Georg Kohler (born in Konolfingen, Bern, Switzerland in 1945) is a Swiss philosopher. He is a professor emeritus of Political Philosophy at University of Zurich. He is also a publicist and an author. He has written books on political philosophy and modern day Swiss politics and also collaborated with other writers including Hermann Lübbe.^[1][2][3][4]

Kohler's early education was in grammar schools. He then studied philosophy at the university of Zurich. In 1978 he completed his Licentiate degree of Jurisprudenz (law) from the University of Zurich. Until 1980 he held the post of Assistant of Philosophical Seminars at the university but moved away to manage the family business in Vienna. He returned to teaching in 1992 and joined the Geschwister Scholl-Institute at the University of Munich. He left his post as the chairperson of philosophical research, and joined the University of Zurich in 1994 as a full professor after the retirement of his teacher Hermann Lübbe. He held the post until 2010, when he became a professor emeritus of Philosophy specializing in Political Philosophy.^[5][6][7][8]

Since 2008 he has been a speaker and a member of the trustees with the classical liberal think tank Liberales Institut. He frequently writes and gives interviews to newspapers and online publications, such as Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Blick and Tages-Anzeiger.^{[9][10][11][12][13][14]}

Kohler was married to Tagesschau spokeswoman and journalist Dominique Rub Kohler. She died on 15 August 2013.^[15][16]

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