incorporated Henner's comments: 
removed rer. pol.
added a list of abbreviations
added list of figures
changed citation style to alpha
added an example table, still problems with getting a correct list of abbreviations, and headers of first german lists (Abkuerzungsverzeichnis) are not in German, but in English
fixed the issue with abbreviations
Merge pull request #1 from philippstroehle/master

merge upstream of the IISM template, bug fixing, better table of contents and bibliography