Heiner Monheim

The urban planner and traffic expert Heiner Monheim

Heiner Monheim (born May 7, 1946 in Aachen ) is a German transport scientist , geographer and professor emeritus at the University of Trier .

Life

origin

Heiner Monheim comes from the Aachen entrepreneurial family Monheim and is the son of the professor of geography at RWTH Aachen University Felix Monheim (1916–1983) and Ingeborg Monheim, née. Schmiedeknecht (1915-2010). His cousin was the entrepreneur Bernd Monheim and their great-grandfather was the chocolate manufacturer Leonard Monheim , the brother of the chemist Viktor Monheim . These were both sons of the pharmacist Johann Peter Joseph Monheim . His brother is the emeritus geography professor at the University of Bayreuth , Rolf Monheim . His son is the screenwriter and director Mark Monheim .

Career

After studying geography, sociology, history and urban and regional planning in Bonn and Munich from 1966 to 1971, Heiner Monheim was head of department at the Federal Research Institute for Regional Studies and Regional Planning (today's Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning ) in Bonn- Bad Godesberg. Between 1985 and 1995 he was head of department for urban traffic, traffic calming and fundamental questions of traffic in the state ministry for urban development, housing and traffic of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia in Düsseldorf. From 1995 Monheim taught as a professor for applied geography , spatial development and regional planning at the University of Trier. At the beginning of October 2011 he ended his teaching activity.

Heiner Monheim is the managing director of the Institute for Spatial Development and Communication (raumkom). In 2019 he was elected an extraordinary member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech).

subjects

Monheim is committed to environmentally friendly and city-friendly traffic concepts and planning strategies and appears publicly in citizen initiatives and associations. He is one of the critics of mass motorization, the auto industry and car-fixated transport policy in Western countries. Monheim developed concepts to promote pedestrian traffic, bicycle traffic and public transport as well as for urban cable cars and thus contributed to the development of the concept of gentle mobility . In particular, he advocates a renaissance of urbanity and the city of short distances and criticizes the follow-up costs of car-based planning policy. He is known in professional circles for various scientific and popular scientific publications. The work Straßen für alle , written in 1990 together with his wife Rita Monheim-Dandorfer, is widely used . Analyzes and concepts for the urban traffic of the future found in which he presents planning and financial concepts of sustainable traffic. Regarding climate policy, he says that climate change will not be eliminated through Sunday speeches and advocates a traffic turnaround to which pedestrian and bicycle traffic should also contribute, with a pedestrian strategy and an increase in the number of bicycle routes , for example in the Stuttgart region, it would take thousands.

In addition to its involvement in the transport sector, Monheim has also campaigned for a content reorientation of German geography to current practical issues of spatial planning since 1966. With a nationwide student initiative, he presented a reform concept for the subject of geography at the Geographentag Kiel in 1969, which was then modernized. In 1999 at the Hamburg Geographers 'Day, he and a group of Trier students evaluated this reform process, and in 2005 at the Trier Geographers' Day, he finally drew a positive balance of the specialist development.

Activity in associations

Heiner Monheim fought through the German Association for Applied Geography DVAG, the Association for Urban, Regional and State Planning SRL and the Information Group for Spatial Planning to ensure that applied geography as a competent subject in spatial planning (city, regional and state planning, Spatial planning, environmental planning, traffic planning, tourism planning and site planning) has been recognized.

Monheim is a co-founder of the General German Bicycle Club (ADFC) and the German Transport Club ( VCD), the initiative for a better railway and the professional association for citizens' railways instead of Börsenbahn . As part of Bürgerbahn instead of Börsenbahn , he supports the globalization-critical network Bahn für Alle .

In March 2012 Monheim was elected deputy to the national board of the Pro Bahn passenger association. He was previously defeated by Jörg Bruchertseifer in the candidacy for the chairmanship of the association. He resigned from this position on January 12, 2013. According to a press report, Monheim has for months unsuccessfully spoken out against a project initiated by the railway and transport union, which is to be headed by Karl-Peter Naumann . Naumann admitted to him that the project served his financial security. Monheim saw the independence of Pro Bahn as a threat. In March 2013, a large majority of the delegates at the ProBahn National Association approved the project.

Fonts (excerpt)

Literature by and about Heiner Monheim in the catalog of the German National Library
Heiner Monheim (with the collaboration of Dörte Monheim): Paths to Pedestrian City - Analyzes and Concepts, VAS Verlag, Bad Homburg, 2018
Heiner Monheim (with the collaboration of Dörte Monheim): Paths to the Bicycle City - Analyzes and Concepts, VAS Verlag, Bad Homburg, 2017
On foot in the city of the future - Contributions to a symposium at the University of Wuppertal (Ed .: Volker Albrecht, Carmen Hass-Klau), Kirschbaum-Verlag, Wuppertal, 2012
H. Monheim, M. Philippi et al. a .: Bicycle stations in North Rhine-Westphalia - powerful interfaces for a strong environmental network (publisher: Ministry of Economics, Energy, Building, Housing & Transport NRW) Düsseldorf, 2012
Heiner Monheim, Johannes Reimann: Public bicycle rental systems - A status report, KSV-Verlag, Cologne, 2011
Heiner Monheim, Christoph Zöpel (Hrsg.): Space for the future - On the innovative ability of urban development and traffic, Klartext, Essen, 2007 (2nd edition)
Heiner Monheim: Radlust - Information on Bicycle Communication (Ed .: Umweltbundesamt & Universität Trier) Dessau / Trier, 2007
Heiner Monheim, Klaus Nagorni (eds.): The future of the railway, Evangelical Academy Baden, Karlsruhe, 2005
Heiner Monheim, Gertrud Frankenreiter: Town and infrastructure planning for safety and urban quality for pedestrians - State-of-the-art-report (Ed .: European Commission, COST, Urban Civil Engineering), Luxemburg, 2000
Heiner Monheim: The railway - pillar of an ecological traffic development, In: Renaissance of the railway stations, published by BDA and DB AG for the Architecture Biennale 1996 in Venice
Heiner Monheim, Rita Monheim-Dandorfer: Streets for All - Analyzes and Concepts for Urban Traffic of the Future, Rasch & Röhring, Hamburg, 1991
Heiner Monheim, u. a .: Inventory of the situation in German school and university geography. In: Deutscher Geographentag, Volume 37, pp. 191 ff. (Corresponds to issue 3 of the Geografiker magazine, Berlin, 1969)

Web links

Commons : Heiner Monheim - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ Monheim pedigree , accessed on December 19, 2012
↑ Monheim says goodbye ( Memento of December 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), 16vor.de, September 21, 2011, Internet archive.
^ Institute for Spatial Development and Communication . raumkom website
↑ Heiner Monheim, Christian Muschwitz, Wolfram Auer, Matthias Philippi: Urban cable cars - modern cable car systems open up new paths for mobility in our cities. , kölner stadt- und verkehrsverlag, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-940685-98-8 , see also table of contents (PDF)
↑ Interview with traffic expert Heiner Monheim , Südwestrundfunk, April 2, 2019, accessed on April 4, 2019.
↑ ^a ^b Stefan Hennigfeld: Jörg Bruchertseifer is the new federal chairman at Pro Bahn. Eisenbahnjournal Zughalt.de, March 25, 2012, accessed on March 25, 2012 .
^ PRO BAHN (ed.): Monheim leaves the PRO BAHN board . Press release from January 13, 2013.
↑ Thomas Wüpper: The internal dispute among the railway critics is escalating . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung . January 16, 2013, p. 9 ( stuttgarter-zeitung.de [accessed on January 3, 2014]).
↑ PRO BAHN board again complete . Press release from March 10, 2013.

personal data
SURNAME	Monheim, Heiner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German transport scientist
DATE OF BIRTH	May 7, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH	Aachen

[1] Monheim pedigree , accessed on December 19, 2012

[2] Monheim says goodbye ( Memento of December 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), 16vor.de, September 21, 2011, Internet archive.

[3] Institute for Spatial Development and Communication . raumkom website

[4] Heiner Monheim, Christian Muschwitz, Wolfram Auer, Matthias Philippi: Urban cable cars - modern cable car systems open up new paths for mobility in our cities. , kölner stadt- und verkehrsverlag, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-940685-98-8 , see also table of contents (PDF)

[5] Interview with traffic expert Heiner Monheim , Südwestrundfunk, April 2, 2019, accessed on April 4, 2019.

[Zughalt1-6] Stefan Hennigfeld: Jörg Bruchertseifer is the new federal chairman at Pro Bahn. Eisenbahnjournal Zughalt.de, March 25, 2012, accessed on March 25, 2012 .

[pro-bahn-2013-01-13-7] PRO BAHN (ed.): Monheim leaves the PRO BAHN board . Press release from January 13, 2013.

[stz-2013-01-16-8] Thomas Wüpper: The internal dispute among the railway critics is escalating . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung . January 16, 2013, p. 9 ( stuttgarter-zeitung.de [accessed on January 3, 2014]).

[9] PRO BAHN board again complete . Press release from March 10, 2013.