Hamburg University for Economics and Politics

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Hamburg University for Economics and Politics
activity 1948-2005
place Hamburg
country Germany
President Dorothee Bittscheidt
Students about 3000 (2005)
Employee about 130 (2005)
Website hwp-hamburg.de ( Memento from March 2, 2006 in the Internet Archive )

The Hamburg University of Economics and Politics ( HWP ) was founded in 1948 as an Academy for Community Economy and merged with the University of Hamburg in 2005 . As the Faculty of Social Economics , it now forms the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Hamburg together with the Faculties of Social Sciences and Economics .

history

The university emerged from the Academy for Community Economy, which was founded in autumn 1948 and is based at Mollerstraße 10 in Hamburg. The initiators for the establishment were cooperative members , trade unionists and social democrats, who in 1945 actually wanted to democratize and reform the university after their experiences with scientists during the Nazi era . A professorship for trade union and cooperative affairs should be established at the university, and the next generation of leaders in the trade unions and cooperatives should be trained at the university like the next generation for managerial positions in business. Initially 80 students were trained per year and course. The Hamburg School Senator Heinrich Landahl took up the suggestion and promoted the establishment of his own institute - the Academy for Community Economy - to train the next generation of leaders in trade unions and cooperatives, as their leading role in the reconstruction and reorganization of the German economy was still taken for granted . The model for the institutional structure and the curriculum was the Academy of Labor, founded in Frankfurt am Main in 1920 . With the help of Karl Schiller , the curriculum was developed and the university-like structure of the institute advanced.

In 1948, when lessons were due to begin, the Marshall Plan and currency reform set the course for the re-establishment of the market economy in West Germany and the economic-democratic reorganization ideas of the trade unionists and social democrats about a “third way” between socialism and capitalism, the democratic common economy - the im Founding concept and found expression in the name of the institution - fell apart. Now that the name was fixed, it was related to the "economic sector" of the public economy: the enterprises of the state and the municipalities, the cooperatives and cooperative enterprises as well as the trade unions and the public enterprises.

The Academy for Community Economics was renamed the Academy for Economics and Politics in 1961. Her official teaching goal now was the training of middle economic managers. It was so successful in the 1960s that it was converted into the University of Economics and Politics in 1970 when the technical colleges and universities of applied sciences were founded. From the beginning of the 1980s, the course, which after six semesters led to a degree as a social economist (grad.) , Business economist (grad.) Or as an economist (grad.), Was supplemented by a three-semester socio-economic course, the degree of which was Graduated social economist represented a fully-fledged university-adequate degree and entitled to a doctorate. From 1991 to March 31, 2005 the HWP was an independent university, which led to the renaming of the university in 2001.

Demonstration to defend against the union of the HWP with the University of Hamburg

Since April 1, 2005, the former HWP has belonged to the University of Hamburg (UHH) as the Department of Economics and Politics (DWP ). In 2009 the department was dissolved and completely integrated into the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at the Hamburg University as the Faculty of Social Economics. The integration of the HWP into the University of Hamburg, which was planned since 2003 and will continue until 2009, caused protests from students, professors and administrators for years. These found a nationwide media coverage.

At the Faculty of Social Economics at the University of Hamburg, even people without a high school diploma can study via the open university entrance exam via a university entrance exam . This is why the basic course also includes introductory courses and bridging seminars that are tailored to people in the 2nd and 3rd education pathways, see Second education pathways . The students can integrate their Abitur knowledge or the existing professional experience into the course and should obtain a recognized university degree.

The profile of the Faculty of Social Economics - at the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Hamburg - includes studies without a high school diploma, the tiered bachelor and master concept with degrees after six semesters ( bachelor ) and ten semesters ( master ), interdisciplinarity and practical orientation as well as the international orientation.

According to the sociologist Alfred Oppolzer , the necessity of social economy is challenged from the various individual disciplines, for example from business administration (Schultz 1988), also from economics ( Günter Schmölders 1973) and political economy ( Werner Hofmann 1969), from sociology ( Max Weber 1904) as well as from ergonomics (Schweres 1980; Oppolzer 1989). (See Oppolzer, page 25).

Self-image of the HWP

According to the founding concept, the Akademie für Gemeinwirtschaft had a twofold objective: to provide the community economy to be introduced with executives trained in the new democratic spirit and to offer them a full higher education through the recruitment of students, especially among workers and workers' children.

The prerequisite for admission to the course was not the Abitur , but the passing of an extensive entrance examination: People with a secondary school diploma and commercial vocational training could also take part, provided that the group of people had prepared themselves adequately by participating in further training activities. This approach characterizes the institution as a “second educational path”. Above all, it should be open to applicants "who have previously been excluded from higher education due to social and economic circumstances or the special circumstances of the time." (Conditions for admission to study at the Academy for Community Economics Hamburg - from November 1953). Since 1970, the entrance qualification for a university of applied sciences or an education recognized as equivalent has also been considered admission. The course lasted four semesters until 1966 and six from 1967.

Right from the start, it was an integrated economic and social science course that included the subjects of economics , business administration , sociology and law . All students had to study all four subjects; Until the 1960s, there was no subject-specific, but only a uniform degree at the academy. By 1970, graduates with at least a good degree received the subject-specific higher education entrance qualification for further studies in economics or social sciences at the university. From 1970 all graduates received the general university entrance qualification. After attaining this at the University of Economics and Politics, many graduates of the six-semester course continued their studies at the HWP instead of switching to a university. The uniform degree as a diploma in social economics signaled the self-image of the HWP that it is not just a supplier to the university, but offers an academically independent, interdisciplinary course and degree that not only enables professional careers, but also a differentiated and closer look opens up society to which the university also refers in its mission statement.

The "educational mandate" of the Academy for Community Economy, which was also used by some lecturers at the Hamburg University of Economics and Politics, was formulated in 1958 by Heinz-Dietrich Ortlieb at the tenth anniversary of the AfG : "Education lies in bringing up an objective attitude, to the critical ability to make judgments, to the ability to immerse oneself equally in a subject and to be able to distance oneself from it, to become aware of the prerequisites on which a judgment is based and under which alone it can be valid, and above all: education is considered to be linked to the Ability to abstain from beloved, but questionable biases. "

A group of friends and sponsors has supported the university since 1952. The "Society of Friends and Sponsors of the Department of Social Economy (formerly HWP) eV had 1,645 members in 1973, including many companies in the community economy, today there are around 500 members.

Well-known graduates

Well-known teachers (selection)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b The profile of the HWP - Hamburg University for Economics and Politics ( Memento from February 7, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ vmp 9, the magazine for the social economy department, December 2012, p. 24.
  3. ↑ "HWP Hamburg. End of Uniqueness ” by Maja Abu Saman (dpa) in the Süddeutsche Zeitung on November 4, 2004
  4. ↑ "University. University dismantles reform studies ” by Kaija Kutter in the taz of December 20, 2009
  5. ↑ vmp 9, the magazine for the social economy department, December 2012, p. 26.

literature

  • Bärbel von Borries-Pusback: No college for socialism. The establishment of the Academy for Community Economy in Hamburg 1945–1955 (= series of publications of the University of Economics and Politics, Hamburg. Vol. 9). Leske and Budrich, Opladen 2002, ISBN 3-8100-3369-3 (also: Hamburg, Univ., Diss., 2002).
  • Dirk Hauer, Bela Rogalla: HWP in motion. Student protests against neoliberal university reforms. VSA-Verlag, Hamburg 2006, ISBN 3-89965-219-3 .
  • Werner Hofmann: Basic elements of business society. A guide for teachers (= Rororo. Rororo currently 1149). Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1969.
  • Wulf D. Hund (Ed.): From the common economy to the social economy. 50 years of the Hamburg University of Economics and Politics. VSA-Verlag, Hamburg 1998, ISBN 3-87975-729-1 .
  • Alfred Oppolzer : Handbook of work design. Guidelines for a humane work organization. With a foreword by Walter Riester . VSA-Verlag, Hamburg 1989, ISBN 3-87975-472-1 .
  • Alfred Oppolzer: Social economy: to the subject, concept and history. In: Socio-economic contributions. Journal for economics, politics and society. 1st vol., No. 1, 1990, ISSN  0937-4531 , pp. 6-29.
  • Günter Schmölders : Economics as a social science. Rector's speech on November 10, 1965 (= Cologne University Speeches . Vol. 34, ZDB -ID 501310-0 ). Scherpe, Krefeld 1965 (reprinted in: Günter Schmölders: Sozialökonomische Behavioral Research. Selected articles with a directory of scientific publications 1924–1973. On the occasion of his 70th birthday (= contributions to behavioral research , vol. 16). Edited by Gerhard Brinkmann, Burkhard Strümpel, Horst Zimmermann, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1973, ISBN 3-428-03020-6 , pp. 11-25).
  • Reinhard Schultz: Business Administration. A socio-economic introduction. Oldenbourg, Munich et al. 1988, ISBN 3-486-20737-7 .
  • Manfred Schweres: Structural elements of an integrative ergonomics. In: Journal of Ergonomics. Vol. 34, Issue 1, 1980, ISSN  0340-2444 , pp. 1-12.

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