Alfred Oppolzer

Alfred Oppolzer (born October 5, 1946 in Alsfeld ) is a German sociologist and social economist as well as professor of industrial and business sociology at the Department of Social Economics at the University of Hamburg , formerly the Hamburg University of Economics and Politics (HWP). His focus is interdisciplinary in occupational and health sciences . Oppolzer published numerous texts together with the economist Leonhard Hajen and the labor lawyer Ulrich Zachert .

Life

Alfred Oppolzer studied sociology , psychology , political science and education at the University of Marburg . He wrote his master's thesis in sociology. Oppolzer received his doctorate from the University of Marburg as Dr. phil. in sociology. His habilitation as a Dr. phil. habil. for ergonomics took place at the University of Kassel . From 1973 to 1975 Oppolzer worked as a research assistant in the social sciences department at the University of Marburg. In 1975 he was appointed to a professorship for industrial and business sociology at the University of Kassel. In 1982, his appointment was made on a professor of sociology with a focus on industrial sociology at the School of Economics and Politics in Hamburg, from 1991 Hamburg University for Economics and Politics (HWP). Since 2005 Department of Social Economics at the University of Hamburg ; retired April 1st, 2012.

Alfred Oppolzer became known as the author of his texts on occupational health and safety . He gained practical experience in his consulting work for companies, works councils, trade unions and occupational health and safety agencies. Oppolzer is called in by labor courts and professional associations as an expert. He is considered a connoisseur of the works of Karl Marx and Max Weber . In 1988 he wrote an afterword in " Werner Hofmann : Industrial Sociology for Workers ". Alfred Oppolzer deals with a modern definition of social economy .

Focus

Oppolzer's teaching and research focus is primarily on industrial sociology and ergonomics. He sets his practical priorities on corporate health management and public health . He carried out research projects with Alf Trojan at the Eppendorf University Hospital and at the Institute for Medical Sociology .

In teaching at the HWP and University of Hamburg , he emphasizes the importance of practical relevance and interdisciplinarity in science . Among other things, he refers to the works of Karl Marx and Max Weber . According to Oppolzer, the necessity of social economy is demanded from the various individual disciplines, for example from business administration (Reinhard Schultz, 1988), also from economics ( Günter Schmölders , 1973) and political economy ( Werner Hofmann , 1969), from sociology ( Max Weber, 1904) as well as from ergonomics (Manfred Schweres, 1980) and by himself in 1989 in his work design handbook . Oppolzer states that social economy is:

1. the "investigation of the interactions between economy and society",
2. the "practical relevance of the question" and
3. the "interdisciplinary approach".

His focus on occupational and health sciences is made clear by Oppolzer's memberships: Society for Work Science , German Society for Medical Sociology and the German Society for Social Medicine and Prevention .

Publications (selection)

• Alfred Oppolzer: Psychological stress risks from the perspective of ergonomics and approaches for prevention , in: Absence Report 2009, Work and Psyche: Reducing Stress - Promoting Well-being, Eds. Badura, Schröder, Klose and Macco, Berlin, Heidelberg 2010
• Alfred Oppolzer, Stefan Nickel, Silke Werner and Alf Trojan: Accompanying research of a model experiment on the conversion of working hours in the context of current innovations in the hospital , in: Working time organization in the medical service and functional service in the hospital. Rainer Hampp Verlag: München und Mering, 2008, pp. 67–182.
• Alfred Oppolzer: Health management in the company, integration and coordination of humane work design . Hamburg 2006.
• Alfred Oppolzer: Industrial Pathology , in: Historical-Critical Dictionary of Marxism, Ed. WF Haug, Hamburg, Berlin 2004 (Volume 6 / II, Sp. 997-1002).
• Alfred Oppolzer, Alf Trojan and Helmut Hildebrandt: Employee and patient surveys as instruments of quality management , in: Quality management in health promotion and prevention, published by the Federal Center for Health Education BZgA, Cologne 2001, pp. 269–281.
• Alfred Oppolzer: Health Promotion through Organizational Development in Hospitals - On the Connection between New Public Health and New Public Management , in: Ökonomie und Sozialstaat, In memoriam Helmut Fangmann, Ed. Mattfeldt, Oppolzer, Reifner, Opladen 1998, pp. 91–112.
• Alfred Oppolzer, Karl-Jürgen Bieback (Ed.): Structural change in occupational safety . Opladen 1999.
• Alfred Oppolzer: Alienation , in: Historical-Critical Dictionary of Marxism, Ed. WF Haug, Hamburg, Berlin 1997 (Volume 3, Sp. 460-470).
• Alfred Oppolzer: Ecology of work . People and the working environment: stresses and design requirements. Hamburg 1993.
• Alfred Oppolzer: Short breaks for cashiers . For the humane organization of the cash desk. Cologne 1992
• Alfred Oppolzer, Leonhard Hajen and Michael Steuer (eds.): Technical development and operational training . An empirical study in the metal industry. Frankfurt / New York 1990.
• Alfred Oppolzer: Social Economy - On the subject, concept and history of an interdisciplinary and practice-related scientific concept . In: Socio-economic contributions (SozB), issue 1/1990 (pp. 6–29)
• Alfred Oppolzer: Division of Labor , in: European Encyclopedia on Philosophy and Sciences. Edited by Hans-Jörg Sandkühler. Hamburg 1990. (Vol. 1, pp. 216-230)
• Alfred Oppolzer: Handbook of work design. Guide to humane work organization . Hamburg 1989.
• Alfred Oppolzer, Gerhard Brosius (Ed.): Effects of the reduction in working hours on employment, working conditions and leisure time . Frankfurt / New York 1989.
• Alfred Oppolzer; Epilogue. Werner Hofmann and industrial sociology . In: Werner Hofmann: Industrial sociology for workers. Edited by Claas u. Rilling. Heilbronn 1988 (pp. 211-250).
• Alfred Oppolzer, Ulrich Zachert (Ed.): New technologies and employee interests in wholesale and mail order . Frankfurt / New York 1987.
• Alfred Oppolzer, Hartmut Wegener and Ulrich Zachert (eds.): Flexibilization - Deregulation, Labor Policy in the Wende . Hamburg 1986.
• Alfred Oppolzer: If you are poor, you have to die sooner. Social Differences in Health and Mortality . Hamburg 1986.
• Alfred Oppolzer: Industrial workers in the Schwalm-Eder district. Working and living conditions in an underdeveloped area . (2 volumes) Marburg 1980.
• Alfred Oppolzer: Humanization of wage labor? To the struggle for working conditions . (2nd edition) Berlin 1978.
• Alfred Oppolzer, Wulf D. Hund: Civil science, dialectics and class consciousness , in: G. Ahrweiler (Ed.): Re .: Lukacs. Dialectic between idealism and the proletariat. Cologne 1978. (pp. 75-100)
• Alfred Oppolzer: Main problems of industrial and business sociology . Cologne 1976.
• Alfred Oppolzer: Alienation and Industrial Work. The category of alienation in Karl Marx . Cologne 1974.

Web links

• Literature by and about Alfred Oppolzer in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Oppolzer, Alfred: Social economy: To the subject, concept and history . In: Socio-economic contributions. Journal for economics, politics and society. 1st year Hamburg. 1/1990, pages 6–29. Prof. Dr. Alfred Oppolzer ( Memento from May 31, 2015 in the web archive archive.today )