Ulrich Hemel

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Ulrich Hemel (born August 9, 1956 in Bensheim / Bergstrasse, Hessen ) is a German Catholic theologian , founder of the Institute for Social Strategy, business consultant , manager and entrepreneur.

Life

Ulrich Hemel studied Catholic theology , philosophy, and economics and social sciences in Mainz and Rome . In 1983 he became the specialist religious education doctorate and his habilitation in 1988 at the Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Regensburg . He was especially committed to the “European Forum on Religious Education”. He later worked as a private lecturer in Regensburg and is still an adjunct professor today .

In 1991 he moved to the Boston Consulting Group , where he worked for industrial companies and banks and was promoted to recruiting director and manager. Was publicly known u. a. the restructuring of Carl Zeiss, which he advised. In 1996 he moved to Hartmann AG (Heidenheim) , a manufacturer of dressings. In 1998 he became a board member and in 2001 chairman of the board. During this time he internationalized the company by founding numerous foreign companies in and outside Europe. After a falling out with the owner family, he founded his own management consultancy and investment company. From 2005 to 2007 he led the furniture supplier Süddekor and managed the sales process to a private equity company.

At the same time, he continued his academic work through publications and lectures. a. In 1998 accepted into the European Academy of Sciences and Arts . The practical experience as a company manager and the academic specialization in the fields of "Scientific Theory of Religious Education" and "Business Ethics" contributed to his being elected President of the Catholic University of Eichstätt at the beginning of 2008 . He could not take up the office, however, because Bishop Gregor Maria Hanke from Eichstätt did not appoint him as Grand Chancellor of the University and as a representative of the Bavarian bishops. Reasons were not given. On May 6, 2008 it was announced that the application process had to be reopened.

Since 2000, Hemel has been chairman of the board of the Research Institute for Philosophy Hannover , a church foundation under public law founded by the Catholic Hildesheim Bishop Josef Homeyer , and since 2004 he and his wife Amparo Lucia Hemel have headed the “Children without Borders” foundation, which includes a children's home Medellín operates. In 2009 he founded the “Institute for Social Strategy”, which is particularly dedicated to the question of how global civil society is shaped. Proposals such as saving for education were also partly taken up in politics (coalition agreement of the Federal Government 2009).

From 2011, Hemel also acted as an advisory board for Fair Observer. He is also a member of the jury for the Bayer Aspirin Social Prize and the LEA Prize for Corporate Responsibility in Baden-Württemberg. From April 2012 to June 2013, Hemel was appointed interim CEO of the Casa Reha Group . He also works on various advisory and supervisory boards of medium-sized companies in industry and the social economy, in some cases also as chairman. In 2014 he founded the internet health company, Wundshop.de, and strategically repositioned his own company, Rogg Verbandstoffe.

Ulrich Hemel has been a Compliance and Ethics Officer on the advisory board of the International Economic Senate / World Economic Council, and in October of the same year he was elected President of the Association of Catholic Entrepreneurs (BKU) to succeed Marie-Louise Dött, Member of the Bundestag.

Since June 1, 2018, he has also been Director of the Global Ethic Institute in Tübingen.

Scientific achievements

His scientific achievements cover various fields. In 1983 he wrote a scientific theory of religious education ( theory of religious education ), which was later counted among the 25 classics of the 20th century for this subject. His book Aims of Religious Education discussed for the first time the goal of “religious competence” in the sense of a personal ability to judge and act in religious and ideological questions.

The new research branch of "Credition Research" emerged from the collaboration with his colleague at the time, Hans-Ferdinand Angel. This is about "credits", that is everyday beliefs similar to beliefs with emotional and cognitive components. These are now also being discussed in the neurosciences.

Based on his entrepreneurial practice, he wrote the book Value and Values ​​- Ethics for Managers in 2005 . In an attempt to overcome the one-sidedness of Homo Oeconomicus , and in conjunction with the Research Institute for Philosophy in Hanover and his Institute for Social Strategy, he tried to establish a new discipline, " economic anthropology ". Starting from the creative power and vulnerability of the human being, from his desire for belonging and differentiation, he justifies “competition” and “cooperation” anthropologically.

He proceeds from the postulate that the human being is always both: a rational utility maximizer (" homo oeconomicus ") and a person looking for meaning and social connection (" homo cooperativus "). The balance between the two endeavors would result in different forms of economic activity (e.g. cooperative versus stock corporation ), but also forms of social coexistence. His book, Die Wirtschaft ist für den Menschen , was published in 2016 and was translated into Spanish ( Economía para el ser humano , Bogotá 2016). He mainly publishes literature on the above topics on the homepage of the Institute for Social Strategy. In 2018, together with Harald Link, he published the book Zukunftssicherung für Familienunternehmen , Stuttgart: Kohlhammer 2018.

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Christine Burtscheidt: University president fails because of Rome. "GAU der Catholic Church": Why the University of Eichstätt has to look around for a new president . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of May 7, 2008.
  2. ^ Institute for Social Strategy, institut-fuer-sozialstrategy.de .
  3. ↑ Research focus on education, Institute for Social Strategy, institut-fuer-sozialstrateg.de .
  4. ↑ Ulrich Hemel. Fair Observer, archived from the original on March 13, 2013 ; accessed on September 24, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Casa Reha Unternehmensgruppe, casa-reha.de ( Memento of the original from January 25, 2016 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. . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.casa-reha.de
  6. ^ Rogg dressing materials .
  7. ↑ Global Ethic Institute
  8. ^ Processes of Believing: The Acquisition, Maintenance, and Change in Creditions . In: Hans Ferdinand Angel, Lluis Oviedo, Ray Paloutzian, Anne Runehov, Rüdiger J. Seitz (Eds.): New Approaches to the Scientific Study of Religion . Springer, 2017.
  9. ↑ Claus Dierksmeier, Ulrich Hemel, Jürgen Manemann (eds.): Economic anthropology . Nomos, Baden-Baden 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Hemel, Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Catholic theologian and business consultant
DATE OF BIRTH August 9, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Bensheim , Hesse