Uwe Backes

Uwe Backes (born 2 February 1960 in Greimerath) is a German political scientist and specialist in political extremism. He is a professor at the Technical University Dresden and together with Eckhard Jesse the editor of the ' and '. Backes is an adherent of the classical German theory of extremism (Extremismustheorie ) that postulates that the extreme right and the extreme left have much in common in their opposition to liberty and democracy.