Burkart Lutz

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Burkart Lutz (born May 27, 1925 in Munich ; † May 17, 2013 in Halle (Saale) ) was a German sociologist with a focus on industrial sociology .

Life

During the Second World War , Burkart Lutz was drafted into the Wehrmacht. From 1947 he was, together with Theo Pirker , Siegfried Braun and Ernst Schumacher , one of the main authors of the left-Catholic newspaper Ende und Anfang in Augsburg .

He received his doctorate in 1958 from the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg i. Br. To Dr. phil., worked as an industrial sociological researcher at the Economic Institute of the German Trade Union Federation , then from 1954 to 1965 in Munich as a freelance social researcher.

From 1965 to 1990 he was the managing director of the Institute for Social Science Research there. V . In 1967 he received an honorary professorship from the University of Munich . In 1990 he became co-founder and research director of the Center for Social Research Halle at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg .

Lutz was a long-time expert reviewer for the German Research Foundation for empirical social research (1971–1979) and for the first industrial-sociological priority program in the 1970s. The German Society for Sociology elected him, as the first non-professor, from 1983 to 1986 as its chairman.

According to Ludwig von Friedeburg , Lutz has "rendered outstanding services (...) to industrial sociology in particular and sociology in the Federal Republic in general".

Lutz died on May 17, 2013 after a short, serious illness at the age of 87 in Halle.

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Burkart Lutz's most important areas of work are technology and work , co-determination and the labor market , training and vocational training and social change in industrial societies.

In connection with empirical research work on the sociology of work and occupation, Lutz (1983) developed his thesis of “final inflation ” to characterize the “process of relative devaluation of educational institutions and courses whose mechanisms for entry and exit rationing no longer work sufficiently well that now is merely a necessary condition of a privileged social position, which was a sufficient condition so far. ” And in 1988 Lutz concluded that the previous education and qualification offensive with its key requirement“ learn to learn ”was based on false foundations, because it was based on a quasi-natural logic of industrial development have assumed. With their plea for a future and reproducible German contemporary society, these criticism (s) opened the perspective of an expanded, subject-centered qualification sociology.

Awards

  • 1997: Schader Prize
  • 2000: Honorary doctorate from the University of Halle
  • 2008: Honor for his life's work at the 34th Congress of the German Society for Sociology in Jena. The laudation was given by Michael Schumann , who particularly pointed out the prognostic abilities of the honored scholar: As early as the 1980s, Lutz recognized from his book title " The Brief Dream of Eternal Prosperity " (from 1984) that the post-war prosperity of capitalism was an exceptional situation .
  • 2011: Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

Selected publications

  • Future prospects of vocational training in the new federal states and the role of the educational institutions , Halle: ZSH 2006
  • Personnel management and innovation in small and medium-sized companies , Halle: ZSH 2005
  • New tasks at the interface between engineering and social sciences , Halle: ZSH 2002
  • Development perspectives of work , Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 2001
  • Le mirage de la croissance marchande , Paris: Ed. de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme 1990
  • The short dream of perpetual prosperity , Frankfurt am Main; New York: Campus, 2nd edition, 1989. Online (PDF; 12.5 MB)
  • Technology in everyday life and work , Berlin: Sigma, 1989
  • Expert systems and industrial specialist work , Frankfurt am Main: Campus, 1989
  • What qualifications do we need? in: Jens Joachim Hesse (ed.), Future Knowledge and Educational Perspectives . Baden-Baden: Nomos, 1988 [= Forum Zukunft], pp. 55–66
  • Technology and social change , Frankfurt am Main: Campus, 1987
  • Sociology and Social Development , Frankfurt am Main: Campus, 1985
  • The Short Dream of Perpetual Prosperity , Frankfurt am Main: Campus, 1984
  • Educational expansion and social inequality ; in: Reinhard Kreckel (ed.), Social Inequality , Göttingen: Otto Schwartz, 1983 [= "Social World" special issue 2], pp. 221–245
  • Flexible manufacturing systems and human resource management , Frankfurt am Main: Campus 1982
  • (with Norbert Altmann), operation, technology, work , Frankfurt am Main: Campus, ²1978
  • The End of the Graduate Engineer? , Frankfurt am Main / Cologne: European Publishing House, 1975
  • Labor market structures and public labor market policy , Göttingen: Schwartz, 1974
  • Considerations on the socio-economic role of academic qualifications , Hanover: Hochschul-Informations-System, 1971
  • On the situation of apprenticeship training , Stuttgart: Klett, 1970
  • Mathematicians and natural scientists at grammar schools , Munich: Hanser, 1970
  • The inter-company change of job , Frankfurt am Main: Europäische Verlagsanstalt, 1966

Translations (from French):

  • Georges Friedmann : Man in Mechanized Production , Bund, Cologne 1952
  • Jean Fourastié : The great hope of the 20th century , Bund, Cologne 1954
  • Georges Friedmann : Limits to the Division of Labor , European Publishing House, Frankfurt am Main 1959

Literature about Burkart Lutz

  • ISF Munich (Ed.): 1965-1990 - Lectures on the 25th anniversary of the ISF and on the 65th birthday of Burkart Lutz . Munich: ISF 1990. Online (PDF; 3.5 MB)
  • Ten out of eighty - Burkart Lutz on the 80th , Berlin: Berliner Debatte Verlag 2005
  • Entry Burkart Lutz, The Short Dream of Perpetual Prosperity . In: Georg W. Oesterdiekhoff (ed.): Lexicon of sociological works . Westdeutscher Verlag, Wiesbaden 2001, p. 427f

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Doris von der Brelie-Lewien: Occident and Socialism . In: Detlef Mehnert, Klaus Megerle (Ed.): Political subcultures between integration and polarization . Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1990, p. 199, 208 .
  2. ^ Ludwig von Friedeburg: Burkart Lutz among the sociologists of the Federal Republic . In: Institute for Social Science Research (Ed.): Lectures on the 25th anniversary of the ISF and on the 65th birthday of Burkart Lutz . ISF, Munich 1990, p. 37.
  3. ^ Obituary by Burkart Lutz on the website of the University of Jena
  4. ↑ Ingo Wiekert: Burkart Lutz honored with the Federal Cross of Merit , press release from the Center for Social Research Halle e. V. at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg in: Informationsdienst Wissenschaft from February 22, 2011, accessed on February 23, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Lutz, Burkart
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH 17th May 2013
Place of death Halle (Saale)