Pure Klingholz

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Reiner Klingholz (born October 9, 1953 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein ) is a German chemist , journalist and population researcher .

Activity as a scientist and journalist

After studying chemistry and working as a research assistant at the University of Hamburg , Klingholz completed his doctorate on macromolecular DNA structures. From 1984 to 1989 he worked as a science editor at ZEIT and from 1990 to 2000 editor at GEO and head of the editorial team at GEO WISSEN. In 2013 he was a Fellow at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS) in South Africa.

Activity as an author

Klingholz published books like Wir Klimamacher about anthropogenic climate change and madness growth about global demographic developments.

In his book Slaves of Growth , published in 2014 , he explains the developments that could lead humanity out of the growth society and into a society of post-growth. First of all, the developing and emerging countries would catch up on their economic development, which would further increase global resource consumption. In the short term, they could realize a demographic dividend ; In the medium and long term, however, due to the socio-economic development and higher education, especially of women, the current population growth will turn into its opposite ( demographic-economic paradox ). He emphasizes that experience has shown that this trend towards lower birth rates continues even when the standard of living falls again. In the long term, this would create a new equilibrium, with a far smaller world population . Until then, serious crises are to be expected, which in turn would only pave the way for a rethink and for effective legal regulations. The environmental movement had failed: it had not prevented anthropogenic climate change and species decline and could not do so either, since its appeals would conflict with economic interests and since, due to the rebound effect, technology-related efficiency gains are mostly consumed by increased consumption. Klingholz is also the sole author or co-author of numerous publications on population research and structural change in urban and rural areas.

Head of the Berlin Institute

From 2003 to 2019, Klingholz headed the Berlin Institute for Population and Development ; in September 2009 he was appointed chairman of the 'Berlin Institute for Population and Development Foundation'.

Memberships

From 2005 to 2007 Klingholz was a member of the Enquête Commission on Demographic Change in Lower Saxony.

He has been a member of the IBA Thuringia Board of Trustees since December 2012.

Since 2014 he has been a member of the Advisory Board of the Holzminden / Höxter Future Center.

Awards

Klingholz won, among other things, the Federal President's Development Policy Journalism Prize and the German Environmental Foundation's book prize twice .

Private

Klingholz is married, has two children and lives in Potsdam.

Publications

  • Supranucleosomal structure of chromatin. Analysis and Reconstitution. Dissertation. Hamburg 1983
  • (Ed.): The custom-made world. Genetic engineering - history, opportunities and risks. Westermann, Braunschweig 1988, ISBN 3-07-509097-2 ; Rowohlt, Reinbek 1990, ISBN 3-499-18746-9
  • Marathon in space. The unique journey of the spaceship Voyager 2. Westermann, Braunschweig 1989, ISBN 3-07-509233-9 ; Ullstein, Frankfurt / Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-548-34870-X
  • with Hartmut Graßl : We climate makers. Ways out of the global greenhouse. S. Fischer, Frankfurt 1990, ISBN 3-10-028605-7
  • Insanity growth. How many people does the earth bear? Gruner and Jahr, Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-570-19026-9
  • with Steffen Kröhnert & Franziska Medicus: The demographic situation of the nation. How sustainable are Germany's regions? dtv, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-423-34296-4
  • with Steffen Kröhnert: Need for a man. From heroes of work to the new lower class? Life situations of young adults in regions of economic decline in the new federal states. Berlin Institute for Population and Development, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-00-021678-7 ( PDF )
  • with Steffen Kröhnert & Iris Hoßmann: The demographic future of Europe. How the regions are changing. dtv, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-423-34509-5
  • with Stephan Sievert & Sergei Sacharow: The shrinking world power. The demographic future of Russia and the post-Soviet states. Berlin Institute for Population and Development, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-9812473-6-7 ( PDF )
  • with Sabine Sütterlin & Iris Hoßmann: Dementia Report. How the regions in Germany, Austria and Switzerland can prepare for the aging of society. Berlin Institute for Population and Development, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-9812473-4-3 ( PDF )
  • with Stephan Sievert & Manuel Slupina: On points ahead. What Germany can learn from Canada's immigration and integration policy. Berlin Institute for Population and Development, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-9814679-5-6 ( PDF )
  • with Klaus Töpfer : The Trilemma of Growth. Population growth, energy consumption and climate change - three problems, no solution? Berlin Institute for Population and Development, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-9814679-3-2
  • Demographic policy without a concept: Every age pays . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . April 25, 2012
  • with Eva Kuhn: Diversity instead of equality. What does population decline mean for the supply of rural regions? Berlin Institute for Population and Development, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-9814679-6-3 ( PDF )
  • Slaves of growth. The story of a liberation. Campus Verlag, Frankfurt / New York 2014, ISBN 978-3-593-39798-6
  • Demographic development: rejection of doom . In: The time . No. 7, February 13, 2014
  • with Manuel Slupina & Sabine Sütterlin: Of hurdles and heroes. How to reinvent life in the country. Berlin Institute for Population and Development, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-9816212-4-2 ( PDF )
  • with Wolfgang Lutz: Who will survive? Education decides the future of humanity . Campus Verlag, Frankfurt / New York 2016, ISBN 978-3593505107 .

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ^ Publication on the farewell to Reiner Klingholz
  2. ↑ zzhh.hawk-hhg.de , accessed December 26, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Klingholz, Reiner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist, molecular biologist and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Ludwigshafen am Rhein