Renate Mayntz
Renate Mayntz ( born April 28, 1929 in Berlin ) is a German sociologist and Emeritus Director of the Max Planck Institute for Social Research.
Life and work
After graduating from high school in 1947 in Berlin Mayntz studied from 1950 at Wellesley College (USA). 1953 she became a PhD at the University of Berlin in Otto Stammer. doctorate. From 1953 to 1957 she was then at the Unesco Institute for Social Sciences in Cologne. In 1957 she qualified as a professor at the Free University Berlin. In the period that followed, she made 1958-1959 a scholarship to study abroad through the Rockefeller Foundation; 1959-1960 she was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Columbia University, New York, and then worked from 1960 to 1965 as a lecturer and professor at the Free University of Berlin.
From 1965 to 1971 there was Mayntz Professor of Sociology and also from 1966 to 1970 Member of the German Council on Education. In 1968, she held the Theodor-Heuss- chair at the New School for Social Research in New York. Mayntz was a member of the project group governance and administrative reform, which should, among others, develop proposals for a reorganization of the federal government, including a reorganization of the divisions of the Federal Ministries. Between 1970 and 1973 she was a member of the study commission for the reform of the civil service law; 1971-1973 also Professor of Organizational Sociology at the German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer, 1973-1985 Professor of Sociology at the University of Cologne. From 1974 to 1980 Mayntz was a member of the Senate of the German Research Foundation. In 1985, she was the founding director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne and since that time honorary professor at the University of Cologne. In 1997 her retirement.
Furthermore, it stated the following foreign teaching activities:
- Columbia University in the City of New York
- The New School for Social Research, New York ( USA)
- University of Edinburgh
- FLACSO in Santiago de Chile
- Stanford University (USA)
In 2009 she founded a network of 20 international scientists to explore the regulation of financial markets.
Her main research interests are social theory, governance, policy development and implementation, technology development of science and science, politics and transnational structures and transnational regulation attempts.
She was married to the painter Hann Trier.