Wilhelm Heitmeyer

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Wilhelm Heitmeyer (born 28 June 1945, in Nettelstedt, Germany) is sociologist and professor of education specializing in socialisation. From 1996 to 2013 he headed the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research on Conflict and Violence (IKG) at Bielefeld University. Since retiring as director, he has held the position of Senior Research Professor at IKG. Wilhelm Heitmeyer’s father was a typesetter, who was killed in World War II. His mother worked in a cigar factory and later ran a grocer’s shop. Heitmeyer attended the Wittekind-Gymnasium in Lübbecke, North Rhine-Westphalia, before going on to study education and sociology at the University of Bielefeld. He received his doctorate in 1977, his habilitation in 1988. Before embarking on an academic career Heitmeyer worked as a typesetter, and briefly as a secondary school teacher. He resigned his longstanding membership of the German Social Democratic Party (SPD) in 1992, in protest at its asylum policy. Heitmeyer has been married since 1968, and has two daughters.