Renate Mayntz (née Pflaum) (born 28 April 1929), also known as Renate Mayntz-Trier, is a German sociologist and a pioneer of organizational sociology in Germany. She was the director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies from 1985 to 1997, and is now director emerita.

Education and career

Mayntz was born in Berlin and lived in Augsburg