Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schroeder
Professor, Section: Political System of the Federal Republic of Germany - Statehood in Transition
- Location
- Nora-Platiel-Straße 1
34127 Kassel
- Room
- Nora-Platiel 1, Raum 3106
Curriculum vitae
| 1960 | born in Mayen/Eifel |
| 1980-1986 | Studied political science at the Universities of Marburg, Vienna, Tübingen and Frankfurt |
| 1986 | Graduated from the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt/Main |
| 1987-1991 | Research assistant at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt |
| 1991 | Doctorate at the Justus-Liebig University of Giessen: (Summa cum laude). Topic of doctoral thesis: Catholicism and Unified Trade Unionism. The Dispute over the DGB and the Decline of Social Catholicism in the Federal Republic until 1960 (Series: Political and Social History, Vol. 30), Bonn 1992 |
| 1991-1997 | Advisor to the Executive Board of IG Metall in Frankfurt/Main; Department for Fundamental Issues |
| 1997-2000 | Industrial Relations Officer at the Executive Board of IG Metall; responsible for basic issues of collective bargaining policy, contacts with parliament and political parties |
| 1999 | Guest researcher at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin in the department: Institutions and Social Change |
| 2000-2003 | Head of Department for European Collective Bargaining Coordination at the Executive Board of IG Metall |
| 2000 | Habilitation at the Department of Social Sciences at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt; topic of the habilitation thesis: Das Modell Deutschland auf dem Prüfstand. On the Development of Industrial Relations in East Germany. (Opladen 2000: Westdeutscher Verlag) |
| Since 2001 | Private lecturer at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt |
| 2001 | Substitute professorship at the TU Darmstadt (summer semester) |
| 2003-2006 | Head of the Social Policy Department at the Executive Board of the IG Metall trade union |
| 2005 | Center for European Studies, Harvard University, Visiting Fellow |
| since May 2006 | Professorship at the University of Kassel: Political System of the FRG - Statehood in Transition |
| 2009-2014 | State Secretary in the Ministry of Labor, Social Affairs, Women and Family of the State of Brandenburg |
Offices and functions
- Since 1998 Co-editor of the journal "SOWI" - Sozialwissenschaftliche Informationen (Friedrichs Verlag/Hannover)
- Since 1991 Member of various advisory boards of research projects of the Hans Böckler Foundation
- 1992-1996 Member of the Board of Trustees of the Social Institutes of the South German KAB (Catholic Workers' Movement) in Munich
- since 1996 Member of the "German Association for Political Science" and the Working Group: Associations
- 1997-2000 Member of the Economic Policy Reflection Group of the Franco-German Institute in Ludwigsburg and the Commissariat General du Plan in Paris (Final Report 2001: Location Policy and Globalization: A Franco-German Perspective, Leske & Budrich)
- Since 2000 Member of the German Studies Association/USA
- Since 2002 Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Diocese of Mainz
- Since 2002 Head of expert group on the further development of industrial relations in Europe as a multi-level system
- Since 2000 Member of various committees The European Metalworkers Federation ( EMF ) in Brussels
- 2003 Member of a working group on the change of the German model in "American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS)" in Washington
- Since 2003 Member of the European Working Group of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation in Brussels
- Since 2003 Member of the working group "Political Sociology" of the German Association for Sociology
Research stays
| Year | Residence |
| 1992 | two-week study visit at the Japan Institute of Labor (scientific institute of the Japanese Ministry of Labor) in Tokyo |
| 1993 | two-week study visit in Detroit/USA with the US American Automobile Workers Union |
| 1996 | one-week lecture trip to Japan (Kyoto/Tokyo): The German production model |
| 1997 | four-week study visit to the USA at the invitation of the U.S. Department of State |
| 1998 | one-week lecture tour in South Africa at the invitation of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation: |
| 2000 | one-week stay in London at the invitation of the British Foreign Office: The British Policy Model |
| 2002 | Vancouver/Canada: Lectures on the change of the German model in the context of Europeanization |
| 2005 | Center for European Studies, Harvard University |
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schroeder was State Secretary in the Ministry of Labor, Social Affairs, Women and Family of the State of Brandenburg from November 2009 to February 2014
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