Michael Schmitz (agricultural economist)

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Peter Michael Schmitz (born July 15, 1949 in Bad Gandersheim ) is a German agricultural economist . He was a professor at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen (JLU).

Life

Schmitz studied economics at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen ( Diplom-Volkswirt , 1975). There he received his doctorate in agricultural economics in 1979. In 1984 he received his habilitation at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel . After a short stay at IIASA , he was Professor of Agricultural Policy in Gießen from 1984 to 1987 and at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main from 1987 to 1995 . He has been back in Giessen since 1995.

Schmitz was among other things a member of the Scientific Advisory Board for Agricultural Policy at the Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection , 1992 - 2011.

Until September 2012 he was the “Managing Director” for an “Institute for Agricultural Policy and Market Research” at JLU.

job

His research areas are European and international agricultural policy, international agricultural trade and trade policy , applied microeconomics , new political economy , development and environmental economics , competitiveness of the agricultural economy, and transformation economics .

Schmitz had been running a private "Institute for Agribusiness" since 1990, for which he did commissioned work for the agricultural industry. So he put u. a. presented a study supported with funds from a “ Dr. Alhard von Burgsdorff Foundation ”, which is intended to show the “economic harmfulness of a meatless diet”. In 2019 he projected his opinion in front of members of the German Bundestag . The university has repeatedly asked Schmitz to differentiate between his work at the institute and at the university in terms of external presentation. On September 11, 2019, Schmitz presented 35 slides at a public conference, each with the name and symbol of the JLU at the bottom left and the name of the institute on the right.

As the author and co-author of several "expert reports" secretly paid for by Monsanto , he has warned against the ban on the use of glyphosate since 2012 and presented its use as positive and unproblematic, without any reference to external financing in the studies. As a result of his connection to Monsanto, a journal of the state Kühn Institute, for which he had published twice, initially provided both articles in the online version with an editorial reservation with regard to their validity at the beginning of December 2019. Both publications were eventually withdrawn from the magazine .

literature

  • Institute for Agribusiness and Liaison Office Agriculture - Industry [VLI] (Hrsg.): Printed matter (PDF) 3rd act. and exp. Ed., Forewords M. Schmitz, Kassel 2010 ISSN  1434-9787 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Schmitz sat for 20 years on the scientific advisory board that advises the Federal Ministry of Agriculture on agricultural policy issues." ( Süddeutsche Zeitung. September 13, 2019 ( sueddeutsche.de ).)
  2. ↑ Use the link to the 2012 Activity Report .
  3. ↑ According to Süddeutscher Zeitung. Meanwhile dissolved by the rights holder.
  4. ↑ "At the beginning of April 2019 in the roof garden restaurant of the Reichstag ... top representatives of the poultry industry had invited leading agricultural politicians to a poultry breakfast" ( Süddeutsche Zeitung. September 13, 2019.) The foundation is headed by a central association of the German poultry industry , ZDG, Personnel Ripke , a busy animal politician.
  5. ↑ "We took the lobby control request as an opportunity to point out to Mr Schmitz that he has to work towards a correct designation without inadmissible references to the JLU ... We repeated this request in writing at the end of May (sc. 2019) for the occasion, and Mr Schmitz pointed out that we reserve the right to take further consequences. "( Süddeutsche Zeitung. September 13, 2019)
  6. ↑ dgfz-bonn.de (PDF) Accessed December 6, 2019.
  7. ^ Elke Brandstätter, Lutz Polanz: Industry co-finances glyphosate studies. In: Tagesschau / WDR. December 5, 2019, accessed December 5, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Markus Balser, Uwe Ritzer: Dangerous seeds. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. September 13, 2019, accessed September 17, 2019 .
  9. ↑ German researcher criticized Monsanto is said to have bought studies. n-tv , accessed December 5, 2019; ARD, same date , also on the interweaving of its sponsors and on the use of the university name by Schmitz in the public presentation of his opinions raised in the private institute.
  10. ↑ here 2012 , the other type is from 2015: “The publication of this article is currently under review. The editor's attention was drawn to a potential conflict of interest of one of the authors, which was not indicated in the publication. Please keep this in mind when referencing this article or using its contents for your own work. This message will be updated as soon as the investigation is completed. "
  11. ↑ Monsanto funded other covert studies . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , March 12, 2020. Retrieved March 12, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Schmitz, Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmitz, Peter Michael (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German agricultural economist
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Gandersheim