Gerhard Lehmbruch

Gerhard Lehmbruch ( born April 15, 1928 in Königsberg ) is a German political scientist.

Life

Gerhard Lehmbruch was the eldest of three children of evangelical pastor and his wife Erna Werner Lehmbruch, née Müller, to the world. He grew up to the age of six on the East Prussian small Dexen before the family moved to the West Prussian Rehhof near Marienwerderstraße. After brief military service in the winter and spring of 1945 brought Lehmbruch 1947 in Weferlingen the Abitur and began at the Church College in Berlin -Zehlendorf, a study of Protestant theology and philosophy. After changing to the Universities of Göttingen and Tübingen, he completed his studies in Berlin in 1952 from the first church service examination. He then went as a post-graduate for a year at the University of Basel.

From 1953 to 1954 Lehmbruch was a research assistant at the Political Science Department of Professor Theodor Eschenburg at the University of Tübingen. Subsequently, he studied from 1954 to 1959 Political Science, Eastern European history and sociology in Paris and Tübingen. In 1962 he was ibid. his doctorate with a thesis on the French party system. In the period from 1960 to 1967 he was a research assistant at the University of Tübingen. There he was habilitated in 1969 cumulatively in political science, including taking into account the proportional font democracy of 1967. Between 1969 and 1973 he had the body of a Scientific Council and professor at the University of Heidelberg held. He then took calls on political science departments at the Universities of Tübingen (1973-1978) and Constance ( 1978-1996 ). From 1991 to 1994 he was chairman of the German Association of Political Science. Since the summer semester 1996 Lehmbruch emeritus. To Lehmbruchs academic students count Manfred G. Schmidt and Edgar Grande.

Lehmbruchs research focuses on the institutional, political control systems and policy development in comparison, the forms of negotiation democracy and political interest intermediation, ie the relations between public authorities and interest groups. In 1976, he published the standard work of party competition in the state on the interaction of federal institutions and the party competition in the Federal Republic of Germany. In this book Lehmbruch explained for the first time the so-called structural break hypothesis.

Lehmbruch has been married since 1967. The couple has two grown daughters.

Honors

  • 2002: Honorary Member of the Swiss Political Science Association
  • 2003: Honorary Member of the Austrian Society for Political Science
  • 2003 Theodor Eschenburg Prize for his life's work of the German Association of Political Science
  • 2009: Lifetime Achievement Award of the European Consortium for Political Research

Writings (selection )

Monographs

  • Small guide to the study of Soviet ideology. Bonn 1958
  • The Mouvement Populaire Républicain in the Fourth Republic. The process of political decision-making of a French party. phil. Diss, Tübingen 1962 ( typewritten reproduced )
  • Proportional democracy. Political System and Political Culture in Switzerland and Austria. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 1967
  • Negotiation democracy. Contributions to comparative government studies. West German Verlag, Wiesbaden 2003, ISBN 3-531-14134-1
  • Party competition in the state: control systems and voltage levels in the political system of the Federal Republic of Germany. 3rd revised and expanded edition, West German Verlag, Wiesbaden 2000, ISBN 3-531-43126-9
  • Party competition in the state. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1976, ISBN 3-17-002798-0
  • Introduction to Political Science. 4th edition, carbon hammer, Stuttgart 1971, ISBN 3- 17-001255 -X

Editorial Boards

  • Integration and disintegration: Germany and Europe after the end of the East -West conflict. 19th Scientific Congress of the German Association of Political Science, Leske Budrich, Opladen 1995, ISBN 3- 8100-1365 -X
  • Together with Klaus Beyme and Iring Fetscherplatz: Democratic system and political practices of the Federal Republic, Piper, Munich, 1971, ISBN 3-492-01844-0
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