Peter Hennicke

Peter Hennicke (born January 18, 1942 ) is a German economist and university professor. Until January 31, 2008 he was President of the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy in the Science Center North Rhine-Westphalia.

Life

Peter Hennicke studied economics and chemistry at the University of Heidelberg . As a research assistant at the Universities of Osnabrück and Heidelberg , he dealt with research and teaching of economic and development theories and also with economic and energy policy . In his activities as a consultant for fundamental questions of energy policy in the Hessian Ministry for Environment and Energy and in the corporate planning of a regional utility company, Hennicke gained practical experience in the implementation and application-related further development of energy management concepts.

From 1988 to 1992 he was a professor at the Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences . Hennicke was a long-time member of the board of the Freiburg Öko-Institut eV - Institute for Applied Ecology .

Between 1987 and 1994, Hennicke was a member of the Bundestag's Enquete Commissions on Prevention and Protection of the Earth's Atmosphere .

At the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy , he became director of the energy department in the Science Center North Rhine-Westphalia in 1992.

From 2000 to 2002 he was a member of the Enquete Commission of the Bundestag Sustainable Energy Supply under the Conditions of Globalization and Liberalization .

On November 1, 2000, Hennicke succeeded Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker as Acting President of the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy. In 2003 he was appointed President of the Institute.

In March 2014 he was accepted into the global think tank Club of Rome . Also in 2014 he was awarded the Environment Prize of the Federal Environment Foundation.

Works (selection)

Books

• The development-theoretical conceptions of Mao Tse-tung: historical foundations and socio-economic conditions of the development policy of the People's Republic of China (1927–1957), Minerva Publ., Munich 1978.
• Problems of socialism and transition societies , Peter Hennicke (ed.), Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1973, ISBN 3518006401
• The energy transition is possible, Peter Hennicke, S. Fischer-Verlag, 1985, ISBN 3100552059
• Energy industry and the environment, authors: Helmut Schaefer, Bernd Geiger, Manfred Rudolph, Peter Hennicke, Konrad Buchwald, Economica-Verlag, 1995, ISBN 3870816120
• Avoiding prosperity: Out of the crisis with ecology, authors: Michael Müller, Peter Hennicke, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1994, ISBN 3534801563
• Planning the competition in the energy sector: Least-cost planning: A new concept for optimizing energy services, Peter Hennicke, Springer-Verlag, 1991, ISBN 3540541578
• The energy-saving power plant: Using saved energy again, Peter Hennicke, Dieter Seifried, Birkhäuser-Verlag, 1996, ISBN 3764354186
• Solar hydrogen. Energy carriers of the future ?: A discussion of long-term strategies, Peter Hennicke, Birkhäuser Verlag AG, 1995, ISBN 3764352167
• Full of energy: Vision: the global four-factor strategy for climate protection and nuclear phase-out, Amory Lovins, Peter Hennicke, Campus Verlag GmbH, 1999, ISBN 3593360381
• World power energy. Challenge for Democracy and Prosperity Peter Hennicke, Michael Müller, Hirzel Verlag, Stuttgart, 2005, ISBN 3-7776-1319-3
• The climate catastrophe, Peter Hennicke, Michael Müller, Willy Brandt, Dietz-Verlag, 1989, ISBN 3801230317
• Bonus scheme for combined heat and power plants, Manfred Fischedick, Peter Hennicke, Staff Dept. of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, 1999, ISBN 3-86077-858-7
• Wa (h) re energy service: A competition concept for the energy efficiency and solar energy industry, Peter Hennicke, Birkhäuser-Verlag, 1999, ISBN 3764361557
• Energy revolution: Increasing efficiency and renewable energies as a new global challenge, Peter Hennicke and Susanne Bodach, published by the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Energy and Environment, oekom-Verlag, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-86581-205-6
• Energy transition after Fukushima: German special path or worldwide role model ?, Peter Hennicke, Paul JJ Welfens , Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-86581-318-3 .

Technical articles

• with Sylvia Borbonusa and Christine Woerlen: The GEF's interventions in the climate change focal area: the contribution to strategies for climate change mitigation and sustainable development . Energy for Sustainable Development 11, Issue 1, (2007) 13–25, doi : 10.1016 / S0973-0826 (08) 60560-8 .
• with Manfred Fischedick : Towards sustainable energy systems: The related role of hydrogen . Energy Policy 34, edition 11, (2006), 1260–1270 doi : 10.1016 / j.enpol.2005.12.016 .
• Scenarios for a robust policy mix: the final report of the German study commission on sustainable energy supply . Energy Policy 32, issue 15, (2004), 1673–1678, doi : 10.1016 / S0301-4215 (03) 00163-0 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Peter Hennicke in the catalog of the German National Library
• Portrait of Hennicke at the Wuppertal Institute
• interview
• Science information service

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Energy Agency NRW: Wuppertal Institute says goodbye to Prof. Dr. Peter Hennicke with a symposium. Accessed August 24, 2008
2. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated December 3, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ http://wupperinst.org/info/details/wi/a/s/ad/2572/
4. ↑ Protection of valuable resources as a central future task in science and practice. ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. German Federal Environment Foundation on September 23, 2014