Marie-Luise Schwarz-Schilling

Marie-Luise Schwarz-Schilling , née Jonen (born April 26, 1932 in Berlin ) is a German entrepreneur and author. She directed - e.g. T. together with her husband Christian Schwarz-Schilling - the Accumulatorenfabrik Sonnenschein and became known to a larger audience primarily through her book Die Ehe: Seitensprung der Geschichte (2004).

Life

Growing up in Berlin, Marie-Luise Jonen studied archeology in Göttingen and Paris and later economics at the University of Munich. In 1957 she passed the exam to become an economist . After the death of her father Clemens Jonen, from 1957 until the sale in 1992, she and her husband Christian Schwarz-Schilling took over the management of the medium-sized accumulator factory Sonnenschein with around 1,000 employees in Büdingen (Hessen) and Berlin - as one of the first women in Germany to do so Position. In the management she was mainly responsible for finances, introduction of controlling, brand management, international expansion and personnel. In Hesse she began her voluntary political work in the municipal area from 1962 and later became a councilor for the city of Büdingen. For a few years she was chairwoman of the “Ronneburger Kreis”, an association of business executives who deal with aspects of motivation and management methods, and was one of the hard core of Nicolaus Sombart's Habitués des jour fixe . Marie-Luise Schwarz-Schilling has been working as a freelancer in Berlin and the Frankfurt area since 1992. She is married to the former Federal Post Minister Christian Schwarz-Schilling and has two daughters. She lives in Berlin and Büdingen.

Author activity

Schwarz-Schilling wrote books and specialist articles, gave economic and sociological lectures, as a guest speaker also at the TU Berlin and the University of Potsdam. Her topics revolve around the growing tension between competition and satisfaction in society, but above all around the change in the feminine and masculine in the partnership, from romantic love to the questions why the number of singles is growing and why men are less likely to have children want as women. In addition to her book "Marriage - Affair of History", she has published writings and articles in the fields of politics, philosophy and the market economy. a. the book "Kaufmann und Schamane" in 1984.

In "Kaufmann und Schamane" (1984) she describes the merchants as the first citizens in world history and pacemakers for the freedom of the individual against the resistance of the shamans.

In "Ehe: Seitensprung der Geschichte" (2004), the question is when, how and where the formation of a family based on a sexual union and no longer on consanguinity arose.

“Equally important: How does the togetherness endure?” (2015) continues the search for the factors of a successful partnership. In the form of a round table, based on Plato's feast, 3 men and 3 women go through the current questions about equality: male and female leadership style, competitive behavior, sex, attachment.

Selected publications

Monographs

• Merchant and shaman: encouragement to freedom and its burden . Stuttgart; Herford: Seewald, 1985. ISBN 3-512-00690-6
• Marriage: Affair of History. Frankfurt am Main: Dielmann, 2004. ISBN 3-933974-48-8 .
• Equally important: how does the togetherness endure? . Frankfurt am Main: Wagner, 2015; ISBN 978-3-95630-253-4

Essays and small letters

• "Afraid contact - procreation strike: more men than women say no to offspring": Rheinischer Merkur 12/2008
• “Do men want children?” In: Courage , Forum for Culture, Politics and History, November 2007
• " Ius primae noctis - the Lord wants rule" in: Rheinischer Merkur December 24, 2008
• "Is marriage still up to date?" 2005. Berlin: Technische Universität Berlin (Social Sciences Series 33), 35 pp.
• "The bourgeois love marriage", in: Siggelkow , Ingeborg (Ed.), 2006: Values ​​and Worldviews, Frankfurt am Main a. a .: Verlag Peter Lang, pp. 17–24 (Kulturwissenschaften 3 series). ISBN 978-3-631-55695-5
• “Female dignity and female honor in patriarchal and democratic societies” in: Siggelkow, Ingeborg (Ed.), 2006: Values ​​and Worldviews, Frankfurt am Main a. a .: Verlag Peter Lang, pp. 105–120 (Kulturwissenschaften 3 series). ISBN 978-3-631-55695-5
• "The brain, its feelings and the change in values", in: Siggelkow, Ingeborg (Ed.), 2008: Symbols and Values, Frankfurt am Main u. a .: Verlag Peter Lang, pp. 41–55 (Series Kulturwissenschaften 4) ISBN 978-3-631-57206-1 .
• “Aspects of a cultural history of intoxication” in: Siggelkow, Ingeborg (ed.), 2009: Wertorientierungen im Wandel, Berlin: Technische Universität Berlin, Universitätsverlag, pp. 201–213 (series Social Rules 5) ISBN 978-3-7983-2113 -7
• "Women's quota" in: Diepolitische Opinion, February 1996
• "Childless and without pension" in: Rheinischer Merkur July 31, 1987
• "The Art of Lifelong Love" in: Mut, October 1987
• “Political Ethos in Critical Rationalism” in: Sonde, 4/973

Web links

• Website of Marie-Luise Schwarz-Schilling
• Portrait on Unternehmerinnen.org