Uwe Carstens

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Uwe Carstens (born November 24, 1948 in Sankt Peter-Ording ) is a German political scientist and sociologist .

Career

After Magisterexamen Carstens graduated with an empirical study on the refugee camp in the city of Kiel at the Kiel University Dr. phil. Numerous publications on the subject of flight, displacement and integration followed. In the early 1990s, Carstens turned to Tönnies research. He published the first and only biography of Ferdinand Tönnies , the 2nd updated edition of which was published in 2013 by the Nordfriesisches Institut publishing house, and also a work on Ferdinand Tönnies' friendship with the Husum poet Theodor Storm . On behalf of the Ferdinand-Tönnies-Gesellschaft (FTG) he edited the magazine Tönnies-Forum from 1994 to 2020 and was co-editor of the Ferdinand Tönnies complete edition from 2006 to 2020 . After years of research, in 2013 Carstens discovered the lost manuscript of the 2nd, 3rd and 4th parts of Tönnies´ " Geist der Neuzeit ". The corresponding volume of the TG was published, edited by Uwe and Bärbel Carstens, in 2016.

From 1992 to 2016 Carstens was managing director of FTG, which was founded in 1956, and managed the Ferdinand-Tönnies-Haus student residence . Since 1992 he has also been teaching at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel . He was also a scientific advisor for the FTG.

On February 9, 2010, Uwe Carstens received the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon for his voluntary research work.

Publications (selection)

  • Ed., Together with Carsten Schlüter-Knauer: The will to democracy. Lines of tradition and perspectives . Duncker and Humblot, Berlin 1998, ISBN 978-3-428-08801-0 .
  • Ferdinand Tönnies. Frisians and citizens of the world. A biography . Second, expanded edition, Nordfriisk Instituut, Bräist / Bredstedt 2013, ISBN 978-3-88007-381-4 (first 2005).
  • (Ed.): Ferdinand Tönnies. The welfare state between community and society . Nomos, Baden-Baden 2014, ISBN 978-3-8487-1626-5 .
  • In my house they don't say "Heil Hitler!". Ferdinand Tönnie's fight against National Socialism . Norderstedt 2020, ISBN 978-3-7528-9775-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Uwe Carstens: The refugee camps of the city of Kiel. Collective accommodation as a disintegrating factor in refugee policy . Elwert, Marburg 1992, ISBN 978-3-7708-0996-7 .
  2. ↑ a b Dr. Uwe Carstens. On the person , accessed on August 25, 2020.
  3. ^ Lost book surfaced , article kn -online, October 25, 2013, accessed on October 2, 2017.
  4. ^ Cross of Merit for Scientific Work , Husumer Nachrichten , February 22, 2010.
personal data
SURNAME Carstens, Uwe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist and sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 24, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Sankt Peter-Ording