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Dolf Sternberger (originally ''Adolf Sternberger''; 28 July 1907 in
Wiesbaden Wiesbaden () is a city in central western Germany and the capital of the state of Hesse. , it had 290,955 inhabitants, plus approximately 21,000 United States citizens (mostly associated with the United States Army). The Wiesbaden urban area ...
– 27 July 1989 in
Frankfurt/Main Frankfurt, officially Frankfurt am Main (; Hessian: , " Frank ford on the Main"), is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse. Its 791,000 inhabitants as of 2022 make it the fifth-most populous city in Germany. Located on its ...
) was a German philosopher and political scientist at the University of Heidelberg. Dolf Sternberger is known for his concept of citizenship in contemporary German political thought, and for coining the term "
constitutional patriotism Constitutional patriotism (german: Verfassungspatriotismus) is the idea that people should form a political attachment to the norms and values of a pluralistic liberal democratic constitution rather than to a national culture or cosmopolitan s ...
" (''Verfassungspatriotismus'') in 1979, on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Federal Republic of Germany.Jan-Werner Muller
''Constitutional Patriotism''
Princeton University Press, 2008, p. 21.


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References

* Bernhard Vogel: ''Dolf Sternberger und die Politische Wissenschaft''. Heidelberg 2008.


External links

*
"Sprachkritik", Nazism, and the German Conscience: the Career of Dolf Sternberger

Dolf-Sternberger-Gesellschaft e.V.
20th-century German philosophers 1907 births 1989 deaths German political scientists Grand Crosses 1st class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany Heidelberg University faculty German male writers Hessischer Rundfunk people Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung people German magazine founders 20th-century political scientists {{Germany-philosopher-stub