Herwig Birg
Herwig Birg (born January 4, 1939 in Novi Kozarci (German: Heufeld), Banat , Yugoslavia , today Serbia ) is a German population scientist .
Career
After graduating from high school in 1959, he first studied at the Technical University of Stuttgart and at the Ulm School of Design . From 1962 Herwig Birg took a study of economics at the Free University of Berlin on. In 1970 he received his doctorate as Dr. rer. pole. at the Free University of Berlin.
From the late 1960s to the early 1980s, Herwig Birg worked as a researcher at the German Institute for Economic Research in Berlin as well as teaching at Berlin universities and colleges.
From 1981 to 2004 he held a chair for population science at Bielefeld University , where he was managing director of the Institute for Population Research and Social Policy (IBS).
Since 2004 - in addition to his wide-ranging lecturing activities - he has been researching and advising various clients. He is a member of the Munich Finance Forum eV
Herwig Birg has been with Ursula Birg, geb. Gorr, married.
reception
As part of its contributions to the debate on demographic trends in Germany threw Bjorn Schwentker Birg before, in his interpretation of the demographic change for dramatization to decline.
Awards
- 1986 August Lösch Prize
Fonts (selection)
- Biographical theory of demographic reproduction (research reports of the IBS). Campus Verlag 1991, with Ernst-Jürgen Flöthmann and Iris Reiter
- The demographic turning point. The population decline in Germany and Europe. CH Beck, October 2001, ISBN 3406475523
- Effects and costs of immigration to Germany . IBS materials; 49th Institute for Population Research and Social Policy, 2002. ISBN 3-923340-43-5 ( pdf online )
- The world population: dynamism and dangers . CH Beck, 2004, ISBN 3406519199
- The failed generation. What demographics say about our future . CHBeck, October 2005 (2nd edition 2006, ISBN 978-3406537493 )
- Effects of demographic aging and population shrinking on the economy, the state and society . Lit Verlag , April 2005
- The aging republic and the failure of politics. A demographic forecast. Lit Verlag, 2014, ISBN 978-3-643-12827-0
Web links
- Literature by and about Herwig Birg in the catalog of the German National Library
- Herwig Birg in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Homepage of Herwig Birg
- Deutschlandfunk (DLF) cultural issues. Debates and documents of June 8, 2014: Taboos instead of realism? Refugees from North Africa, Migration Policy in Germany . the immigration researcher Herwig Birg in conversation with Karin Fischer
- Die Tagespost , No society can permanently do without its own offspring.
Individual evidence
- ^ The members of the Münchner Finance Forum eV (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 23, 2014 ; Retrieved March 3, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Die Zeit: Extinction canceled Issue 24 (from June 8, 2006)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Birg, Herwig |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German population scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 4, 1939 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hay field, Banat |