Charlotte Höhn

Charlotte Höhn (* 1945 in Wiesbaden ) is a German social scientist and demographer .

Live and act

In 1970 Höhn completed her studies at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main as a graduate economist. From 1972 to 1980 she was a research assistant at the Federal Statistical Office in Wiesbaden. In 1982 she received her doctorate at the Technical University of Berlin , followed by her habilitation in 1988 at the University of Gießen .

Since 1988 she has been a professor at the Federal Institute for Population Research in Wiesbaden. Until her retirement in 2008, she also headed the institute as director.

In 1994, Höhn came under criticism for allegedly claiming that Africans were less intelligent. The SPD member of the Bundestag Freimut Duve then referred to her as an “heir to Hitler”.

Fonts (selection)

• The Family Cycle - On the Need to Expand the Concept , 1982
• The Demographic Significance of Marital Status , 1997
• The elderly of the future. Demographic data analysis. Research report , 1997
• Demographic trends, population science and policy advice , 1998.

Web links

• Literature by and about Charlotte Höhn in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Press release of the Federal Ministry of the Interior ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Mocked intelligence. Scandal about a German scientist , DER SPIEGEL 37/1994
3. ↑ An embarrassing appearance , DIE ZEIT, September 16, 1994, No. 38
4. ↑ Dangerous questions. The brown shadows of her institute fell on the population researcher Charlotte Höhn. Does she think racially? , DER SPIEGEL 38/1994