Sebastian Herkommer

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Sebastian Herkommer (born September 1, 1933 in Stuttgart ; † September 3, 2004 in Berlin ) was a German social and economic scientist with a Marxist orientation.

Life

After an apprenticeship at a bank, Herkommer studied in Frankfurt ; then he worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Social Research . In 1965 he did his doctorate under Theodor W. Adorno on the opportunities and limits of political education in schools. In 1966 he took a position as an academic adviser at the Free University of Berlin . From 1971 to 1998 he taught as a professor of sociology at the Free University of Berlin with a focus on social and class theory as well as industrial sociology . Herkommers was particularly interested in the development of technical intelligence . Without having formed a school in the strict sense of the word, he strongly stimulated the industrial sociological and socio-theoretical discussion and promoted the next generation of university teachers.

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Individual evidence

  1. Joachim Bischoff, Hasko Hüning: Sebastian Herkommer (September 1, 1933– September 3, 2004). In: Sozialismus.de . September 1, 2004, accessed August 13, 2018 .