Christian Uhlig (economist)

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Christian Uhlig (born September 20, 1931 in Leipzig ) is a German bookseller and economist .

Life

Christian Uhlig was born in Leipzig in 1931 as the son of the head of the German Bookseller College Friedrich Uhlig (1895–1973). He attended the humanistic Thomas School in Leipzig . After graduating from high school in 1950, he completed an apprenticeship as a retail bookseller in the Schrobsdorff'sche bookstore with Thomas Mann researcher Hans-Otto Mayer and his wife in Düsseldorf . In 1952 he passed his bookshop assistant examination at the bookseller school in Cologne. From 1953 to 1955 he worked at Rowohlt Verlag in Hamburg , which was headed by Ernst Rowohlt and Heinrich Maria Ledig-Rowohlt . He met writers such as Kurt Kusenberg , Walter Mehring , Alfred Polgar and Gregor von Rezzori . Uhlig then studied business administration and economics as well as social and legal sciences at the University of Hamburg . From 1957 to 1958 he was a trainee in the art bookstore Wittenborn & Company owned by bookseller George Wittenborn in New York City . After his <?> Degree in economics , he studied for a year at the Center Européen at the University of Nancy in France. From 1960 he was a research assistant to the later Federal Minister of Economics, Karl Schiller, at the Institute for Foreign Trade and Overseas Economics at the University of Hamburg. In 1965 he was promoted to Dr. rer. pole. PhD. He then worked at the Institute for Book Market Research and was head of the development policy department at the Hamburg World Economic Archive from 1965 to 1967 . In 1967 he moved to the Department of Economics at the Ruhr University Bochum as an academic adviser . From 1970 to 1974 he was the representative and project manager of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation (FES) in Antananarivo on Madagascar . He supervised u. a. Projects in India, Rwanda, Somalia, Benin and the People's Republic of China. From 1974 he was an employee and scientific coordinator at the Institute for Development Research and Development Policy (IEE) of the Ruhr University Bochum and a lecturer (Academic Senior Council) for economic and development policy at the Department of Economics. He was later appointed Academic Director and Head of the Economics, Science, Technology Section. In 1992 he was a founding professor and dean of studies for the book trade / publishing industry in the book and museum department at the University of Technology, Economics and Culture in Leipzig, where he worked until his retirement. He has lived in Bochum since 1997 . He was married to Gerta Ohnesorge (1932-2004), daughter of CDU politician Lena Ohnesorge .

Publications

Christian Uhlig has published numerous papers on the subject of “Entrepreneurial Cooperation with Developing Countries”. He is also the author of the 20th edition of the textbook assortment book trade , which was published in 2008 by Hauswedell-Verlag.

Awards

2009: University Medal of the Ruhr University Bochum

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ronny Hackbarth: Jubilarian takes refuge today in the world of art . In: Nordkurier , September 20, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Uhlig, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig