Walter Krämer (economist)

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Walter Krämer between books he wrote

Walter Krämer (born November 21, 1948 in Ormont ) is a German economist . He is professor for economic and social statistics at the Technical University of Dortmund . He became known to the general public through popular scientific literature on statistics and as an advocate of the German language. Here he is involved, among other things, as the first chairman of the German Language Association. V. in Dortmund.

Life

Krämer studied mathematics and economics at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz , where he received his doctorate in 1979. He completed his habilitation in econometrics at the Vienna University of Technology . Since 1988 he has been Professor of Economic and Social Statistics at the Technical University of Dortmund. He was also a visiting professor at the Management Institute of Fudan University in Shanghai .

In 1997 he founded the German Language Association , as its chairman he campaigns particularly against the use of " Denglisch ". In addition, Krämer is the spokesman for the Foundation Board of the German Language Foundation.

Among his publications outside the field is the 1996 book Lexicon of Popular Errors , which sparked a wave of other error dictionaries .

Krämer is a member of the Society of Friends of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Ruhr Graduate School in Economics, the Swiss Orthographic Conference and, since January 1, 2008, has been the editor of the German Economic Review (GEER).

Since 2008, Krämer has been a full member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and the Arts .

He is also a member of the Society for the Scientific Investigation of Parasciences (GWUP) and was a member of the Association's Science Council.

Krämer, together with the psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer and the economist Thomas K. Bauer, has been publishing the unstatistics of the month on the website of the Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (RWI Essen) since 2012 , which has also been cited by traditional media. Krämer publishes on the Axis des Guten , the magazine Novo and the author blog Die Freie Welt .

Krämer has been a member of the FDP since 1969 . In addition, he was a member of the SPD from 1974 to 1982 .

Walter Krämer is married and has two children.

Criticism of the euro bailout policy

In 2012, Krämer initiated an appeal on the euro crisis, which was signed by more than 270 university professors. The professors, including the head of the Ifo Institute, Hans-Werner Sinn , declared the federal government's euro bailout policy to be a failure. Instead of tax-financed bank bailouts, they called for bank creditors to be held liable for their debts. In the run-up to the 2013 federal election , Krämer gave an assessment of the AfD in an interview with the magazine Junge Freiheit in view of the criticized euro bailout policy .

Plagiarism allegation

After a charge of taz , in 2002 at the calibration fount publishing house published book Lexicon of Cities insults plagiarized to have the publishing compensated retrospectively 30 authors of the original bleakness places for the acquired unmarked passages with a fee and agreed with the damaged publishers Reclam , Hoffmann and Campe and Suhrkamp . According to its own statements, the taz also received a fee plus an infringement surcharge. Before the regional court in Berlin , Krämer lost his lawsuit against the daily newspaper . In the opinion of the court, the author did not use the term “straightforward plagiarism” in the legal sense, but made a journalistically permissible assessment.

Controversy about showcases at the TU Dortmund

In December 2019, the AStA of the TU Dortmund published a statement in which Krämer's notices in his showcase at the TU Dortmund (including quotations from Adolf Hitler and Hans-Olaf Henkel) were sharply criticized. In its statement, the AStA also referred to Krämer's involvement in the controversial German Language Association , as well as to a number of right-wing populist statements by Krämer. After the rectorate of the TU Dortmund did not want to comment publicly on the notices for months, rector Ursula Gather finally distanced herself from the Hitler quote, which she described as "tasteless". At the same time, she referred to the freedom of expression that these notices would cover. On December 17th, the construction and facility management of the TU Dortmund announced that Krämer's showcase had "impermissibly narrowed" the escape and rescue route and therefore had to be moved a few meters behind a glass door.

Awards

Fonts

  • A rehabilitation of the ordinary least squares method as an estimation method in econometrics. Haag and Herchen, Frankfurt 1980, ISBN 3-88129-316-7 .
  • Whoever wants to live has to pay. The explosion in healthcare costs and its possible effects. Econ, Düsseldorf / Vienna 1982, ISBN 3-430-15642-4 .
  • Trend in econometric models. An examination of the statistical consequences for selected estimation methods. Hain, Königstein 1985, ISBN 3-445-02386-7 .
  • with Harald Sonnberger: The linear regression model under test. Physica-Verlag, Heidelberg / Vienna 1986, ISBN 3-7908-0356-1 .
  • The disease of health care. The progress trap of modern medicine. S. Fischer, Frankfurt 1989, ISBN 3-10-041213-3 .
  • (Ed.): Econometrics of structural change. Physica-Verlag, Heidelberg 1989, ISBN 3-7908-0432-0 .
  • This is how you lie with statistics. Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt / New York 1991, ISBN 3-593-34433-5 ; Revised new edition: Piper, Munich / Zurich 2011, ISBN 978-3-492-26413-6 .
  • How do I write a seminar, exam and diploma thesis. A guide to scientific work for students of all subjects at universities, technical colleges and professional academies. G. Fischer, Stuttgart / Jena 1992, ISBN 3-437-40267-6 ; 4th expanded and updated edition 1995, ISBN 3-437-40342-7 .
  • Understand statistics. A manual. Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt / New York 1992, ISBN 3-593-34719-9 ; 3rd updated edition 1998, ISBN 3-593-36149-3 ; Piper, Munich / Zurich 2001, ISBN 3-492-23039-3 .
  • We'll cure ourselves to death. The future of modern medicine. Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt / New York 1993, ISBN 3-593-34841-1 ; updated edition: We cure ourselves to death. Rationing and the Future of Modern Medicine. Ullstein, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-548-35669-9 .
  • This is how you convince with statistics. Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt / New York 1994, ISBN 3-593-35213-3 .
  • Think! Fallacies from the world of chance and numbers. Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt / New York 1995, ISBN 3-593-35349-0 ; Piper, Munich / Zurich 1998, ISBN 3-492-22443-1 ; Revised new edition 2011, ISBN 978-3-492-26460-0 .
  • with Götz Trenkler : Lexicon of popular errors. 500 capital misunderstandings, prejudices and thinking errors from sunset to zeppelin. Eichborn, Frankfurt 1996, ISBN 3-8218-0479-3 ; Piper, Munich / Zurich 1998, ISBN 3-492-22446-6 .
  • Statistical Problems in Measuring Poverty. Expert opinion on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Health. Nomos-Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden 1997, ISBN 3-7890-5120-9 .
  • with Michael Schmidt: The book of lists. The most famous end of the world, the most popular Maggi soups, the stupidest criminals, the most unpopular lottery numbers as well as 581 other records and knowledge gaps from business, politics, society and sport. Eichborn, Frankfurt 1997, ISBN 3-8218-0490-4 ; updated edition: Lexicon of Popular Lists. God and the world in data, facts, figures. Piper, Munich / Zurich 1999, ISBN 3-492-22591-8 .
  • with Götz Trenkler and Denis Krämer: The new lexicon of popular errors. 555 further prejudices, misunderstandings and errors of thought from Advent to cynics. Eichborn, Frankfurt 1998, ISBN 3-8218-0587-0 ; Updated paperback edition: Piper, Munich / Zurich 2000, ISBN 3-492-22797-X .
  • How do I write a term paper and an examination paper? Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt / New York 1999, ISBN 3-593-36268-6 ; 3rd revised and updated edition 2009, ISBN 978-3-593-39030-7 .
  • Modern Talking in German. A popular lexicon. Piper, Munich / Zurich 2000, ISBN 3-492-04211-2 ; updated paperback edition 2001, ISBN 3-492-23443-7 .
  • with Götz Trenkler: The best of the lexicon of popular errors. Eichborn, Frankfurt 2000, ISBN 3-8218-1522-1 ; Piper, Munich / Zurich 2002, ISBN 3-492-23279-5 .
  • Poverty in the Federal Republic. On the theory and practice of an overwhelmed concept. Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt / New York 2000, ISBN 3-593-36490-5 .
  • with Wolfgang Sauer : Lexicon of popular mistakes in language. Eichborn, Frankfurt 2001, ISBN 3-8218-1640-6 ; Piper, Munich / Zurich 2003, ISBN 3-492-23657-X ; expanded new edition 2009, ISBN 978-3-492-25073-3 .
  • with Gerald Mackenthun : The Panic Makers. Piper, Munich / Zurich 2001, ISBN 3-492-04355-0 ; Paperback edition 2003, ISBN 3-492-23866-1 .
  • with Götz Trenkler: The best stories for know-it-alls. Piper, Munich / Zurich 2001, ISBN 3-492-23452-6 .
  • Statistics in the back pocket. Piper, Munich / Zurich 2002, ISBN 3-492-04441-7 .
  • with Eva Krämer: Lexicon of city abuse. Malicious reports and abuse from Aachen to Zurich. Eichborn, Frankfurt 2002, ISBN 3-8218-1689-9 .
  • with Reiner Pogarell (Ed.): Great moments in the German language. IFB-Verlag, Paderborn 2002, ISBN 3-931263-27-4 .
  • with Olaf Schoffer and Lars Tschiersch: data analysis with SAS. Statistical procedures and their graphic aspects. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg / New York 2005, ISBN 3-540-20787-2 ; 2nd revised and expanded edition 2008, ISBN 978-3-540-73600-4 .
  • with Roland Kaehlbrandt : The year-round tomato and other plastic German. A lexicon of linguistic aberrations. Piper, Munich / Zurich 2007, ISBN 978-3-492-04972-6 ; Piper, Munich / Zurich 2009, ISBN 978-3-492-25317-8 .
  • with Myriam Grobe and Dawit Petros (eds.): A voice for our language. 10 years Association of German Language. IFB-Verlag, Paderborn 2007, ISBN 978-3-931263-70-6 .
  • We can do anything, even better. Where Germany is really good. Piper, Munich / Zurich 2008, ISBN 978-3-492-05187-3 ; 2010, ISBN 978-3-492-25753-4 .
  • with Sabine Kirchhoff: The press in crisis. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2010, ISBN 978-3-531-17193-7 .
  • How to be fooled by false theories . Berlin University Press, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-86280-016-2 .
  • with Roland Kaehlbrandt : Lexicon of beautiful words. From cuddly to forgotten. Piper, Munich / Zurich 2011, ISBN 978-3-492-27318-3 .
  • The fear of the week. Why We Are Afraid of the Wrong Things. Piper, Munich / Zurich 2011, ISBN 978-3-492-05486-7 ; 2013, ISBN 978-3-492-30184-8 .
  • Cold expropriation. How the euro rescue is depriving us of prosperity and pensions. Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt / New York 2013, ISBN 978-3-593-39924-9 .
  • with Thomas K. Bauer and Gerd Gigerenzer : Why fat doesn't make you stupid and GM maize doesn't kill. About risks and side effects of the statistic . Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main / New York City 2014, ISBN 978-3-593-50030-0 .

literature

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ^ Economists' voice: Authors - Walter Krämer. Retrieved July 24, 2013 .
  2. ↑ North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts: Class for engineering and economics - Professor Dr. Walter Kramer
  3. ^ Society for the Scientific Investigation of Parasciences (GWUP) e. V .: GWUP Science Council
  4. ^ Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut for economic research: Unstatistics of the month
  5. ↑ Needy villa residents . In: Der Spiegel . No. 43 , 2012, p. 15 ( online ).
  6. ↑ Florian Diekmann, Alexander Demling: Doubts about EU statistics: This is how Germany is calculated poor . In: Spiegel Online . October 23, 2012
  7. ^ Profile and list of contributions from Walter Krämer at the Axis of the Good
  8. ↑ Urs Willmann: Language: Prof. Besserwisser . In: The time . No. 30, July 17, 2003
  9. ↑ Philip Plickert: Call for protest from the economics professors: "We see the banking union with great concern". In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . July 5, 2012, accessed July 24, 2013 .
  10. ^ Call for protest: The open letter of the economists in full. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . July 5, 2012, accessed May 23, 2018 .
  11. ↑ Walter Krämer: "I see the AfD comfortably in the Bundestag!" In: Junge Freiheit. August 22, 2013, accessed May 23, 2018 .
  12. ↑ Michael Ringel : Rotten fish in a stew . In: the daily newspaper . October 26, 2002
  13. ↑ The publisher will also insured against Reclam in a letter that no further editions of the offending book would be printed. ( Butter over the lazy fish . In: the daily newspaper on Feb. 15, 2003) Kramer Nevertheless applied in 2003 against the taz a preliminary injunction on allegation of plagiarism. The Berlin district court rejected the application. The press council also rejected an additional motion by Krämer to issue a reprimand against the taz ( reprimands and orders . In: die tageszeitung February 21, 2003 Los trial weekos in the truth: lazy fish throw in the towel . In: the daily newspaper May 21, 2003) In the end, Krämer's injunctive relief and criminal charges failed in this matter because of defamation against two other journalists, including a student who had only reported on the allegations (Jochen Markett: Wie Walter Wissen creates. In: Indopendent No. 136, November 12, 2002 , P. 6, ZDB -ID 1097500-7 ; Jochen Markett: Krämer versus taz. In: Indopendent No. 137, November 26, 2002, p. 6 ( archived copy ( Memento from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) PDF; 566 kB); Katrin Pinetzki, Ingo Schenk: “I miss the fairness.” In: Indopendent No. 138, December 10, 2002, p. 3 ( archived copy ( memento of September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) PDF; 851 kB ))
  14. ↑ Johannes Eberhorn: A language guard and his mission. Spiegel online from August 13, 2003
  15. ↑ DerWesten- derwesten.de: Dortmund: Professor causes a scandal at the university - because of a quote from Hitler. December 14, 2019, accessed December 23, 2019 .
  16. ↑ Hitler, AfD and Greta: Dortmund professor provokes with notice. December 14, 2019, accessed December 23, 2019 .
  17. ↑ mira.kossakowski: Opinion: * No space for right-wing populism - AStA of the TU Dortmund demands immediate end of the inhuman notices from Professor Krämer *. Retrieved December 23, 2019 .
  18. ↑ Kurt: Discussion about quotations from Hitler at the TU Dortmund starts a new round. In: Kurt. December 13, 2019, accessed December 23, 2019 .
  19. ^ Carolin West: TU Dortmund Rector Ursula Gather condemns the Hitler quote in the showcase. Retrieved December 23, 2019 .
  20. ↑ Tasteless, but not forbidden. Retrieved December 23, 2019 .
  21. ↑ Nathan Niedermeier: TU Dortmund publishes Schaukausten with controversial notices. In: Kurt. December 17, 2019, accessed December 23, 2019 .
  22. ↑ TU Dortmund: DAGStat medal for Prof. Walter Krämer ( Memento from June 30, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  23. ↑ Martin Rothenberg: Gerhart Bruckmann Prize goes to Professor Walter Krämer from TU Dortmund. Technical University of Dortmund, press release from April 14, 2015 at the Informationsdienst Wissenschaft (idw-online.de), accessed on April 14, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Kramer, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Ormont