Prof. Dr. Manfred G. Schmidt (Source: Lichtspuren)Prof. Dr. Manfred G. Schmidt (Source: Lichtspuren)
Professor Manfred G. Schmidt, one of Germany’s most renowned political scientists and in 1995 winner of the prestigious Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation, leaves the Centre for Social Policy Research and the University of Bremen.

Manfred G. Schmidt taught politics and the political system of the Federal Republic of Germany in the Social Sciences Department with particular regard to theory of the state and welfare state theory. His future employer is once again the University of Heidelberg where Schmidt taught from 1987 to 1997. Schmidt directed the department "Theory and Constitution of the Welfare State" at the Centre for Social Policy Research and worked at the University of Bremen since 1/10/1997.

Source: Bremer Uni-Schlüssel (BUS), No. 62, February 2001, p. 23 and No. 63, April 2001, p. 27