Ulrich van Suntum

Ulrich van Suntum (born January 6, 1954 in Hamm , North Rhine-Westphalia ) is a German economist .

Ulrich van Suntum was state chairman of the North Rhine-Westphalia regional association of the Liberal-Conservative Reformist party .

Career

Suntum studied economics in Münster and Bochum from 1972 to 1977 . He was on the theme "Regional policy in the market economy" in 1981 his doctorate and his habilitation in 1984 with the theme " consumer surplus " and the transport sector in Bochum .

From 1987 to 1988 van Suntum was Secretary General of the Expert Council for the Assessment of Overall Economic Development (Council of Economic Wise Men ). He developed and calculated the early economic indicators for the Handelsblatt .

Van Suntum taught from 1995 to 2020 at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster . Until February 2020, he was an ambassador for the New Social Market Economy initiative and is the author of the Bertelsmann Foundation's location ranking . Suntum is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the economic policy journal Wirtschaftsdienst .

ALFA

In 2015 van Suntum joined the ALFA (now LKR ). When the regional association of this party was founded in North Rhine-Westphalia, he was elected state chairman in October 2015. Van Suntum intended to run as the top candidate of the LKR in the state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia in 2017, but abandoned this plan by leaving the party.

In June 2016, the party also elected him, together with MEP Bernd Kölmel and Bremen MEP Christian Schäfer, as deputy federal chairman of the party, which MEP Ulrike Trebesius was elected chairman at the same party congress . In the meantime he has resigned from all offices and resigned from the party.

Private life

He lives in Nordkirchen with his wife Dorothe and a son.

Political positions

On November 22, 2016 , van Suntum, whose username on the platform “@ Pietbull47” is, tweeted: “Today: 88-year-olds because of Holocaust denial: 2.5 years in prison. Five Sharia police officers: acquittal. Is jail for insulting the prophet threatened soon? ”The reason for the tweet was the conviction of Ursula Haverbeck .

After massive criticism from the students, the rectorate of the University of Münster dealt with van Suntum's statements. University spokesman Norbert Robers: "The rectorate and the dean's office of the economics faculty distance themselves clearly from the statements of Prof. van Suntum." The rectorate will follow up the matter "promptly - but internally, since it is a personnel matter."

When asked by the newspaper “Westfälische Nachrichten”, Van Suntum explains: “There is a right to freedom of expression in Germany, which also applies to professors. Not only do I consider the acquittal of people who openly advocate Sharia law in Germany and even presume police enforcement powers to be wrong. ”However, the professor does not share the opinion of the Holocaust deniers, according to his statement:“ That the denial of the Holocaust on the one hand is idiotic and on the other hand also punishable, we agree on that. But whether you should give an 88-year-old woman two and a half years imprisonment and thus effectively life sentence for this reason, one can and may be divided. "

Publications

In his book The Invisible Hand (1999) van Suntum presents economic contexts in a generally understandable way. The fifth German edition of the book was published in 2013 and has also been translated into English (with a foreword by Romano Prodi ), Japanese and Chinese .

In the publication Masterplan Deutschland van Suntum presented a comprehensive reform program. In his own YouTube channel, he explains economic relationships in short videos.

At the beginning of 2014 he put a parallel currency up for discussion as a “way out of the euro trap”.

• Ulrich van Suntum: The invisible hand. 5th edition. Springer-Verlag, Berlin / Heidelberg / New York 2013, ISBN 978-3-642-31307-3 .
• Ulrich van Suntum: Masterplan Germany . Beck in dtv, 2006, ISBN 3-423-50901-5 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Ulrich van Suntum in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Ulrich van Suntum  in the German Digital Library
• Contributions by Ulrich van Suntum atwirtschaftsdienst.eu

Footnotes

1. ↑ Professorium | Faculty of Business and Economics. Retrieved June 23, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Ulrich van Suntum's Twitter account. Retrieved February 12, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Scientific Advisory Board | Economic service. Retrieved January 4, 2018 . 
4. ↑ PM | Regional association of North Rhine-Westphalia founded by ALFA.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on: alfa-bund.de  
5. ^ Federal Board of the Alliance for Progress and Awakening - ALFA. ( Memento of the original from June 5, 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. on: alfa-bund.de 
6. ↑ Karin Völker: Professors' tweet annoys students . In: Westfälische Nachrichten . ( wn.de [accessed February 1, 2017]).
7. ↑ Ways out of the euro trap. on: faz.net , January 2, 2014.