Gert Georg Wagner

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Gert Georg Wagner (born January 5, 1953 in Kelsterbach am Main ) is a German economist and social scientist . He is a Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin and a Research Associate at the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society . From 2011 to 2017 he was a board member and from February 2011 to February 2013 chairman of the board at the German Institute for Economic Research , since then a senior research fellow there.

Life

Gert Wagner was after studying economics and sociology in Frankfurt in 1984 at the Technical University of Berlin (TU) for Dr. rer. oec. doctorate, where he also completed his habilitation in 1992 .

From 1989 to 2011 at the German Institute for Economic Research he was responsible for one of the world's largest and most widely used longitudinal studies, the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP).

After a short time as a private lecturer in Berlin, Wagner was Professor of Social Policy and Public Economics at the Ruhr University in Bochum until 1997 . From here he followed - when a call to Göttingen was rejected - a call to the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder) until 2002, interrupted by visiting professorships at Cornell University and the American University in Washington, DC From 2002 to 2018, Gert G Wagner Professor of Economics at Faculty VII of the TU Berlin and since 2008 Max Planck Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development (MPIB) in Berlin. In the academic year 2008/2009 he taught as a fellow at the Max Weber College in Erfurt.

From February 2002 to January 2008, Gert Wagner was a member of the Science Council appointed by the Federal President , which advises the Federal Government and the federal states on issues relating to the development of universities, science and research as well as university construction. He was also a member of the Rürup Commission .

From 2004 to 2010 Wagner was chairman of the "Chamber for Social Order" of the Evangelical Church in Germany (honorary). He was also a member of the study commission “Growth, Prosperity, Quality of Life” of the German Bundestag.

After the resignation of Klaus F. Zimmermann , he was appointed to the board of the German Institute for Economic Research on February 11, 2011, and he was its chairman ("President") until the evaluation of the institute was completed in January 2013.

In April 2011 he was one of the recipients of the negative Big Brother Awards for 2010. He was criticized as chairman of the censorship commission of the federal government on behalf of all those involved in the 2011 census , which interferes with the right to informational self-determination. Wagner was the only one of those who received the “Big Brother Award” to appear personally at the ceremony.

Wagner sees the Christian religion as a mandate to solve social problems.

Private

Wagner married in 1988. He has two children.

Committee activities

• 1983–1988: Management of Collaborative Research Center 3 at the Universities of Mannheim and Frankfurt am Main
• 1988–1995: Responsible for the research focus “Economic Situation and Social Security” of the Berlin Aging Study
• since 2001: Member of the Statistical Advisory Board at the Federal Statistical Office
• 2002–2008: Member of the Science Council
• 2003 founding member of the Keynes Society
• 2004-2007; since 2009: Chairman of the Council for Social and Economic Data
• since 2002; 2004–2010: Chairman of the Chamber for Social Order of the Evangelical Church in Germany
• 2007–2011: Member of the Research Resources Board of the Economic and Social Research Council in the United Kingdom
• 2000–2016: Co-editor of Schmoller's yearbook
• since 2007: Member of the scientific advisory board of the economic policy journal Wirtschaftsdienst ISSN  0043-6275 .
• 2011–2017: Board member of the German Institute for Economic Research
• 2011–2013: Chairman of the Executive Board (“President”) of the German Institute for Economic Research
• since 2013: Member of the Brandenburg Minimum Wage Commission
• since March 2014: Chairman of the Social Advisory Council
• since 2014: Member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering (Acatech)
• since 2014: Member of the Advisory Council on Consumer Questions
• since 2018: Member of the pension commission "Reliable intergenerational contract" set up by the federal government

honors and awards

• 2008 Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 2018 Federal Cross of Merit 1st class

Web links

• Literature by and about Gert Georg Wagner in the catalog of the German National Library
• Gert Georg Wagner in the catalog of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics (ZBW)
• Curriculum vitae, catalog raisonné and personal information on the DIW homepage (PDF, 140 kB)
• Short biography on the Bundestag homepage

Footnotes

1. ^ German Bundestag: Members of the Enquete Commission "Growth, Prosperity, Quality of Life". (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on June 10, 2012 ; Retrieved June 15, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ^ TU Berlin: Gert G. Wagner heads the DIW Berlin. Retrieved June 15, 2012 . 
3. ↑ Time online on April 1, 2011: Monitoring at every turn. For the eleventh time, the BigBrotherAwards were given to the worst data octopuses. Unlike usual, one of the winners faced the debate. Retrieved April 2, 2011 . 
4. ↑ Economics Professor Wagner: "Christian religion gives the answer" . Thuringian newspaper, July 21, 2013
5. ↑ CV (long). (PDF; 146 kB) Retrieved May 27, 2012 . 
6. ↑ Managing Editor - Co-Editor. (No longer available online.) Schmollersjahrbuch.de, archived from the original on May 9, 2013 ; accessed on August 17, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
7. ↑ Scientific Advisory Board | Economic service. Retrieved January 4, 2018 . 
8. ^ DIW Berlin: Board of Trustees appoints new board members. Retrieved June 15, 2012 . 
9. ^ DIW Berlin: Marcel Fratzscher new President of DIW Berlin. Retrieved July 24, 2013 . 
10. ↑ First East German Minimum Wage Commission constituted: Good wages for good work. Retrieved November 19, 2014 . 
11. ↑ Social Advisory Board: Prof. Dr. Gert G. Wagner has been a member of the Social Advisory Board since 2014. Retrieved March 7, 2014 . 
12. ↑ Growth from science: German Academy of Science and Technology welcomes 28 new members. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 21, 2014 ; Retrieved November 19, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
13. ↑ New impetus for consumer policy: Expert council for consumer issues starts. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on November 12, 2014 ; Retrieved November 19, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
14. ↑ https://www.verlaesslicher-generationenvertrag.de/lösungen/
15. ↑ DIW Berlin: Federal Cross of Merit for Prof. Dr. Gert Wagner. Retrieved June 15, 2012 . 
16. ^ Renate Bogdanovic: Federal Cross of Merit 1st class for former DIW board member Gert G. Wagner. German Institute for Economic Research DIW Berlin, press release from November 22, 2018 at Informationsdienst Wissenschaft (idw-online.de), accessed on November 22, 2018.