Peter Oberender

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Peter Otto Christian Oberender (born June 14, 1941 in Nuremberg ; † February 25, 2015 ) was a German economist with a research focus on health economics . Until 2007 he held the chair for economic theory at the University of Bayreuth . Most recently he was Director of the Research Center for Social Law and Health Economics at the University of Bayreuth, Director of the Institute for Applied Health Economics (IaG) , Scientific Director of the WDA - Wirtschaftsakademie Deutscher Apotheker GmbH and owner and senior partner of the management consultancy Oberender & Partner , one on health economics and hospital management specialized consultancy.

Peter O. Oberender was also co-editor of the ORDO magazine and founding president of the Wilhelm Löhe University of Applied Sciences in Fürth and chairman of the board of trustees of the Health Foundation .

In addition, Peter Oberender was a member of the Science Council from 1999 to 2005 , of which he was most recently chairman of the Public Private Partnership working group in university medicine. He was a member of the Bavarian Bioethics Commission, deputy chairman of the Federal Arbitration Office for contract medical care and Chairman of the Federal Arbitration Office for dental technology care and founding president of the Wilhelm Löhe University in Fürth. He was also the first recipient of the Gérard-Gäfgen Medal of the German Society for Health Economics . In 2011, Oberender was accepted into the Social Sciences, Law and Economics class of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts .

Life

Peter Oberender studied economics and social sciences at the Universities of Erlangen-Nuremberg and Munich. He then worked as a research assistant to Ernst Heuss ( University of Marburg ), where he also received his doctorate. After teaching in Marburg, in 1967 he was Guest Scholar at the Brookings Institution , Washington DC In 1980 he qualified as a professor at Heuss in Marburg and shortly thereafter was offered a professorship in economics at the University of Bayreuth. In Bayreuth he founded the course for health economics. From 1987 to 1990 he was a member of the Enquete Commission for Structural Reform of the Statutory Health Insurance of the German Bundestag.

He turned down various calls for chairs for economics at the universities of Witten / Herdecke (1986), Freiburg im Breisgau (1990), and the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena (1992) in favor of Bayreuth. Oberender was the founding dean and dean of the Faculty of Economics at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (1990–1994).

In July 2003 Peter Oberender received an honorary doctorate from the TU Ilmenau.

On January 26, 2007, Oberender officially held his farewell lecture on the subject of regulatory policy - Quo vadis? . He remained connected to the University of Bayreuth as a lecturer for the "Health Economics" course he initiated.

Peter Oberender died on February 25, 2015.

Core theses and controversies

Peter Oberender represented strictly market-based positions in health policy . He questioned the equal financing of the statutory health insurance by pointing out that the "so-called employer's share is part of the wages". He criticized the budgeting in the health care system as “artificial containment of possible market growth in the health care system” and called for a “reorientation from a policy of the planned economy to a market-based health policy with adequate protection of the economically weak and the chronically ill”.

In his book "Growth Market Health" he put forward the thesis that the health system is a potential growth industry, since medical progress and demographic aging of society in combination with an extraordinarily high individual appreciation of health in a market economy lead to a disproportionate growth in the share health expenditure should lead to national income. Linking the funds made available for the health system to the wage bill leads to an undersupply of the population with health services, because the wages bill grows less than the costs due to demographics.

With his positions, Oberender was criticized by trade unions and social associations.

In an interview in 2004, Oberender suggested that international illegal organ trafficking, such as in India, be legally regulated according to market economy principles and thus improve the situation of commercial donors and increase the legal supply. This question was raised again in 2006 on Deutschlandfunk and 2010 in Handelsblatt.

Oberender was one of the signatories of the Euro-critical manifesto The Monetary Policy Decisions of Maastricht: A Danger for Europe (1992) and the Hamburg Appeal (2005). He was one of the 68 main illustrators of the 2013 election alternative .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ prabook.com: Peter Otto Christian Oberender .
  2. ↑ Research Center for Social Law and Health Economics ( Memento from February 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ Institute for Applied Health Economics
  4. ^ Editor on the website of the journal
  5. ↑ Information on management on the university's website
  6. ^ New chairman of the board of trustees . Communication from the Health Foundation of August 24, 2015, accessed on August 26, 2015
  7. ↑ Members of the Bavarian Bioethics Commission ( Memento from November 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ http://www.nordbayern.de/toller-tag-fur-furth-1.2246301 A great day for Fürth
  9. ↑ EuropAcad ( Memento from February 13, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) Peter Oberender → 2011
  10. ^ Final report of the study commission "Structural Reform of Statutory Health Insurance": according to the resolution of the German Bundestag of June 4, 1987 and October 27, 1988; Printed matter 11/310 and 11/3181, Bonn 1990
  11. ^ Mourning for Peter Oberender Nordbayerischer Kurier on February 26, 2015
  12. ↑ All quotations from his statement on the draft of a contribution guarantee law in the statutory health insurance and in the statutory pension insurance (Bundestag printed papers 15/27 and 15/28), PDF .
  13. ↑ Oberender, P .; Hebborn, A; Zerth, J, Health Growth Market, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-8252-2231-4
  14. ^ "Expert calls for free organ trade" Spiegel Online from May 12, 2004
  15. ↑ “We need a regulated market for organs” Deutschlandradio Kultur from December 22, 2006
  16. ^ Organ trade needs a free market , Handelsblatt dated April 20, 2010, accessed on June 5, 2017
  17. ↑ see list of signatories for the online reproduction of the manifesto in the economic blog Wirtschaftliche Freiheit , blog entry from December 11, 2016; accessed July 12, 2020.
  18. ↑ see list of signatories of the “Hamburg Appeal” (PDF), website of the Hamburg World Economic Institute ; accessed July 13, 2020.
  19. ↑ Alternative option 2013: Founder and main draftsman . n. d .. Archived from the original on January 27, 2013. Retrieved on February 17, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Oberender, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Oberender, Peter O.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH February 25, 2015