Hans-Jürgen Krupp

Hans-Juergen Krupp (* 15. April 1933 in Elbing , East Prussia ) is a German economist and politician of the SPD .

Life

In 1952 he began studying industrial engineering at the Technical University of Darmstadt , where, after an interim period abroad at the University of Wisconsin, he passed his degree in industrial engineering in 1957. In 1961 he completed his dissertation there, The Systemic Character of the Economy and the Necessity of Methodological Pluralism, in 1967 he completed his habilitation with a thesis on the theory of personal income distribution and obtained the venia legendi for economics and econometrics .

In 1969 he was appointed professor for economic and social policy at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt . From 1972 he headed the DFG- funded research project "Social Policy Decision-Making and Indicator System for the Federal Republic of Germany" (SPES), from which in 1979 the Collaborative Research Center 3 "Microanalytical Basics of Social Policy " at the universities of Frankfurt and Mannheim and finally in 1983 the one at DIW Berlin- based socio-economic panel emerged . With the help of SOEP, empirical poverty research and labor economics received a significant boost in and outside Germany. In 1973 he was Vice President, from 1975 (until 1979) second President of the University of Frankfurt.

In 1979, Hans-Jürgen Krupp was appointed President of the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) in Berlin as the successor to Karl König . He held this office until 1988. Under Hans-Jürgen Krupp, the DIW carried out the first structural reporting on behalf of the Federal Government and established structural change in the course of globalization and research into the service sector as the institute's new research priorities.

From 1982 to 1984 he was a member of the Advisory Council for assessing macroeconomic developments . In 1987 he was appointed to the chair for economics, in particular empirical economic research, at the Technical University of Berlin , which he held until 1993. He was a member of the Academy of Sciences in Berlin .

politics

In 1988 Hans-Jürgen Krupp switched to politics and went to Hamburg. Under Henning Voscherau he became Senator for Finances of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg , from June 1991 he was Senator for Economics and 2nd Mayor of Hamburg.

From 1993 to 2001, the beginning of his retirement, Hans-Jürgen Krupp was President of the Landeszentralbank Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and a member of the Central Bank Council of the Deutsche Bundesbank .

family

Krupp's son Christoph is spokesman for the board of the Federal Agency for Real Estate Tasks (BImA) and previously head of the Hamburg Senate Chancellery .

Others

• Since 1998 Hans-Jürgen Krupp has been chairman of the social chamber of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD)
• From 1999 to 2001 he was chairman of the commission appointed by Federal Minister Edelgard Bulmahn to improve the information infrastructure between science and statistics
• March 15, 2000, he replaced Hans-Joachim Knieps as a neutral member of the Supervisory Board of Salzgitter AG from
• In December 2003, Hans-Jürgen Krupp is a co-founder of the Keynes Society

Web links

• Literature by and about Hans-Jürgen Krupp in the catalog of the German National Library
• Biography at the Burda Academy for the third millennium
• Biography at the German Institute for Economic Research