Karl Ulrich Mayer

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Karl Ulrich Mayer (born April 10, 1945 in Eybach ) is a German sociologist , university professor and was President of the Leibniz Association from July 2010 to June 2014 .

Life

Karl Ulrich Mayer grew up in Ulm on the Danube, where he graduated from the Humboldt Gymnasium in 1964 . He then first studied German , philosophy and sociology at the University of Tübingen . In 1965 he went to the USA on a Fulbright scholarship , where he received a Bachelor of Arts from Gonzaga University and a Master of Arts from Fordham University within a year . He returned to Germany in 1967 and worked in the following years at the University of Konstanz on his doctorate, which he completed in 1973 with the publication Inequality and Mobility in Social Consciousness . At the same time he managed a research assistant position with Wolfgang Zapf at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . After completing his doctorate, he worked from 1972 to 1977 as a research assistant at the University of Mannheim, where he completed his habilitation in 1977 with a publication on social mobility between generations in the faculties of social sciences and economics. Until 1980 he worked as a private lecturer at the university.

From 1979 Mayer worked first as program director, then as managing director at the newly founded Center for Surveys, Methods and Analyzes (ZUMA) . In 1983 he was appointed director of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, where he headed the research area “Education, Work and Social Development” until 2005.

In 2003 he accepted a professorship at Yale University in the Department of Sociology, where he set up an international research center, the Center for Research on Inequalities and the Life Course (CIQLE).

Since 1982 he has held numerous visiting professorships, including at the University of Zurich , Harvard University , the European University Institute , the University of North Carolina , the University of Pompeu Fabra and the University of Konstanz .

In addition, Karl Ulrich Mayer has many years of experience in science policy. In 1993 he was appointed to the Science Council and was chairman of the Scientific Commission from 1996 to 1999. From 1999 to 2001 he was a member of the Commission for the Improvement of the Data Infrastructure and from 2001 to 2003 Chairman of the newly established Council for Social and Economic Data. He proposed the establishment of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock . In November 2009 the general assembly of the Leibniz Association elected Karl Ulrich Mayer as its fifth and first full-time president. On July 1, 2014 he was replaced by Matthias Kleiner .

Mayer has been with his wife Martha, geb. Babiak, married and father of three grown children born between 1971 and 1980.

Awards and memberships

Fonts (selection)

  • Inequality and Mobility in Social Consciousness , Dissertation University of Konstanz 1973
  • Turnover and redeployment. Studies on social mobility in the Federal Republic of Germany , Habilitation University of Mannheim 1977
  • as editor: Generational Dynamics in Research (translation from English by Uwe Opolka), Frankfurt / Main; New York: Campus-Verlag 1993, ISBN 978-3-593-34749-3 .
  • as editor: The best of all worlds? : Market liberalism versus welfare state; a controversy [a controversy between Jens Alber , Jens Beckert , Johannes Berger , Lutz Leisering and Wolfgang Streeck ], Frankfurt / Main; New York: Campus-Verlag 2001, ISBN 978-3-593-36734-7 .

literature

  • Josef Zens: Quality and trust: The social scientist Karl Ulrich Mayer becomes the new Leibniz President in: Leibniz-Journal 4/2009, page 20

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Leibniz Association press release from June 20, 2014: Ceremonial event for the change of office at the Academy of the Arts: Matthias Kleiner replaces Karl Ulrich Mayer as President of the Leibniz Association , accessed on June 20, 2014
  2. ^ Karl Ulrich Mayer becomes the new Leibniz President , press release in Informationsdienst Wissenschaft of November 27, 2009, accessed on November 28, 2009
  3. ^ Member entry by Karl Ulrich Mayer at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on April 5, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Mayer, Karl Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Eybach