{{Short description|German social psychologist (born 1958)}} {{Redirect|Welzer|the German-born baseball player|Tony Welzer|people named Wälzer|Wälzer (surname)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2021}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Harald Welzer | image = Harald Welzer, Frankfurter Buchmesse 2023.jpg | caption = Welzer in 2023 | birth_date = {{birth date|1958|07|27|df=y}} | birth_place = Wedemark, West Germany | alma_mater = University of Hannover | fields = Sociology | workplaces = University of Flensburg | known_for = }}

'''Harald Welzer''' (born 27 July 1958, Wedemark) is a German social psychologist. He studied sociology, psychology and literature at the University of Hannover.<ref>José Andrés Rojo: [http://w2.bcn.cat/bcnmetropolis/arxiu/en/pagee507.html?id=22&ui=557 "Interview with Harald Welzer"] in Barcelona Metropolis, July–September 2011</ref> He has been a professor of transformation design at the University of Flensburg since 2012.<ref>[https://www.brandeis.edu/cges/news/2013-14events.html "Climate Wars: What People Will Be Killed For in the 21st Century — a Luncheon Reading and Conversation with Author Harald Welzer"], Brandeis University</ref> His research is focused on memory, violence and the social impacts of climate change. His books have been translated into 15 languages.<ref>[https://www.bu.edu/european/2013/12/20/event-announcement-climate-wars-what-people-will-be-killed-for-in-the-21st-century-march-17-2014/ "Climate Wars: What People Will Be Killed For in the 21st Century"], Boston University, 20 December 2013</ref>

Welzer was one of the first signers of the Open Letter to the German Position on Russo-Ukrainian War in April 2022, who demanded not to support Ukraine with heavy arms in order to "prevent a third world war".<ref>{{Cite web |last=NDR |title=Offener Brief an Kanzler Scholz: "Empathielos und herablassend" |url=https://www.ndr.de/kultur/Offener-Brief-an-Kanzler-Scholz-empathielos-und-herablassend,mueller1532.html |access-date=2022-05-03 |website=ndr.de |language=de}}</ref>{{404|date=March 2026}}

==Books in English== *2012 ''Climate Wars: What People Will Be Killed For in the 21st Century'', Polity Press *2012 ''Soldaten: On Fighting, Killing and Dying. The Secret World War II Transcripts of German POWs'' (with Sönke Neitzel)

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