Wolfgang Kraushaar

Who is Wolfgang Kraushaar?

Wolfgang Kraushaar is a political scientist and historian at the Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung.

Kraushaar studied political sciences, philosophy and German studies in Frankfurt. From 1974-75 he was the chairman of AStA and resides in his current position at the Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung since 1987. 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 1949–1990, especially the protests of 1968, the Red Army Faction and K-Gruppen. He furthermore maintains a focus on totalitarianism and extremism, pop-culture and modern media.