Hamburg Institute for Social Research

Hamburg Institute for Social Research
Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung
Abbreviation	HIS
Formation	1984
Founder	Jan Philipp Reemtsma
Type	Research institute
Purpose	Social research
Location	Hamburg, Germany;
Coordinates	53°34′09″N 9°59′41″E / 53.56920°N 9.99472°E
Director	Wolfgang Knöbl
Website	www.his-online.de

The Hamburg Institute for Social Research (German: Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung; abbreviated HIS) is an independent private foundation whose scholarship is focused on both contemporary history and the social sciences.^[1] Founded in 1984 by Jan Philipp Reemtsma,^[2] it currently employs about 50 people with roughly 50% working in the research fields of sociology and history. The institute publishes a bimonthly journal called Mittelweg 36 [de] and has its own publishing house.^[3]

^ "Home". Hamburg Institute for Social Research. Archived from the original on 25 June 2011.
^ "About Us". Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung. Retrieved 6 October 2014.
^ Neumann, Volker Maria. "A Few New Questions: The Hamburg Institute for Social Research". Goethe-Institut.

[About_us-1] "Home". Hamburg Institute for Social Research. Archived from the original on 25 June 2011.

[About_Us-2] "About Us". Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung. Retrieved 6 October 2014.

[Neumann-3] Neumann, Volker Maria. "A Few New Questions: The Hamburg Institute for Social Research". Goethe-Institut.

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