Wilhelm Hinrichs

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Wilhelm Hinrichs (born September 1, 1940 in Zirtow , Neustrelitz; † May 30, 2020 in Berlin ) was a German social scientist .

Life

Hinrichs studied film production, economics and sociology at the Konrad Wolf Academy for Film and Television in Potsdam-Babelsberg and the Humboldt University in Berlin . After completing his doctorate at the Humboldt University in Berlin, from 1973 he worked as a senior employee in central economic institutions in East Berlin (Economic Council of the Greater Berlin District , Ministry for District Industry and Food Industry , Municipal Housing Administration ). From 1982 he worked as a social researcher at the Academy of Sciences of the GDR . There, together with Horst Berger (leader), Thomas Hanf, Wilhelm Hinrichs, Eckhard Priller and Doris Rentzsch, in 1983/1984 the group developed the sociological analysis instrument "System of social indicators of the socialist way of life" which was recognized throughout Germany and internationally.

Hinrichs continued his research from 1992, after the unification of the two German states, at the Berlin Science Center for Social Research (WZB) under the direction of the prominent German sociologist Wolfgang Zapf . His fields of work were housing and urban sociological issues, migration-theoretical and migration-political issues and the investigation of processes of social integration. His retrospective analyzes of housing supply in the GDR are regarded by the student council as standard research on housing sociology on the GDR. He was an avowed advocate of a close connection between theory and practice and designed, among other things, modified or new models for the empirical investigation of spatial mobility (such as the choice of residential location and residential suburbanization) and immigrant integration. The results on the social integration of immigrants were used, among other things, as a theoretical basis for the development of the integration manual of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia in 2004. His publications, especially those in the journal Deutschland Archiv , published by the Federal Agency for Civic Education , are part of teaching at grammar schools, colleges and universities. Hinrichs was a member of the German Society for Sociology from 1992 .

Hinrichs died at the age of 79.

Works

Books

  • Private households in the unification process. Your social situation in East and West Germany (1999). Co-authors Horst Berger, Eckhard Priller, Annett Schultz. Frankfurt / New York: Campus Verlag , ISBN 3-593-36215-5 .
  • Social report 2001. Data and facts on the social situation in the new federal states (2001). Co-authors Hanna Haupt, Reinhard Liebscher, Eckhard Priller, Gunnar Winkler, Berlin: trafo-Verlag, ISBN 3-89626-347-1 .
  • Acting in times of change. Actor Constellations in Transformation (2001). Co-editor Eckhard Priller. Berlin: edition sigma, ISBN 3-89404-213-3 .
  • Foreign population groups in Germany: Integration opportunities 1985 and 2000 (2003). Berlin: Berlin Science Center for Social Research , ISSN  1612-3468 ;
  • Social Report 2004. Data and facts on the social situation in the new federal states (2004). Co-authors Hanna Haupt, Reinhard Liebscher, Eckhard Priller, Heidrun Schmidtke, Gunnar Winkler, Berlin: trafo Verlag, ISBN 3-89626-485-0

Scientific reports / studies

Contributions to edited volumes

  • Employment courses in East Germany and their effects on well-being (co-authors Horst Berger, Thomas Bulmahn), in: Martin Diewald, Karl Ulrich Mayer : Zwischenbilanz der reunion. Opladen 1996;
  • Housing supply in East Germany - continuity and reorganization, in: Wolfgang Zapf , Roland Habich: Welfare development in united Germany, Berlin 1996;
  • Social security of housing supply in Germany, in: Lars-Hendrik Röller , Christian Wey: The social market economy in the new world economy, Berlin 2001;
  • The population development in the municipalities, in: Thomas Mann (lawyer) , Günter Püttner: Handbook of municipal science and practice, Volume 1, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York 2007;

Articles in magazines

  • Transnational residential mobility in a united Germany - integration or difference ?, in: General Statistical Archive, 81st year, No. 4/1997, Göttingen;
  • The Freedom of Movement of East Germans: From Desire to Reality, in: Germany Archive , 34th year, No. 5/2001, Opladen;
  • Differences in satisfaction with democracy in West and East Germany (co-author Ricarda Nauenburg), in: Germany Archive , 38th year, No. 3/2005, Bielefeld;
  • Foreign metropolis Berlin: Integration West and Integration East ?, in: Germany Archive , 40th year, No. 6/2007, Bielefeld;
  • Homeownership by private households: EU bottom line Germany, in: Berliner Debatte Initial , 21st year, No. 1/2010, Berlin

literature

  • Science Center for Social Research Berlin (ed.) (1994): 25 Years WZB, p. 175
  • Why is it so difficult in Berlin? Hinrichs in an interview with Amory Burchard in Tagesspiegel November 23, 2003
  • Linked to the home country, in: WZB-Mitteilungen, Issue 101, September 2003, p. 29, online at: bibliothek.wzb.eu/artikel/ (PDF; 271 kB), accessed on April 7, 2012

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice in the " Berliner Zeitung " from 27./28. June 2020, p. 11.

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personal data
SURNAME Hinrichs, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German social scientist
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Zirtow , Neustrelitz
DATE OF DEATH May 30, 2020
Place of death Berlin