Uwe Backes

 ( German Political Scientists ) 

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.