Jens Hacke

Since August 2020, Hacke has been teaching at the Bundeswehr University Munich.

Hacke's dissertation Philosophy of Citizenship, which was published in a second edition in 2008, was awarded the Wolf-Erich-Kellner-Preis [de] and the Friedwart Bruckhaus-Förderpreis [de] of the Hanns Martin Schleyer Foundation. Andreas Rödder [de] discussed the dissertation in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and emphasised that it is a "classical history of ideas in its best, reflected sense, whose potential for knowledge Hacke impressively demonstrates in practical application".

Jens Hacke (born 6 December 1973) is a German political scientist and author.

Born in Bonn, Hacke was born in 1973 as the son of the political scientist Christian Hacke [de] in Bonn. He studied ancient, modern and contemporary history as well as political science and philosophy Die deutsche Rechte und die Revolution. Ein Beitrag zur Ideengeschichte des Nationalsozialismus und der "Konservativen Revolution". Subsequently, Hacke was a research assistant in the "Theorie der Politik" department of the "Politikwissenschaft Online" project funded by the Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung until 2003 and a research assistant at the Institute for Social Sciences at the Humboldt University until 2008. In 2005, Hacke was awarded a doctorate in political science under the direction of Herfried Münkler. In 2007, he took on a teaching position at the Institute for Political Science of the University of Hamburg. From 2008 to 2016, he was a research assistant at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research. From 2016 to 2018, he held a chair for political science at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg; in 2018/19, he taught as a professorial assistant at the University of Greifswald.