Gerhard Baker

Gerhard Bäcker (born January 23, 1947 in Wülfrath ) is a German social scientist.

Life

Gerhard Bäcker studied economics at the University of Cologne . After completing his studies in 1973, he was initially an assistant at the seminar for social policy at the University of Cologne and worked in research at the Institute for Social Research and Social Policy in Cologne. From 1977 to 1996 he was a scientific advisor at the WSI of the Hans Böckler Foundation . He received his doctorate from the University of Bremen in 1981. Between 1996 and 2002 he taught politics at the Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences in Mönchengladbach .

Baker was until early 2012 Professor of Sociology at the University of Duisburg-Essen and from 2005 to mid-2010, he headed the Office of the Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences on the campus in Duisburg . He was also the deputy managing director of the Labor and Qualification Institute . He has been retired since March 2012 and is a Senior Professor at the Labor and Qualification Institute.

Bäcker deals in particular with the fundamentals and problems of the welfare state and examines the empirical and history of the welfare state . Other topics include the labor market , poverty and exclusion and the role of older workers. Bäcker is a board member of the Society for Social Progress , Liaison Lecturer of the Hans Böckler Foundation , Chairman of the Social Ethics Committee of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland and a member of the Social Policy Committee of the Social Association Germany (SoVD).

Gerhard Bäcker, Gerhard Naegele, Reinhard Bispinck, Klaus Hofemann, Jennifer Neubauer: Social policy and social situation in Germany. Volume 1: Basics, Work, Income and Financing. 5th, revised edition, Wiesbaden 2010. ISBN 978-3-531-33333-5 .
Gerhard Bäcker, Gerhard Naegele, Reinhard Bispinck, Klaus Hofemann, Jennifer Neubauer: Social policy and social situation in Germany. Volume 2: Health, Family, Old Age, and Social Services. 5th, revised edition, Wiesbaden 2008. ISBN 978-3-531-33334-2 .

personal data
SURNAME	Baker, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German social scientist and economist
DATE OF BIRTH	January 23, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wuelfrath