZFF)
• CV on tele-akademie.de (SWR)