Helmut Steiner

Helmut Steiner (born February 7, 1936 in Christophhammer ; † February 14, 2009 in Berlin ) was a sociologist and science historian .

Career

Steiner studied economics at the Humboldt University in Berlin from 1954 to 1958 . In 1963 he did his doctorate at the Humboldt University with a dissertation on the sociology of employees in West Germany. From 1979 to 1991 Steiner was professor of sociology at the Academy of Sciences of the GDR . He worked since the 1960s a. a. about problems of current and historical, social and theoretical development in the Soviet Union . From 1990 to 1994 he was editor-in-chief of the magazine Utopie Kreativ.

Steiner had been a member of the Leibniz Society since 1994 .

Fonts

• Questions of Marxist Sociology. Economy and Society in German Bourgeois Sociology. Study of the history of science. Berlin 1964 ( Scientific journal of the Humboldt University of Berlin. Special issue).
• Social structural changes in modern capitalism. On the class analysis of employees in modern capitalism. Dietz, Berlin 1967.
• with Wladimir A. Jadow (Ed.): Wohin? Russia from the perspective of Russian sociologists. Trafo, Berlin 1999 ISBN 3-89626-215-7 .
• Class society in transition. Social mobility processes in the GDR society. Edited by Gustav-Wilhelm Bathke and Hansgünter Meyer . Edition Sigma, Berlin 2010 ISBN 978-3-8360-3577-4 .

literature

• Nikolai Genov, Reinhard Kreckel (ed.): Sociological contemporary history. Helmut Steiner on his 70th birthday. Edition Sigma, Berlin 2007 ISBN 3-89404-247-8 .
• Helmut Müller-Enbergs , Jan Wielgohs:  Steiner, Helmut . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Helmut Steiner in the catalog of the German National Library
• Obituary Herbert Laitko