Klaus-Dirk Henke

Klaus-Dirk Henke (born September 17, 1942 in Hanover ) is a German university professor for economics , member of the scientific advisory board at the Federal Ministry of Finance and Economics. He mainly works in the fields of health economics , social security systems , European integration and public finance .

Life

education

Klaus-Dirk Henke grew up in Hanover as the youngest of three siblings and graduated from high school there in 1963. From 1963 to 1970 he studied economics and social sciences at the University of Cologne , the London School of Economics and Political Science , London , and the University of Michigan , Ann Arbor , USA. In 1970 he received his doctorate from the University of Cologne. rer. pole. PhD. There he worked as a research assistant until 1971. From 1971 to 1976 he was a research assistant and university lecturer at the Philipps University of Marburg , where he completed his habilitation in 1976 on the subject of “Public Health Expenditures and Distribution” and received the Venia Legendi for economics. During his habilitation, he first went to the Brookings Institution , Washington, DC , USA for a research stay from 1972 to 1974 (further research stays there followed in 1979, 1984 and 1990).

Career history

In 1976, Henke took up a position as a full professor of economics, particularly finance, at the University of Hanover , which he held until 1995. At the same time, Klaus-Dirk Henke supervised the subject of health economics in the postgraduate course "Public Health" , headed by Friedrich Wilhelm Schwartz , at the Hanover Medical School . From 1995 until his retirement in 2011, Henke held the chair for public finance and health economics at the Institute for Economics and Business Law at the Technical University of Berlin . He continues to work there as a university professor until September 2017.

Henke has been a member of the Scientific Advisory Board at the Federal Ministry of Finance since 1984 . From 1987 to 1998 he was a member and from 1993 to 1998 chairman of the Advisory Council for Concerted Action in Health Care . From 1996 to 2004, Henke was Director at the European Center for Political Science and State Practice in Berlin.

In 1986 Henke was a visiting professor at the Vienna University of Technology . In 1989 he was visiting scholar at the University of Bristol , England, and in 2002 at the University of York , England.

Klaus-Dirk Henke lives with his wife Jutta in Berlin and has four grown children.

further activities

• 1980 to 1984: Chairman of the development committee for the economic and social sciences department of the Leuphana University of Lüneburg
• 1989 to 1991: Chairman of the European Health Care Management Association (EHMA), Brussels
• 1999 to 2003: Spokesperson for the Graduate School "Needs-Based and Inexpensive Health Care" of the German Research Foundation (DFG)
• 2004 to 2011: One of the speakers at the Center for Innovative Health Technology at the Technical University of Berlin
• Since 2014: Professor hc of the European Center for Peace and Development United Nations University for Peace, Belgrade , Serbia

Memberships

• Since 1993: Full member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences
• 1994 to 2002: Member of the convent of the Evangelical Academy Loccum , Rehburg-Loccum

Awards

• 2000: Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon
• 2014: Gérard-Gäfgen-Medal of the German Society for Health Economics , Essen
• 2017: Certificate of Merit from the ECPD ( University for peace established by the United Nations European Center for Peace and Development ), Belgrade

Publications (selection)

• H. Zimmermann, K.-D. Henke, M. Broer: Public Finance: An Introduction to the Teaching of Public Finance. 12th edition. Vahlen, Munich 2017.
• U. Fachinger, K.-D. Henke among others: Aging healthily: Safety and well-being at home, A regulatory analysis. (= European publications on the state and economy. Volume 38). Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden 2014.
• K.-D. Henke, B. Podtschaske: Chances and Risks of Cooperative Service Provision in the Health Sector . In: H. Bauer, C. Büchner, FA Markmann (eds.): Municipalities, citizens, economy in solidarity between cooperatives. (= KWI publications. 8). University Press, Potsdam 2014.
• K.-D. Henke: Value and price determination for innovations: An economic analysis of the negotiation criteria at AMNOG. Springer, Luxembourg / Berlin 2014.
• B. Bührlen, T. Hegemann, K.-D. Henke, A. Kloepfer, T. Reiß, FW Schwarz: Rethinking health, questions and answers for tomorrow's health system. (= ISI publication series Innovation Potential ). Fraunhofer Verlag, 2013.
• K.-D. Henke, D. Göpffahrt: The German Central Health Fund - Recent developments in health care financing in Germany. In: Health Policy. Volume 109, Issue 3, 2013, pp. 246-252.
• K.-D. Henke: How to improve the rationality of health policy. In: W. Kaal, A. Schwartze, M. Schmidt (Eds.): Festschrift in Honor of Christian Kirchner. Mohr Siebeck Verlag, 2013.
• K.-D. Henke: Who controls the German healthcare system? In: Yearbook of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences. Volume 2012, Issue 2, 2013, pp. 161–175.

Web links

• Klaus-Dirk Henke on the website of the TU Berlin