Andreas Knie (sociologist)

Andreas Knie (2020)

Andreas Knie (born December 12, 1960 in Siegen ) is a German social scientist at the Science Center Berlin for Social Research gGmbH (WZB) and professor of sociology at the TU Berlin .

Life

Andreas Knie studied political science from 1980 to 1986 at the University of Marburg and the Free University of Berlin . 1990 doctorate he attended the Technical University of Berlin to Dr. phil. on the subject of diesel - a technology career. In 1995 he received his habilitation with the title Wankel Courage in the Auto Industry, also at the TU Berlin.

Since 1987 he has been a research associate at the Social Science Research Center in Berlin , where he has headed the research group Digital Mobility and Social Differentiation together with Weert Canzler since 2020 . Before that he coordinated the research group Science Policy of the WZB as a research group leader . In addition, Knie has been Chief Scientific Officer (CSO) of Choice GmbH since June 2018 .

From 2001 to 2016 he was division manager at DB Rent GmbH. In 2006, Knie founded InnoZ GmbH, supported by the owners Deutsche Bahn AG , WZB, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Siemens and T-Systems , for the practical investigation of innovation processes in the mobility sector , of which he was co-managing director until summer 2018. In InnoZ research and business knowledge should be merged. After Knies and the shareholders Siemens and T-Systems left the company, the remaining shareholders Deutsche Bahn, WZB and DLR announced that the InnoZ will be closed at the end of April 2019.

Andreas Knie was a member of the working group framework conditions of the National Platform for Electromobility and the Advisory Board for Sustainable Development of the State of Brandenburg . He has been a member of the Agora Verkehrswende council since 2017.

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On the basis of the work of Meinolf Dierkes , Werner Rammert and others, Andreas Knie further developed sociological technology genesis research. In an early essay on the conservative of technical progress , he formulated his view of a technical core in which the social context of development is, as it were, "inscribed". To do this, he analyzed the historical background of communication and traffic technology, such as the mechanical typewriter or the diesel engine .

In numerous publications, Andreas Knie pleads for a move away from a car-related transport policy and a transport turnaround towards more flexibility in public offers. He suggests changing the political and legal framework as " real experiments ". His call for limits on private cars provokes numerous comments on guest posts and media reports. In contrast to vehement car critics such as Hermann Knoflacher or Winfried Wolf , Knie does not reject the automobile entirely. Instead, he has been researching and supporting new forms of use, such as car sharing, since the 1990s . In addition, he calls for additional mobility offers, such as Call a bike . According to Knie, digital platforms are increasing the tendency to combine different mobility offers. Another topic is the future of transport policy under the impact of demographic change . From Knie's point of view, the financial and technical hurdles of electromobility offer the opportunity to combine private and public transport to create an urban, post-fossil mobility culture . Knie sees the opportunities of the energy transition in the interaction of a CO ₂ reduction in traffic and decentralized, user-friendly energy networks ( smart grids ).

Andreas Knie advocates a stronger integration of theory and practice in the social sciences. He is the initiator of the Berlin declaration on the mobility transition in research published by the BMBF .

Fonts (selection)

• Diesel - career of a technology. Genesis and formation processes in engine construction. Edition Sigma, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-89404-103-X .
• Fickle courage in the auto industry. Beginning and end of a drive alternative. Edition Sigma, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-89404-145-5 .
• together with Weert Canzler : The end of the automobile. Facts and trends on the restructuring of the car society. CF Müller, Heidelberg 1994, ISBN 3-78809-872-4 .
• together with Weert Canzler: Spaces of Possibility: Outlines of a modern mobility and transport policy. Böhlau, Vienna 1998, ISBN 3-20598-854-X .
• Co-editor: Handbook of Transport Policy. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2007, ISBN 3-53114-548-7 .
• Co-editor: Handbook of Science Policy. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2009, ISBN 3-53115-742-6 .
• together with Weert Canzler: Green ways out of the car crisis - from car manufacturer to mobility service provider . Heinrich Böll Foundation, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-86928-005-9 . ( Green Ways out of the crisis Car -. From automakers to mobility service Accessed on January 25, 2019 .  )
• together with Weert Canzler: Simply recharge - with electromobility into a clean future. Oekom-Verlag, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-86581-270-4 (awarded as environmental book of the month by the German Environmental Foundation ).
• together with Weert Canzler: Smart Networks - How the energy and transport turnaround succeeds. Oekom-Verlag, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-86581-440-1 .
• together with Weert Canzler: The digital mobility revolution - From the end of traffic as we knew it. Oekom-Verlag, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-86581-754-9 .
• together with Weert Canzler: Staggering giants - will the auto industry succeed in reinventing it? Oekom-Verlag, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-96238-019-9 . (Also published as volume 10284 of the publication series of the Federal Agency for Civic Education .)
• together with Weert Canzler, Lisa Ruhrort and Christian Scherf: Extinct love? The car in the traffic turnaround - sociological interpretations. Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2018, ISBN 978-3-8376-4568-2 .
• together with Weert Canzler and Lisa Ruhrort: Autonomous Driving in Public Transport - Opportunities, Risks and Need for Political Action , Berlin Science Center for Social Research , April 2019.
• together with Lisa Ruhrort: The reorganization of public transport - principles for a new future-oriented regulation in the Passenger Transport Act , May 2019

Web links

Commons : Andreas Knie  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Andreas Knie in the catalog of the German National Library
• Andreas Knie at the Berlin Social Science Center

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Website of the research group Digital Mobility and Social Differentiation of the WZB
2. ↑ Jutta Allmendinger (Ed.): The digital mobility research group starts on January 1, 2020, in: WZB Mitteilungen. Issue 166, December 2019, p. 55 ( online at www.wzb.eu ).
3. ↑ Prof. Dr. Andreas Knie becomes Head of Scientific Development at Choice GmbH. Choice GmbH, August 16, 2018, accessed on September 9, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Homepage of the Innovation Center for Mobility and Social Change (InnoZ) GmbH
5. ↑ ^{a b} T. Fülling and J. Fahrun: The railway turns the money off of the InnoZ in Schöneberg. In: Berliner Morgenpost , November 27, 2018.
6. ↑ Weert Canzler, Andreas Knie: Creating spaces for thought - companies and the WZB cooperate in the InnoZ, in: WZB Mitteilungen . Issue 127, March 2010, pp. 56–58. Article online (pdf; 50 kB)
7. ↑ National Platform for Electric Mobility: Members of Working Group 6 (pdf) ( Memento from January 30, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
8. ^ State of Brandenburg - Sustainability Advisory Board: Presentation by Prof. Dr. Andreas knee
9. ↑ Andreas Knie: The Conservative of Technical Progress - On the importance of construction traditions, research and construction styles in the genesis of technology. Discussion Paper FS II 89-101. Science Center Berlin for Social Research, Berlin 1989.
10. ↑ Weert Canzler, Andreas Knie: Festgefahren - Instructions for the change in the automotive society , in: Journal for political science . Vol. 27, Issue 4, 2017, pp. 475–481. doi : 10.1007 / s41358-017-0116-x
11. ↑ Stefan Krempl: Net rules - sociologist calls for a ban on own cars , in: heise online , article from November 3, 2016, accessed on April 20, 2017.
12. ↑ Weert Canzler, Andreas Knie: Cars in the cities are something of yesterday , in: ZEIT online , article from April 2, 2017, accessed on April 20, 2017.
13. ↑ Rental cars - money or love . In: Der Spiegel . No. 23 , 1997, pp. 99 ( Online - June 2, 1997 ).
14. ↑ Weert Canzler and Andreas Knie: The city of short distances is always under power. Article from the Berliner Tagesspiegel from February 17, 2009 .
15. ↑ Weert Canzler, Andreas Knie: The future of urban mobility - approaches for an ecological traffic turnaround in the digital age. Böll-Brief Grüne Ordnungspolitik No. 6, Berlin 2018 ( online version ).
16. ^ Weert Canzler and Andreas Knie: Demography and traffic policy. In: From Politics and Contemporary History . APuZ 29–30 / 2007, pp. 9–14 .
17. ↑ Andreas Knie and Weert Canzler: We need completely new mobility concepts , article on ZEIT-Online from September 3, 2010
18. ↑ Manuel Waltz: A plea for the energy transition , Deutschlandfunk , August 5, 2013.
19. ↑ Weert Canzler, Andreas Knie: The new world of traffic - mobility under the sign of abundance: cleverly organized, efficient, comfortable and sustainable on the move. A basic study on behalf of BEE eV, Ponte Press, Bochum 2015. ( Online version, PDF, approx. 7 MB )
20. ↑ Andreas Knie: The shortened value chain of knowledge - speculations about the loss of meaning of sociology. In: Social Sciences and Professional Practice (SuB). Volume 28 (2005) No. 2, pp. 204-213.
21. ↑ BMBF: Staying mobile: Research ready for application. Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), June 22, 2017, accessed on June 23, 2017 . 
22. ↑ Information for friends, partners and sponsors of the German Environmental Foundation, November 2011, p. 6 (available as pdf )