Götz Rohwer

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Götz Rohwer (born March 28, 1947 in Neumünster ) has been professor for social science methodology and statistics at the Ruhr University in Bochum since 1997 . Götz Rohwer retired in October 2012.

Life

Götz Rohwer is a son of the composer Jens Rohwer . In the 1970s he was an academic advisor at the University of Osnabrück . He was dismissed in 1978 because of his activities for the Communist League of West Germany (KBW). In addition to his candidacy for the KBW in the local elections in Lower Saxony on October 3, 1976, he was accused of participating in "riots against fare increases and against redevelopment measures" in Osnabrück, as well as disrupting a discussion event of the ring of Christian-Democratic students at the university. The expressions of solidarity by a large number of professors with the person affected by the disciplinary measures caused a sensation.

After his release, Rohwer retrained in business informatics . In the 1980s and 1990s he worked as a research assistant at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research and at the University of Bremen as an assistant to Hans-Peter Blossfeld . His work and research focus there were statistical models for the analysis of event data (" Event History Analysis ").

In 1995 he received his habilitation in Bremen with a thesis on life course research and in 1997 accepted a professorship at the Ruhr University Bochum. There he researches the application of statistical models in social research.

Since the late 1980s, Rohwer has been developing [TDA] (Program for Transition Data Analysis), an extremely powerful and efficient computer program for the statistical analysis of large amounts of data. He put the code under the GPL . The program is documented on the chair's website and can also be downloaded there. Götz Rohwer is married to the actress Karin Nennemann . The couple lives in Hamburg.

Publications

  • Hans-Peter Blossfeld, Götz Rohwer, Katrin Golsch: Event History Analysis With Stata , Mahwah: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2007, ISBN 978-0-8058-6047-4
  • Götz Rohwer, Ulrich Pötter: Probability : Concept and rhetoric in social research , Weinheim (among others): Juventa-Verlag 2002 ISBN 3-7799-1476-X
  • Götz Rohwer, Ulrich Pötter: Methods of social scientific data construction , Weinheim (among others): Juventa-Verlag 2002 ISBN 3-7799-1473-5
  • Götz Rohwer, Ulrich Pötter: Fundamentals of social science statistics , Weinheim (among others): Juventa-Verlag 2001 ISBN 3-7799-1470-0
  • Hans-Peter Blossfeld, Götz Rohwer: Techniques of Event History Modeling: New Approaches to Casual Analysis , Mahwah: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2001, 2nd edition, ISBN 978-0-8058-4090-2
  • Stefan Bender, Jürgen Hilzendegen, Götz Rohwer, Helmut Rudolph: The IAB sample of employees 1975-1990 , contributions to labor market and occupational research, Contribution AB 197, Nuremberg: Institute for labor market and occupational research of the Federal Labor Office, 1996, ISSN  0173-6574
  • RZoo: efficient storage and retrieval of social science data , San Domenico (FI): European Univ. Institute, Dep. of Political and Social Sciences, 1992

literature

  • Tgn .: Osnabrück professors demand the civil service of a KBW supporter. “Professional discipline” / Rector extends probationary period , in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) of November 3, 1977
  • Tgn .: The Rohwer case and the Osnabrück Council . Academic council dismissed because of activities for the KBW , in: FAZ from May 9, 1978
  • Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar, 23rd edition 2011, p. 3462 (ultra-short entry)
  1. ↑ Election call of the KBW: “ Parliaments, whether in Bonn, Hanover or Osnabrück, are just smear theaters that are played to the people in order to fake democracy - the decision is made by finance capital (...) The goals of the communists are: liberation of the working class from wage slavery, the abolition of private property and thus the liberation of society as a whole from the yoke of capital. That can only happen through the violent revolution and the establishment of the dictatorship of the proletariat. "
  2. ↑ HH [Hartmut Henschel]: "Archipel" Osnabrück - 28 university professors show solidarity with KBW functionaries , in: "Freiheit der Wissenschaft" (published by the Bund Freiheit der Wissenschaft ) No. 5/1977, p. 15

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personal data
SURNAME Rohwer, Götz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German social scientist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Neumunster