Ulrich Thielemann

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Ulrich Thielemann (born February 15, 1961 in Remscheid ) is a German business ethicist .

Life

Thielemann studied economics at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal from 1982 to 1988 and graduated with a degree in economics . He then did his doctorate at the University of St. Gallen (HSG) under Peter Ulrich and became a research assistant at the Institute for Business Ethics . From 1992 to 1996 he worked on his dissertation “The Market Principle” . 1996 followed by the doctorate to Dr. oec. (HSG). This was followed by a stay abroad at the Department of Economics at the American University in Washington DC and at the Department of Economics at the University of East London . From 2001 to 2010 Thielemann was Vice Director of the Institute for Business Ethics at the University of St. Gallen.

In July 2010 he left the University of St. Gallen and founded the think tank MeM - think tank for business ethics in Berlin . In 2011 , he completed his habilitation in St. Gallen with the thesis Competition as a Justice Concept .

Positions

Thielemann sees himself as critical of capitalism , advocates an integrative approach to business ethics and is of the opinion that "a market elevated to a principle amounts to an 'ethics' of the law of the strong."

Thielemann became known to a wider public in 2009 when he told the Finance Committee of the German Bundestag that there was no awareness of wrongdoing in Switzerland with regard to the tax treatment of non- resident taxpayers. As a result, he was heavily criticized in the media and politics, but also by his employer. When the presidium of the Institute for Business Ethics had to be filled, Thielemann was not shortlisted as Vice Director.

Fonts (selection)

  • Peter Ulrich , Ulrich Thielemann: Ethics and Success. Business ethical thought patterns of executives - an empirical study (= St. Gallen contributions to business ethics. Vol. 6). Haupt, Bern / Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-258-04538-0 .
  • The principle of the market. Critique of the economic logic of exchange . Haupt, Bern / Stuttgart / Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-258-05339-1 (dissertation).
  • Ulrich Thielemann, Peter Ulrich: Focus on banking ethics. The Swiss financial center from a business ethical perspective (= St. Gallen Contributions to Business Ethics. Vol. 33). Haupt, Bern / Stuttgart / Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-258-06599-3 .
  • Ulrich Thielemann, Peter Ulrich: Standards of good corporate management. Twelve international initiatives and their normative orientation content (= St. Gallen Contributions to Business Ethics. Vol. 43). Haupt, Bern / Stuttgart / Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-258-07460-3 .
  • System error. Why the free market leads to bondage. Westend, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-938060-41-4 .
  • Competition as a concept of justice. Critique of Neoliberalism. Metropolis, Marburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-89518-833-6 (habilitation thesis; review by Christoph Fleischmann, Forum Buch im SWR 2 , February 13, 2011).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The critic goes, interview with Ulrich Thielemann , on July 24, 2010 on WilerZeitung.ch.
  2. ^ Josef Osterwalder: Inaugural lecture for parting. Tagblatt Online from September 5, 2011.
  3. ↑ Verbatim transcript of the public hearing of the Finance Committee of the German Bundestag (PDF; 267 kB) on March 25, 2009.
  4. ↑ Zoé Baches: Conflicts of Interest at the Kaderschmiede - The high level of outside financing at the University of St. Gallen leads to a tightrope walk , on July 16, 2010 on NZZ Online; Francesco Benini: Farewell to a Troublemaker , in: NZZ am Sonntag No. 30 of July 25, 2010, p. 13.
personal data
SURNAME Thielemann, Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German business ethicist
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Remscheid