Security, police and urban space. Security heuristics and security repertoires using the example of Frankfurt/Main and Munich (C02)

• Subject Area: Modern and Contemporary History
• Term: since 2014
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 227068724

The comparative and transfer study investigates security heuristics and repertoires among the police and the corresponding police security regimes in Frankfurt/Main and Munich in the Weimar Republic and the Federal Republic of Germany in the 1960s and 1970s. The project analyses the competencies attributed to the police as a security actor in urban space. What consequences did the police draw from its actions and how did it act in fields of action labelled as relevant for security? Basically, this raises the question about the extent to which police actions reflected security-relevant heuristics and were able to evoke and shape specific repertoires.

• DFG Programme: CRC/Transregios
• Subproject of: TRR 138: Dynamics of Security. Processes of Securitization in historical perspective
• Applicant Institution: Philipps-Universität Marburg
• Project Heads: Professor Dr. Friedrich Lenger, until 12/2021; Professorin Dr. Sabine Mecking, since 1/2022