Max Wingen

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Max Wingen (born March 13, 1930 in Bonn ; † January 28, 2005 there ) was a German ministerial official in the Federal Ministry of Family Affairs and head of the Baden-Württemberg State Statistical Office. He made a name for himself as a family and population scientist. Wingen devoted himself to family policy issues in numerous books and publications.

Work and life

Wingen studied economics in Bonn and supplemented this course with the subjects of social policy and sociology. He started his professional life at the Federation of German Employers' Associations (BDA). In 1956 he received his doctorate. rer. pole. As co-author of a commentary on child benefit legislation , he moved to the Federal Ministry of Family Affairs in 1959. In his subsequent career in the ministerial administration, he focused on family issues and family policy . In 1979 he took over the management of the Baden-Württemberg State Statistical Office , where he set up a family science research center that combined demography and population issues. In 1992 he returned to the Federal Ministry for Family and Senior Citizens for his final years as a ministerial director .

First at the University of Bochum (1973 ff.), Later at the University of Konstanz (1981 ff.), He worked as an honorary professor with a focus on population sciences .

An important concern of his life was the message that a social security system based on the so-called intergenerational contract only proves to be sustainable if the recipients of benefits have enough payers.

Growing up in a Catholic home in Bonn's Beuel district, the Christian faith had a lasting impact on his professional and private life. Wingen felt particularly committed to Catholic social teaching throughout his life. He was involved in numerous associations and associations such as the Bund New Germany and the Family Association of German Catholics. His membership in the CDU combined Wingen with membership in the CDA, the social committees as the workers' wing within this party.

As a member of a “white class”, he was spared participation in World War II: he was too young to be drafted as a soldier in World War II, and after the end of the war too old for conscription in the young Federal Republic.

Awards

For its social work, Wingen was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit First Class in 1990 and the Great Federal Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1999.

In 1988 he had the Dr. Wilhelm Siekmann Medal of the German Family Association received; the Family Association of German Catholics and the Society for Social Progress made him an honorary member.

Publications

Wingen published around 180 books, journal articles, etc., including the following publications:

  • Family Policy - Basics and Current Problems. Stuttgart 1997
  • Family - a forgotten high achiever? County 1995.
  • Generational solidarity in an aging society. Stuttgart 1986.
  • Illegitimate relationships: forms, motives, consequences. Zurich 1984.
  • Children in industrial society - what for? Zurich 1982.
  • Basic questions of population policy. Stuttgart 1975.
  • Family policy - goals, paths and effects. Paderborn 1964.

Socio-political companions dedicate themselves to his life's work in the festschrift:  

  • Family science and family policy signals. Jans, Bernhard / Habisch, André / Stutzer, Erich (eds.), Grafschaft 2000 .  

Others

Max Wingen is neither related nor known to the population theorist Oskar Wingen, who is also listed on Wikipedia .

literature

Web links

  • Obituary German Society for Demography (2005)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Cornelius, Ivar: Family research Baden-Württemberg. Retrieved June 30, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Wingen, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ministerial official in the Federal Ministry of Family Affairs, head of the Baden-Württemberg State Statistical Office
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn
DATE OF DEATH January 28, 2005
Place of death Bonn