University of Rostock

Support for his centre-right, Christian Democratic Unionist Party, the CDU, collapsed, with the right-wing party, the AfD, continuing to make gains, coming out on top for the third time in a German state.

So, can Friedrich Merz survive this crisis, or is it the end of the road? Well, joining me to discuss this, we have Wolfgang Muno, who is Chair of Comparative Government at the Institute of Political and Administrative Sciences at the University of Rostock.

Hajo Funke is a political scientist.

Tabea Schauman is policy analyst at the European Policy Centre.

Even as a young man, he was working toward his own synthesis, a way of thinking that would honor both the precision of natural science and the reality of inner experience.

He later earned a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Rostock in eighteen ninety-one, writing his dissertation on the theory of knowledge, specifically on the question of how thinking relates to reality—whether thought merely mirrors an external world or participates in something deeper, something that connects the individual mind to the universal structure of existence.

It was a question that would occupy him for the rest of his life, though the answers he arrived at would carry him far beyond anything his academic contemporaries could follow.

Vienna in the eighteen eighties was a city of extraordinary intellectual ferment.

Thank you very much.

From Rostock in Eastern Germany, political scientist Wolfgang Munoz, chair of the Comparative Government Department at the University of Rostock.

Welcome to the show.

Thanks for having me with you.

With a spear in him.

In the University of Rostock's zoological collection.

Because in fairness, as Storks goes, he's the most important Stork.

He's the most interesting Stork.

And I was asking myself, since I had always contact to university, I always was lecturing.

And next to my job at the BDA, I had courses at different universities, at the University of Rostock, University of Düsseldorf.

And I was always very familiar with working with students.

And I thought, yeah, If I want to do that more professional in my life, then I need to do it now.