Hans-Hermann Höhmann

Hans-Hermann Höhmann (born August 15, 1933 in Kassel ) is a German social scientist , Freemason and Freemason researcher.

Education and professional career

From 1953 to 1959 Höhmann studied social sciences and Eastern European studies at the Philipps University of Marburg and the Free University of Berlin . In 1978 he was at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main Dr. rer. pole. PhD. In 1979/80 Höhmann was a Research Fellow at the Russian Research Center ( Harvard University ), the Kennan Institute (Washington DC) and the Department of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley .

From 1962 to 1998 Höhmann worked at the Federal Institute for Eastern and International Studies in Cologne, from 1986 as head of the economics research department and most recently as deputy director of the institute. Since 1988 he has been honorary professor at the University of Cologne (political science). From 1998 to 2004, Höhmann was head of the research focus on economics at the Research Center Eastern Europe and lecturer at the University of Bremen (economic and political culture, system transformation in Eastern Europe). Since then he has been working as a freelance academic journalist.

Board memberships (selection)

Höhmann was a member of the board of the German Society for Eastern European Studies (1987-1993), member of the scientific advisory board of the Federal Agency for Civic Education , Bonn (1994-2002), member of the program advisory board of the East-West Science Center at the University of Kassel (until 2003 ) and member of the program committee of the World Congress for Eastern European Studies, Warsaw 1995. Within the German Society for Economic and Social Sciences ( Verein für Socialpolitik ) he was a member of the committee for comparing economic systems from 1968 to 1998.

Freemasonry

Höhmann has been a Freemason since 1958 and has held numerous lodge and grand lodge offices. After the German-German unification, he played a key role in setting up Masonic lodges in the new federal states. From 1999 to 2007 Höhmann headed the Freemason Research Society "Quatuor Coronati", from 2007 to 2013 he was chairman of the scientific advisory board of the research society. Since 2006 he has been a speaker at the Grand Lodge of the Old Free and Accepted Masons of Germany . With the sociologist Jörg R. Bergmann, University of Bielefeld, Höhmann initiated the “ Network Freemason Research” in 2002 .

Publications (selection)

Book publications in the field of Eastern European Studies and Social Sciences

• The changing economic systems of Eastern Europe. Results and problems of economic reforms (Ed. With Michael C. Kaser and KC Thalheim), Freiburg / Breisgau 1972, 2 volumes, translation into English: The New Economic Systems of Eastern Europe, London Berkeley Los Angeles 1975
• China 74. Travel protocols on the economy and society of the People's Republic (with Jiri Kosta and Jan Meyer), Cologne 1974
• Economic development and economic reform in the USSR: causes, requirements, results, etc. Problems of Reform Measures in Soviet Industry 1965-1976 , Dissertation, Frankfurt (Main) 1978
• Eastern Europe's Economic Problems and East-West Relations , Eastern Europe and International Communism Volume 14, (Ed.), Baden-Baden 1984
• Socialist economic planning: basics, problems, reform perspectives , Cologne 1985
• Economics and Politics in "Perestroika": Developments, Interdependencies, Western Perceptions , Cologne 1988
• Armaments, modernization, reform. The Soviet Defense Economy in Perestroika , (Ed. With Christopher Davis and Hans-Henning Schröder), Cologne 1990
• Chaos or new order? Economic crisis and economic reorientation in the former USSR , Cologne 1991
• An underrated dimension? On the role of economic and cultural factors in the Eastern European transformation , (ed.), Bremen 1999
• Russia under new leadership: Politics, economy and society at the beginning of the 21st century (Ed. With Hans-Henning Schröder), Bonn 2001
• Culture as a determining factor of the transformation in Eastern Europe. Conceptual developments - empirical findings , (ed.), Bremen 2001
• Economy and culture in the transformation process. Effects, interdependencies, conflicts , (ed.), Bremen 2002
• Economic policy in Eastern Europe between economic culture, institution building and actor behavior (Ed. With Heiko Pleines), Bremen 2003
• Just an oil boom? Determining factors and perspectives of Russian economic development (Ed. With Heiko Pleines and Hans-Henning Schröder), Münster 2005
• Trust and Entrepreneurship. A West-East Perspective (Ed. With Friederike Welter), Edward Elgar Publishing Cheltenham Glos, UK 2005

Book publications in the field of Masonic research

• Location and perspectives of humanitarian freemasonry in Germany. Texts on Freemasonry , Bonn 1987
• Freemasonry. Analyzes, considerations, perspectives , Bremen 2011 (2nd edition 2013)
• Between enlightenment and esotericism. Humanistic Freemasonry as a Project for the 21st Century , Leipzig 2013 (2nd edition 2014)
• Identity and memory. The “national freemasonry” in Germany and how it was remembered after 1945 , Leipzig 2014
• The ritual in humanistic freemasonry. Function, structure, practice , Leipzig 2016
• Freemasonry in Germany. Aspects of the past - tasks for the future, Leipzig 2017

Höhmann is also the author of around 400 articles in magazines, anthologies and handbooks, some of which have also been published in English, French, Italian, Russian and Japanese. From 1999 to 2012 Höhmann was co-editor of the Quatuor Coronati Yearbook for Masonic Research.

Web links

• Literature by and about Hans-Hermann Höhmann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Hans-Hermann Höhmann  in the German Digital Library