Wolfgang Kraushaar

Wolfgang Kraushaar (born 2 September 1948) is a political scientist and historian. After a residency at the Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung from the 1980s until 2015. In 2015 he continued his research at the Hamburg Foundation for the Promotion of Science and Culture also in Hamburg, Germany.

Kraushaar grew up in the German village of Niederruf in Germany. After finishing the König-Heinrich-Schule in Fritzlar, Germany, in 1968 he studied political sciences, philosophy and German studies in Frankfurt. From 1974 to 1975 he was the chairman of AStA and took a residency at the Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung since 1987. In 2015 he continued his work at the Hamburg Foundation for the Promotion of Science and Culture in Hamburg, Germany. He focuses on the analysis of protest and political opposition in the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic during the period from 1949 to 1990, especially the protests of 1968, the Red Army Faction and K-Gruppen. He furthermore maintains a focus on national and international protest movements, totalitarianism and extremism, pop-culture and modern media. Provided by Wikipedia