Steffen Kailitz

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Steffen Kailitz (born May 18, 1969 in Frankenthal (Palatinate) ) is a German political scientist . He is a research fellow at the Hannah Arendt Institute for Research on Totalitarianism . His main research interests are comparative democracy research , extremism and totalitarianism research , political cultural research , electoral system research and political party research .

Life

Education

Steffen Kailitz studied Political Science and Eastern Slavic Studies at the University of Mannheim from 1989 to 1994 . From 1995 to 1999 he completed a PhD in political science at the TU Chemnitz . In 1999 he was with Eckhard Jesse with the dissertation The political interpretation culture of the Federal Republic of Germany in the mirror of the "Historikerstreits". What's right? What's left? the Doctor of Philosophy PhD.

From 1998 to 2007 he was a research assistant at the TU Chemnitz at the Chair of Political Systems, Political Institutions (Professorship Jesse). In 2005 he completed his habilitation on the subject of Parliamentary, semi-presidential and presidential democracies in comparison. Structures and consequences of the forms of government (with Jesse) in political science, which gave him the right to use the title of private lecturer .

Research and teaching activities

Since autumn 2007 Kailitz has been at the Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarism Research e. V. works as a research assistant at the TU Dresden . In 2009 he represented the Professorship of Comparative Political Science at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald and in 2010/11 the Professorship of Comparative Government Studies at the University of Erfurt .

From 2003 to 2012 he was spokesman for the group comparative research on dictatorship and extremism at the German Association for Political Science (DVPW). In 2012 he became spokesman for the Comparative Political Science section at the DVPW. In 2013, he was the founding editor of the Comparative Political Science series ( Springer VS ) together with Susanne Pickel and Claudia Wiesner .

Activity as an expert

In 2012, alongside Andrea Röpke and Hajo Funke, he was an expert on the NSU investigation committee of the Bavarian state parliament .

In the second ban proceedings against the NPD , he appeared as an expert before the Federal Constitutional Court . In this context, he wrote a guest commentary at the time in which he wrote that the NPD was planning “racist state crimes” and wanted to “expel eight to eleven million people from Germany, including several million German citizens with a migration background”. A court ruling by the Dresden Regional Court on May 10, 2016, in which Kailitz was temporarily prohibited from repeating these statements publicly, caused a stir . The responsible judge was AfD member Jens Maier . The decision was made in an urgent procedure without hearing the defendant and was sharply criticized by the German Association for Political Science , among others . In the oral hearing scheduled for Kailitz's objection, the NPD withdrew its motion. Thereupon the injunction was declared to be canceled. The NPD announced that the main proceedings would be initiated during the negotiations.

According to the Dresden Regional Court, the main action was filed by the NPD on June 13, 2016. The Dresden Regional Court dismissed the action in a judgment dated April 28, 2017. It sees in the statements a permissible expression of opinion and not an assertion of fact.

Fonts (selection)

as an author
  • The culture of political interpretation as reflected in the “historians' dispute”. What's right? What's left? . Westdeutscher Verlag, Wiesbaden 2001, ISBN 3-531-13701-8 (plus dissertation, TU Chemnitz 1999).
  • Current developments in German right-wing extremism (= Zukunftsforum Politik . No. 17). Konrad Adenauer Foundation , Sankt Augustin 2000.
  • Political extremism in the Federal Republic of Germany. An introduction (= textbook ). VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-531-14193-7 .
  • Right-wing extremism in the Federal Republic of Germany. On the way to the "Popular Front"? (= Future Forum Politics . No. 65). Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Sankt Augustin 2005, ISBN 3-937731-44-X .
as editor
  • with Eckhard Jesse : Formative forces of the 20th century. Democracy, extremism, totalitarianism. Nomos-Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden 1997, ISBN 3-7890-4874-7 . (also published by the Bavarian State Center for Political Education )
  • Key works in political science . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2007, ISBN 978-3-531-14005-6 .
  • The present of the past. The "Historikerstreit" and German history politics . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2008, ISBN 978-3-531-16132-7 .
  • with Uwe Backes : Ideocracies in comparison: legitimation - co-optation - repression. [With 3 tables] (= writings of the Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarian Research . Vol. 51). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen u. a. 2014, ISBN 978-3-525-36962-3 .
  • with Aurel Croissant , Patrick Koellner, Stefan Wurster : Comparing autocracies in the early Twenty-first Century (= Democratization Special Issues ). Vol. 1: Unpacking Autocracies - Explaining Similarity and Difference . Routledge, New York et al. a. 2014, ISBN 978-0-415-71934-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Florian Sendtner: NSU was “literally surrounded” by informants. In: Bayerische Staatszeitung . November 30, 2012, accessed March 23, 2020 .
  2. ↑ From “normal” party to “climate of violence”. In: right end of the line . March 2, 2016, accessed March 23, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Steffen Kailitz: NPD ban: exclude, please. In: Zeit Online . May 5, 2016, accessed March 23, 2020 .
  4. ^ Maximilian Steinbeis : News from Dresden: Knebel for NPD-critical scientists. In: Verfassungsblog. May 17, 2016, accessed March 23, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Dresden Regional Court: May 19, 2016 - Media information 8/16: Civil law dispute between NPD and Steffen K .; previous procedure. In: justiz.sachsen.de. May 19, 2016. Retrieved November 21, 2018 . Judge and AfD man forbids NPD opponents to shut up. In: Welt.de . May 19, 2016, accessed March 23, 2020 . Dresden Regional Court: File number: 3 O 925/16 EV - Decision in the legal dispute between the National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD) […] against Dr. Steffen Kailitz [...] for omission. (PDF; 157 kB) May 10, 2016, accessed on March 23, 2020 (reproduced on verfassungsglog.de).
  6. ↑ Outrage over the judicial ban on statements critical of the NPD. In: Welt.de . May 19, 2016, accessed March 23, 2020 . Board of Directors and Advisory Board of DVPW: DVPW criticizes injunction against PD Dr. Steffen Kailitz. (PDF; 36 kB) In: dvpw.de. May 19, 2016, accessed March 23, 2020 .
  7. ↑ NPD criticism allowed again. In: sächsische.de . June 10, 2016, accessed March 23, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Dresden Regional Court: June 17, 2016 - Media information 10/16: Civil law dispute between NPD and Dr. Steffen Kailitz, here: receipt of the main complaint. In: justiz.sachsen.de. June 17, 2016, accessed November 21, 2018 . NPD files suit against Dresden political scientist Kailitz. In: dnn.de . June 16, 2016, accessed March 23, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Hendrik Lasch: NPD fails with a muzzle for political scientist Kailitz. In: neue-deutschland.de . April 28, 2017. Retrieved April 28, 2017 . District Court Dresden: 04/28/2017 - Media information 5/17: Announcement of the verdict in the main proceedings of the NPD against Dr. Steffen Kailitz (Ref. 1.a O 1225/16). In: justiz.sachsen.de. April 28, 2017. Retrieved November 21, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Kailitz, Steffen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankenthal (Palatinate)