Armin Pfahl-Traughber

Armin Pfahl-Traughber (born 1963) is a German political scientist, sociologist and government official.

He is an expert on far-right and far-left political extremism, terrorism, antisemitism and the history of ideas.

He is editor of the Jahrbuch für Extremismus- und Terrorismusforschung (Yearbook of Extremism and Terrorism Research).

[1] He studied political science and sociology at the University of Duisburg and the University of Marburg; he received a scholarship from the Friedrich Naumann Foundation and earned his PhD in 1992 with a dissertation on antisemitic and antimasonic conspiracy theories in the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany; his doctoral advisor was Julius H.

[3] He has also taught at the University of Bonn since 2007, and at the Academy of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution.