Hansjörg Weitbrecht (sociologist)

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Hansjörg Weitbrecht (born May 4, 1938 in Blaubeuren ; † January 10, 2019 in Weinheim ) was a German industrial and business sociologist .

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After graduating from the commercial high school in Ulm , Weitbrecht studied business administration and sociology at the University of Munich from 1957 to 1962 , which he completed with a degree in business administration. Then he decided to study sociology at the University of Tübingen with Ralf Dahrendorf . As a Fulbright Scholarship holder , he took a master's degree at the University of California, Berkeley , from which he completed a Master of Arts in 1964. After his return to Germany, Weitbrecht became a research assistant at the Chair of Sociology of M. Rainer Lepsius at the University of Mannheim , where he was awarded a Dr. phil. received his doctorate.

Weitbrecht then began an employment relationship with the US IT and consulting company International Business Machines Corporation (IBM), where he held several managerial positions at several German locations and at the European headquarters in Paris until 1981. In 1981 Weitbrecht moved to Landesgirokasse Stuttgart , where he took over the personnel management, which was followed in 1986 by a move to Boehringer Mannheim , where he became head of the main department Personal Diagnostica. Finally, in 1994, he was appointed honorary professor at Heidelberg University . A year later he ended his employment at Boehringer Mannheim and in 1996, together with Stephan Fischer, founded O & P Consult AG , a company for organization and personnel development consulting based in Heidelberg . Since 2002 he has been deputy chairman of the supervisory board of this company, which had become a stock corporation a year earlier.

Hansjörg Weitbrecht was the author of several specialist publications and numerous articles in various specialist journals. He was the founding editor and, for a long time, co-editor with David Marsden, Walther Müller-Jentsch , Dieter Sadowski , Jörg Sydow and Franz Traxler of the journal Industrial Relations - Journal for Work, Organization and Management (The German Journal of Industrial Relations) at Rainer Hampp-Verlag in Mering (now with the Barbara Budrich publishing house in Opladen).

He was involved in non-profit associations such as the German Industrial Relations Association (GIRA) , the German branch of the global International Labor and Employment Relations Association (ILERA), and the Wirtschaftsgilde , the Evangelical Working Group for Business Ethics and Social Design (founded in 1948 in the Evangelical Academy in Bad Boll ). He was a board member in both clubs for many years.

Weitbrecht died on January 10, 2019 of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis at the age of 80 in Weinheim an der Bergstrasse.

Fonts (selection)

  • Effectiveness and legitimacy of collective bargaining autonomy. A sociological study using the example of the German metal industry . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969 ( Volkswirtschaftliche Schriften 133, ISSN  0505-9372 ), (At the same time: Mannheim, Univ., Diss., 1969).
  • Effect and procedure of collective bargaining autonomy: a sociological comparison to the conflict between the collective bargaining partners in business and public service. Nomos-Verlagsgesellschaft , Baden-Baden 1973, ISBN 3-7890-0080-9 .
  • Codetermination, Human Resource Management and new participation concepts: Expertise for the “Codetermination and New Corporate Cultures” project of the Bertelsmann Foundation and the Hans Böckler Foundation. Bertelsmann Foundation Publishing House , Gütersloh 1998, ISBN 3-89204-379-5 .
  • (Ed. With Walther Müller-Jentsch ): The Changing Contours of German Industrial Relations . Rainer Hampp Verlag , Munich and Mering 2003, ISBN 3-87988-739-X .

Literature and Sources

  • Tobias Blank, Tanja Münch, Sita Schanne, Christiane Staffhorst (eds.): Integrated sociology perspectives between economy and sociology, practice and science. Festschrift for the 70th birthday of Hansjörg Weitbrecht. Rainer Hampp Verlag, Munich / Mehring 2008, ISBN 978-3-86618-255-4 ( PDF ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Edited by Budrich Journals
  2. ^ Homepage of the German Industrial Relations Association
  3. ^ Obituary by Hansjörg Weitbrecht in the Süddeutsche Zeitung on January 19, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Weitbrecht, Hansjörg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German industrial and company sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 4, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Blaubeuren
DATE OF DEATH January 10, 2019
Place of death Weinheim