Ernst Wolfgang Buchholz

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Ernst Wolfgang Buchholz (born July 15, 1923 in Höhr-Grenzhausen ) is a German social researcher, sociologist and population scientist. In the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s he was particularly concerned with spatial planning of the population and society. His fields of work also included issues of migration / integration of refugees, agricultural history and rural-industrial development.

Training and merging with empirical social research of the 1950s

Ernst Wolfgang Buchholz graduated from college in 1941 and was then employed as a soldier in the Air Force. In the curriculum vitae attached to the dissertation, Buchholz also mentions his father's profession: senior teacher. After the war, Ernst Wolfgang Buchholz studied history, geography and economics at the Georg-August University in Göttingen from 1945 to 1952 . In 1952 he was in Göttingen with the historian Werner Conze with the dissertation “ The population of the Braunschweig area in the 19th century. A contribution to the social history of the industrialization epoch " to the Dr. phil. PhD. Conze had suggested the topic of the dissertation. The co-reporter for this doctoral thesis was the agricultural and economic historian Wilhelm Abel . In the foreword of this study, Ernst Wolfgang Buchholz thanked supporting institutions, including the Lower Saxony Office for State Planning and Statistics and the Hanover Academy for Spatial Research and State Planning (ARL).

After studying and doing his doctorate, Buchholz switched to the Dortmund Social Research Center (sfs), where he worked as a research assistant with the historian Wolfgang Köllmann at the sociologist Gunther Ipsen until 1954 . (Department “ Demography and Social Statistics” of the sfs). Buchholz shared a rapid rise within the German Society for Population Science (see below) with Köllmann (who also received his doctorate from Werner Conze).

Together with the population scientist and urban sociologist Elisabeth Pfeil and other social scientists, Buchholz initially worked in Dortmund a. a. participated in the miner's housing study by the sfs ("The housing wishes of the miners"). The large study, in which up to 45 scientists were involved, is considered to be an example of real sociological expertise from the 1950s.

Activities in connection with spatial research and the German Society for Population Science

Due to a collaboration between the Dortmund Social Research Center and the Institute for Spatial Research (IfR) in the field of refugee research, Buchholz moved to Bad Godesberg in July 1954 to work under Erich Dittrich at the IfR as a consultant for sociology . At this institute Buchholz continued research studies on refugee integration (again together with Elisabeth Pfeil) until 1959. In 1955, Buchholz had also taken over the editing of the journal " Raumforschung und Raumordnung " (which was published together with the Academy for Spatial Research and Regional Planning) from the IfR .

In 1954 Buchholz joined the German Society for Population Science as a member. In 1957, Buchholz replaced the sick Erich Keyser as second chairman of the German Society for Population Science. From 1972 to 1976 Buchholz was also the first chairman of this society.

When a continuation / re-establishment of the “Archive for Population Science” under the new title “ Journal for Population Science ” was thought of within the German Society for Population Science , Buchholz was planned as editor and editor-in-chief. Buchholz is also said to have initiated initial negotiations with the publisher in this matter. The so-called “Blue Archive”, which appeared from 1934 to 1943 under the name “Archive for Population Science and Population Policy”, was discontinued in the 13th year of the National Socialist era . The plans to (re) establish the magazine were initially dropped. Only the Wiesbaden Federal Institute for Population Research published a journal under this title from 1975 (today: "Comparative Population Studies - Journal for Population Science", CPoS).

In addition to the functions mentioned above, Buchholz performed other tasks within spatial research. He was

  • Head of the Working Group on Social Spatial Structure within the ARL Research Committee “Space and Population”;
  • Member of the research committee “Space and Nature” of the ARL;
  • Member of the working group “The demands of modern industrial society on space (illustrated using the example of the Rhine-Neckar area)” of the ARL;
  • Member of the working group “Social Development and Regional Population Forecasts” and others

Further stages in his career: Habilitation in Hohenheim and professorship in Bochum

From 1959 to 1962 Buchholz worked as a research assistant at the research center for family farming in Frankfurt am Main, led by the agricultural scientist Hermann Priebe .

From 1962 to 1977 Buchholz worked as a research assistant at the Institute for General Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Stuttgart-Hohenheim .

In 1967 Buchholz completed his habilitation in Stuttgart-Hohenheim. From 1970 he worked as an adjunct professor in Hohenheim. Since 1977 Buchholz has held the Chair of Sociology III at the Ruhr University Bochum . In 1983 he retired .

Memberships

Awards

Publications (selection)

  • Mining housing construction as a planning and socio-political task . In: Soziale Welt , Vol. 4, Issue 1, 1952, pp. 38–50.
  • Mining own economy: a contribution to basic sociological research for future Ruhr settlement policy . In: Journal for the entire political science , Vol. 110. (1954), Issue 1, pp. 140–161.
  • Social planning as a basis for state planning. A contribution to the methodology . In: “Raumforschung und Raumordnung” Vol. 12, (1954), Issue 2/3, pp. 91–97.
  • (with Elisabeth Pfeil) From small towns to medium-sized towns: urban growth through the migration of displaced people . Bad Godesberg: Institute for Spatial Research, 1957 (communications from the Institute for Spatial Research; 32).
  • (with Elisabeth Pfeil) Integration opportunities and integration successes: regional statistical analyzes of employment, occupation and housing of the displaced . Institute for Space Research. Bad Godesberg 1958 (messages from the Institute for Spatial Research; 35).
  • Part-time farming as a synthesis of agricultural and industrial ways of life in rural areas . In: Studium generale . Journal for interdisciplinary studies, Volume 16 (1963), Issue 12, pp. 724-739.
  • Space and Population in World History. Population Ploetz . Edited by Ernst Kirsten , Bonn, Ernst Wolfgang Buchholz, Bad Godesberg, Wolfgang Köllmann, Wuppertal. Published by AG Ploetz-Verlag. Volumes 1-3, Würzburg: Ploetz 1965, 1966, 1968.
  • Specialist articles “ Social Structure ” and “ Employment Structure ”. In: Concise dictionary of spatial research and spatial planning. Hanover 1966.
  • Sociological aspects of the regional population forecast. In: The regional population forecast (1965), pp. 99–109.
  • Rural population on the threshold of the industrial age: the Braunschweig area as an example; Sources and research on agricultural history ; Revised and abridged form of the dissertation, 1952, (see above). Stuttgart 1966 (sources and research on agricultural history. 11).
  • Ideology and latent social conflict (= series of Göttingen treatises on sociology and its border areas; 15; university publication: zugl .: Hohenheim, Univ., Habil.-Schr.). Stuttgart: Enke 1968.
  • Methodological problems in researching motives for migration . In: Contributions to the question of spatial population movement. Research reports from the “Space and Population” committee of the Academy for Spatial Research and Regional Planning. Hanover: Jänecke 1970, pp. 29–36.
  • (Ed. Together with Hilde Wander ): Population science - Population policy: scientific foundations of population policy action ; Report on the study conference of the German Society for Population Science from November 25 to 29, 1974 in Berlin. Stuttgart / Kiel: self-published by the society in 1975.
  • (and employees): The conceptual elements of state and regional planning: the necessity of their differentiation and their implementation in urban land-use planning ; on October 19, 1979 in Augsburg and on May 8/9, 1980 in Würzburg. Hanover: Schroedel 1980.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernhard vom Brocke: Population science Quo vadis? Possibilities and problems of a history of population science in Germany. With a systematic bibliography. Leske + Budrich, Opladen 1998, p. 373 .
  2. ↑ Sonja Schnitzler: Sociology in National Socialism between science and politics. Elisabeth Pfeil and the “Archive for Population Science and Population Policy”. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2012, p. 343 ff .
  3. ↑ Sonja Schnitzler: Real sociological expertise of the social research center at the University of Münster in Dortmund - Elisabeth Pfeil and the study on the construction of miners' housing . In: Josef Ehmer; Ursula Ferdinand; Jürgen Reulecke (Ed.): The population challenge . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2007, p. 295-306 .
  4. ↑ Sonja Schnitzler: Sociology in National Socialism between science and politics . Wiesbaden: Springer VS, p. 364f .; ARL (ed.): 50 years of ARL in facts . Hanover 1996, p. 137.
  5. ↑ Hansjörg Gutberger: Spatial Development, Population and social integration. Research for spatial planning and spatial planning policy 1930–1960 . Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2017, p. 262-280 .
  6. ↑ Klaus Becker: The journal "Raumforschung und Raumordnung" 1936-2006. An overview . In: Raumforschung und Raumordnung 2006, No. 6, p. 516.
  7. ↑ a b Alexander Pinwinkler: "Population history" in the "German Society for Population Science" (1952 to approx. 1970) . In: Josef Ehmer; Ursula Ferdinand; Jürgen Reulecke (Ed.): The population challenge. Developments in modern thinking about the population before, during and after the “Third Reich” . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2007, ISBN 978-3-531-15556-2 , p. 288 .
  8. ^ Academy for Spatial Research and Regional Planning (ed.): 50 years of ARL in facts . Hanover: ARL 1996, p. 137.
  9. ↑ Bernhard vom Brocke: Population science Quo vadis? Possibilities and problems of a history of population science in Germany. Leske + Budrich, Opladen 1998, p. 292 .
personal data
SURNAME Buchholz, Ernst Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German social researcher, sociologist and population scientist
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Höhr-Grenzhausen