Manfred Hermanns

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Manfred Hermanns (born February 7, 1936 in Düsseldorf ) is a German social scientist .

Life

Manfred Hermanns grew up in Düsseldorf and during the last years of the war in the Thuringian evacuation locations Greiz (attendance at the Marienschule, today Goetheschule ) and Wormstedt ( Apolda district ), today part of the municipality of Saaleplatte. From 1947 to 1956 he attended the humanistic state Görres-Gymnasium in Düsseldorf . The matriculation examination took place on February 7, 1956, including the Grand Latinum, Graecum and Hebraicum. From 1956 to 1964 he studied geography, sociology, history, philosophy and Catholic theology at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn , the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster and the University of Vienna . His formative academic teachers were Joseph Höffner (Christian social sciences), Carl Troll (geography), Heinz Gollwitzer (social history), Helmut Schelsky (sociology), Johannes Messner (social ethics), Otto Most and Josef Pieper (philosophy), Hubert Jedin (church history ), Werner Schöllgen (moral theology), Hermann Volk (dogmatics). In 1960 he obtained his diploma in Christian social sciences from Joseph Höffner. In 1964 he was at the Westfälische Wilhelms-University Münster with the dissertation The social and economic spatial structure of the district Altenkirchen Dr. phil. PhD. From 1960 to 1962 he was a research assistant at the Münster Institute for Christian Social Sciences headed by Joseph Höffner . During this time he also held social seminars in several cities of the Archdiocese of Paderborn and the Diocese of Münster on behalf of the Kommende and the Franz-Wärme-Haus.

1964–1965 Hermanns was a research assistant at the Sociographical Institute at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt with Ludwig Neundörfer . Here he worked a. a. at the material collection for the atlas of socio-economic regions of Europe . During this time he also attended lectures in economics. In 1964 he married the teacher Maria Thienel († June 15, 1993), and three children resulted from the marriage. In 1965/66 he worked out the official district description of the Altenkirchen / Westerwald district on behalf of the Institute for Regional Studies, which was published in 1969 as Volume 6 of the Rhineland-Palatinate districts on behalf of the Prime Minister and State Planning by the Central Committee for German Regional Studies. 1966–1969 he was a lecturer at the Thomas-More-Academy in Bensberg (near Cologne) and 1969–1972 in the development phase of the Catholic University of Applied Sciences North Rhine-Westphalia lecturer in sociology at the higher technical schools for social education and social work in Paderborn, at the same time he took teaching assignments for family, educational and religious sociology at the University of Paderborn, previously Pedagogical University of Westphalia-Lippe , department Paderborn and for sociology and political science at the University of Applied Sciences Southeast Westphalia, department of economics (today: Fachhochschule der Wirtschaft ).

Since January 1972 Manfred Hermanns has been a lecturer, since June 1980 professor of sociology at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences . There he was a member of the Senate and Council for several years. He also held guest lectures in 1972 at the Lower Saxony University of Education, Vechta Department, (today University of Vechta ) and held a teaching position for organizational sociology at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg (today: Helmut Schmidt University) in 1975 and 1976 and teaching positions at the 1999-2004 Catholic University of Applied Sciences North Germany on the subject of "Social and Cultural Change". For several years he was a liaison professor at the Konrad Adenauer Foundation . He was active on a voluntary basis on a local and regional level, for example from 1970 to 1972 in the parish council of the Catholic university community in Paderborn and as a delegate in the deanery council and from 1996 to 2000 as chairman of the Ecumenical Hospice Service Buchholz, which he co-founded, and from 1988-2013 as a member of the board of directors of the Raphaelswerkes, as co-founder and author of the North Region of the German St. Jacobus Society, 1998–2018 as President of the Heinrich Weber Research Circle and between 2003 and 2017 as head of Word of God celebrations in the St. Petrus Congregation in Buchholz in the north heath .

Scientific activity

His teaching and research activities focus on family sociology, religious sociology, organizational sociology, youth sociology, youth social work, the history of social work, and social ethics. He represents an empirical sociology that is linked to understanding sociology. That is why he takes into account social history, social philosophy, especially social ethics and social geography for his sociological research, and uses sociology for practical implementation in social policy and social work, especially in youth social work. His theoretical approach "enables access to the basic concept of meaning, which means the order form of human experience processing" (Internationales Soziologenlexikon, vol. 2, p. 350).

1968–1977 Hermanns was a member of the reform-oriented Bensberger Kreis , and during this time he worked on the memorandum Democratization of the Church , but on the publication Anti-Socialism from Tradition? (1977) he refused to give his consent. From 1976 to 1979 he scientifically accompanied a model project to remedy youth unemployment and to support socially disadvantaged and individually handicapped young people in Hamburg (see: Action research on Youth professional assistance, measures, results, perspectives, 1981). In 1986 he created an expertise for the 7th youth report (funded by the Federal Ministry for Youth, Family, Women and Health) entitled Family and Educational Models in Public and Youth Welfare since the Early Sixties , published in Volume 3 of the “Materials for Seventh youth report: family models in transition ”. 1989–91 he was a consultant for social sciences in the presidium of the university teachers' association at federal level. Hermanns was co-editor of the Yearbook for Youth Social Work , Vol. XII - Vol. XIX, 1991–98 , in which he also published several articles on sociology, social ethics and youth social work. From 1984-1991 he was an expert in youth welfare and youth social work on the youth committee of the city of Buchholz.

After his retirement in 2000, he mainly devoted himself to the history of social ethics and Christian social doctrine and, based on archive research based on critical sources, presented the life's works of social ethicists and social reformers Franz Wärme , Heinrich Weber , Joseph Höffner , Wilhelm Weber, and Franz Furger in several publications and categorized them historically.

From 1996 to 2000 he was a member of the Central Committee of German Catholics (ZdK) and previously a member of the “Social Work and Caritas” commission at the ZdK. With his collaboration, the ZdK documentation “Barmherzigkeit. A new perspective on a forgotten aspect of diakonia ”. In 1999, on his initiative, the Heinrich Weber Research Circle was founded, and he was its president until 1918.

Publications (selection)

  • The social and economic spatial structure of the Altenkirchen district. Düsseldorf 1964.
  • Altenkirchen / Westerwald district. (= The German districts, handbook for administration, economy and culture, the districts in Rhineland-Palatinate; Vol. 6), together with the Institute for Regional Studies in Bad Godesberg. Altenkirchen Ww. 1969.
  • The human being - autonomous being or slave of his environment? In: Joseph Buchmann, Hans-Dieter Braun (Ed.): Participate - Participate. Partnership and authority. Hoheneck-Verlag, Hamm / Westf. 1970, pp. 23-36.
  • The New Left in Catholicism. Against the illiberality of the most recent Bensberg memorandum “Anti-Socialism from Tradition.” Sozialpädagogischer Verlag, Seevetal 1977.
  • Church as a social organization. Between participation and domination. (Patmos Paperback). Patmos Verlag, Düsseldorf 1979, ISBN 3-491-77599-X .
  • Action research on professional youth aid - measures, results, perspectives. In: Karl Hugo Breuer , Hans Elsner and Horst Heibach (eds.): Yearbook for youth social work. Volume II. Die Heimstatt Publishing House, Cologne 1981, pp. 3–126.
  • Social ethics as a guideline for politics to overcome unemployment. In: Karl Hugo Breuer (ed.): Yearbook for youth social work. Volume III. Verlag Die Heimstatt, Cologne 1982, pp. 174-200.
  • Family models in transition. Normative specifications and self-concepts from parents and young people. (= Materials for the Seventh Youth Report; Vol. 3), together with Barbara Hille. Verlag Deutsches Jugendinstitut, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-87966-273-8 .
  • Youth professional help and youth social work in the Weimar Republic. A socio-historical study on social work and social policy. In: Karl Hugo Breuer (ed.): Yearbook for youth social work. Volume X. Verlag “Die Heimstatt”, Cologne 1989, ISSN  0721-6084 , pp. 3-65.
  • Youth unemployment since the Weimar Republic. A socio-historical and sociological comparison. Leske & Budrich, Opladen 1990, ISBN 3-8100-0728-5 .
  • Catholic Social Doctrine and / or Theology of Liberation? Image of man and business ethics. In: Karl Hugo Breuer (ed.): Yearbook for youth social work. Volume XII. Verlag "Die Heimstatt", Cologne 1991, pp. 193–217.
  • Denomination and lifestyle. On the social, cultural and mental history and on sociological aspects today. In: Karl Hugo Breuer (ed.): Yearbook for youth social work. Volume XIII. Verlag "Die Heimstatt", Cologne 1992, pp. 185-234.
  • Guardini's sociological thinking in pre-war Berlin. In: Guardini thinking further. Edited by Hermann Josef Schuster on behalf of the Guardini Foundation. (= Series of publications by the Forum Guardini; Vol. 1). Guardini Foundation, Berlin 1993, pp. 179–192.
  • Principle of dialogue, not freedom of rule in church youth work. (= Experiments - sketches - summaries. A series of publications from the Johann Michael Sailer Institute Cologne; issue 1). Publishing house "Die Heimstatt", Cologne 1995, ISSN  0949-8834 .
  • with Angela Stempin: Mercy - out of fashion? A request to society about the dwindling dimension in the welfare state. In: Karl Hugo Breuer (ed.): Yearbook for youth social work. Volume XVII. Verlag "Die Heimstatt", Cologne 1996, pp. 161–179.
  • Problem-solving perspectives in the field of tension between organization - economy - Caritas in the 20s and 30s with Heinrich Weber (1888 - 1946). In: [[Pompey, Heinrich]] (Ed.): Caritas in the field of tension between economic efficiency and humanity (= studies on theology and practice of Caritas and social pastoral; Vol. 9). Echter, Würzburg 1997, ISBN 3-429-01949-4 , pp. 311-326.
  • Heinrich Weber. Social and Caritas scientist in a time of upheaval. Life and work. (= Studies on theology and practice of * Caritas and Social Pastoral, Vol. 11), Echter, Würzburg 1998, ISBN 3-429-01971-0 .
  • Joseph Höffner as an academic teacher. In: Colom, Enrique (ed.): Dottrina sociale e testimonianza cristiana. Atti del Simposio in onore del Cardinale Joseph Höffner. Libreria Editrice Vaticana, Vatican City 1999, ISBN 88-209-2710-1 , pp. 303-326.
  • Bibliography Youth Social Work and Youth Professional Aid 1900–2000. Edited by the regional working group for Catholic youth social work in North Rhine-Westphalia eV Cologne: Regional working group for Catholic youth social work in North Rhine-Westphalia 2002, ISBN 3-8311-3390-5 .
  • Appointment of Joseph Höffner and foundation of the Institute for Christian Social Sciences. In: Karl Gabriel (ed.): Church - State - Economy on the way into the 21st century. 50 years of the Institute for Christian Social Sciences (= writings of the Institute for Christian Social Sciences; 45). Lit, Münster / Hamburg / London 2002, pp. 49–84.
  • Speeches from the Reichstag by Franz Wärme. In: Olpe in the past and present. 12th year 2004, ISSN  0943-996X , pp. 15-56.
  • Joseph Höffner - Life Stations of a Social Ethicist. In: Karl Gabriel / Hermann-Josef Große Kracht (ed.): Joseph Höffner (1906–1987). Social teaching and social policy. Schöningh, Paderborn u. a. 2006, ISBN 978-3-506-72954-5 , pp. 13-35.
  • Social ethics through the ages. Personalities - Research - Effects of the Chair for Christian Social Studies and the Institute for Christian Social Sciences at the University of Münster 1893–1997. (= Treatises on Social Ethics, Vol. 49), Schöningh, Paderborn / Munich / Vienna / Zurich 2006, ISBN 978-3-506-72989-7 .
  • Speeches by Franz Wärme in the Prussian House of Representatives. In: Olpe in the past and present. 15th year 2007, ISSN  0943-996X , pp. 13-42.
  • Max Großer - emigrant welfare and chaplain to emigrants - victims of National Socialism. Commemorative publication on the 70th anniversary of his death on March 19, 2010. Published by the Raphaels-Werk Service on People on the Move eV, Hamburg 2010.
  • Worldwide service to people on the move. Advice and welfare for emigrants from the Raphaels factory 1871–2011. Pallotti Verlag, Friedberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-87614-079-7 .
  • Höffner, Joseph, Christian social scientist, Bishop of Munster, Archbishop of Cologne, Cardinal, Chairman of the German Bishops' Conference. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon. Volume XXXIV. Verlag Traugott Bautz, Nordhausen 2013, Sp. 550-584.
  • Weber, Heinrich Wilhelm. Social and Caritas scientist. In: New German biography. Volume 27, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2020, pp. 492-494.

Participation in church services and committees

  • 1960–1963 lecturer at social seminars of the Franz-Wärme-Haus, Münster, and der Kommende, Dortmund
  • 1987–1992 Regional Manager of the Osnabrück / Hamburg Region of the Community of Catholic Men and Women
  • April 29, 1988–2013 member of the board of directors of the Raphaelswerk , service to people on the move
  • 1992–2002 Scientific Advisory Board of the Catholic Family Association
  • 1992–1998 Member of Commission 7 “Social Charity Service” (Social Work) of the Central Committee of German Catholics
  • 1996–2000 member of the Central Committee of German Catholics
  • 1996–2001 delegate of the Raphaels-Werk at the Working Group of Catholic Organizations in Germany

Membership in scientific and social communities / associations

literature

  • Red .: Hermanns, Manfred : In: Wilhelm Bernsdorf and Horst Knospe: Internationales Soziologenlexikon. Volume 2, Enke, Stuttgart 1984, p. 350.
  • Hildegard Mathies : Encountered: Prof. Manfred Hermanns. In: KirchenZeitung. The week in the Diocese of Hildesheim. Vol. 53, No. 24 (June 14, 1998).
  • Rainer Ollmann: Greeting. In: Impulses for training, theory and practice in social work. Academic celebration on the occasion of the departure of Professor Dr. Manfred Hermanns from the public service. Hamburg 2000, pp. 21-22.
  • s. also Rainer Ollmann: Prof. Dr. Manfred Hermanns. In: standpunkt: social. Hamburg forum for social work. 2/2000, p. 108.
  • In the service of youth social work, greeting from Karl Hugo Breuer at the academic ceremony, in: myheimat May 14, 2015.
  • Grete Fehrenbach: Review of Manfred Hermanns, social ethics in the course of time. In: Academic monthly sheets. 121. Jg. (2009), No. 5, pp. 128-129.
  • Dietmar Grypa : Review of Manfred Hermanns, social ethics through the ages . In: Quarterly for social and economic history. Vol. 96 (2009), H. 2, pp. 225-226.
  • Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar 2018. Bio-bibliographical directory of contemporary German-speaking scientists. 30th edition, Volume 2, de Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2018, p. 1413, ISBN 978-3-11-051766-8 .
  • Who is who? The German who's who. Volume LII 2015/2016, Lübeck 2015, p. 394.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bensberger Kreis (ed.): Democratization of the Church. A memorandum of German Catholics. Grünewald, Mainz 1970.
  2. ↑ The New Left in Catholicism. 1977.
  3. ↑ Rundbrief Bund Neudeutschland, Region Osnabrück, 10th year 1989, No. 2, p. 8; Vol. 11, 1990, No. 1, p. 12 and Vol. 12, No. 1, p. 12; Hirschberg, monthly of the Federal New Germany, vol. 40, 1987, No. 10, p. 487 and p. 492; Vol. 44, 1991, No. 3, p. 195.
  4. ^ Minutes of the general meeting of the Raphaels factory on April 29, 1988 in Hamburg
  5. ↑ ZDK member, Books LLC (R), Wiki Series, Memphis, USA, 2011, pp. 38–40.
  6. ^ German Society for Sociology: Directory of Members 1998, p. 28
  7. ^ Der Übersee-Club eV: Membership Directory 2016. Hamburg 2016, p. 107.
  8. ↑ Annual and conference report of the Görres Society 2014, p. 154
  9. ^ Joseph Höffner Society: Directory of Members December 2016, p. 3.
  10. ^ Minutes of the founding meeting of the Heinrich Weber Research Group on January 20, 1998 (Hamburg District Court, VR 15656); Elli Reichert: Welfare - Economy - Caritas. The welfare scientist Heinrich Weber. Nordhausen: Verl. Traugott Bautz 2008, p. 35.
  11. ↑ KMF address directory 2011. Bonn 2011, p. 77 and p. 222.
  12. ↑ 3 Rundbrief Bund Neudeutschland, Region Osnabrück, 10th year 1989, No. 2, p. 8; 11th year 1990, no. 1, p. 12 and 12th year 1991, no. 1, p. 12
  13. ^ Association of Friends of Burg Rothenfels eV: statutes / list of members 1980, p. 16.
  14. ^ German Alpine Association: Hamburg Alpin. 2016, no. 1, p. 94.
personal data
SURNAME Hermanns, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German social scientist
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf