Meinhard Miegel

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Meinhard Miegel (born April 23, 1939 in Vienna ) is a German social scientist and journalist .

Meinhard Miegel at a lecture at the Catholic rural community college "Schorlemer Alst"

Life

After graduating from high school, which he passed in Bad Langensalza in 1957, Miegel first studied music for two semesters at the Weimar University of Music . After fleeing to the Federal Republic of Germany, he began studying sociology and philosophy at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main in 1958 . In 1959 he went to Washington, DC , where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1961 . From 1961 to 1966 he studied law , philosophy and economics in Frankfurt am Main . In 1966 he passed the 1st state examination and in 1969 the 2nd state examination. In 1967 he was promoted to Dr. iur. utr. PhD .

From 1970 to 1973 Miegel was an in-house lawyer at Henkel in Düsseldorf. From 1973 to 1977 he worked for the Secretary General of the CDU , Kurt Biedenkopf , and from 1975 head of the Politics, Information and Documentation Department of the CDU's federal office.

Together with Kurt Biedenkopf, Miegel founded the Bonn Institute for Economics and Society (IWG BONN) in 1977 , a privately financed research institute, which he headed until its dissolution (2008). In 1992 Miegel was appointed as an adjunct professor at the University of Leipzig , where he taught until 1998 and headed the Center for International Economic Relations . This center is an interdisciplinary research institution that researches "the political and historical framework conditions and the socio-cultural influences of economic change in Central and Eastern Europe". From 1995 to 1997 he was also chairman of the commission for future issues of the Free States of Bavaria and Saxony .

Since 2007 Miegel has been chairman of the board of the Denkwerk Zukunft - Foundation for cultural renewal .

Viewpoints

Miegel's work focuses on analyzes of the changing framework conditions of the economy and society. He is particularly frequent in expressing himself publicly on demographic change and its consequences for the pay-as-you-go social security systems . He advocates the conversion of the wage-related statutory pension into a general, tax-financed basic security in old age, which is to be supplemented by private provision. Miegel's proposals are aimed at "overcoming the traditional workers' society and building an independent civil society ." As part of the Denkwerk Zukunft , he advocates suppressing the ideology of growth and creating a culture that is fit for the future and can be generalized .

Miegel expressed himself very pessimistically in 2002 about the future of the city of Berlin, whose population will halve: "This city with its 3.3 million people has been a problem for the longest time. (...) Berlin was and is a city that can only exist with difficulty on its own. Therefore, one should not even try to put it in line with other European metropolises. Rather, one should accept what will happen by itself. The city is slowly becoming the size of Hamburg evaporate. "

In 2003 Miegel was one of the founders of the political association Bürgererkonvent .

Meinhard Miegel praised Angela Merkel in 2016 for opening the borders during the refugee crisis in Europe in 2015 and was convinced that at least half of those seeking protection could later be deported. Miegel also predicted that most of the people who were willing to flee in their countries of origin would soon realize that they would not be granted a right to stay in Europe and would give up their project.

At the beginning of 2020, Miegel explained with reference to Germany and other "early industrialized" countries and their aging populations that without steadily increasing immigration, the number of people would decrease at an ever increasing pace. But if you want to keep up in the future, you have to be prepared for the fact that the immigrants would put their stamp on the previous residents and sometimes replace their culture with their own. This is a new chapter in human history, in which the cards are being reshuffled and new rules apply.

Accusation of involvement with the insurance industry

Miegel's Institute for Economics and Society was financed, among other things, by corporate donations and lived from commissioned work, such as for the German Institute for Pensions . Since Miegel publicly advocates private pension provision, the economist Albrecht Müller sees him as an example of the interdependence of politics, science and the insurance industry. Miegel himself rejects the allegations. Another critic of Miegel is the statistician Gerd Bosbach .

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literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Editor: Great debate on the limits of growth - LandesPressePortal - current politics news. In: landespresseportal.de. Retrieved June 8, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Denkwerkzukunft homepage  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed April 30, 2014.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.denkwerkzukunft.de  
  3. ↑ Meinhard Miegel, Stefanie Wahl: Solidarity basic security, private provision. The way out of the pension crisis. Current, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-87959-535-6
  4. ↑ Hendrik Munsberg: That's why it squeaks and crunches . In: Berliner Zeitung , November 15, 2002; interview
  5. ↑ Dirk Müller: Miegel: Pension can only provide basic security . Deutschlandfunk , February 15, 2006; interview
  6. ↑ http://www.welt.de/print-welt/article375937/Berlin-wird-langsam-auf-die-Groesse-Hamburgs-eindunsten.html
  7. ^ Georg Meck: Conservative Platform: The Citizens' Convention is at an end . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . August 8, 2015, ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed June 8, 2016]).
  8. ^ Rudolf Speth: The Citizens' Convention - Campaign protest from above without transparency and citizen participation. In: Boeckler. Hans Böckler Foundation, November 2003, accessed on June 8, 2016 .
  9. ↑ Interview by Ferdinand Knauß: "" We can do it "" Wirtschaftswoche from March 4, 2016
  10. ↑ "We can adjust to our extinction - or take countermeasures" Die Welt from January 13, 2020
  11. ↑ The pension lie . SWR , April 24, 2008
  12. ↑ The instrumentalized fear of the future: Statutory or private pension insurance, who has the benefit? SWR , teleakademie, April 1, 2012
  13. ^ Wording of the application of the Enquete Commission on Growth, Prosperity, Quality of Life, accessed on April 30, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Miegel, Meinhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and social scientist
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna