Category
page 1German sociologists
Karl Marx
German-born philosopher (1818-1883)
Max Weber
German sociologist, philosopher, and political economist (1864–1920)

Theodor W. Adorno
German philosopher, sociologist and theorist (1903–1969)
Jürgen Habermas
German sociologist and philosopher (1929–2026)

Oswald Spengler
German historian and philosopher (1880-1936)

Herbert Marcuse
German philosopher, sociologist, and political theorist (1898–1979)
Georg Simmel
German sociologist, philosopher, and critic (1858–1918)
Max Scheler
German philosopher (1874-1928)

Max Horkheimer
German philosopher and sociologist (1895–1973)
Ferdinand Tönnies
German sociologist, economist and philosopher (1855–1936)

Ulrich Beck
German sociologist & scholar (1944–2015)
Wilhelm Dilthey
German historian, psychologist, sociologist, student of hermeneutics, and philosopher (1833–1911)

Norbert Elias
German sociologist (1897–1990)

Werner Sombart
German economist, sociologist, historian (1863-1941)

Niklas Luhmann
German sociologist, administration expert, and social systems theorist (1927-1998)
Ralf Dahrendorf
German-British sociologist, politician (1929–2009)

Robert Michels
German sociologist (1876–1936)

Siegfried Kracauer
German writer, journalist, sociologist, cultural critic, and film theorist (1889-1966)

Franz Oppenheimer
German-Jewish physician, sociologist and political economist (1864-1943)

Lorenz von Stein
German legal scholar (1815-1890)

Arnold Gehlen
German academic (1904-1976)
Andre Gunder Frank
German-American economic historian and sociologist who promoted dependency theory after 1970 and world-systems theory after 1984 (1929–2005)
Thomas Luckmann
American-Austrian sociologist (1927-2016)
Axel Honneth
German philosopher
Alfred Weber
German geographer and economist (1868–1958)
Marianne Weber
German women's rights activist and legal historian (1870-1954)
Helmuth Plessner
German philosopher and sociologist (1892–1985)
Josef Pieper
German philosopher (1904-1997)

Leo Löwenthal
German sociologist (1900–1993)
Friedrich Pollock
German social scientist (1894–1970)
Franz Leopold Neumann
German political activist (1900–1954)
Leopold von Wiese
German sociologist and economist (1876-1969)

Maria Mies
German sociologist (1931–2023)
Louis Wirth
German American sociologist (1897-1952)
Claus Offe
German political sociologist
Jacob Taubes
sociologist of religion, philosopher, and scholar of Judaism (1923-1987)
Hartmut Rosa
German sociologist, philosoph and political scientist
Benedict Friedlaender
German writer and sexuologist (1866–1908)
Albert Schäffle
German economist, 1871 Austrian minister of trade (1831–1903)
Joachim Wach
German sociologist (1898-1955)
Alexander Rüstow
German academic (1885–1963)
Eugen Kogon
German journalist, sociologist, professor and Holocaust survivor (1903-1987)
Hilde Schramm
German politician
Necla Kelek
Turco-German feminist and social scientist
Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
German-American social philosopher (1888-1973)
Wolfgang Streeck
German economic sociologist (born 1946)
Carl Grünberg
Austrian economist, economic historian and sociologist (1861-1940)
Jutta Ditfurth
German sociologist, writer and politician
Albrecht Wellmer
German philosopher (1933–2018)
Hans Joas
German sociologist and social theorist
Hans Freyer
German philosopher and sociologist (1887-1969)
Theodor Geiger
German sociologist (1891-1952)
Heinrich Pesch
German economist (1854-1926)

Franz Carl Müller-Lyer
German psychologist & sociologist (1857-1916)
Harald Welzer
German sociologist

Oswald von Nell-Breuning
German theologian (1890-1991)
Elisabeth Käsemann
German sociologist and freedom fighter (1947-1977)
Helmut Schelsky
German sociologist (1912-1984)
Reinhard Bendix
German-American sociologist
Paul Barth
German sociologist (1858–1922)