Günther Moewes

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Günther Moewes (* 1935 in Hanover ) is a German architect , economist and publicist .

After studying architecture in Berlin and Hamburg, he was initially involved in the development of small-scale, “soft” modular systems - u. a. in the German development of the originally British “ Brockhouse System ”, with which two universities and over 120 schools were built in Europe. Moewes researched and taught at the Werkkunstschule Dortmund since 1966 , and from 1971 to 2002 at the Dortmund University of Applied Sciences , of which he chaired the founding committee. There he represented the subject " Industrialization of Building".

His research and work on the ecological industrialization of building also led to a critical examination of existing economic developments, in particular the growing social inequality. Moewes sees the main causes of both the ecological and social undesirable developments in a wrong understanding of work and growth , as well as in certain mechanisms of the banking industry and financial markets . This threatened to lead again into a " plutocracy ", into a rule of the rich.

Moewes has dealt with the avoidance of financial crises. In Moewes' opinion, the causes of financial crises are not primarily “greed” and “bad bankers”, but rather the exponential overdevelopment of private lending and speculative capital, through which over-indebtedness is triggered. Public debt and financial crises could therefore only be contained in principle by reducing large private wealth. Otherwise, the over-indebtedness could not be reduced and any reduction in national debt would only ever be an internal debt shift on companies and households.

Moewes has been writing business columns and guest articles in the Frankfurter Rundschau since 2014 . Before that he wrote regular guest articles for the free-economic journal Humane Wirtschaft (until 2009 Humanwirtschaft).

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Books
  • Neither huts nor palaces. Architecture and ecology in the working society . Birkhäuser, Basel / Berlin / Boston 1995, ISBN 3-7643-5106-3 .
  • Money or life. Rethink and secure our future sustainably. Signum Wirtschaftsverlag, Munich / Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-85436-363-X .
  • Dilettantism or Complicity? - and The Little Lexicon of Economic Deception. pad-Verlag, Bergkamen 2012, ISBN 978-3-88515-246-0 .
  • Turn of work. Overcoming the employment state. pad-Verlag, Bergkamen 2013, ISBN 978-3-88515-256-9 .
  • Work ruins the world. Why we need a different economy . Nomen Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 2020, ISBN 978-3-939816-74-4 .
Essays, articles and miscellaneous
  • The great club elimination. Functionalism criticism at the Werkbundtag 1968. In: werk und zeit , 11/1968 and 3/1982, Rias October 13, 1968 and “Kunst und Handwerk” 2/1969.
  • The state of employment. In: Deutsches Architektenblatt , year 1996, No. 2.
  • Why the rich keep getting richer and the poor keep getting poorer. (Erfurt Mairede 2005 at the main event of the DGB Thuringia.) In: Humane Wirtschaft [2]
  • About added value and skimming. In: Humane Wirtschaft , issue 02/2007.
  • Machine work instead of human work, a millennium dream. In: Zeitschrift für Sozialökonomie , No. 154, 9/2007.
  • The basic problem of capitalism and how economists try to deny it. In: Humane Wirtschaft , issue 01/2008.
  • Small lexicon of the illusion of speech. In: ÖkologiePpolitik, Das ödp -Journal , Volume 2008, pp. 137 ff.
  • The realization probably comes too late FR of October 18, 2019, p. 16

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.guenthermoewes.de/finanzkrise.htm
  2. ↑ [1]
personal data
SURNAME Moewes, Günther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect, economist and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover