Rainer Hank

Rainer Hank, 2019

Rainer Hank (born January 24, 1953 in Stuttgart ) is a German business journalist . He headed the business and finance department of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung (FAS).

Life

Hank studied literature , philosophy and Catholic theology at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen and the University of Freiburg / Friborg . He received his doctorate in 1983 on the literature of Viennese modernism .

Rainer Hank is the author of numerous journalistic books on economics. He represents neoliberal positions here , criticizes the welfare state as the cause of the euro crisis and favors an austerity policy .

In 2013 he was awarded the Karl Hermann Flach Prize , in 2014 he received the Hayek Medal from the Friedrich A. von Hayek Society . Rainer Hank is a member of the jury for the Ludwig Erhard Prize for Business Journalism from the Ludwig Erhard Foundation . He is a member of the Wilhelm Röpke Institute .

His book Lob der Macht (2017) was nominated for the German Business Book Prize and has been widely discussed in public. a. at the University of Witten / Herdecke .

Publications

• Mortification and incantation. On the change in aesthetic perception in modern times using the example of Richard Beer-Hofmann's early work . Lang, Frankfurt / Bern / New York 1984, ISBN 3-8204-5448-9 (dissertation)
• with Axel Schnorbus: Studying in Germany. Admission requirements, study situation, career prospects. Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt 1990, ISBN 3-7973-0484-6 ; 2. updated and exp. Ed. Ibid. 1991, ISBN 3-7973-0505-2
• Work - the religion of the 20th century. On the way to the company of the self-employed. Eichborn, Frankfurt 1995, ISBN 3-8218-0445-9
• with Lukas Weber: Studying in Germany. Admission requirements, study situation, career prospects. Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt 1996, ISBN 3-7973-0614-8
• The clergyman and the power - Bernhard Hanssler. Knecht, Frankfurt 1997, ISBN 3-7820-0758-1
• Klaus Murmann in conversation with Rainer Hank & Rolf Dietrich Schwartz: Contract for the future. What moves me. Brandenburgisches Verlagshaus, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-89488-114-3
• with Norbert Berthold : Alliance for Work: Corporatism instead of competition. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 1999, ISBN 3-16-147154-7 .
• The end of equality or why capitalism needs more competition. S. Fischer, Frankfurt 2000, ISBN 3-10-030055-6 .
• with Hans D. Barbier : Bubenstücke. From nonsense in economic policy. Frankfurter Allgemeine Buch in the FAZ Institute, Frankfurt 2004, ISBN 3-89981-042-2 .
• (Ed.): The Sunday Economist. Stories from the full life. Frankfurter Allgemeine Buch, Frankfurt 2007, ISBN 978-3-89981-128-5 .
• (Ed.): Explain the world to me - everything you always wanted to know about economics. Frankfurter Allgemeine Buch, Frankfurt 2008, ISBN 978-3-89981-156-8 .
• The American virus. How do we prevent the next crash? Blessing, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-89667-399-2 .
• (Ed.): News from the Sunday Economist. Real life stories. Frankfurter Allgemeine Buch, Frankfurt 2010, ISBN 978-3-89981-219-0 .
• The bankrupt republic. How the debt state incapacitates us and how we can free ourselves. Blessing, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-89667-421-0 .
  • Against the tyranny of welfare , review by Rainer Kühn on Deutschlandfunk , June 18, 2012.
• with Werner Plumpe (Ed.): How we got rich. Theiss, Stuttgart.
  • Volume 1: A Brief History of Capitalism. 2012, ISBN 978-3-8062-2704-8 .
  • Volume 2: A little story of our prosperity. 2013, ISBN 978-3-8062-2770-3 .
• Beyond Supply and Demand: What the Literature Knows About the Financial Crisis , HWWI Policy Paper 81, 2013.
• Left where the heart beats. Inventory of a political idea . Knaus, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-8135-0656-3 .
• Praise to power . Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2017, ISBN 978-3-608-96179-9 .
• "The state of emergency. Europe in times of danger" Teleakademie video from 2012-09-09.

Web links

Commons : Rainer Hank  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Personal website of Rainer Hank
• Literature by and about Rainer Hank in the catalog of the German National Library
• Rainer Hank - profile and article list on the website of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Party without bill: The oversized welfare states are to blame for the crisis ( Memento from November 30, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Karl-Hermann-Flach-Stiftung: Award of the Karl-Hermann-Flach-Preis 2013 to Rainer Hank ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . July, 1st 2013
3. ↑ ludwig-erhard-stiftung.de: Members of the jury (accessed on August 26, 2014)
4. ↑ Members of the Wilhelm Röpke Institute ( Memento of the original from June 27, 2015 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. . Retrieved June 26, 2015. 
5. ↑ Klett-Cotta: Rainer Hanks "Praise of Power" on the German shortlist. Business Book Prize August 11, 2017
6. ↑ YouTube channel Witten / Herdecke University: Video recording of the RMI debate “Praise to Power” on November 28 , 2017 with Rainer Hank and Günther Ortmann , Reinhard Mohn Institute for Corporate Management December 14, 2017