Sigrid Meuschel

Sigrid Meuschel in 2010

Sigrid Meuschel (born December 30, 1944 in Würzburg ; † November 1, 2016 ) was a German political scientist .

Life

Sigrid Meuschel studied social sciences in Freiburg im Breisgau and Frankfurt am Main . From 1971 to 1983 she worked as Jürgen Habermas ' personal advisor on research into the living conditions of the scientific and technical world in Starnberg and at the successor institute (MPI for Social Sciences). During this time she received her doctorate in 1981 at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main .

Meuschel went to the Free University of Berlin , where she was a research assistant at the Institute for Sociology from 1983 to 1986 and then until 1989 at the Central Institute for Social Science Research in the GDR research and archive department. 1991 habilitated they then took a visiting professor at the University of Washington at. Her habilitation thesis was recognized as a “standard work on the SED state”. From 1993 until her retirement, she was Professor of Political Science at the University of Leipzig . In the 2003/04 winter semester, she held the Theodor Heuss Professorship at the New School for Social Research in New York. Meuschel's urn was buried in Würzburg.

Publications (selection)

Legitimation and party rule: on the paradox of stability and revolution in the GDR 1945–1989 (Habilitation), 3rd edition, Frankfurt am Main 1993. ISBN 978-3-518-11688-3
Capitalism or slavery. The protracted implementation of civil society in the USA (dissertation), Frankfurt am Main 1981. ISBN 978-3-434-00498-1

Individual evidence

↑ Sigrid Meuschel. In: Obituaries. Der Tagesspiegel , November 13, 2016, accessed on November 17, 2016 .
↑ ^a ^b SIGRID MEUSCHEL. In: Vita. Heinrich Böll Foundation , March 12, 2009, accessed on November 17, 2016 .
^ Carl-Christian Kaiser: The long crisis. A standard work on the SED state: Sigrid Meuschel's “Legitimation and Party Rule”. Die Zeit , October 16, 1992, accessed on November 17, 2016 .

personal data
SURNAME	Meuschel, Sigrid
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH	December 30, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wurzburg
DATE OF DEATH	November 1, 2016

[1] Sigrid Meuschel. In: Obituaries. Der Tagesspiegel , November 13, 2016, accessed on November 17, 2016 .

[Böll-2] SIGRID MEUSCHEL. In: Vita. Heinrich Böll Foundation , March 12, 2009, accessed on November 17, 2016 .

[3] Carl-Christian Kaiser: The long crisis. A standard work on the SED state: Sigrid Meuschel's “Legitimation and Party Rule”. Die Zeit , October 16, 1992, accessed on November 17, 2016 .