Ferdinand Tönnies was a German sociologist, economist, and philosopher. He was a significant contributor to sociological theory and field studies, best known for distinguishing between two types of social groups, Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft. He co-founded the German Society for Sociology together with Max Weber and Georg Simmel and many other founders. He was president of the society from 1909 to 1933, after which he was ousted for having criticized the Nazis. Tönnies was regarded as the first proper German sociologist and published over 900 works, contributing to many areas of sociology and philosophy. Tönnies, Max Weber, and Georg Simmel are considered the founding fathers of classical German sociology. Though there has been a resurgence of interest in Weber and Simmel, Tönnies has not drawn as much attention.
Baroness Stefanie Anna Hildegard von Schnurbein is a German literary scholar, and Professor of Modern Scandinavian Literature at the Humboldt University of Berlin.
The University of Siegen is a public research university located in Siegen, North Rhine-Westphalia and is part of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, a society of Germany's leading research universities. The University was founded in 1972. 18,618 students were enrolled at the university as of the year 2017.
Anneliese Maier was a German historian of science particularly known for her work researching natural philosophy in the middle ages.
Frieda Wunderlich was a German sociologist, economist and politician of the German Democratic Party. She was actively involved in the women's movement fighting for gender equality.
The Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences (BGSS) is a structured doctoral program. It is an integral part of the Department of Social Sciences at Humboldt University of Berlin. Merging perspectives from political science and sociology, focusing on problems of democracy, social integration and knowledge, the program follows a classic bi-disciplinary approach. The BGSS is supported by the Excellence Initiative by the German federal and state governments.
Ursula Apitzsch is a German political scientist and sociologist. Since 1993, she has been Professor of Political Science and Sociology at the University of Frankfurt. Her research fields are cultural analysis, biographical research, migration, ethnicity and gender.
Hildegard Ochse was a German photographer.
Irene Dölling is a German sociologist. She is now an Emeritus Professor in Women's studies, having retired from her full-time role at Potsdam University early in 2008. She serves on the advisory board of the feminist academic journal Signs.
Jutta Allmendinger is a German sociologist. She is the president of the WZB Berlin Social Science Center and a professor of educational sociology and labor market research at Humboldt University. She is also a senior fellow at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University.
Helga Hörz is a German Marxist philosopher and Women's rights activist. Before 1990 she was a university teacher of Ethics in the Philosophy Department at the Humboldt University in (East) Berlin. She was persuaded to retire on health grounds in October 1990, but in the words of one headline writer slightly less than twenty years later, this has left her "winding down, but not muzzled".
Christel Hoffmann is a German theater scholar, dramaturge and pedagogue.
Dagmar Schultz is a German sociologist, filmmaker, publisher and professor.
Karin Flaake is a German sociologist and professor (retired) at the Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg. Her publications on the adolescence of young women and men are part of the literature of socio-psychologically oriented gender research. Another focus of her work is on the chances of changing gender relations in families.
Ulrike Tikvah Kissmann is a German sociologist.
Eva Rieger is a German musicologist. Rieger specialized in the social and cultural history of women in music. Together with the German-Swiss patron Mariann Steegmann, Rieger founded the Mariann-Steegmann-Foundation, which is dedicated to the advancement of women in music and the arts. In 2012, she was appointed Honorary Senator of the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg.
Ilse Kokula is a German sociologist, educator, author and lesbian activist in the field of lesbian life. She was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Zhao Jin is a Chinese professor of German linguistics and a scholar in cultural-analytical linguistics.
Hella Maria Brock was a German music educator, musicologist, and an internationally known Edvard Grieg scholar. Brock was professor of music and English studies at the Leipzig University. She was president, and honorary president of the Grieg-Begegnungsstätte in Leipzig until her death in 2020.
Sigrid Metz-Göckel is a German sociologist, political scientist and social psychologist who specializes in women's and gender studies as well as in educational research and didactics. She is a professor emerita at the Technical University of Dortmund. In the late 1970s, Metz-Göckel pioneered women's studies in Germany which became an established university course in Dortmund in 1971.
