The Alfred Grosser Visiting Professorship for
Civic Society Research was endowed in 2009 by the Stiftung Polytechnische Gesellschaft Frankfurt am Main on the
initiative of the Franco-German Society.
The project aims to advance research and public discourse on civil society in
Frankfurt and to make it internationally visible.
Alfred
Grosser, born in Frankfurt in 1925, is a professor of political science and
sociology and an internationally active publicist. Among other things, he is
regarded as an important pioneer of Franco-German understanding after the
Second World War. In November 2009, he introduced the Visiting Professorship
for Civic Society Research with three lectures on "Civic Society and
Democracy in Germany and France." Each winter semester, a selection
committee chooses a visiting professor. Highlights of the visiting
professorship are an opening lecture and a public lecture. The visiting professorship was occupied for the last time in the winter semester of 2023/24.
