Gesine Schwan

Gesine Schwan has been President of the Europa-Universität Viadrina since 1999. She studied Roman Languages, History, Philosophy, Political Science in Berlin and Freiburg/Breisgau and had several research stays in Poland (Warsaw and Krakow). From 1971 until 1995 she was Professor of Political Science at the Free University of Berlin, serving as Dean from 1993 to 1995. She has been a Member of the "Commission for Fundamental Values" of the Social Democratic Party of Germany and, since 1994, a member of the Board of Governors of the German Association for Political Science. Dr. Schwan has published extensively on normative and philosophical problems of theories of democracy and socialism, on the history of political ideas, on political psychology, and on current political issues (policy of the two Germanys, détente policy, European unification). She has been awarded a Bundesverdienstkreuz (Federal Cross of Merits) and a Verdienstorden der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Medal of Merits Federal Republic of Germany). (2004)

Events

March 1, 2004