Joachim Wiemeyer

Joachim Wiemeyer (* 1954 in Bad Rothenfelde ) is a German Catholic theologian .

Life

He completed his studies in economics , political science and Catholic theology in Münster as a graduate economist in 1979, with a doctorate in economics in 1983 (Dr. rer.pol.), Licentiate in 1988 in Catholic theology (lic. Theol.) And his habilitation in 1997 in Christian Social Sciences (Catholic Theology). From 1979 to 1987 he was a research assistant at the Institute for Cooperatives in Münster ( Erik Boettcher / Holger Bonus ). From 1987 to 1989 he was a research assistant at the Institute for Christian Social Sciences ( Franz Anton Fridolin Furger ). From 1989 to 1993 he was a research assistant in the expert group on the world economy and social ethics within the framework of Commission X (World Church) of the German Bishops' Conference (1/2 position) and university lecturer for social policy / political science at the Catholic University of Applied Sciences in North Germany in Osnabrück & Vechta (1/2 position ). Since 1998 he has been teaching as a professor for Christian social studies in Bochum . From 2000 to 2006 he was the spokesman for the working group of professors for Christian social ethics in Germany.

His work focuses on political ethics / church and democratic public, basic questions of business ethics, economic and social-ethical aspects of the church and church welfare organizations, unemployment / future of work, restructuring of the welfare state, social-ethical questions of European integration and world economic order / globalization.

Works (selection)

• Hospital financing and hospital planning in the Federal Republic of Germany (= Sozialpolitische Schriften . Heft 50). Duncker and Humblot, Berlin 1984, ISBN 3-428-05581-0 (also dissertation, Münster 1983).
• Productive cooperatives - an alternative? (= Church and Society . Number 124). Bachem, Cologne 1985, ISBN 3-7616-0829-2 .
• Perspectives of gainful employment (= church and society . Number 141). Bachem, Cologne 1987, ISBN 3-7616-0901-9 .
• with Franz Furger: Economy. Global and ecological. Considerations on resource conservation and environmental conservation. A study by the expert group "World Economy and Social Ethics" . Central Office World Church of the Dt. Bishops' Conference, Bonn 1994, ISBN 3-928214-52-7 .
• European Union and global economic justice. The perspective of Christian social ethics (= writings of the Institute for Christian Social Sciences of the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster . Volume 39). Lit, Münster 1999, ISBN 3-8258-3574-X (also habilitation thesis , Münster 1997).
• Socio-ethical evaluation of the low-wage sector (= Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung. Working paper . Number 148). Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Sankt Augustin 2005, ISBN 3-937731-63-6 .
• Unconditional basic income as the core of a new welfare state? (= Church and Society . Number 381). Bachem, Cologne 2011, ISBN 978-3-7616-2504-0 .
• Business ethics from a Christian-social ethical point of view (= church and society . Number 403). Bachem, Cologne 2013, ISBN 978-3-7616-2688-7 .
• There is no freedom without justice. Christian social ethics in the face of global challenges . Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau / Basel / Vienna 2015, ISBN 3-451-33713-4 .

Web links

• Joachim Wiemeyer at the Ruhr University Bochum