Volker Kronenberg

Volker Kronenberg (born January 8, 1971 in Bonn , Germany ) is a German political scientist .

Career

Kronenberg studied political science, constitutional law and sociology at the University of Bonn . He completed his studies under Manfred Funke in 1998 as a Magister Artium . In 1999, following a research stay at the Friedrich Meinecke Institute of the Free University of Berlin , he submitted his doctorate to the political scientist Hans-Adolf Jacobsen and the historian Klaus Hildebrand in the field of contemporary history at the same university . In 2000, Kronenberg received the Erich-und-Erna-Kronauer-Stiftung's Historians Prize for his dissertation . In 2004 he completed his habilitation with Christian Hacke in Bonn.

From 1998 to 2000 Kronenberg was a research assistant at the Department of Political Science at the University of Bonn. He then became Academic Councilor at the Institute for Political Science and Sociology at the same university, of which he was Managing Director from 2000 to 2002 and again from 2004 to 2006. Since 2005 Kronenberg curator of the Institute, since 2008 the Office of Academic Director . In 2010 he was awarded the title of honorary professor by the Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences . In 2013 he also became dean of studies at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Bonn. In the following year, the faculty council of the same faculty unanimously appointed him extraordinary professor at the Institute for Political Science and Sociology, and Frank Decker gave the laudation .

From 2011 to 2015, Kronenberg was the scientific director of the Bonn Academy for Research and Teaching of Practical Politics , which Bodo Hombach established and of which he has chaired its scientific advisory board since 2015.

Research priorities

As part of his research work at the University of Bonn, Kronenberg deals in particular with topics relating to the political system, political culture and political history of the Federal Republic of Germany. Further areas of expertise are political biography and party research. He is also regularly consulted as a political expert by the broadcasters Phoenix , WDR and Deutschlandfunk . In regional reporting, for example, he often expresses himself on state and local political issues. In 2011 and 2012, Kronenberg was involved as an expert in the Citizens' Dialogue initiated by Chancellor Angela Merkel .

Fonts (selection)

• Ernst Nolte and the totalitarian age. Attempt to come to an understanding . With a foreword by Manfred Funke , Bouvier, Bonn 1999, ISBN 3-416-02874-0 .
• (Ed.): Contemporary history, science and politics. The "historians' dispute". 20 years later . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2008, ISBN 978-3-531-16120-4 .
• with Patrick Keller , Jana Puglierin (ed.): Foreign policy and reasons of state. Festschrift for Christian Hacke on his 65th birthday . Nomos, Baden-Baden 2008, ISBN 978-3-8329-3281-7 .
• with Karl Dietrich Bracher , Hans-Adolf Jacobsen , Oliver Spatz (eds.): Politics, history and culture. Science in responsibility for the res publica. Festschrift for Manfred Funke on his 70th birthday . Bouvier, Bonn 2009, ISBN 978-3-416-03266-7 .
• with Tilman Mayer (Ed.): Streitbar für die Demokratie. "Bonn Perspectives" in Political Science and Contemporary History 1959-2009 . Bouvier, Bonn 2009, ISBN 978-3-416-03248-3 .
• with Tilman Mayer (ed.): People's parties: Success model for the future? Concepts, competitions and constellations . On behalf of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Freiburg im Breisgau 2009, ISBN 978-3-451-30286-2 .
• Patriotism in Germany. Perspectives for a cosmopolitan nation . 3rd, revised and updated edition, Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2013, ISBN 978-3-531-19868-2 .
• Jürgen Rüttgers. A political biography . Olzog, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-7892-8203-4 .
• Patriotism 2.0. Common good and citizenship in the Federal Republic of Germany . Olzog, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-7892-8316-1 .
• with Christoph Weckenbrock (Ed.): Black-Green. The debate . VS Verlag, Wiesbaden 2011, ISBN 978-3-531-18413-5 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Volker Kronenberg in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Volker Kronenberg  in the German Digital Library
• Search for "Volker Kronenberg" in the SPK digital portal of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation
• Short biography and reviews of works by Volker Kronenberg at perlentaucher.de
• Volker Kronenberg at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
• Volker Kronenberg at the Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences

Individual evidence

1. ^ Erich and Erna Kronauer Foundation
2. ↑ Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences ( Memento of the original dated February 4, 2012 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.