Heinz Markmann

Heinz Markmann (born February 21, 1926 in Heidelberg ) is a German social and economic scientist .

career

Heinz Markmann attended the Mönchhofschule (elementary school) in Heidelberg-Neuenheim from 1932 to 1936, then until 1944 the Philipp Lenard -Oberschule (Realgymnasium) in Heidelberg. From 1943 until the end of the war he worked for the Air Force. From 1946 he studied sociology with Alfred Weber and Hans von Eckardt, social psychology with Willy Hellpach , economics primarily with Erich Preiser and public law with Walter Jellinek at the University of Heidelberg . There he received his doctorate in 1951 "summa cum laude". phil. with a dissertation on "Mass leadership of National Socialism - methods, goals, institutions". He worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Journalism at the University of Heidelberg, as assistant to Alfred Weber and as a member of the Dolf Sternberger research group on parties, parliamentary groups and parliaments.

From 1955 to 1958 Markmann was secretary of the Kuratorium Indivisible Germany in Bonn, from 1958 scientific advisor at the Economic Science Institute (WSI) of the DGB in Cologne, from 1967 in Düsseldorf. From 1962 to 1967 he was executive secretary of the economic policy department of the DGB federal executive committee, from 1967 until retirement in 1989 he was head of the economic and social science institute (WSI) of the DGB. With his wife Lore geb. Hetzel, he has four children and now lives in Heidelberg-Handschuhsheim.

Heinz Markmann has been a member of the SPD since 1949, co-founder of the SDS and later of the SHB at the University of Heidelberg, and since 1956 a member of the Education and Science Union (GEW). He is the holder of the Federal Cross of Merit First Class, Honorary Senator and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the FernUniversität Hagen and Chairman of the Working Group for Economic and Social Education. He was a member of the Senate of the Max Planck Society from 1968 to 1980, the Science Council from 1971 to 1992, and the Commission for Economic and Social Change from 1971 to 1976; he was a member of the board of the Association of Social Science Institutes (ASI). He was a member of the Economic and Social Committee of the European Communities from 1967 to 1972 and from 1959 to 1994 various working and expert groups of the EC Commission , as well as the Trade Union Advisory Committee (TUAC) of the OECD . Markmann was a member of the economic policy committee of the SPD party executive and from 1965 to 1990 of the board of trustees and advisory board of the Berlin Science Center ( WZB ). Since 1996 he has been working as a consultant for governments and trade unions in Ghana, India, Brazil, Japan, China and South Korea on behalf of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation and the DGB.

Due to close ties to the Evangelical Church, Markmann was a member of the Chamber for Social Order of the EKD from 1965 to 1990 and of the Social Ethics Committee of the Rhenish Regional Church from 1970 to 1990 as well as the Board of Trustees of the Evangelical Social Academy Friedewald.

Works (selection)

From the large number of Markmann's publications, some particularly important examples are listed here:

• The voting behavior in German parliaments. Meisenheim am Glan: Anton Hain, 1955
• "Economic determinants of wage formation from the point of view of the trade unions.", In: (Series of publications by the Verein für Socialpolitik, NF Vol. 51). Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 1968
• (Co-author :) Economic and social change in the Federal Republic of Germany. Commission opinion. Göttingen: O. Schwarz, 1977
• "Collective agreements II: collective agreement policy", in: Handwortbuch der Wirtschaftswwissenschaft , Vol. 7, Stuttgart u. a. O .: G. Fischer u. a. V. 1977, pp. 540-553
• “Unions”, in: Evangelisches Soziallexikon, 7th edition, Stuttgart 1980
• "Unions in the Economic Crisis", in: Germany Encyclopedia. Germany portrait of a nation, Gütersloh: Bertelsmann 1985
• "Technical change and employment from the point of view of the trade unions", in: Hellmut Lamszus / Horst Sanmann (eds.): New technologies, labor market and professional qualifications. (Contributions to economic policy, vol. 46), Bern: Haupt 1987
• Heinz Markmann: 50 years of industrial relations in Germany: a success story? (PDF; 77 kB)

swell

• Heinz Markmann: Memories of the WWI / WSI. published by the Hans Böckler Foundation. Düsseldorf 2011
• City of Heidelberg (ed.): Experienced story told. Michael Buselmeier in conversation with Heinz Markmann. Heidelberg: Verlag Wunderhorn, 2011, pp. 7-20

Web links

• Literature by and about Heinz Markmann in the catalog of the German National Library