Ludwig Neundörfer

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Ludwig Neundörfer (born March 13, 1901 in Mainz , † September 25, 1975 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German sociologist who headed the Sociographic Institute at the University of Frankfurt from 1943 to 1975.

Life

Neundörfer came from the Catholic youth movement and was friends with Romano Guardini and Walter Dirks . He studied art history in Giessen and was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD. After that he was an assistant at the Art History Department of the University of Giessen until 1925. In 1925 he took over the editorial management of the cultural studies magazine " Die Schildgenossen " , in 1927 he became head of the adult education center in Offenbach am Main . In 1929 he took over the care of the growing number of unemployed youth in the Hessian Ministry of Culture. There he was released in 1933. From 1933 to 1939 he worked as a city and social planner in Heidelberg , in 1939 he became deputy regional planner for the Gauleiter in Gau Baden . Studies of the socio-economic situation of young people, particularly unemployed young people, led Neundörfer to sociography . In January 1940 he took on a joint research assignment from the Reichsnährstand and the Reichsarbeitsgemeinschaft für Raumforschung (for which he had worked since 1940), from which the Sociographical Institute at the University of Frankfurt am Main was to emerge in 1943 . Neundörfer received premises from the city of Frankfurt as early as 1940 and directed the sociographic work. The agricultural planner Friedrich Kann played an important mediating role between sociographic research and the settlement planning of the Reichsnährstand .

After the Second World War, the institute headed by Neundörfer took on more and more tasks in the field of social welfare and social policy . In 1951 a plan was drawn up to integrate the refugees. In the mid-1950s, Neundörfer was the only German to be appointed to an international study group formed by the Council of Europe . An important result of this research is the "Atlas of Socio-Economic Regions of Europe" compiled by the institute, which was published in three languages. In 1949 he became professor of sociology at the Pedagogical Institute Jugenheim (until transfer in 1961), from 1961 Neundörfer was full professor for sociology of education and president of the Frankfurt University of Education until transfer to the university in 1966/67.

He became one of the most important scientific advisors for social policy in the era of Konrad Adenauer and Ludwig Erhard . In 1955, together with Hans Achinger , Joseph Höffner and Hans Muthesius , he prepared the professors' report (“Rothenfels memorandum”) on social reform on Adenauer's behalf, the most important part of which was the pension reform. In 1964/65 he developed the “Social Enquête” with Hans Achinger, Walter Bogs , Helmut Meinhold and Wilfried Schreiber . For the Federal Housing Minister Paul Lücke , together with Werner Ernst , Joseph Höffner, Arnulf Klett and Ernst Wilhelm Meyer, he prepared proposals for solving the land evaluation question and the report “Proposals for the organization of the building land market” (1958).

Since 1960 Neundörfer was a member of the main committee of the German Association for Public and Private Welfare , he was also a member of the Hamburg Academy for Population Science and chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Catholic Institute for Social Research in Königstein / Taunus.

Ludwig Neundörfer was the younger brother of the priest and Caritas director Karl Neundörfer .

Works (selection)

  • Popular education through radio . In: Free popular education. 6th vol. (1921), pp. 77-89.
  • (together with Heinrich Bachmann , ed.): The new beginning . Fourth German Quickborntag. Rothenfels 1922.
  • How to live? [Exhibition for modern home furnishings] . Edited on behalf of the Rhein-Mainischer Verband für Volksbildung, Frankfurt a. M., Königstein im Taunus 1929.
  • This is how we want to live , Stuttgart 1931.
  • Economic and social structural change in the anteroom of the big cities . In: Social Practice. Central newspaper for social policy and welfare. 42. Jg., (1933), H. 32, Col. 945-949 u. H. 33, col. 976-979.
  • Securing the existence of surplus industrial workers . In: Social Practice. Volume 42 (1933), No. 20, Col. 612-618.
  • City farmers! Reorganization of a city I . In: Settlement and Economy. Volume 16 (1934), pp. 371-378.
  • On-site planning. Reorganization of a city II . In: Settlement and Economy. Volume 16 (1934), pp. 458-464.
  • City expansion and urban planning . In: Reich planning. Volume 1 (1935), No. 4, pp. 104-108.
  • Heidelberg . Rebuilding a city . Berlin 1936 (= special issue of the Reichsheimstättenamt of the NSDAP and the DAF).
  • Economic planning of the city of Heidelberg . In: Settlement and Economy. 20th vol. (1938), pp. 75-80.
  • “Inventory” and “ideal” as an aid to East-West resettlement . In: New peasantry. 32nd year (1940), No. 2, pp. 61-66.
  • The inventory of the German rural population. A sociographic representation in the service of spatial planning . In: spatial research and spatial planning. 4th year (1940), issue 7/8 pp. 305-310.
  • Eastern mobilization of German peasantry. Preparatory surveys and decisions in the real division areas . In: New peasantry. 32nd year (1940), No. 4/5, pp. 138-140.
  • The task of the description of the place in the planning . In: spatial research and spatial planning. Volume 6 (1942), Issue 2/3, pp. 51-63.
  • Imperial planning seen from the local area of ​​life . In: Neues Bauerntum, 34th year, p. 317.
  • Our fate . Frankfurt / M .: Knecht 1948.
  • The Schlüchtern plan . A practical contribution to the refugee issue . In: social world. 1949, H. 1, pp. 68-78.
  • The story of the Schlüchtern plan. A report on a social experiment . In: Ludwig Neundörfer and Hermann Michler (eds.): The story of the Schlüchtern plan. Frankfurt / M. 1950.
  • The impact of the refugee question on the West German social structure . In: Institute for Space Research (ed.): The German refugee problem. Special issue of the magazine for spatial research. ( Institute for Spatial Research , Bad Godesberg). Bielefeld: Eilers 1950, pp. 29–33.
  • The sociographic survey procedure . In: Institute for the Promotion of Public Affairs e. V. (Ed.): Empirical social research. Opinion and market research, methods and problems. Frankfurt / M .: Metzner 1952.
  • (together with Hans Achinger / Joseph Höffner / Hans Muthesius): Reorganization of social benefits. Memorandum at the suggestion of the Federal Chancellor . Cologne: Greven 1955.
  • (together with Hans Achinger / Walter Bogs / Helmut Meinhold / Wilfrid Schreiber): Social security in the Federal Republic of Germany: Report of the Social Investigation Commission: Stuttgart u. a .: Kohlhammer 1966.
  • Securing the existence of surplus industrial workers . In: Social Practice. 42nd year (1933). Col. 612-618.
  • The social and economic impact of the refugee law . Frankfurt a. M. 1952.
  • Strengthening the family through reorganization of social assistance in the context of welfare, insurance, care : In: Intelligence Service. 1954, pp. 66-73.
  • The social reform. Solved and unsolved problems . Freiburg i.Br .: Herder 1957.
  • Suggestions for the organization of the building land market . Expert opinion by W [erner] Ernst, J [oseph] Höffner, A [rnulf] Klett, E [rnst] W [ilhelm] Meyer and L [udwig] Neundörfer (series of publications by the Federal Minister for Housing 12), Bonn 1958.
  • Backyards in the home of Europe . Leer 1961.
  • The employees. New attempt to determine your position . Stuttgart 1961.
  • Atlas of socio-economic regions of Europe . Frankfurt / M .: Sociographic Institute at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main 1961 ff.
  • Romano Guardini . For my 80th birthday . In: Castle Letter. 1965/1, pp. 1-4.
  • The position of the teacher in contemporary society . Frankfurt a. M. 1965.
  • The new understanding of family and household in contemporary society . In: Science - Ethos - Politics in the service of social order. Festschrift for the 60th birthday of Professor Dr. theol. Dr. phil. Dr. sc. pol. Joseph Höffner. Münster 1966, pp. 151-160.

literature

  • Erhard thanks an advisor to the federal government. Professor Dr. Ludwig Neundörfer will be 65 years old on Sunday. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. March 12, 1966.
  • Michael Heisig: Neundörfer, Ludwig - leading employee on the scientific flanking of the social reform in the 1950s from the perspective of welfare . In: Hugo Maier (ed.), Who is who of social work. Lambertus, Freiburg i.Br. 1998, pp. 433-434.
  • Manfred Hermanns : Social ethics through the ages . Paderborn: Schöningh 2006, in particular pp. 274, 281-283. ISBN 978-3-506-72989-7
  • Klaus Kippert (ed.): Thoughts on sociology and pedagogy. Festschrift for Ludwig Neundörfer on his 65th birthday . Berlin: Beltz 1967.
  • Horst Knospe: Neundörfer, Ludwig , in: Wilhelm Bernsdorf / Knospe (ed.): Internationales Soziologenlexikon , Vol. 2, Enke, Stuttgart ² 1984, p. 617 f.
  • Dirk Kaesler :  Neundörfer, Ludwig. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8 , p. 176 ( digitized version ).
  • Benjamin Ziemann : In search of reality. Sociography and Social Stratification in German Catholicism 1945-1970 . In: Geschichte und Gesellschaft 29, 2003, (3), pp. 409–440.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Carsten Klingemann: Sociology in the Third Reich . Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden 1996, ISBN 3-7890-4298-6 , p. 88 f .
personal data
SURNAME Neundörfer, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz
DATE OF DEATH September 25, 1975
Place of death Frankfurt am Main