Hans-Jürgen Albers

Hans-Jürgen Albers (2015)

Hans-Jürgen Albers (born October 21, 1943 in Ramsbeck ) is a German economist , educator and university professor as well as long-time rector of the Schwäbisch Gmünd University of Education .

Life

Hans-Jürgen Albers was born in Ramsbeck in the Sauerland . After attending elementary school and completing an apprenticeship, he obtained the Abitur on the second educational path in 1968. There ensued a degree in economics , social psychology and business education at the universities of Göttingen and Cologne , which he in Cologne as a diploma commercial teacher graduated 1,972th He remained at the university as a research assistant and received his doctorate. He completed his doctorate in 1975 as Dr. rer. pole. in Cologne. In the following year he switched to the University of Stuttgart as a research assistant , where he successfully completed his habilitation in 1982 .

He accepts a position as professor for economics and business didactics at the University of Education Schwäbisch Gmünd and at the same time remains as a private lecturer at the University of Stuttgart . In 1989 he was appointed associate professor at the university. From 1991 to 1994 Albers took over the chairmanship of the German Society for Economic Education . From 2002 to 2010 he was Rector of the University of Education in Schwäbisch Gmünd . He retired on March 31, 2010.

Research and teaching focus

In his teaching, Albers is primarily concerned with general economics, economics, economic systems, the targeted use of computers in business classes, as well as vocational preparation and career choices for students. In research, he focuses on ethics and economic education. It deals with globalization and its effects on economy and education as well as with economic education and general education in general. He also conducts research in the field of business didactics in general and the development of teaching / learning materials for business education.

Works (selection)

• Socio-cultural determinants of group formation among schoolchildren - investigated in pupils of the comprehensive school in Dortmund - and some pedagogical consequences . Free scientific work to obtain the degree of a diploma commercial teacher at the University of Cologne. - Cologne 1972, 185 pages.
• Satisfaction in work and training. The individual attitude to the job and the training situation; an educational contribution to the humanization of the world of work . Spee-Verlag, Trier 1977 (business and vocational pedagogical treatises, vol. 6).
• General socio-economic-technical education. To justify economic and technical elements in the curricula of general education . Böhlau, Cologne and Vienna 1987 (Business and Vocational Education in Research and Practice, Vol. 7).
• Economics. Haan-Gruiten: Verlag Europa-Lehrmittel , 1st edition 1995 (together with Gabriele Albers-Wodsak and others).
• Social market economy. An economic order in probation , Omnia-Verlag, Cologne 1997.
• Economy, law, profession. Economics for vocational schools . Verlag Europa-Lehrmittel, 1st edition, Haan-Gruiten 1998 (together with E. Eifer and D. Tschaffon).
• General economics for banking professions . Verlag Europa-Lehrmittel, 1st edition, Haan-Gruiten 2003 (together with G. Ehnert).

Web link and source

• Literature by and about Hans-Jürgen Albers in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Prof. Dr. Astrid Beckmann will be the new rector of the PH Schwäbisch Gmünd , press release of March 25, 2010 by the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Science.