Ulrich Widmaier (political scientist)

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Ulrich Widmaier (born January 22, 1944 in Stuttgart ; † February 20, 2008 ) was a German university professor for political science .

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Ulrich Widmaier was born in 1944 to Margarete and Willi Widmaier. He attended elementary school and the Hegel high school in Stuttgart. From 1964 he did his military service. From 1965 to 1970 he studied sociology and political science at the University of Mannheim and graduated as a sociologist. In 1970 he married Brigitta Ulrike Widmaier, b. Eschler. With the help of a DAAD scholarship, he then went to Princeton University for a year . In 1971/72 and 1977 he was a research assistant at the Chair of Political Science I at the University of Mannheim with Rudolf Wildenmann . In the summers of 1972 and 1973 he attended the ECPR summer school. In 1977 he received his PhD from the University of Mannheim. phil is doing his doctoral thesis on the use of political violence as a problem of the organization of interests. A cross-sectional study of the socio-political causes of violent conflict resolution within nation states . He then worked for ten years as a research assistant at the International Institute for Comparative Society Research at the Berlin Science Center under the direction of Karl W. Deutsch . From 1978 to 1986 Widmaier was also a lecturer at the Free University of Berlin , Department of Political Science. In 1987 he wrote Endogenous Limits to Growth. A political-economic macro-analysis of the possible consequences of distribution conflicts in the capitalist competitive democracies (OECD states) at the University of Mannheim for political science. Afterwards he was deputy head of the “Research Center for Social Developments” (FGE) at the University of Mannheim for two years.

In the summer semester of 1989 Widmaier took over the representation of the Chair for Political Science I at the University of Mannheim and from the following semester the long-term representation of the Chair for Political Science II at the Ruhr University Bochum , which he held until 1996. From 1990 to 1995 he headed a panel study at the Ruhr University Bochum on the technical, operational, economic and social development in the use of flexible work systems in the commercial economy. In 1991 he was a visiting professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin. From 1991 to 1997 he was a member of the advisory board of the German Association for Political Science and from 1994 to 1997 in the Executive Committee of the ECPR. In 1995 he was awarded the title of “ Extraordinary Professor ” by the University of Mannheim . In the following year, he took up a C4 professorship for comparative government and policy analysis at the Ruhr University in Bochum. From 2000 to 2002 he was dean of the Faculty of Social Science. His best-known colleague was Nils C. Bandelow , who has held the Chair of Political Science at the TU Braunschweig since 2007 .

In January 2007, Widmaier took early retirement. In 2008 he succumbed to cancer that had been going on for almost eight years.

Publications (selection)

  • Political use of force as a problem of organizing interests. Hain, Meisenheim am Glan 1978, ISBN 3-445-01836-7 .
  • Endogenous Limits to Growth. Nomos-Verlag-Ges., Baden-Baden 1989, ISBN 3-7890-1682-9 .
  • with Franz Lehner: Comparative Government. Leske and Budrich, Opladen 1995, ISBN 3-8100-1366-8 .
  • with Andrea Gawrich , Ute Becker: Government systems of Central and Eastern Europe. Leske and Budrich, Opladen 1999, ISBN 3-8100-2294-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ulrich Widmaier. In: Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar Online. De Gruyter, Berlin, accessed December 6, 2013.
  2. ^ Curriculum vitae of Ulrich Widmaier springer.com, accessed on December 6, 2013.
  3. ^ Nils C. Bandelow , Wilhelm Bleek : To the death of Ulrich Widmaier. In: Political Science. Newsletter of the German Association for Political Science . Lit Verlag, Münster 2008, 138, p. 8.
personal data
SURNAME Widmaier, Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German university professor for political science
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH February 20, 2008