Rüdiger Lautmann

Rüdiger Lautmann (born 1935, December 22) is a German sociologist and one of the most prominent LGBT scholars in Germany.

Biography

Born in Koblenz, Lautmann lived during his childhood in Düsseldorf, where he went to school. He studied first German law. After he finished his law studies, he started a second study in sociology. Lautmann worked after university studies first in Münster and then in Bielefeld (for Niklas Luhmann). In 1971 he became then professor in sociology at University of Bremen. In 2001 Lautmann retired as professor.

In 2005 Lautmann married his friend in Hamburg. There he leads the Institut für Sicherheits- und Präventionsforschung. In 2009, he moved to Berlin.

Works by Lautmann, in German (Examples)

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