Ulrich Briefs

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Ulrich Briefs (born February 21, 1939 in Düsseldorf ; † June 7, 2005 in Posterholt , Netherlands ) was a German politician ( SPD , Greens , PDS ) and economist who dealt in particular with the negative effects of technology on work and employees busy.

Life

Briefs was a member of the German Bundestag in the 11th and 12th electoral term (parliamentary group of the Greens , state list of North Rhine-Westphalia , non-attached from October 1, 1990 , then PDS , state list Saxony and again non-attached from December 19, 1991).

Briefs was honorary professor at the University of Bremen in the department of mathematics and computer science and visiting professor at the universities of Paris XIII Villetaneuse , Copenhagen Business School and Paris IX Dauphine . His field of work was scientific work and training for works councils at the International Institute for Economic and Technology Research and Consulting Paris-Berlin-Posterholt (IRS). In recognition of his international scientific achievements, Briefs was awarded the 1986 Silver Core Award from the International Federation for Information Processing .

At a time when everyone was praising technological progress through digitized and modern media, Briefs was committed to a critical civil rights and employee-oriented view of the transformations of society and work situations. He was one of the “first to demand that employees have a say in the technical design of their workplaces,” wrote Wolfgang Coy in his obituary for letters.

Briefs was a participant in the Theory Working Group Alternative Economy (TAK AÖ) of the Working Group on Social Policy Working Groups ( AG SPAK ), in which self-organized companies and projects developed and reflected on their own theory of their working world, mostly with the suggestion and participation of Rolf Schwendter , today still existing as a social policy academy and as a group publisher with archive.

Fonts (selection)

  • Information technologies and the future of work. A Political Handbook on Microelectronics and Computing. 2nd edition 1986, ISBN 3760907261 .
  • Technological unemployment. Causes, consequences, alternatives. (with Eberhard Fehrmann and Rudolf Hickel ), VSA-Verlag, Hamburg 1987, ISBN 3879752729 .
  • High Tech and Social Decline? - Modern Germany after the end of the “social market economy”. Pahl-Rugenstein, Bonn 2002, ISBN 3891441843 .
  • Le Système syndical allemand en transition. In: Revue Internationale de psychosociologie 1996, pp. 103–111.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary by Wolfgang Coy ( memento from July 20, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ), FB 8 Computer Science and Society, HU Berlin
personal data
SURNAME Briefs, Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD, Greens, PDS), Member of the Bundestag and economist
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH June 7, 2005
Place of death Posterholt , Netherlands