Jürgen Becher

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Jürgen Franz Becher (born July 1, 1937 in Leipzig ) is a German economist and legal scholar .

Life

Jürgen Becher was born on July 1, 1937 in Leipzig. From 1943 he attended an elementary school there , from 1945 to an elementary school and from 1951 to the Rudolf Hildebrand Oberschule . He attended this high school until 1955, after which he went to Leipzig University to study law. He completed his studies in 1959 when he passed his legal state examination and became a qualified lawyer. Then he was a research assistant at the university .

In 1963, Becher received a dissertation from the university on economic and legal problems to improve building material planning in the GDR. Towards a new legal regulation of building materials accounting for Doctor of Law doctorate . In that year and the following, he headed the Marxism-Leninism department at the university. In 1964/1965 he was finally a senior research assistant in this department, where he was head of the political economy department. For this area he worked from 1965 to 1967 as a lecturer .

His habilitation in political economy took place in 1967; his work on this was problems related to state law when working with technical and economic indicators, illustrated using the example of product-related expense indicators in the construction industry. A contribution to the analysis of the relationships between technology, economy, state and law in socialism . He started working as a lecturer this year .

In 1969, Becher was promoted to full professor , became deputy research director of the Marxism-Leninism department and was admitted to the university's scientific council. In 1971 he was promoted to Dr. sc. jur. appointed. In 1976 he received the Labor Banner , Level 1.

In 1991, Becher had to give up the professorship, this was enforced by the Saxon Minister of Science. Nevertheless, he did not stay away from the university. In 1991 and 1992 he was deputy head of the chair for world economics and was senior research assistant. In addition, the Saxon Minister of Justice granted him the right to practice law. He was also a scientific advisory board member for political economy at higher education and technical schools in the GDR . He practiced his practice as a lawyer until 2001.

Works

• Economic and legal problems to improve the planning of building materials in the GDR. Considerations on a new legal regulation of building material accounting (dissertation 1963)
• Material accounting - an important part of scientific management in construction (Berlin 1964)
• State-legal problems when working with technical-economic indicators, shown using the example of product-related expense indicators in the construction industry. A contribution to the analysis of the relationships between technology, economy, state and law in socialism (habilitation thesis 1967)
• Political Economy of Capitalism and Socialism. Textbook for basic Marxist-Leninist studies (13 editions in East Berlin 1974 to 1987)
• Is property eternal? ( Akzent series Volume 28, Berlin 1977)
• Property in the distorting mirror of bourgeois ideology (Berlin Ost 1978)
• The state in the market economy (Bonn 1992)
• Housing and tenancy law. Selected Problems in East Germany (Leipzig 1994)

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• Prof. Dr. jur. habil. Jürgen Franz Becher in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig
• Jürgen Becher, professors at the University of Leipzig 1945–1993 , accessed on November 17, 2017