Peter Spiegel

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Peter Spiegel (born June 8, 1953 in Würzburg ) is a German non-fiction author and company founder. He currently heads the GENISIS Institute for Social Business and Impact Strategies and the Terra Institute he founded .

Life

Peter Spiegel studied sociology at the University of Regensburg (1974–1980) and then founded Horizonte Verlags GmbH (since 2006 Terra Media Verlag ), the publications by UNESCO , the Club of Rome , Michail Gorbatschow , Robert Jungk , Boutros Boutros-Ghali , Rudolf Dreikurs , Erik Blumenthal and others. From 1988 to 2001 he was a member of the board of directors of the German Baha'i community, where, among other things, he helped organize the Baha'i participation in the 2000 World Exhibition in Hanover . In 1994 he founded the international non-governmental organization Terra One World Network eV In 1996, Spiegel became an International Creative Member and later General Secretary (2002–2005) of the Club of Budapest International and worked with personalities such as the Dalai Lama , Nelson Mandela , Mikhail Gorbachev and others .

Peter Spiegel is co-initiator of the Global Marshall Plan Initiative , member of the Presidium of the Global Economic Network , Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Self eG and member of the board of the Committee for a Democratic UN. In 2007 he initiated and organized the international future conference "VISION SUMMIT", which has taken place annually since then, and in 2016 the "EduAction Education Summit" together with the Rhein-Neckar GmbH metropolitan region . Spiegel organized trips to Germany for Nobel Peace Prize laureate and social business pioneer Muhammad Yunus (2007–2008) and then founded the GENISIS Institute for Social Business and Impact Strategies , which deals with the implementation of social business in business and society. He is the creative director of Social Business Management GmbH and a founding member of the Social Stock Exchange Association (2008).

Peter Spiegel has also been a member of the Heraeus Education Foundation's advisory board since 2014 .

Think

Inspired by the teachings of the philosopher Hans Vaihinger , Spiegel represents a positive view of people and the world. His thinking and work is based on the premise that every person is endowed with a variety of positive potentials and abilities and can implement these as an “entrepreneur” of his or her own life in both economic and social terms. In his work, he looks for innovative and sustainable ways to promote equal opportunities in the world through the emancipation of the poor by linking different fields of activity from science to business, civil society, politics and religion . Spiegel is significantly involved in the development of the social impact business concept, which is a moderate form of social business and aims to stimulate a global paradigm shift from passive charitable thinking to active entrepreneurship among people of all social classes.

Publications

  • Good business. Humane market economy as a way out of the crisis . Construction Publishing House, Berlin 2009.
  • Social Impact Business . Genisis, Berlin 2009.
  • The Power of Dignity. The Grameen Family . J. Kamphausen, Bielefeld 2008, ISBN 978-3-89901-169-2 .
  • A humane world economy. Human success factor . Patmos-Verlag, Düsseldorf 2007, ISBN 978-3-491-72509-6 .
  • Muhammad Yunus - banker of the poor. The Nobel Peace Prize Laureate; his life, his vision, his impact . Herder-Verlag, Freiburg im Breisgau / Basel / Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-451-05880-4 .
  • with Lutz Wicke, Inga Wicke-Thüs (preface: Klaus Töpfer ): Kyoto PLUS. This is how the climate change succeeds; sustainable energy supply plus global justice; a report to the Global Marshall Plan Initiative . Beck-Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-406-55127-0 .
  • Human factor. A humane world economic miracle is possible; a report to the Global Marshall Plan Initiative . Horizonte-Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-89483-103-0 .
  • Invitation to help shape. In: Ervin Laszlo: You can change the world. How can I change the world? A report from the Club of Budapest . Verlag Via Nova, Petersberg 2003, ISBN 3-936486-23-9 .
  • The Terra Principle. The end of the fainting in sight. Economists become revolutionaries . Horizonte-Verlag, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-89483-045-X .
  • WeQ Economy: Paths to an economy for people . oekom Verlag, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-96238-145-5 .

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personal data
SURNAME Spiegel, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German non-fiction author and company founder
DATE OF BIRTH June 8, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Wurzburg