Werner Onken

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Werner Onken (* 1953 ) is a German economist , author and publisher . He presented u. a. the 18-volume complete edition of the writings of the businessman and social reformer Silvio Gesell (1862-1930) together and published them.

Live and act

After his community service he studied at the Carl von Ossietzky University in Oldenburg and graduated with a degree in economics . Since 1982 he has worked as a research assistant at the Foundation for the Reform of Monetary and Land Order . There he is responsible for editing the Zeitschrift für Sozialökonomie , the archive for money and land reform and the organization of the Mündener Talks conference series . In 2008, together with Niko Paech , he founded the lecture series on post-growth economics at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, which took place until 2018.

Onken wrote a monetary interpretation of Michael Ende's novel Momo in 1986 , which was published in the magazine Issues of Freedom . In a letter to Onken, Michael Ende confirmed that Momo was critical of today's monetary system : “By the way, you are the first to notice that the idea of ​​' aging money ' is in the background of my book 'Momo'. It is precisely with these thoughts of Steiner and Gesell that I have occupied myself more intensively in recent years, since I have come to the view that our cultural question cannot be solved without the money question being solved at the same time or even beforehand.

Archives for money and land reform

The archive, which Werner Onken has built up since 1983, is intended to enable scientific research on proposals for reforming the monetary system and land law, including the problem of resources. The archive contains primary and secondary literature on the reform of the monetary and land system with more than 5,000 German-language and 500 foreign-language books, brochures and essays as well as more than 120 periodicals, series and newspapers. These include works by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon , Gustav Landauer , Henry George , Adolf Damaschke , Franz Oppenheimer , Silvio Gesell, Rudolf Steiner and others who sought to solve social questions in a liberal way. The archive for monetary and land reform is on loan from the Foundation for the Reform of Monetary and Land Regulations in the library of the Carl von Ossietzky University in Oldenburg.

Works

  • The economic message of Michael Ende's fairy tale novel "Momo" , 1986, online version .
  • Model experiments with socially responsible soil and money . Verlag für Sozialökonomie, Lütjenburg 1997, ISBN 978-3-87998-440-4 ( online as PDF ).
  • Silvio Gesell and the natural economic order . Verlag für Sozialökonomie, Lütjenburg 1999, ISBN 978-3-87998-439-8 .
  • Monetary and land policy foundations of an agricultural turnaround . Verlag für Sozialökonomie, Lütjenburg 2004, ISBN 978-3-87998-447-3 .
  • Carl von Ossietzky and Silvio Gesell - An encounter between two worlds of thought . Verlag für Sozialökonomie, Lütjenburg 2006, ISBN 3-87998-773-4 .
  • Money & nature in literature, art and music . Verlag für Sozialökonomie, Kiel 2010, ISBN 978-3-87998-460-2 .
  • Silvio Gesell in the Munich Soviet Republic - People's Representative for Finance for a week in April 1919 . Self-published, Oldenburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-933891-31-0 .
  • Market economy without capitalism - From accumulation and concentration in the economy to its decentralization , Oldenburg 2019/2020 ( online )

Editions

  • Rolf Engert: Silvio Gesell in Munich 1919 (with a foreword and a short biography about Rolf Engert by Werner Onken). Specialized publisher for social economy, Hann.-Münden 1986.
  • Free library - catalog of books, brochures and magazines . without publisher, Varel 1986.
  • Silvio Gesell: Collected works in 18 volumes (with prefaces by Werner Onken). Verlag für Sozialökonomie, Hann.-Münden / Lütjenburg 1988 to 1997, register volume.
  • Just money - just world - ways out of forced growth and debt catastrophe, 100 years of thoughts on a natural economic order 1891–1991 . Verlag für Sozialökonomie, Lütjenburg 1992, ISBN 978-3-87998-433-6 .
  • Silvio Gesell: “Wealth and poverty do not belong in an orderly state” - selection of works for the 150th birthday (with a foreword by Werner Onken). Verlag für Sozialökonomie, Kiel 2012, 2nd edition, ISBN 978-3-87998-462-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Uchatius : Silvio Gesell: “Money has to rust!” . Conversation with Werner Onken on the occasion of Silvio Gesell's 150th birthday. In: Die Zeit 12/2012.
  2. ↑ a b Archive for Money and Land Reform in the BIS - Library and Information System , accessed on September 3, 2019.
  3. ↑ Lecture series on post-growth economics , accessed on September 3, 2019.
  4. ↑ Oliver Richters: Analysis: Lines of conflict and political goals in growth-critical discourse . In: Research Journal Social Movements . tape 31 , no. 4 , 2018, p. 80–84 , doi : 10.1515 / fjsb-2018-0085 .
  5. ↑ Facsimile of a letter from Michael Ende to Werner Onken , September 3, 1986.
personal data
SURNAME Onken, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist, author and editor
DATE OF BIRTH 1953