Paul Kevenhörster

Paul Johannes Kevenhörster (born 5 June 1941 in Schwerte, Province of Westphalia) is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the Westphalian William's University of Muenster in Germany. His work focuses on politics in Japan, municipal government and international development co-operation. He has served in academia as well as in a government agency and as consultant to a variety of organisations. Since 1966 Paul Kevenhörster is married to Gisela Drerup. They have three daughters, Uta, Eva and Ina, three granddaughters and a grandson, Milla and Emma Kevenhörster, Sophie and Lucas Russell.

Kevenhörster studied economics and social sciences at the universities of Bonn, Hamburg and Cologne (all of them in Germany). He graduated from the University of Cologne in 1965 (Master of Economics) and 1966 (Master of Business Administration). Following further studies at the Pennsylvania State University in State College, PA and the Sophia University in Tokyo (Japan) Kevenhörster completed his Ph.D. in 1968 with a dissertation on the political system of Japan at the University of Cologne (Germany). The supervisor of his Ph.D. work was Ferdinand A. Hermens. Kevenhörster's education was completed by the study of Japanese Language at the University of Bochum, Germany (1989–1992).

Between 1967 and 1973 Kevenhörster was a research fellow, initially with the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (WIKAS), later on with the Institute for Communication Research and Planning (IWUG) and the GMD. His Habilitation, the functional equivalent among German academics to service as assistant professor, was completed in 1973 at the Rhenish Frederic William's University of Bonn with a major study on the council system as an instrument to control political and economic power. Following this he was appointed Associate Professor of Political Science at the Technical University of Brunswick (Germany) in 1974. In the same year Kevenhörster was appointed to full/ tenured professorship of political science in Muenster, initially with the Teachers' Training College.

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