Joachim Bischoff

Joachim Bischoff in June 2011.

Joachim Bischoff (born May 28, 1944 in Swinoujscie ) is a German sociologist, publicist and politician ( Die Linke ). He was a member of the Hamburg Parliament .

Life

Joachim Bischoff went to school in Baden-Württemberg and studied in West Berlin . He was a research assistant and from 1976 to 1979 lecturer in sociology at the Free University of Berlin . He later worked as a bookseller in a cooperative, as a journalist and as an editor. Since 1974 he has lived in Hamburg-St. George .

Publications

Bischoff has published numerous papers on the political economy of capitalism . Since the late 1960s, the focus of his work has been attempts to re-develop the work of Karl Marx - against the "Marxist-Leninist reading". He is co-editor of the magazine Sozialismus . He also works in the editing department at VSA-Verlag . He is also a member of the editorial board of the Z. Zeitschrift Marxistische Erneuerung .

politics

Bischoff was a member of the Falken , SDS and SPD , which he left in 1966 in protest against the Vietnam War . In the early 1980s he was a member of the Democratic Socialists . He is a member of the working group alternative economic policy ( "Memorandum Group"), the Socialist study groups "SOST eV" and trade unionists at ver.di .

Bischoff was a member of the PDS until the end of 2004 . In the 1990s and briefly in 2000 he was a member of the party's federal executive committee. Among other things, he worked in the Economic Policy Working Group. In 2004 he was one of the founding members of the WASG , until April 2006 he was a member of the party's national executive committee. Since it was founded in 2007, he has been a member of Die Linke.

In the 2008 general election in Hamburg , he was elected to the Hamburg parliament for this party. He moved into parliament via the Hamburg-Mitte constituency. There he was spokesman for budget / finance, urban development and sport for his parliamentary group. He also sat on several committees and performed various functions: budget committee, budget audit, sports committee, urban development committee, property and public companies, and science committee.

In March 2009, Bischoff was nominated as a direct candidate for the Bundestag constituency of Hamburg-Mitte for the 2009 Bundestag election.

In the 2011 mayor election , he defended his mandate in the Hamburg-Mitte constituency, which he resigned at the end of November 2011 for health reasons. The parliamentary group of his party regretted his departure. Tim Golke moved up for him .

For several years, capital reading courses have been held in Hamburg under his direction.

Publications (selection)

• Intellectuals between Fordism and Post-Fordism. Together with Alex Demirović et al. Hamburg 2006, ISBN 3-89965-034-4
• Unleashed capitalism. Transformation of the European social model. Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-89965-034-4
• Our class society. Covert and open structures of social inequality. Together with Sebastian Herkommer , Hasko Hüning. Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-87975-861-1
• 21st century capitalism. System crisis or a return to prosperity? Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-87975-735-6
• The HSH Nordbank crime scene. Together with Knut Persson, Norbert Weber. VSA, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 3-89965-445-5
• Europe in tow of the financial markets . Together with Frank Deppe , Richard Detje, Hans-Jürgen Urban . VSA, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-89965-482-0
• The "great transformation" of the 21st century . Together with Christoph Liebers. VSA, Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-89965-554-4
• Financially driven capitalism: emergence - crisis - development tendencies VSA ISBN 978-3-89965-599-5
• "I'm over"? Greece and the Eurozone - Syriza's fight against neoliberal hegemony - with Björn Radke, Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-89965-685-5
• Götterdämmerung of Capitalism , together Klaus Steinitz , VSA-Verlag, Hamburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-89965-693-0
• Donald Trump - a president at risk , the USA between the decline of democracy and the overthrow of the world order, Hamburg 2017, VSA-Flugschrift, ISBN 978-3-89965-750-0
• The anatomy and future of civil society together with Stephan Krüger and Christoph Lieber, Hamburg 2018, VSA-Verlag, ISBN 978-3-89965-795-1

Web links

Commons : Joachim Bischoff  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Joachim Bischoff in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short curriculum vitae (PDF file; 60 kB)
• Joachim Bischoff and Christoph Lieber: The future of civil society in the 21st century

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt, March 23, 2009
2. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt from November 17, 2011
3. ↑ Press release on Bischoff's departure ( Memento from November 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ Tim Golke: Tim Golke moves up to the citizenry for Joachim Bischoff ( Memento of March 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) November 28, 2011. Retrieved January 15, 2012.