{{Short description|German sociologist (born 1929)}} {{Infobox academic | honorific_prefix = | name = Renate Mayntz | birth_name = Renate Pflaum | other_names = Renate Mayntz-Trier | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1929|4|28|df=y}} | birth_place = Berlin, Weimar Republic | death_date = | death_place = | nationality = | workplaces = Columbia University<br>Free University of Berlin<br>Speyer University<br>University of Cologne<br>Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies | alma_mater = | education = Technical University of Berlin<br>Wellesley College<br>Free University of Berlin | thesis_title = Die formale und die informale Organisation in Betrieben und ihre Wechselbeziehungen | thesis_url = https://fu-berlin.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/49KOBV_FUB/1v1tp5h/alma990008799070402883 | thesis_year = 1953 | doctoral_advisor = Otto Stammer | academic_advisors = | doctoral_students = | notable_students = | influences = | influenced = | known_for = | website = | spouse = Hann Trier | children = }} '''Renate Mayntz''' (née '''Pflaum''')<ref>{{Cite web |date=1953 |title=Die formale und die informale Organisation in Betrieben und ihre Wechselbeziehungen / Renate Mayntz-Trier, geb. Pflaum. |website=Freie Universität Berlin |url=https://fu-berlin.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/49KOBV_FUB/1v1tp5h/alma990008799070402883}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781317008088 |title=Transatlantic Voyages and Sociology |date=2016 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-317-00808-8 |editor-last=Schrecker |editor-first=Cherry |language=en |doi=10.4324/9781315550251}}</ref> (born 28 April 1929), also known as '''Renate Mayntz-Trier''',<ref>{{Cite web |title=Professor Detailed view |url=https://professorenkatalog.uni-koeln.de/person/show/916 |access-date=2025-12-27 |website=professorenkatalog.uni-koeln.de}}</ref> is a German sociologist and a pioneer of organizational sociology in Germany.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Die Soziologen der Bundesrepublik |url=https://www.merkur-zeitschrift.de/artikel/die-soziologen-der-bundesrepublik-a-mr-46-7-569/ |date=1992 |last=Bude |first=Heinz |website=Merkur |language=de}}</ref> She was the director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies from 1985 to 1997,<ref>{{cite news|last=Greenhouse|first=Steven|title=Europeans Unite to Compete With Japan and U.S.|url=https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FA0715FD385F0C728EDDA10894D1484D81|accessdate=21 February 2011|newspaper=The New York Times|date=12 August 1989}}</ref> and is now director emerita.
== Education and career == Mayntz was born in Berlin and lived in Augsburg during her childhood. Her father Walter Pflaum was a professor of mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Berlin. She attended Technical University of Berlin for a year from 1947, majoring in chemistry before moving to the United States, where she continued studying chemistry at Wellesley College. Upon receiving her bachelor's degree in 1950, she went back to Berlin and became a member of the Europa-Union Deutschland.<ref name=interv>{{Cite book |title=Ordnung und Fragilität des Sozialen: Renate Mayntz im Gespräch |date=2019 |publisher=Campus Verlag |isbn=978-3-593-51082-8 |editor-last=Leendertz |editor-first=Ariane |location=Weinheim |editor-last2=Schimank |editor-first2=Uwe}}</ref> From 1951 to 1953, Mayntz switched fields and studied sociology at the Free University of Berlin (FUB), receiving her doctorate from the university under the supervision of Otto Stammer.<ref>{{Cite web |title=EGOS - 2002: Renate Mayntz - European Group for Organizational Studies |url=https://www.egos.org/egos/about_egos/egos_honorary_members/2002_renate_mayntz |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20250502135706/https://www.egos.org/egos/about_egos/egos_honorary_members/2002_renate_mayntz |archive-date=2025-05-02 |website=www.egos.org |language=de}}</ref><ref name=uni>{{cite web|title=Bielefelder Wissenschaftspreis 2004 geht an Renate Mayntz und Fritz W. Scharpf|url=http://www.uni-protokolle.de/nachrichten/id/36719/|publisher=Uni.protokolle.de|accessdate=21 February 2011|date=12 July 2004}}</ref> She then worked at the UNESCO-Institute for Social Sciences in Cologne until 1957, when she obtained her habilitation in 1957 at the FUB. Mayntz was a visiting assistant professor at Columbia University from 1958 to 1959. She became a lecturer at FUB in 1960 and remained there until 1971, when she was a full professor. In 1962, Mayntz married the German painter Hann Trier.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Part 1 - A ceiling as a problem: the path to Hann Trier |url=https://artsandculture.google.com/story/part-1-a-ceiling-as-a-problem-the-path-to-hann-trier/DwXRqqExH-OKJw |website=Google Arts & Culture |language=en}}</ref> She taught at the German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer from 1971 to 1973 and at the University of Cologne from 1973 to 1985. In 1985, Mayntz became the founding director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne, where she remained until her retirement.<ref name=uni/><ref name=ae />
Her areas of research include social theory, management policy, development and application of policies, the development of technology, science and the development of science and policy, and transnationals and the structures of transnational governance.<ref name=ae />
== Honors and awards == Mayntz was an elected member of the Academia Europaea since 1988.<ref name=ae>{{Cite web |title=Academy of Europe: Mayntz Renate |url=https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Mayntz_Renate |website=www.ae-info.org}}</ref> In 1999, Mayntz won the Schader Award, Germany's highest accolade for a social scientist,<ref>{{cite web|title=Schader-Preis 2011 an Jan Philipp Reemtsma|url=http://www.juraforum.de/wissenschaft/schader-preis-2011-an-jan-philipp-reemtsma-346338|publisher=Juraforum.de|accessdate=21 February 2011}}</ref> and in 2004 she was awarded the Bielefelder Wissenschaftspreis.<ref name=uni/> Maytz was elected an international honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2002.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-09-14 |title=Renate Mayntz |website=American Academy of Arts and Sciences |url=https://www.amacad.org/person/renate-mayntz |language=en}}</ref> In 2006, she was awarded the Prize of the German Sociological Association.<ref name=triv>{{Cite web |date=2010 |title=Renate Mayntz |url=https://journals.openedition.org/trivium/3828 |website=Trivium. Revue franco-allemande de sciences humaines et sociales - Deutsch-französische Zeitschrift für Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften |language=fr |issn=1963-1820}}</ref> She received honorary doctorates from Uppsala University in 1977,<ref name=ae /> from Paris Nanterre University in 1979<ref name=triv /> and from the Hertie School in 2024.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Hertie School to confer its first honorary doctorates |url=https://www.hertie-school.org/en/content/detail/content/hertie-school-to-confer-its-first-honorary-doctorates |website=Hertie School |language=en}}</ref>
==Bibliography== * {{Cite book |last=Mayntz |first=Renate |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Die_soziale_Organisation_des_Industriebe/2tKL0AEACAAJ?hl=en |title=Die soziale Organisation des Industriebetriebes |date=1958 |publisher=F. Enke |language=de}} * {{Cite book |last=Mayntz |first=Renate |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Soziologie_der_Organisation/TywRAQAAIAAJ?hl=en |title=Soziologie der Organisation |date=1963 |publisher=Rowohlt |isbn=978-3-499-55166-6 |language=de}} * {{Cite book |last=Mayntz |first=Renate |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Formalisierte_Modelle_in_der_Soziologie/arkMAQAAIAAJ?hl=en |title=Formalisierte Modelle in der Soziologie |date=1967 |publisher=H. Luchterhand |language=de}} * {{Cite book |last=Mayntz |first=Renate |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/B%C3%BCrokratische_Organisation/D_-2AAAAIAAJ?hl=en |title=Bürokratische Organisation |date=1968 |publisher=Kiepenheuer & Witsch |language=de}} * {{Cite book |last=Luhmann |first=Niklas |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Personal_im_%C3%B6ffentlichen_Dienst/ISVJAQAAIAAJ?hl=en |title=Personal im öffentlichen Dienst: Eintritt u. Karrieren : Personaluntersuchung |last2=Mayntz |first2=Renate |date=1973 |publisher=Nomos-Verlagsgesellschaft |isbn=978-3-7890-0076-8 |language=de}} * {{Cite book |last=Mayntz |first=Renate |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Policy_making_in_the_German_Federal_Bure/HiaOAAAAMAAJ?hl=en |title=Policy-making in the German Federal Bureaucracy |last2=Scharpf |first2=Fritz Wilhelm |date=1975 |publisher=Elsevier |isbn=978-0-444-41272-0 |language=en}} * {{Cite book |last=Mayntz |first=Renate |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Introduction_to_Empirical_Sociology/S00KAQAAIAAJ?hl=en |title=Introduction to Empirical Sociology |last2=Holm |first2=Kurt |last3=Hübner |first3=Peter |date=1976 |publisher=Penguin Books |isbn=978-0-14-080996-1 |language=en}} * {{Cite book |last=Mayntz |first=Renate |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Soziologie_der_%C3%B6ffentlichen_Verwaltung/G4onAQAAMAAJ?hl=en |title=Soziologie der öffentlichen Verwaltung |date=1978 |publisher=Müller, Juristischer Verlag |isbn=978-3-8114-0778-7 |language=de}} * {{Cite book |title=Differenzierung und Verselbständigung: zur Entwicklung gesellschaftlicher Teilsysteme |date=1988 |publisher=Campus |isbn=978-3-593-34030-2 |editor-last=Mayntz |editor-first=Renate |series=Schriften des Max-Planck-Instituts für Gesellschaftsforschung, Köln |location=Frankfurt [am Main]; New York |editor-last2=Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung}} * {{Cite book |url=https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781000243994 |title=The Development of Large Technical Systems |date=1989 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-0-429-30999-1 |editor-last=Mayntz |editor-first=Renate |language=en |doi=10.4324/9780429309991 |editor-last2=Hughes |editor-first2=Thomas P.}} * {{Cite book |last=Child |first=John |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Societal_Change_Between_Market_and_Organ/Op0TAQAAMAAJ?hl=en |title=Societal Change Between Market and Organization |last2=Crozier |first2=Michel |last3=Mayntz |first3=Renate |date=1993 |publisher=Avebury |isbn=978-1-85628-517-9 |language=en}} * {{Cite book |title=Aufbruch und Reform von oben: ostdeutsche Universitäten im Transformationsprozess |date=1994 |publisher=Campus Verlag |isbn=978-3-593-35179-7 |editor-last=Mayntz |editor-first=Renate |series=Schriften des Max-Planck-Instituts für Gesellschaftsforschung, Köln |location=Frankfurt; New York}} * {{Cite book |title=Gesellschaftliche Selbstregelung und politische Steuerung |date=1995 |publisher=Campus |isbn=978-3-593-35426-2 |editor-last=Mayntz |editor-first=Renate |location=Frankfurt; New York |editor-last2=Scharpf |editor-first2=Fritz Wilhelm}} * {{Cite book |last=Mayntz |first=Renate |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Soziale_Dynamik_und_politische_Steuerung/N5iAAAAAIAAJ?hl=en |title=Soziale Dynamik und politische Steuerung: theoretische und methodologische Überlegungen |date=1997 |publisher=Campus |isbn=978-3-593-35734-8 |language=de}} * {{Cite book |title=Akteure, Mechanismen, Modelle: zur Theoriefähigkeit makro-sozialer Analysen |date=2002 |publisher=Campus |isbn=978-3-593-37129-0 |editor-last=Mayntz |editor-first=Renate |series=Schriften des Max-Planck-Instituts für Gesellschaftsforschung, Köln |location=Frankfurt/Main; New York}} * {{Cite book |last=Mayntz |first=Renate |title=Über Governance: Institutionen und Prozesse politischer Regelung |date=2009 |publisher=Campus |isbn=978-3-593-38892-2 |series=Schriften aus dem Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung |location=Frankfurt New York}} * {{Cite book |last=Mayntz |first=Renate |title=Sozialwissenschaftliches Erklären: Probleme der Theoriebildung und Methodologie |date=2009 |publisher=Campus |isbn=978-3-593-38891-5 |series=Schriften aus dem Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung, Köln |location=Frankfurt/Main}}
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==External links== *[http://www.mpifg.de/people/rm/index_en.asp Renate Mayntz page] at Max Planck Institute
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