Reiner Baur studied at the Institute of Education in Tübingen with the focus on Social Paedagogy. Since june 2023 he works as managing director of the Institute for Research on Far Right Extremism (IRex). Before working at the University of Tübingen, he worked full-time in a youth association and extracurricular youth education from 2009 to 2021 and was an elected member of the Landesjugendring board, representing the interests of children and young people. Since the 1990s, he has been active in the fields of environmental and nature protection, education for sustainable development (ESD), civic education, memorial education and the training of multipliers in children's and youth associations.

• since 6/2023 Managing Director, Institute for Research on Far Right Extremism (IRex)
• since 10/2022 elected member of the Faculty Council (Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences) for the administrative staff
• 7/2021–5/2023 Managing Director, Institute of Education (IfE)
• 7/2011–6/2021 Managing Director, Young Friends of the Earth in the federal state of Baden-Württemberg
• 5/2019–4/2021 Chairman of Landesjugendring (Youth Council) Baden-Württemberg
• 4/2009-5/2019 Vice-Chairman of Landesjugendring (Youth Council) Baden-Württemberg
• 10/2005–3/2012 Lecturer in Educational Science, Leibniz Kolleg Tübingen
• 5/2009–6/2011 Youth Policy Officer, Young Friends of the Earth BUNDjugend Baden-Württemberg
• 6/2003–1/2011 Freelancer for Voluntary Ecological Year (FÖJ), Regional Agency for Civic Education Baden-Württemberg (LpB)
• 3/1998–6/2008 Assistant of Prof. Dr. emer. Andreas Flitner

Frankenberger, Rolf/Reiner Baur/Markus Rieger-Ladich, Josef Schmid/Barbara Stauber/Ansgar Thiel/Tanja Thomas: Researching far right extremism – a transdisciplinary, lifeworld, and political culture perspective. In: Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft 17 (2023), pp. 275–295. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12286-023-00580-w