Wilhelm Baldamus

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Wilhelm OH Baldamus (born May 2, 1908 in Berlin , † 1991 in Leeds ) was a British industrial sociologist of German origin.

After studying at the universities in Berlin and Frankfurt am Main , Karl Mannheim's student emigrated to Great Britain in 1937 because of persecution by the National Socialists . After teaching at the University of Birmingham for many years (since 1951), he became Professor of Sociology there, and he retired in 1975.

Fonts (selection)

  • Foreign trade and price level. A theoretical study on the problem of foreign trade . FW Kalbfleisch, Gelnhausen 1936 (also dissertation).
  • The fair wage. An industrial sociological analysis . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1960.
  • Efficiency and effort. An analysis of industrial administration . Tavistock Publications, London 1961.
  • The structure of sociological inference . Barnes & Noble Books, New York 1976, ISBN 0-06-490285-4 .

literature

  • Mark Erickson, Charles Turner (Eds.): The Sociology of Wilhelm Baldamus: Paradox and Inference , Ashgate, London 2010, ISBN 978-0-7546-7856-4 .
  • Colin Crouch : Baldamus, Wilhelm OH In: Wilhelm Bernsdorf / Horst Knospe (eds.): Internationales Soziologenlexikon , Vol. 2, Enke, Stuttgart ²1984, p. 43.

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personal data
SURNAME Baldamus, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baldamus, Wilhelm OH
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British sociologist of German origin
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 1991
Place of death Leeds