Stefan Welzk

Stefan Welzk (born July 24, 1942 in Leipzig ) is a German philosopher, economist and political official. He has published several books and numerous articles on political issues.

Welzk studied German and physics at Leipzig University and graduated with a diploma. In 1968 he took part in the protests against the demolition of the Leipzig University Church. In the same year he and his friend, the physicist Harald Fritzsch , managed to escape from the Golden Sands by boat across the Black Sea to Turkey, which enabled him to evade official reprisals for the protests.
Welzk studied philosophy, economics and German in Hamburg, Munich, London and Florence and received his doctorate in philosophy in 1975 with a thesis on “The Unity of Experience. An interpretation of the Parmenidean fragments ”by Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker . Between 1970 and 1980 Welzk worked mainly at the Max Planck Institute for research into the living conditions of the scientific and technical world in Starnberg. Between 1976 and 1978 he stayed at the European University Institute in Florence. After a research project on “financial strength development, financing methods and investment behavior of German corporations”, which was financed by the Volkswagenwerk Foundation between 1982 and 1988, Welzk was head of the economics division in the main administration of the food-gourmet restaurant union from 1988 to 1991 . He then worked for the Schleswig-Holstein state representation at the federal government until 2004 , where he worked as a consultant for economics, technology, transport and questions of German unity and deputy head of the department.

Publications (selection)

• Leipzig 1968: our protest against the church demolition and its consequences , Leipzig: Evangelische Verlags-Anstalt 2011, Saxony / The state commissioner for the documents of the state security service of the former GDR: Series of publications by the Saxon state commissioner for the Stasi documents; Vol. 11 ISBN 978-3-374-02849-8 .
• with Navid Kermani : Lifted Borders , Hamburg: Zeitverlag 2007, course book; Issue 168, ISBN 3-938899-32-8 .
• Down with the piggy bank! : a money book , Berlin: Rowohlt Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-87134-347-1 (youth book).
• Boom without jobs . Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne 1986.

Web links

• Literature by and about Stefan Welzk in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage of Welzk
• Information board about Welzk and the protests in Leipzig 1968 (PDF)
• Report on a reading by Welzk 2011 (PDF)
• Page about Welzk at Perlentaucher