Lutz Wicke

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Lutz Wicke (born April 23, 1943 in Herrnhut , Saxony , † June 14, 2017 in Berlin ) was a German environmental economist, university professor and State Secretary of the State of Berlin. For a long time he was also an employee of the German Federal Environment Agency .

Live and act

Lutz Wicke grew up in Obercunnersdorf , where his father Hans Wicke was a partner in a weaving mill. Because of the government's anti-private policy, the family left the GDR in 1955 . For the next three years Wicke attended a Protestant school home in Korntal , in 1958 he switched to high school in Backnang , which he graduated from high school in 1963. A classmate there was the future Minister of Economics of Baden-Württemberg, Dieter Spöri . After two years of military service, during which he joined the CDU , Wicke studied industrial engineering from 1965 to 1972 at the Technical University of Berlin , where he specialized in technical chemistry . During this time he worked as the press spokesman for the RCDS . In 1972 he completed his studies as a graduate engineer. From 1973 to 1978 he was a research assistant at the Institute for Economics at the TU Berlin. In 1975 he did his doctorate at the TU Berlin with a thesis on wealth distribution and creeping inflation . In 1982 he also completed his habilitation at the Technical University of Berlin (cumulative with several scientific essays and the book "The personal distribution of assets in the Federal Republic of Germany" written together with Horst Mierheim) and was appointed private lecturer .

From 1978 to 1991 he worked for the German Federal Environment Agency , where he was Scientific Director from 1983. In the same year he was appointed adjunct professor for economic policy and environmental economics at the TU Berlin. In 1981 the first edition of his textbook "Umweltökonomie" appeared, which has seen several revised editions.

In 1991 he left the Federal Environment Agency to become State Secretary to the Senator for Urban Development and Environmental Protection in the State of Berlin , which he remained until 1996. In this role he drafted the concept of energy saving partnerships and was a regular participant in the conference of environment ministers (on behalf of his senator) . He then worked as a consultant and lecturer. In 1997 he was appointed professor of economics at the TU Berlin , with a focus on environmental economics. Since 1996/97 he was professor at the private European business school in Berlin, the ESCP Europe Business School. There he was director of the Institute for Environmental Management.

Wicke published numerous books, some of which were popular science, and essays on topics of environmental economics, the relationship between environmental protection and economic growth and problems of climate protection. He was skeptical of the Kyoto climate protection agreement and its successor in Paris, as, in his opinion, they could not guarantee the necessary climate protection. Among other things, Wicke called for global emission limits and equal emission rights for all in his works.

Lutz Wicke had been married since 1968 and had three children. He has lived in Berlin since his studies, and in 1989 he became a member of the Lions Club there . His grave is in the St. Barbara cemetery in Obercunnersdorf .

Prizes and awards (selection)

Publications (selection)

  • with Markus C. Schulte von Drach : The energy transition: more climate protection, but socially and economically compatible , published by Georg Winter, House of the Future, Wachholtz, Neumünster / Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-529-05395-5 .
  • Environmental economics and environmental policy , Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 1991, (German; 5828) Beck-Wirtschaftsberater, ISBN 3-423-05828-5 .
  • with the collaboration of Lieselotte Blenk: Umweltökonomie. A practice-oriented introduction 4th edition, Vahlen, Munich 1993, series: Vahlens handbooks of economics and social sciences, ISBN 3-8006-1720-X .
  • with Thomas de Maizière and Lothar de Maizière : Eco-social market economy for East and West: the way out of economic and environmental crisis , Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-42305-8099 .
  • with Jochen Hucke: The ecological Marshall Plan , Frankfurt / Main; Ullstein, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-550-06434-9 .
  • with Ralf-Dieter Brunowsky : The ÖKO-Plan. Through environmental protection to the new economic miracle , Piper, Munich / Zurich 1984, ISBN 3-492-02922-1 .
  • Distribution of wealth and creeping inflation. An analysis of the favored or disadvantage of different socio-economic groups due to changes in the value of existing assets due to creeping inflation in d. Federal Republic of Germany. Hain, Meisenheim 1975, ISBN 3-445-01313-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Axel Wicke: Ik ben zo trots en dankbaar voor het leven van mijn vader! One level for the milieu en de nakomende generaties. In: twitter.com. @elziax, June 15, 2017, accessed June 15, 2017 .
  2. ↑ a b Prof. Dr. Lutz Wicke. In: Obituaries. Sächsische Zeitung , June 21, 2017, accessed on June 25, 2017 .
  3. ↑ a b c Lutz Wicke: Brief Memories, as of summer 2009 . Manuscript, unpublished.
personal data
SURNAME Wicke, Lutz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German environmental economist, university professor and State Secretary
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Herrnhut , Saxony , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH June 14, 2017
Place of death Berlin , Germany