Samuel Salzborn

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Samuel Salzborn (born May 6, 1977 in Hanover ) is a German social scientist and university lecturer . From 2012 to 2017 he was Professor of Fundamentals of Social Sciences at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen and from 2017 to 2019 he held a visiting professorship for anti-Semitism research at the Technical University of Berlin . He is currently Associate Professor of Political Science at the Institute for Political Science at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen . Since August 2020 he has been the anti-Semitism commissioner for the state of Berlin.

Professional background

Salzborn studied political science, sociology, psychology and law at the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University of Hanover (graduate social scientist 2001), received a scholarship from the Hans Böckler Foundation under Christoph Butterwegge and Anton Pelinka (from the University of Innsbruck ) at the University of Cologne in 2004 with the political science dissertation Ethnization of Politics. Theory and history of ethnic group law in Europe for Dr. phil. did his doctorate and habilitation in political science at the Faculty of Social and Cultural Studies at the Justus Liebig University in Gießen in 2009 with the thesis on the political theory of anti-Semitism, which was reviewed by Peter Schmidt , Klaus Fritzsche and Anton Pelinka . Social science theories of anti-Semitism in theoretical and empirical comparison . Then he was a private lecturer in Giessen.

This was followed by teaching and research assignments at the Universities of Marburg and Bielefeld ( group-related enmity ) as well as Prague , Jerusalem and the Hessian University for Police and Administration , for example he represented the professorship for research on democracy and democratization at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen and was visiting professor for the history of political ideas at the Philipps University of Marburg ; In 2012 he became Professor of Fundamentals of Social Sciences at the Institute for Political Science at the Georg-August University in Göttingen . He also took on the deputy head of the institute there. Salzborn's research focuses on political theory and the history of ideas, research on democracy and right-wing extremism , political sociology and communication of methods. His academic students include: a. Lars Geiges and Janne Mende . At the end of 2015, he received the award from the University's Board of Trustees for his international transfer of knowledge in the fields of democracy, right-wing extremism, criticism of anti-Semitism and racism, as well as for dealing with the activities of the state security in Lower Saxony.

Although the Faculty Council of Social Sciences had pleaded for the continuation of Salzborn's professorship in December 2015, the university management did not extend the contract. The student council protested against it in an open letter and spoke of "political motivation" of the university management. University President Ulrike Beisiegel justified the procedure by stating that an extension for an initial appointment, as in the case of Salzborn, was not permitted under the Lower Saxony University Act, which she regretted. The Lower Saxony Ministry of Science expressly contradicted this: the university could very well have extended Salzborn's professorship according to the Lower Saxony University Act and appointed him permanently.

Salzborn is liaison lecturer of the union - related Hans-Böckler-Stiftung , with Wolfgang Bergem spokesman for the DVPW working group “Politics and Culture”, Associated Fellow at the Lichtenberg-Kolleg (Göttingen), expert of the commission of inquiry “Treason of Freedom - Machinations of the Stasi in Working up Lower Saxony ”of the Lower Saxony State Parliament and member of the editorial team of the Political Quarterly Journal . He is also the publisher of “Interdisciplinary Research on Antisemitism / Interdisciplinary Studies on Antisemitism” ( Nomos Verlag ), “State - Sovereignty - Nation. Contributions to the current state debate ”( Springer VS ) and“ Political cultural research ”( Peter Lang Verlag ).

In October 2017 he became a visiting professor at the Center for Research on Antisemitism at the TU Berlin.

He is also a member of the working group for democracy research of the German Association for Political Science.

He published a. a. in INDES - magazine for politics and society , in the magazine for politics and in the papers for German and international politics , the Bahamas as well as in the Jungle World (as whose correspondent he worked) and in the Jüdischen Allgemeine . He regularly wrote the column “The Academic Carousel” for Publikative.org of the Amadeu Antonio Foundation .

His book Collective Innocence was published in 2020 on the subject of “Failure to come to terms with National Socialism” . Defense against the Shoah in German memory . Salzborn writes that in the West German self-image the history of the defense against guilt and memory, the perpetrator-victim reversal, the self-stylization as a victim and the anti-Semitic projection has always been faded out. Even 75 years after the suppression of National Socialism on a social level, there was hardly any (self-) critical reappraisal of the past : rather, through the defense of the Shoah in German memory, a self-image that revolves around the myth of collective innocence manifests itself. Coming to terms with the Nazi past, saying goodbye to one's own victim myth and dealing with the anti-Semitic perpetrators in almost all family histories in the Federal Republic of Germany is the greatest lie of life in the Federal Republic: the belief in an actual coming to terms with the past.

Salzborn criticizes the fact that the reference to a German victim myth was almost consensus from the start, both publicly and privately. This begins in the early debates in the German Bundestag about the question of the impunity laws of 1954 and the self-portrayals, especially in feature films of the 50s and 60s, such as Dogs, Do You Want to Live Forever , The Devil's General , The Bridge and others, and only will partly broken by the series Holocaust - The Story of the Weiss Family and later by Schindler's List and Life is Beautiful , but also massively set back by Die Gustloff , Der Untergang , Our Mothers, Our Fathers or The Expellees. Hitler's last victim .

In August 2020, the Berlin Justice Senator Dirk Behrendt ( Greens ) announced that Salzborn is the new anti-Semitism commissioner for the state of Berlin . He takes over the office from the previous acting agent Lorenz Korgel.

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • Home without borders. History, present and future of the displaced persons' associations (= Antifa edition ). Elefanten Press, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-88520-770-2 .
  • Homeland law and national struggle. Foreign policy concepts of the associations of expellees and their practical implementation . With a foreword by Wolfgang Kreutzberger, Offizin, Hannover 2001, ISBN 3-930345-28-5 .
  • with Christoph Butterwegge , Janine Cremer, Alexander Häusler , Gudrun Hentges , Thomas Pfeiffer , Carolin Reisslandt : Topics of the Right - Topics of the Middle. Immigration, demographic change and national awareness . Leske + Budrich, Opladen 2002, ISBN 3-8100-3419-3 .
  • Ethnicization of politics. Theory and history of national minority law in Europe (= Campus Research . Vol. 880). Campus, Frankfurt am Main u. a. 2005, ISBN 3-593-37879-5 .
  • Shared memory. German-Czech relations and the Sudeten German past (= The Germans and Eastern Europe . Vol. 3). Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 2008, ISBN 978-3-631-57308-2 .
  • Anti-Semitism as a negative central theme of modernity. Comparison of social science theories . Campus, Frankfurt am Main u. a. 2010, ISBN 978-3-593-39187-8 .
  • Democracy. Theories, forms, developments (= UTB . 3782). Nomos (UTB), Baden-Baden 2012, ISBN 978-3-8252-3782-0 .
  • Social sciences for introduction (= introduction ). Junius, Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-88506-077-2 .
  • Right-wing extremism. Appearances and explanations (= UTB . 4162). Nomos (UTB), Baden-Baden 2014, ISBN 978-3-8252-4162-9 . (2nd edition 2015)
  • Anti-Semitism. History, theory, empiricism (= interdisciplinary research on anti-Semitism . Vol. 1). Nomos, Baden-Baden 2014, ISBN 978-3-8487-1113-0 .
  • Clash of ideas. The history of political theories in context . Nomos, Baden-Baden 2015, ISBN 978-3-8487-2324-9 .
  • Attack by the anti-democrats. The Volkish rebellion of the new right . Beltz Juventa, Weinheim, Basel 2017, ISBN 978-3-7799-3674-9 .
  • Global anti-Semitism. A search for traces in the abyss of modernity . Beltz Juventa, Weinheim, Basel 2018, ISBN 978-3-7799-3855-2 .
  • Collective innocence. Defense against the Shoah in German memory . Hentrich & Hentrich Verlag, Berlin / Leipzig 2020, ISBN 978-3-95565-359-0 .

Editorships

  • Minority Conflicts in Europe. Case studies and possible solutions . Studienverlag, Innsbruck 2006, ISBN 978-3-7065-4181-7 .
  • Political culture. Research status and research perspectives (= Political Cultural Research . Vol. 1). Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 2009, ISBN 978-3-631-58019-6 .
  • Critical Theory of the State. State and law with Franz L. Neumann (= understanding of the state . Vol. 25). Nomos, Baden-Baden 2009, ISBN 978-3-8329-4523-7 .
  • with Rüdiger Voigt : Sovereignty. Theoretical and historical reflections (= state discourses . Vol. 10). Steiner, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-515-09735-2 .
  • The state of liberalism. The liberal theory of the state by John Locke (= understanding of the state . Vol. 31). Nomos, Baden-Baden 2010, ISBN 978-3-8329-4500-8 .
  • with Hans-Christian Petersen: Antisemitism in Eastern Europe. History and present in comparison (= Political Culture Research . Vol. 5). Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 2010, ISBN 978-3-631-59828-3 .
  • State and nation. The theories of nationalism research under discussion (= state discourses . Vol. 13). Steiner, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-515-09806-9 .
  • with Eldad Davidov, Jost Reinecke : Methods, theories, and empirical applications in the social sciences. Festschrift for Peter Schmidt . Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2012, ISBN 978-3-531-17130-2 .
  • "... to the Museum of Antiquities". State theory and criticism of the state in Friedrich Engels (= understanding of the state . Vol. 47). Nomos, Baden-Baden 2012, ISBN 978-3-8329-5797-1 .
  • Classics of the social sciences. 100 key works in portrait . Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2014, ISBN 978-3-658-03473-3 .
  • with Dana Ionescu: Antisemitism in German parties (= interdisciplinary research on antisemitism . Vol. 2). Nomos, Baden-Baden 2014, ISBN 978-3-8487-0555-9 .
  • Zionism. Theories of the Jewish state (= understanding of the state . Vol. 76). Nomos, Baden-Baden 2015, ISBN 978-3-8487-1699-9 .
  • with Holger Zapf: War and Peace. Cultural patterns of interpretation (= Political Culture Research . Vol. 10). Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2015, ISBN 978-3-631-65182-7 .
  • Anti-Semitism since 9/11. Events, debate, controversies , Nomos, Baden-Baden 2019, ISBN 978-3-8487-5417-5 .
  • School and anti-Semitism. Political stocktaking and educational options for action . Beltz Juventa, Weinheim, Basel, 2020, ISBN 978-3-7799-6259-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Members: Samuel Salzborn , politikwissenschaft.uni-wuerzburg.de, accessed on December 10, 2015.
  2. ^ GK: Salzborn, Samuel: Ethnisierung der Politik. Theory and history of ethnic group law in Europe [review] . In: Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft 3/2006, p. 1185.
  3. ↑ Samuel Salzborn: Anti-Semitism as a negative central idea of ​​modernity. Comparison of social science theories . Frankfurt am Main 2010, p. 9.
  4. ↑ See list of authors : Gideon Botsch , Olaf Glöckner , Christoph Kopke , Michael Spieker (eds.): Islamophobia and anti-Semitism - a controversial comparison (= European-Jewish studies, controversies . Vol. 1). De Gruyter, Berlin a. a. 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-026510-1 , p. 257.
  5. ↑ Migration expert database : Samuel Salzborn , network-migration.org, accessed on December 10, 2015.
  6. ↑ Main research areas . Website of the University of Göttingen, accessed on December 10, 2015.
  7. ↑ Doctoral students of Prof. Dr. Samuel Salzborn ( Memento of the original from December 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , uni-goettingen.de, accessed on December 10, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.uni-goettingen.de
  8. ^ Angela Brünjes: University of Göttingen: Prize of the Board of Trustees for Samuel Salzborn . goettinger-tageblatt.de, December 28, 2015.
  9. ^ Controversy over politics professor . goettinger-tageblatt.de, April 28, 2016.
  10. ↑ Open letter: No deletion of the Salzborn professorship! - FSR SoWi. Accessed January 30, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Popular and booted out , taz article from May 3, 2016, accessed on May 4, 2016
  12. ↑ [1] , Göttinger Tagblatt from June 2, 2016
  13. ↑ [2] taz of September 10, 2016
  14. ^ AK Politics and Culture , dvpw.de, accessed on December 10, 2015.
  15. ↑ Redaktion , pvs.nomos.de, accessed on December 10, 2015.
  16. ↑ Interdisciplinary Research on Antisemitism / Interdisciplinary Studies on Antisemitism , nomos-shop.de, accessed on December 10, 2015.
  17. ^ State - Sovereignty - Nation , springer.com, accessed December 10, 2015.
  18. ^ Political cultural research ( Memento of December 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), peterlang.com, December 10, 2015.
  19. ↑ On the person . Samuel Salzborn's website, accessed December 10, 2015.
  20. ↑ Media information No. 167/2017 from TU Berlin from October 12, 2017
  21. ↑ a b c essays , website by Samuel Salzborn, accessed on December 11, 2015.
  22. ^ Articles by Samuel Salzborn , blaetter.de, accessed on December 10, 2015.
  23. ↑ Bahamas - Heft-Archiv In: Redaktion-bahamas.org , accessed on July 16, 2020.
  24. ^ Samuel Salzborn: Boundless Home. History, present and future of the displaced persons' associations . Berlin 2000, p. 210.
  25. ^ Samuel Salzborn , juedische-allgemeine.de, accessed on December 11, 2015.
  26. ^ The Academic Carousel , publikative.org, accessed on December 10, 2015.
  27. ^ Samuel Salzborn, Collective Innocence. Defense against the Shoah in German memory , Hentrich & Hentrich, 2020, ISBN 978-3-95565-359-0 .
  28. ↑ Samuel Salzborn, Defense of Remembrance , Jüdische Allgemeine, May 8, 2020. Retrieved May 10, 2020.
  29. ^ Jüdische Allgemeine: Samuel Salzborn is the new commissioner against anti-Semitism. August 3, 2020, accessed on August 3, 2020 .
  30. ^ Süddeutsche Zeitung: Samuel Salzborn new Berlin anti-Semitism commissioner. Retrieved August 3, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Salzborn, Samuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German social scientist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover