Eckhard Jesse

Professor Eckhard Jesse (born 16 July 1948 in Wurzen, Saxony) is a German political scientist. He holds the professorship for "political systems, political institutions" at the Technical University of Chemnitz. Jesse is one of the best known German political scholars in the field of extremism and terrorism studies. He has also specialized in the study of German political parties and the German political system.

Together with Uwe Backes, head of the Hannah Arendt Institute for the Research on Totalitarianism, he has since 1989 jointly edited the "Yearbook Extremism & Democracy" which has become a classic for terrorism scholars. He is one of the founders of the Veldensteiner Kreis and editor for the MUT journal. Jesse writes extensively about extremism and political parties in several German newspapers.

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