Helmut Asche

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Helmut Asche (* 1951 ) is a German social scientist and development worker .

Life

Helmut Asche studied economics and sociology and received his doctorate in 1984 from the Free University of Berlin . Since 1985 he has worked as a development worker for the German Society for Technical Cooperation (GTZ). From 1986 to 1998 he worked as an economic and social policy advisor in Burkina Faso , Rwanda and Kenya . Since 2000 he has been working at GTZ headquarters in Eschborn. From 2006 to 2011 he was professor at the Institute for African Studies at the University of Leipzig and was its managing director from 2007 to 2011. Asche has been teaching as an honorary professor at the Institute for Ethnology and African Studies at the University of Mainz since 2011 .

In 2012, Asche was appointed by the Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development Dirk Niebel to head the newly established German Evaluation Institute for Development Cooperation (DEval) in Bonn, whose task it is to take a critical look at German development policy. Niebel's successor Gerd Müller dismissed Asche in July 2014. Asche criticized the Ministry of Development for obstructing his work.

Asche is a member of the advisory board of the Poverty Reduction Equity and Growth Network (PEGNet) and of the Institute for World Economy at the University of Kiel . He is also a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the German African Business Association .

Asche is a member of the Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen party . He is the husband of the politician Kordula Schulz-Asche .

Fonts (selection)

  • Project group development of the Marx system, (Mhrsg.): The 4th volume of "Capital"? Commentary on the “Theories of Added Value” . Publishing house for the study of the labor movement, West Berlin 1975.
  • Project Group Development of the Marxian System, (Mhrsg.): Outlines of the Critique of Political Economy: (rough draft); Comment . Publishing house for the study of the labor movement, West Berlin 1978.
  • Socialist study groups, editor Helmut Asche: Capitalist world economy . VSA-Verlag, Hamburg 1981.
  • Le Burkina Faso contemporain. L'expérience d'un auto-développement . Editions L'Harmattan, Paris 1984.
  • Industrialized Third World? A comparison of corporate structures in Taiwan, Hong Kong and South Korea . Dissertation. VSA, Hamburg 1984.
  • (Ed.): Third World for Journalists. Interim balance of a further training offer . Breitenbach, Saarbrücken 1984.
  • Rwanda the production of an ethnic drama . Institute for Africa Customers, Hamburg 1995.
  • with Ulf Engel (Ed.): Negotiating Regions - The EU, Africa and the Economic Partnership Agreements . Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 2008.
  • with Antje Daniel, Franziska Stehnken and Rainer Öhlschläger (eds.): Africa and external actors - partners at eye level? . Nomos, Baden-Baden 2010.
  • various journal articles

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b Helmut Asche , at the University of Mainz
  2. ^ Tillmann Elliesen: Schwieriges Erbe , Welt-Sichten , April 22, 2015
  3. Roland Preuss: It's all about new jobs , interview, in: Süddeutsche Zeitung , December 5, 2015, p. 2