Gerd Habermann

Gerd Habermann (* 1945 in Petershagen , Westphalia ) is a German business philosopher , university professor and freelance journalist . Since 2003 he has been an honorary professor at the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Potsdam , initiator and co-founder of the Friedrich A. von Hayek Society and the Friedrich August von Hayek Foundation for a Free Society .

Live and act

Gerd Habermann studied social and economic history , political science , philosophy and economics at the universities of Frankfurt am Main , Vienna , Tübingen and Constance . At the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Constance Habermann was 1972 with the dissertation on Junkertum and bureaucracy. On the genesis of the German welfare state for Dr. phil. PhD . He then worked for four years as an assistant at the universities of Heidelberg (chair Werner Conze ) and Tübingen (chair Friedrich Tenbruck ). Habermann had a multi-year interlude as a policy adviser at the CDU eV Economic Council. In 1983, Habermann moved to the Working Group of Self-employed Entrepreneurs (ASU) in Bonn and since 1993 has been head of their business institute there. The entrepreneurship institute sees itself as a think tank of the family entrepreneur ASU . He was also a lecturer at the University of Bonn . In 2000 he moved with ASU - since May 2007 Die Familienunternehmer ASU e. V. - moved to Berlin and took up lectures at the University of Potsdam, where he has been an honorary professor since 2003 .

Habermann is a co-founder of the Friedrich A. von Hayek Society e. V. and chairman of the board of the Friedrich-August-von-Hayek-Foundation for a free society. In mid-2015 there was a falling out with President Karen Horn . He is also a member of the Mont Pelerin Society , the board of trustees of Mehr Demokratie , in the Naturschutzbund Deutschland (NABU) and "by his own decision also a liberal-humanist member of the Catholic Church " (Habermann).

In addition to the economic history presentation of the welfare state. The story of a wrong path (1994, revised and updated 2013) comes from Habermann more than 400 other publications in magazines and newspapers. He publishes in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , the Neue Zürcher Zeitung and Die Welt, among others . In addition, he is u. a. also author of the magazine peculiarly free , of which he is a member of the editorial board, and of the magazine Swiss Month .

Publications

As an author

• About junkerism and bureaucracy. On the genesis of the German welfare state. Dissertation, Konstanz 1972 [year of publication 1977]
• The welfare state. The story of a wrong path. Berlin 1994; updated paperback edition Berlin 1997. Third, revised and updated edition (with the new subtitle The End of an Illusion ) Munich 2013. ISBN 3-8987-9800-3
• Rectification. A polemical social dictionary. Munich 2006, ISBN 3-7892-8182-4

As editor

• together with Hans-Joachim Löser: Anti-bureaucracy. More citizens than subjects. Munich 1980 ( ISBN 3-478-05470-2 )
• The measure of the human. A Wilhelm-Röpke -revier, Thun 1999 (2nd edition, Bern 2005, ISBN 3-7225-0004-4 )
• The way to prosperity. An Adam-Smith -revier, Thun 2002 ( ISBN 3-7225-6924-9 )
• Freedom or equality. An Alexis de Tocqueville district, Bern 2005 ( ISBN 3-7225-0003-6 )
• Philosophy of freedom. A Friedrich-August-von-Hayek-Breviary, Thun 1999 (4th edition, Bern 2005, ISBN 3-7225-0005-2 )
• Vision and deed. A Ludwig Erhard district of liberal politics, Thun 2000 (2nd edition, Bern 2005, ISBN 3-7225-0001-X )
• together with Gerhard Schwarz as editor: The idea of ​​freedom. A library of 111 works from Liberal Intellectual Stories, Zurich and Frankfurt am Main 2007
• together with Marcel Studer as editor: Liberalism - a timeless idea , Munich 2011

Web links

• Literature by and about Gerd Habermann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Gerd Habermann's website
• Peter Hahne: Bureaucracy is like powdery mildew on everything, interview with Gerd Habermann in Die Welt from January 15, 2005
• Gerd Habermann: Hard-working settlers and a small miracle. Polemical Social Lexicon, article in the world of August 29, 2005

Individual evidence

1. ^ Promotion of economic, legal and social science research and knowledge in the spirit of Friedrich A. von Hayek and its dissemination
2. ^ Website Gerd Habermann ; Retrieved October 4, 2008
3. ↑ Gerd Habermann . In: peculiarly free . Archived from the original on July 18, 2013. Retrieved July 18, 2013.