Heiner Gansmann

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Heiner Ganßmann (born May 22, 1944 in Darmstadt ; died April 6, 2018 in Berlin ) was a German sociologist.

Life

Ganßmann studied sociology , philosophy , economics and history at the Free University of Berlin from 1963 to 1969 and then worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Sociology there until 1976. I.a. After a three-year stay as an assistant professor at the New School for Social Research , he became professor of sociology at the Free University of Berlin in 1980. In 2009 he retired.

As an author and editor (1987 to 1999) he was associated with the magazine PROKLA . Scientifically, he dealt with the relationship between economics and sociology and the topic of money.

In 2006 Ganßmann was awarded the John G. Diefenbaker Prize .

Publications (selection)

  • Money and work. Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main / New York 1996, ISBN 3-593-35611-2 .
  • Political economy of the welfare state. Westphalian steam boat, Münster 2000, ISBN 3-89691-690-4 .
  • Doing money. Elementary Monetary Theory from a Sociological Standpoint. Routledge, London 2012, ISBN 978-0-415-67738-7 .

literature

  • Sylke Nissen, Georg Vobruba (ed.): The economy of society. Festschrift for Heiner Ganßmann. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2009, ISBN 978-3-531-15783-2 .
  • Klaus Kraemer: Heiner Ganßmann: Money and Work. In: K. Kraemer, F. Brugger (Ed.): Key works of economic sociology. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2017, ISBN 978-3-658-08183-6 , pp. 309-318.
  • Georg Vobruba : In memoriam Heiner Ganßmann (May 22, 1944 - April 6, 2018). In: Sociology . Vol. 47, 2018, pp. 356-360.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituaries. In: https://trauer.tagesspiegel.de/trauerbeispiel/ . Retrieved June 28, 2018 .
  2. ↑ The Institute of Sociology mourns the loss of Prof. Dr. Heiner Gansmann. In: polsoz.fu-berlin.de. October 4, 2018, accessed June 27, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Ulf Kadritzke , Klaus Müller and Ingo Stützle for PROKLA editorial staff and advisory board: Vom Gelde und Beyond An obituary for Heiner Ganßmann (1944-2018). (PDF) In: http://prokla.de/ . 2018, accessed June 27, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Gansmann, Heiner
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ganssmann, Heiner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Darmstadt
DATE OF DEATH April 6, 2018
Place of death Berlin