Tilman Mayer

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Tilman Mayer (born April 13, 1953 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) is a German political scientist and university professor. Since 2001 he has been Professor of Political Science at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn .

Scientific career

Mayer studied political science, philosophy and German at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, where he received his Magister Artium in 1979 with Wilhelm Hennis . From 1979 to 1989 he was assistant at the chair for didactics of social studies and political science (professorship Paul-Ludwig Weinacht ) at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg . In 1983 he received his doctorate with a thesis on national theory.

He then headed a contemporary historical research project for the Jakob Kaiser Foundation in Königswinter near Bonn. In 1992 he conducted research, funded by the DFG , at the American University in Bulgaria in Blagoevgrad. In 1993 he was given a teaching position for political science at the Erfurt / Mühlhausen University of Education . From 1993 to 1995 Mayer headed the Bonn office of the Allensbach Institute for Demoscopy . In 1997 he completed his habilitation (subject: “Has the theory of totalitarianism failed?”), And a year later he received a private lectureship in Würzburg. In 1999 he was visiting professor for sociology at the Freiburg University of Education . From 1999 to 2001 he held a chair at the Geschwister-Scholl-Institute for Political Science and in 2001 at the Seminar for Political Science .

In July 2001 he was offered a professorship for political science in Bonn. In 2009/10 he was a fellow at the Center for European Integration Research . In 2015 he was visiting professor at the Beijing Foreign Language University .

His scientific research covers research into the history of ideas of the 20th century, party research, political culture research, demoscopy and demographic change as well as comparative research on Germany.

Offices

Mayer was a member of the board of directors of the German-Israeli Society (DIG-AG) from 2001 to 2009 , from 2005 to 2007 and again in 2008/09 managing director of the Bonn seminar, 2008/09 founding chairman of the alumni network of the Institute for Political Science and Sociology (BONI) and from 2010 to 2016 President of the German Society for Demography (DGD). Since 2007 he has been chairman of the Gesellschaft für Deutschlandforschung (GfD), since 2009 deputy chairman of the German Society for Political Science (DGfP), since 2012 deputy chairman of the Jakob Kaiser Foundation in Königswinter . Since October 2017 he has been President of the International Club La Redoute in Bonn.

In addition, Mayer is a member of the German Society for Foreign Policy (DGAP), the German Association for Political Science (DVPW), the Research Foundation July 20, 1944, the Intelligence Service in Germany (GKND) discussion group , and has been a board member of Michael since 2001 -Zikic Foundation Bonn and member of the Center for Religion and Society (ZERG).

Private

Tilman Mayer is a great-grandson of the former mayor of Freiburg, Otto Winterer .

Publications (selection)

  • Nation principle. Dimensions of the national question, illustrated using the example of Germany. Opladen 1986, 2nd edition 1987.
  • Open the gate. Jakob Kaiser Studies, Berlin 1996.
  • The demographic crisis. An integrative theory of population growth. Frankfurt a. M. 1999.
  • The struggle for the political center. Political culture and party system since 1998. (Ed. Together with Reinhard C. Meier-Walser ). Munich 2002.
  • The value of freedom. Germany facing a new change in values? (together with Thomas Petersen ). Freiburg i. Br. 2005
  • Arguable for democracy. - “Bonner Perspektiven” in political science and contemporary history 1959–2009. (Ed. Together with Volker Kronenberg ). Bonn 2009.
  • Popular parties: a successful model for the future? Concepts, competitions and constellations. (Ed. Together with Volker Kronenberg). Freiburg i. Br. 2009.
  • Media power and the public in the Adenauer era. Rhöndorf Talks 23, Bonn 2009.
  • Germany from an international perspective. Series of publications by the Society for Research in Germany, Volume 96, Berlin 2009.
  • 20 years of German unity. Successes, ambivalences, problems. Series of publications by the Gesellschaft für Deutschlandforschung Volume 97.Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010.
  • German Autumn 1989. Series of publications by the Gesellschaft für Deutschlandforschung Volume 99. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin: 2010.
  • The shaping of globality. Effects of globality on selected subjects of the Philosophical Faculty. (Ed. Together with Ludger Kühnhardt ). ZEI Discussion Paper C 203, Bonn 2011.
  • Respice finem - The end of states or the loss of the idea as the beginning of the end. in: Otto Depenheuer (ed.): Stories from the state. Ideas as the basis of statehood. VS-Verlag, Wiesbaden 2011, pp. 97–114.
  • On the fantasy and reality of a patchwork coalition. in: Volker Kronenberg, Christoph Weckenbrock (ed.): Black-Green. The debate. VS-Verlag, Wiesbaden 2011, pp. 126-133.
  • Globalization in the focus of politics, economy, society. An inventory. (Ed. Together with Robert Meyer, Lazaros Miliopoulos, H. Peter Ohly, Erich Weede ). VS-Verlag, Wiesbaden 2011.
  • Friedrich Christoph Dahlmann. A political professor in the 19th century. (Ed. Together with: Thomas Becker and Wilhelm Bleek ). Bonner Schriften zur Universitäts- und Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Volume 3.University Press at V&R, Bonn 2012.
  • Party profiles: Is the CDU ready for retirement? in: Journal for Political and European Sciences. (10) 2/2012, pp. 219-240.
  • The CDU of Germany: A people's party in turmoil. In: Karsten Grabow (Ed.): Christian-Democratic Parties in West Germany. Status and perspectives, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, In Plenum, Sankt Augustin / Berlin 2012, pp. 63–76.
  • Model Germany. (Ed. Together with Karl-Heinz Paqué and Andreas H. Apelt ). Series of publications by the Gesellschaft für Deutschlandforschung Volume 103.Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2013.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Prof. Dr. Tilman Mayer - Short biography ( Memento of the original from March 6, 2016 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. at politik-soziologie.uni-bonn.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.politik-soziologie.uni-bonn.de
  2. ^ Tilman Mayer is President of the International Club La Redoute. Retrieved December 12, 2019 .
  3. ^ Badische Zeitung of May 18, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Mayer, Tilman
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg in Breisgau