Margrit Kennedy

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Margrit Kennedy , née Hübner (born November 21, 1939 in Chemnitz ; † December 28, 2013 in Steyerberg ) was a German architect , ecologist , author and critic of capitalism . She is considered a free economy advocate .

Origin and family

Margrit Hübner was born in 1939 as the first child of the entrepreneurial couple Kurt and Anne Hübner. The family fled from Chemnitz to Kassel at the end of the war because their grandparents lived there. She was married to Declan Kennedy since 1961 . Her brother Reinhard Hübner runs the Hübner GmbH & Co KG in Kassel.

Work as an architect

Margrit Kennedy was trained as an architect in Darmstadt and worked as an urban planner and ecologist in Germany, Nigeria , Scotland and the USA . She was in "Public and International Affairs" at the University of Pittsburgh for his doctorate Doctor ( PhD ). From 1972 to 1979 she carried out research projects on schools as community centers for the School Building Institute of the Federal States (Berlin), the OECD and UNESCO in 15 European countries and in North and South America. From 1979 to 1984, as part of the International Building Exhibition in Berlin in 1987, she headed the research area Ecology / Energy and Women's Projects, and in the following years she held a visiting professorship for urban ecology at the University of Kassel . In 1991 she was appointed professor at the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Hanover , where she headed the “Technical Extension and Resource-Saving Construction ” department until 2002 .

She has been involved in the planning and construction of the ecological model project Lebensgarten Steyerberg with 150 residents since 1987, where she lived and worked until her death.

Work on the monetary system

Her work in ecological projects "... led her to the realization that the broader application of ecological principles is hindered by a fundamental flaw in the monetary system". So she located in interest a growth compulsion . Since the 1980s she has worked on the development of alternative monetary systems, published numerous books, essays and interviews, and lectured on monetary topics.

She is one of the founders of the Regiogeld-Netzwerk, which later developed into the Regiogeld-Verband. Well before the 2007 financial crisis , it inspired regional money projects and complementary currencies in various regions in German-speaking countries and beyond. In 2011 Margrit Kennedy initiated the “Occupy Money” initiative together with others and published a book of the same name. Margrit Kennedy bundled her own work on the money system in the "Money Network Alliance" (Monneta), which continues research and knowledge transfer on sustainable finance and complementary monetary systems even after the founder's death.

For her work on the monetary system, Margrit Kennedy and Bernard A. Lietaer received the Utstickarpris in Stockholm in 2012 .

Works

  • Occupy Money , J. Kamphausen, Bielefeld 2011, ISBN 978-3-89901-595-9
  • I.a. Margrit Kennedy: The Lifestyle Trap , Rhombos-Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-938807-49-1
  • Women do the most important work. Four essays on the situation of women in the economy (with Helmut Creutz and Hans Weitkamp ), Gauke, Kiel 1996, ISBN 978-3-87998-436-7
  • Handbook of ecological settlement (re) building (ed. With Declan Kennedy), Reimer, Berlin 1998, ISBN 978-3-496-02638-9
  • Energetic optimization of a production hall with special consideration of an innovative ventilation concept. Final report part 1 , ed. v. Margrit Kennedy et al., IRB, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 978-3-8167-5456-5
  • Money without interest and inflation. A medium of exchange that serves everyone , Goldmann, Munich 2005, ISBN 978-3-442-12341-4 , first published in 1987, then revised again and again and translated into 22 languages. The full text of the 2006 edition is available online .
  • Regional currencies. New ways to sustainable prosperity (with Bernard A. Lietaer ), Riemann, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-570-50052-1
  • The Inner City , Elek, London, 1972
  • Building Community Schools. An Analysis of Experiences , UNESCO , Paris 1979, ISBN 92-3-101583-4
  • Urban Ecology , 2 vol., Fischer, Frankfurt a. M., 1984

literature

  • Peter Krause: Margrit Kennedy. Architect for ecology, complementary monetary systems and social justice . oekom publishing house, Munich 2020, ISBN 978-3-96238-202-5

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ulrike Herrmann: A charismatic thought leader . In: taz.de , December 30, 2013.
  2. ↑ http://www.margritkennedy.de/index.php?id=70&ord=48
  3. ^ Margrit Kennedy: Money without Interest and Inflation. A medium of exchange that serves everyone . Goldmann, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-442-12341-4 , pp. 26–7 : "The interest mechanism [is] a main cause of the pathological compulsion to grow ... The interest thus determines how quickly the economy must grow."
  4. ↑ http://www.monneta.org/index.php?id=255&kat=91
  5. ↑ http://www.margritkennedy.de/utstickarpris.html
personal data
SURNAME Kennedy, Margrit
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Margrit Hübner (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect, ecologist and author
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Chemnitz
DATE OF DEATH December 28, 2013
Place of death Steyerberg