Klaus Simon (administrative scientist)

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Klaus Simon (born January 30, 1940 ; † July 9, 2010 ) was a German administrative scientist , state secretary and professor of local and regional politics .

Life

After studying political science and history at the universities of Tübingen , Kiel and Berlin between 1960 and 1966 , he did his doctorate at the Faculty of Philosophy at the Free University of Berlin . With his habilitation in 1981 at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Münster , he received a venia legendi in political science. Between 1967 and 1982 he was also a research assistant , consultant and lecturer at the University of Münster. In 1981 and 1982 Simon held a C4 professorship in political science at the Open University of Hagen . Since 1982 Simon has held the chair for local and regional politics at the Faculty of Administrative Science at the University of Konstanz (C3 professorship). From 1997 until his retirement in 2006 he carried out this activity as part-time employment for 50%. Between 1987 and 1989, Simon was on leave from the professorship for his work as State Secretary in the Senate Department for Economics and Labor in Berlin .

Among other things, Simon was a member of the examination committee for the higher general administrative service in Baden-Württemberg and of the examination committee for the academic examination for teaching at grammar schools.

research

Initially, Klaus Simon worked on the topic of local democracy and the change in municipal tasks. In his later work he tried to promote " institutional choice " according to the subsidiarity principle through development policy, which means that resources, tasks and legitimation are located at the lowest possible administrative level. In doing so, he wanted to make a contribution to the fight against poverty in developing countries . Investigations were carried out on the countries of Mali , Chile and Uganda , among others .

Teaching

Simon's teaching activities included subjects such as local self-government in the Federal Republic of Germany, local tasks and local government , decentralization and public (local) administration in an international comparison, administrative culture , training for trainee administrators in administrative science as well as budget and finance .

Works (selection)

  • Simon, Klaus, 1988: Representative Democracy in Big Cities. Melle.
  • Simon, Klaus, 1993: Subsidiarity as a framework for development through poverty reduction in self-help. in Klaus Simon, Albrecht Stockmayer and Harald Fuhr (eds.): Subsidiarity in development cooperation. Baden-Baden.
  • Simon, Klaus, 1994: Local Self-Government in the Third World. in Oscar W. Gabriel and Rüdiger Voigt (eds.): Local scientific analyzes. Bochum.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ University of Konstanz: Annual Report 2006
  2. ↑ a b c d University of Konstanz: Research Report 1998 ( Memento of the original from April 4, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.uni-konstanz.de
personal data
SURNAME Simon, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative scientist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1940
DATE OF DEATH July 9, 2010