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Prof. Dr. Volker Kronenberg
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Prof. Dr. Volker Kronenberg

Director of the Center for Advanced Security, Strategic and Integration Studies (CASSIS)
Professor at the Institute for Political Science and Sociology at the University of Bonn

Contact

E-Mail: kronenberg@uni-bonn.de
Telephone: 0228 / 73 50 73
Address: Lennéstraße 25, 1. Obergeschoss, 53113 Bonn
Website: https://www.politik-soziologie.uni-bonn.de/de/personal/prof.-dr.-volker-kronenberg

Profile

Volker Kronenberg, Prof. Dr. phil., born in 1971, teaches political science at the Institute for Political Science and Sociology at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and as an honorary professor at the Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences. As an exponent of the "Bonn School," which is committed to political science as a practical science, Kronenberg combines research in contemporary history and intellectual history with practice-oriented analysis of contemporary and future political challenges. In his academic-professional work, Kronenberg gave expression to this attitude, among other things, in 2011 as co-founder of the Bonner Akademie für Forschung und Lehre praktischer Politik GmbH (BAPP) and in the same and the following year 2012 as a member of the German Chancellor's expert dialogue on the future of Germany and, since 2019, as one of the founding directors of the Center for Advanced Security, Strategic and Integration Studies (CASSIS) at the University of Bonn, the establishment of which he had significantly promoted during his election as full-time dean of the Faculty of Humanities a year earlier. He regularly comments on and analyzes current political events in numerous media, such as the TV station PHOENIX, WDR, the Tagesschau, the news magazine FOCUS, the Bonner General- and the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger. Kronenberg is, among other things, a member of the board of trustees of the Bonn Institute for Journalism and Constructive Dialogue, the Federal Chancellor Adenauer House Foundation, the Catholic Social Institute (KSI) and the Foundation Senate of the Economy.

Curriculum Vitae

1992 - 2004
Magister Degree in political science, sociology and public law/ constitutional law, Doctorate and Habilitation at the University of Bonn

2010
Honorary Professor at the Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences

2011
Co-founder of the Bonner Akademie für Forschung und Lehre prak-tischer Politik GmbH (BAPP); today head of the Scientific Advisory Board

2014
Professor of Political Science at the Institute of Political Science and Sociology at the University of Bonn

2018 - 2023
Elected Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Bonn; Re-election 2022

2019
Co-founding Director of the Center for Advanced Security, Strategic and Integration Studies (CASSIS) at the University of Bonn

Memberships

Research Projects

  • "Europa vor Ort"

    In cooperation with the KommunalAkadamie of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung.
    In this publication of the KommunalAkademie of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Prof. Dr. Volker Kronenberg discusses in concrete terms the ways in which municipalities can benefit from European unification and a common European funding policy. The presentation of legal provisions of cohesion policy and the theoretical findings of the study are illustrated by significant case studies. The author focuses on rural regions as well as urban agglomerations. In addition, he sheds light on the European Union's funding programs for municipal refugee assistance in a way that is as concise as it is highly topical. The interplay of qualitative interviews and quantitative surveys of municipal experiences with the funding policy of the European Union not only represents a stocktaking worth reading, but also enables an exciting look "behind the scenes".

    Here you can read the final publication of the research project online.

  • "Schwarz-Grün"

    • Anthology 2016: Das deutsche Parteiensystem im Wandel:Schwarz-Grün - Erfahrungen und Perspektiven
      Volker Kronenberg: Black-Green. Experiences and Perspectives, Wiesbaden 2016.

    • Expert Conference June 19, 2015: Das deutsche Parteiensystem im Wandel: Schwarz-Grün - Erfahrungen und Perspektiven
      On June 19, an academic expert conference entitled "Das deutsche Parteiensystem im Wandel: Schwarz-Grün – Erfahrungen und Perspektiven" was held at the University of Bonn. In the course of the processes of change in the German party system, cooperation and coalitions between the CDU/CSU and the Greens - once political antipodes - have evolved from exotic exceptions to "normal" alliances, at least at the municipal and to some extent also at the state level. Even if some observers were already singing the swan song of "black-green" after the premature failure of two state governments, a look at Hesse shows that this coalition model is highly topical.

    • 2011 anthology: Schwarz-Grün. Die Debatte
      Volker Kronenberg / Christoph Weckenbrock (eds.): Schwarz-Grün. Die Debatte, Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2011.
      With contributions by Kurt Biedenkopf, Nikolaus Blome, Richard Herzinger, Eckhard Jesse, Hubert Kleinert, Gerd Langguth, Claus Leggewie, Oswald Metzger, Peter Müller, Heinrich Oberreuter, Lothar Probst, Peter Radunski, Jürgen Rüttgers, Krista Sager, Rezzo Schlauch and Franz Walter, among others.

      Here you can find more information about this project.

Selected Publications

  • Schwarz – Grün – Bunt. Eine Analyse der nordrhein-westfälischen Kommunalwahl 2020 am Beispiel ausgewählter Großstädte, Berlin 2022 (i.E.).
  • Heimat bilden … vor Ort: Rheinland-Pfalz, Handreichungen zur Politischen Bildung der KommunalAkademie der Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Bd. 30, Berlin 2020.
  • Die repräsentative Demokratie in Anfechtung und Bewährung. Das „Wir“ organisieren, Wiesbaden 2019, hrsg. mit Jakob Horneber.
  • Schwarz-Grün. Erfahrungen und Perspektiven, Wiesbaden 2016, als Herausgeber.
  • Schwarz-Grün. Die Debatte, Wiesbaden 2011, hrsg. mit Christoph Weckenbrock.
  • Patriotismus in Deutschland. Perspektiven für eine weltoffene Nation, 3., überarbeitete und aktualisierte Aufl., Wiesbaden 2013.

Teaching

Information on courses taught by Prof. Dr. Volker Kronenberg can be found on the website of the Institute for Political Science and Sociology.