Hans Ruh

Hans Ruh (born April 26, 1933 ) is a Swiss social ethicist . He is co-founder of the ethics fund "BlueValue".

origin

Hans Ruh was born as a child of Marthe Ruh-Bolle and Gotthilf Ruh, a teacher by trade, in what was then Altdorf SH (now part of Thayngen ). The father came from the book known for Pietism (SH) . The religious background was also reflected in the life of the two brothers and two sisters of Hans Ruh. The siblings completed the first six years of school with their father, followed by the Realschule in Thayngen for Hans Ruh, one year of secondary school in Benken due to a change in the father's position, and then the grammar school in Schaffhausen. From this time on, Ruh was often in the house of the Blocher family in Laufen , where Gerhard Blocher was a close friend until they were studying together.

Professional career

After beginning his studies in Zurich in 1953, after three semesters he moved to Basel to attend Karl Barth's lectures . A semester abroad in Bonn in 1956 also served for this purpose. Ruh received his doctorate in 1963 as Dr. theol. with Karl Barth in Berlin. From 1963 to 1965 he worked for the Gossner Mission in East Berlin. Thereafter, from 1965 to 1983, Ruh headed the "Institute for Social Ethics" of the Federation of Protestant Churches in Switzerland. In 1970 he completed his habilitation at the University of Bern, where he was associate professor from 1971 to 1983. Between 1983 and 1998 he was a full professor at the University of Zurich and was also director of the "Institute for Social Ethics" in Zurich. He was also involved in ethical business consulting as well as the development of ethical financial products.

Ruh was a member of the Christian Peace Conference and took part in the 1st All-Christian Peace Assembly (ACFV) in 1961 and in the II. ACFV in 1964 in Prague .

Ethical market economy

In his publication - Order from Below (2011) - Ruh drafts the concept of an ethical market economy based on the order model of the social market economy , which he wants to understand as the answer to the “permanent crisis situations” in global space.

For decades, Hans Ruh has been grappling with the issue of unconditional basic income . He has summarized his thoughts on this in the book Unconditional Basic Income: Incitement to a new way of life .

Literature (selection)

I got involved - autobiographical notes . allerArt, Zurich 2017, ISBN 978-3-909066-10-0
Unconditional basic income: inciting a new way of life . Versus, Zurich 2016, ISBN 978-3-03909-298-7
Order from below. Reinvent democracy . Versus, Zurich 2011, ISBN 978-3-03909-198-0
The future is ethical - or not at all (2006) (with Thomas Gröbly )
Incident human (2005)
Ethics in Management (2004) (with Klaus M. Leisinger )
Different but better (1995)

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Website of the ethics fund blue value ( Memento of the original from September 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) 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. @1@ 2
Jump in instead of retreating into the ivory tower , reformed, September 20, 2017

personal data
SURNAME	Rest, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss social ethicist
DATE OF BIRTH	April 26, 1933

[1] Website of the ethics fund blue value ( Memento of the original from September 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) 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. @1@ 2

[2] Jump in instead of retreating into the ivory tower , reformed, September 20, 2017