Prof. Dr. Gerd Langguth

Professor Dr. Gerd Langguth is teaching Political Science at the Bonn University. His main areas are: political structures and decision making processes, political parties, European integration, terrorism.

Langguth was born on May 18, 1946 in Wertheim am Main (Baden-Württemberg), where he attended the „Dietrich-Bonhoeffer“ classical secondary school. After studying Political Science, Constitutional Law and History at the Rhenanian Friedrich-Wilhelm-University of Bonn he obtained his Ph.D. with a thesis on „The Development of the Protest Movement in the Federal Republic of Germany 1968-1975“. In 1975 he became Head of an Educational Institute in Stuttgart, at the same time teaching Sociology at the College for Public Administration in Stuttgart. Further stations are:

- Member of the German Federal Parliament Deutscher Bundestag (1976-1980);

- Director of the Federal Center for Civic Education in Bonn (1981-1985);

- Special Envoy of the Land Berlin at the Federal Government and
Undersecretary of State (1986-1987);

- Head of the Representation of the Commission of the European Community
at the Federal Level in Bonn (1988-1993);

- Executive Chairman of the Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation in Sankt Augustin
(near Bonn) (1993-1997).

Selection of Publication:

• Der grüne Faktor- Von der Bewegung zur Partei? (The Green Factor - From Protest Movement to Political Party?) Zürich 1985
• Wer regiert Nicaragua? Geschichte, Ideologie und Machtstrukturen des Sandinismus
  (Who rules Nicaragua? History, Ideology and Power Structure of Sandinism), Stuttgart 1989; Berlin
• Vom Brennpunkt der Teilung zur Brücke der Einheit (Berlin - From Focus of Division to Bridge of Unity), Köln 1990;
• Die Intellektuellen und die nationale Frage (The Intellectuels and the National Question) (Editor), Frankfurt-New York 1997
• Das Innenleben der Macht (The Inner Life of the Power), München 2001;
• Angela Merkel (Biography);numerous articles in books and periodicals.

Selection of Translated books:

• The Green Factor in German Politics - From Protest Movement to Political Party, Boulder and London 1986,
• In Search of Security - A Socio-Psychological Portrait of Today’s Germany,
  Westport, Connecticut - London 1995;

Selection of Articles:
Germany in the Age of Globalization, in: The Washington Quarterly, Volume 22, Number 3, Summer 1999, S. 91-108.

Website of Gerd Langguth 

Last updated on 1st August, 2008