Political Scientist Tonio Oeftering appointed

Prof. Dr. Tonio Oeftering has been appointed Professor of Political Education at the Institute for Social Sciences. Previously he was Junior Professor of Political Education at the Institute of Political Science at Leuphana University Lüneburg.

After training in commerce Oeftering studied to become a secondary school teacher in politics and English at the Freiburg University of Education, where he passed the first state exam. He went on to gain a diploma in educational science there, specialising in adult education with a focus on political science. In 2012 he earned his doctorate in political science. From 2011 to 2013 Oeftering was also a research associate at the Institute for Political Science at the Leibniz Universität Hannover. From 2013 to 2014 he took on interim professorships in Hannover and at the Catholic University Eichstätt-Ingolstadt. Oeftering is an active member on numerous advisory boards and since 2018 he has been federal chairman of the “Deutsche Vereinigung für Politische Bildung” (DVPB).