May 17, 2012
Eberhard Sandschneider
Member Type
- Fellowship type
- Bosch Fellow
Fellowship
- Status
- Past Fellow
- Year
- 2011
Biography
- Biography
Research Institute of the German Council on Foreign Relations
Otto Wolff- DirectorEberhard Sandschneider is Otto-Wolff-Director of the Research Institute of the German Council on Foreign Relations and will be in residence January 17-February 14. He graduated from the Saar University, Saarbrücken in 1981 in English Language and Literature, Latin, History and Political Science. In 1986, he received his PhD in Political Science at the Saar University with a thesis on “The Political Role of the People’s Liberation Army after the Cultural Revolution.” He finished his “habilitation” on “Stability and Transformation of Political Systems” in November 1993. He held a position as professor for International Relations between 1995 and 1998 in Mainz, before accepting a chair at Free University Berlin in 1998. Between March 2001 and March 2003 he served as Dean of the faculty for Political and Social Sciences at Free University. Later that year he succeeded Karl Kaiser as the Otto-Wolff-Director of the Research Institute of the German Council on Foreign Relations.
