Heinrich Mading

Heinrich Mäding (* 1941 in Zwickau ) is a German economist and urban researcher.

Life

Mäding grew up in Pirna until 1950 , then moved to Cologne and graduated from high school there in 1961. He studied economics and sociology in Cologne, Kiel and Freiburg im Breisgau from 1962 to 1967 with a degree in economics . He worked as a research assistant at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg and as an employee in the Federal Ministry of Education and Science from 1970 to 1972.

He received his doctorate in 1971 and completed his habilitation in 1977 at the Faculty of Economics at the University of Freiburg. 1979–1992 he held a professorship for local and regional development policy and infrastructure planning at the Faculty of Public Administration at the University of Konstanz . From 1992 to 2006 he headed the German Institute for Urban Studies ( DIFU ) in Berlin , the interdisciplinary research, training and service institute for German cities. In this function he was co-editor of the German Journal for Communal Sciences .

His main research interests are urban development , etc. a. Demographic trends, urban policy, municipal finance , local government , regional development and regional policy.

Mäding is a full member of the Academy for Spatial Research and Regional Planning (ARL) and was Vice President from 1999–2000 and 2005–2006, and President of ARL from 2007–2008. In addition, he is a member of the German Association for Political Science and the Board of Trustees of the Institute for Local Science at the University of Potsdam . He is co-editor of the European Journal of Spatial Development .

literature

• Focus on the city. Living and economic space, built environment, political unity. Festschrift for Heinrich Mäding on the occasion of his 65th birthday , special publication, ed. from the German Institute for Urban Studies (Difu), German Institute for Urban Studies, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-88118-426-0 (with a detailed bibliography of his publications).

Publications

• Fund-financed vocational training. To justify and assess a reform of the financing of initial vocational training at company level in the Federal Republic of Germany. Stuttgart (Klett) 1971 (dissertation).
• Educational planning and financial planning. Coordination problems in the Federal Republic of Germany. Stuttgart (Klett) 1974.
• Infrastructure planning in the transport and education sector. A comparative study of the national planning process in the Federal Republic of Germany. Baden-Baden (Nomos) 1978 (habilitation thesis).
• Municipal development planning - by whom? For whom? Konstanz (University Press) 1981.
• (Editor) Austerity Policy. economic constraints and political leeway. Opladen (West German publishing house) 1983.
• (Editor) Budget planning - budget implementation - budget control. Baden-Baden (Nomos) 1987.
• (Editor) Limits to the Social Sciences. Konstanz (University Press) 1988.
• (Associate Editor) Telecommunications Policy Perspectives. Opladen (West German publishing house) 1991.
• (Co-editor) Economics in the service of policy advice. Fundamental questions and areas of application (Dams commemorative publication), Berlin (Duncker & Humblot) 1992.
• (Co-editor) Administrative reform and administrative policy in the process of German unification. Baden-Baden (Nomos) 1993.
• (Editor) City Perspectives. Difu Symposium 1993, Berlin (Difu) 1994.
• (Editor) The failed Berlin - Brandenburg merger: Regional political framework conditions and consequences, working material of the Academy for Spatial Research and State Planning No. 241, Hanover 1997.
• (Associate Editor) Local finance in transition. Cities and Regions in Europe, Vol. 3, Opladen 1998.
• (Editor) Between excessive demands and self-assertion - cities under the primacy of the economy, Berlin 1999 (Difu contributions to urban research, vol. 27).
• (Associate Editor) Depopulation and Immigration Pressure in the Regions. With which programs does politics respond, in: Series "Intersections of Research and Politics", Vol. 4 (published by the Society for Program Research), Münster etc. 2002.

Web links

• Literature by and about Heinrich Mäding in the catalog of the German National Library