Werner Gumpel

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Werner Gumpel (born November 21, 1930 in Buchholz , Erzgebirge ) is professor emeritus for economics and society in Southeast Europe at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich.

Life

Werner Gumpel was born near the Czech border in 1930. After taking his Abitur, he began studying journalism at the University of Leipzig in October 1949 .

Political Resistance

He took an active part in the political resistance in the GDR by participating in the Belter group , which among other things distributed leaflets. On October 5, 1950, he was arrested and charged with "anti-Soviet activity" and "espionage". He was sentenced to 25 years of forced labor. A co-defendant friend, the economics student Herbert Belter (1929–1951) was sentenced to death and executed . On February 27, 1951, he was forced to de-register because of “failure to attend and not pay”. He served five years of his sentence in the Vorkuta Forced Labor Camp . and in the PetschorLag (alias Petschora-ITL). On October 16, 1955, he was released early from prison and returned to the GDR.

Scientific work

In 1956 he fled to the Federal Republic of Germany and began studying economics at the University of Economics and Social Sciences in Nuremberg (now the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg ). He received his doctorate in 1962 at the Institute for Transport Science at the University of Hamburg under Fritz Voigt and completed his habilitation in 1970 at the State Economics Faculty of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich under Hans Raupach . In 1974 he was appointed to the chair for economics and society in Southeast Europe at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, where he taught until his retirement in 1996.

Gumpel has been teaching at the Munich School of Politics since 1965 , where he was also the department representative for Department III (Economics and Society) and a member of the Senate. For many years he was a member of the East-West working group of the Foreign Office and the Energy Advisory Board of the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs. He was also President of the German-Bulgarian Association in Bavaria e. V. as well as Vice President of the Southeast Europe Society and has been a member of the board of the German Society for East European Studies for many years. He is also in demand as a traveling speaker on the subjects of Southeast Europe and economic policy.

His main academic interest in teaching and research was the analysis of economic and social development and its foundations in the former communist countries of Eastern and Southeastern Europe as well as Turkey and Greece. The results of his research were reflected in a large number of publications.

Gumpel has maintained close scientific contact with many universities and institutes in countries in his research area:

Honors

In 1990 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Economics and Administration at Hacettepe University Ankara (Turkey). In June 2007 he received the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon for his democratic commitment.

Works (selection)

  • The Comecon's seaport and shipping policy . Their effects on the port of Hamburg (= transport science research . Volume 7). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1963.
  • with Hans-Dieter Bötel: The Soviet economy at the turn of the five-year plan. Review and outlook (= contemporary issues of the Eastern economy . Volume 3). Olzog, Munich 1967.
  • Socialist economic systems (= The socialist states . Volume 1). Olzog, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-7892-9897-2 .
  • Vorkuta. The city of the living dead. An eyewitness report . Leipziger Universitätsverlag , Leipzig 2015, ISBN 978-3-86583-936-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Prof. Dr. rer. pole. Werner Gumpel. Leipzig read, accessed on June 12, 2015 .
  2. ↑ WORKUTA-ITL. In: Website Memorial / Germany. Retrieved January 13, 2018 .
  3. ↑ PETSCHORA-ITL. In: Website Memorial / Germany. Retrieved January 13, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Gumpel, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German university lecturer for economics and society in Southeast Europe
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Buchholz (Ore Mountains)