Uwe Backes

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Uwe Backes (born February 2, 1960 in Greimerath ) is a German political scientist and extremism researcher . He is a professor at the Technical University of Dresden and, together with Eckhard Jesse, publishes the yearbook Extremism & Democracy and the series Extremism & Democracy .

Life

Backes studied political science, history and German at the University of Trier . In 1987 he was at Erwin Faul , his second supervisor was Peter Haungs , at the Division III with the thesis Political extremism in democratic constitutional states to Dr. phil. PhD. From 1988 to 1994 he was Academic Councilor a. Currently at the University of Bayreuth . From 1995 to 1996 he received a grant from the German Research Foundation . In 1997 he completed his habilitation at the Faculty of Cultural Studies with the thesis Liberalism and Democracy - Antinomy and Synthesis. On the relationship between two political currents in the Vormärz . Hermann Joseph Hiery (Bayreuth) and Hans Maier (Munich) acted as reviewers for the work .

In 1997/98 Backes received a Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the Center d'Étude pour la Vie Politique Française (CEVIPOF) in Paris and in 1998/99 a Heisenberg Fellowship from the German Research Foundation in Washington, DC and London. In the meantime he taught as a private lecturer at the University of Bayreuth. In the 1998 summer semester, he was Otto von Freising visiting professor at the Catholic University of Eichstätt .

Backes has held an adjunct professorship for comparative dictatorship research at the Technical University of Dresden since 1999 and is also deputy director of the Hannah Arendt Institute for Research on Totalitarianism (HAIT).

In the winter semester 2000/2001 he was a visiting professor at the University of Paris X in Nanterre and in the summer semester 2008 he was an Alfred Grosser visiting professor at the campus franco-allemand de Sciences Po Paris in Nancy . In 2010/11 he held the Gutenberg Chair at the Laboratoire Cultures et Sociétés en Europe at the University of Strasbourg .

Backes is u. a. Member of the advisory boards of the Alliance for Democracy and Tolerance and of the learning and memorial site of the Kaßberg prison.

Research activity

Backes researches primarily in the areas of democratic theory , the history of ideology , comparative extremism research, and authoritarian and totalitarian dictatorships . Together with Jesse and the representative of the New Right Rainer Zitelmann, he founded the Veldensteiner Kreis .

Together with Eckhard Jesse (and Alexander Gallus ), Backes publishes the yearbook Extremism & Democracy . He is also the editor of the series Extremismus & Demokratie (Nomos Verlag) and editor-in-chief of the journal Totalitarismus und Demokratie of the Hannah Arendt Institute (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht) with Jesse . As part of his work for this magazine, Backes unconsciously took a text from a satirical group and edited it. The completely devised text appeared unobjectionable in totalitarianism and democracy . The satirical group wants to "stimulate a discussion about why committed social criticism has become an exception in the humanities".

At the end of 1999 Backes encouraged his colleague at the Hannah Arendt Institute for Research on Totalitarianism, Lothar Fritze , to publish his controversial theses about the Hitler attack by Georg Elser in the Frankfurter Rundschau . Fritze had expressed himself critical of Elser's approach and expressed the opinion that Elser's behavior should not be unconditionally assessed as exemplary. Backes was therefore also sharply attacked within the Hannah Arendt Institute and asked to resign.

In March 2011 Backes received a cartridge from the left-wing extremist “ Revolutionary Action Cells ”. A letter of confession published on the Internet threatened that “the next delivery would be by express”. In addition to Backes, this action also affected his colleague Eckhard Jesse and Federal Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich .

Fonts (selection)

  • with Eckhard Jesse: totalitarianism, extremism, terrorism. A literary guide and guide in the light of German experience . Leske and Budrich, Opladen 1984, ISBN 3-8100-0560-6 .
  • with Karl-Heinz Janßen , Eckhard Jesse, Henning Köhler , Hans Mommsen , Fritz Tobias (eds.): Reichstag fire. Clarification of a historical legend . Piper, Munich a. a. 1986, ISBN 3-492-03027-0 .
  • Political extremism in the Federal Republic of Germany . 3 volumes, Verlag Wissenschaft und Politik, Cologne 1989;
  • Political extremism in democratic constitutional states. Elements of a normative framework theory . Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1989, ISBN 3-531-11946-X .
  • with Eckhard Jesse, Rainer Zitelmann (ed.): The shadows of the past. Impulses for the historicization of National Socialism . Propylaea, Frankfurt am Main u. a. 1990, ISBN 3-549-07407-7 .
  • Leaden years. Baader-Meinhof and afterwards (= series Extremism and Democracy . Vol. 1). Straube, Erlangen a. a. 1991, ISBN 3-927491-36-5 .
  • with Patrick Moreau : The extreme right in Germany. History - current dangers - causes - countermeasures . Akademie-Verlag, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-929115-30-1 .
  • Protection of the state. From autocracy to militant democracy (= Otto von Freising lectures of the Catholic University of Eichstätt . Vol. 17). Leske and Budrich, Opladen 1998, ISBN 3-8100-2297-7 .
  • Liberalism and Democracy - Antinomy and Synthesis: On the mutual relationship between two political currents in the Vormärz (= contributions to the history of parliamentarism and political parties . Vol. 120). Droste, Düsseldorf 2000, ISBN 3-7700-5221-8 .
  • with Stéphane Courtois (ed.): “A ghost is about in Europe”: The legacy of communist ideologies (= writings of the Hannah Arendt Institute for Research on Totalitarianism . Vol. 20). Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2002, ISBN 3-412-15001-0 .
  • (Ed.): Right-wing extremist ideologies in the past and present (= writings of the Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarian Research . Vol. 23). Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2003, ISBN 3-412-03703-6 .
  • with Eckhard Jesse: Comparative extremism research (= extremism and democracy . Vol. 11). Nomos, Baden-Baden 2005, ISBN 3-8329-0997-4 .
  • Political extremes. A history of words and concepts from antiquity to the present (= writings of the Hannah Arendt Institute for Research on Totalitarianism . Vol. 31). Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 978-3-525-36908-1 .
  • with Eckhard Jesse (ed.): Threats to Freedom: Extremist Ideologies in Comparison (= writings of the Hannah Arendt Institute for Research on Totalitarianism . Vol. 29). Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-525-36905-0 .
  • with Henrik Steglich (ed.): The NPD: Success conditions of a right-wing extremist party (= extremism and democracy . Vol. 17). Nomos, Baden-Baden 2007, ISBN 978-3-8329-3122-3 .
  • Eckhard Jesse: Democracy in Germany: Diagnoses and Analyzes . Edited with Alexander Gallus, Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2008, ISBN 978-3-412-20157-9 .
  • with Patrick Moreau (Ed.): Communist and post-communist parties in Europe (= writings of the Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarian Research . Vol. 36). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-525-36912-8 .
  • with Tytus Jaskułowski, Abel Polese (eds.): Totalitarianism and Transformation: Deficits in the consolidation of democracy in Central and Eastern Europe (= writings of the Hannah Arendt Institute for Research on Totalitarianism . Vol. 37). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-525-36911-1 .
  • with Matthias Mletzko, Jan Stoye: NPD election mobilization and politically motivated violence: Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia in a contrastive comparison . Luchterland, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-472-07700-8 .
  • with Patrick Moreau (ed.): The extreme right in Europe: current trends and perspectives (= writings of the Hannah Arendt Institute for Research on Totalitarianism . Vol. 46). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen u. a. 2012, ISBN 978-3-525-36922-7 .
  • (Ed.): The history of totalitarian democracy (= ways of totalitarianism research ). 3 volumes, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-525-31012-0 ;
  • with Steffen Kailitz (Ed.): Ideocracies in Comparison: Legitimation - Cooptation - Repression. (= Writings of the Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarian Research . Vol. 51; with 3 tables). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen u. a. 2014, ISBN 978-3-525-36962-3 .
  • with Anna-Maria Haase, Michail Logvinov, Matthias Mletzko, Jan Stoye: Right-wing motivated multiple and intensive offenders in Saxony (= Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarian Research: Reports and Studies. No. 69). V & R Unipress, Göttingen 2014, ISBN 978-3-8471-0374-5 .
  • Literature by and about Uwe Backes in the catalog of the German National Library

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Scientific Advisory Board: Uwe Backes , Kaßberg Prison Learning and Memorial Site, July 16, 2015.
  2. ↑ The great Wall Nazi swindle. In: New Germany . February 16, 2016, accessed February 18, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Inspector Rex shot at the wall? In: Telepolis . February 15, 2016, accessed February 18, 2016 .
  4. ↑ See Fritze: Legitimate Resistance? The Elser case. BWV, Berlin 2009.
  5. ^ Frankfurter Rundschau November 8, 1999; Jörg Lau : A self-harm . In: The time . January 13, 2000.
  6. ↑ Cartridges for professors - Political scientists receive mail with 8-millimeter projectiles. In: Free Press . April 1, 2011, accessed September 5, 2011 .
personal data
SURNAME Backes, Uwe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Greimerath