Willi Pöhler

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Willi Pöhler (born June 8, 1934 in Bückeburg ) is a German work and industrial sociologist and was a science and personnel manager ( labor director ).

biography

After attending primary school, Willi Pöhler began an apprenticeship as a carpenter, worked as a journeyman carpenter and then as a machine worker at Hanomag in Hanover. Via the Braunschweig-Kolleg he obtained his Abitur on a second educational path. Willi Pöhler was active in the in-house educational work of the unions. He is married and has two children.

From 1959 to 1965 Pöhler studied sociology, political science and philosophy in Göttingen, Frankfurt and Hanover. He was a research assistant and then a research assistant at the TH Hannover with Christian von Ferber . Pöhler received his doctorate in 1967 as Dr. rer. pole. and completed his habilitation in 1970 at the Technical University of Hanover on the subject of information and administration. From 1972 to 1976 and 1980 to 1985 he was Professor of Industrial Sociology at the Department of Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Dortmund and from 1972 to 1976 also director of the Dortmund Social Research Center , and from 1974 to 1976 director of the Institute for Research into Social Opportunities in Cologne . From 1975 to 1980 Pöhler was head of the DFVLR project management agency for the humanization of working life in Bonn under the Federal Minister for Research and Technology Hans Matthöfer . In 1980 he returned to his Dortmund chair, in 1985 he switched to the professorship for work organization and work design at the Ruhr University in Bochum , where he became head of the newly founded Institute for Industrial Engineering. From there he was in 1992 by the Supervisory Board of Krupp Hoesch Stahl AG as Personnel Director and appointed board member. Willi Pöhler has been retired and artistically active since 1997.

Fonts (selection)

  • Information and administration - attempt of a sociological theory of business administration , Enke Verlag: Stuttgart 1969.
  • Industrial work and domination ; together with Adolf Brock, Wolfgang Hindrichs , Reinhard Hoffmann, Olaf Sund, EVA Europäische Verlags Anstalt: Frankfurt / Main (2nd edition) 1975.
  • The conflict over wages and performance , together with Adolf Brock, Wolfgang Hindrichs, Reinhard Hoffmann, Olaf Sund, EVA: Frankfurt / Main (2nd edition) 1975.
  • Representing the interests of employees , together with Adolf Brock, Wolfgang Hindrichs, Reinhard Hoffmann, Olaf Sund, EVA: Frankfurt / Main (2nd edition) 1975.
  • Human dignity in the world of work , together with Adolf Brock, Wolfgang Hindrichs, Reinhard Hoffmann, Olaf Sund. EVA: Frankfurt / Main (2nd edition) 1975.
  • ... so that work becomes more humane. Five Years of the Action Program Humanization of Working Life , (Ed.), Verlag Neue Gesellschaft, Bonn 1979.
  • Experiences with the humanization program - of the possibilities and limits of a socially oriented technology policy , together with Gerd Peter , Bund Verlag: Cologne 1982.
  • Participate, help shape, have a say, employees change their working conditions , together with Werner Fricke , Gerd Peter (ed.), Bund Verlag: Köln 1982.
  • Health-friendly work design - a sociological utopia? , together with Christian von Ferber, Liselotte von Ferber, in: Sociology - Discoveries in the Everyday, in: Baethge, Martin, Wolfgang Eßbach (eds.), Hans Paul Bahrdt . Festschrift for his 65th birthday, Campus: Frankfurt / New York 1983.
  • Social research in Dortmund: oriented towards problems , in: Bringing social research and social practice together. Speeches on the occasion of the farewell to Dr. Harald Koch from the board of the Society for the Promotion of Social Research in Dortmund e. V., Dortmund 1989
  • Work and Subject , in: Critique and Engagement - Sociology as Applied Science. Festschrift for Christian von Ferber on his 65th birthday, edited by von Nippert, Reinhardt P .; Pöhler, Willi; Slesina, Wolfgang, R., Oldenbourg Published by München 1991.
  • The importance of situational analyzes for work and organizational design , in: Arbeit, Zeitschrift für Arbeitsforschung, Arbeitsgestaltung und Arbeitspolicy, 1st year, issue 1, pp. 45–63, 1992.

literature

  • Krahn, Karl, Gerd Peter, Rainer Skrotzki (eds.): Always to the point. Contributions to work research, work design, work policy. Willi Pöhler on his 60th birthday, Montania Verlag, Dortmund 1994.

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personal data
SURNAME Pöhler, Willi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German industrial sociologist, ergonomist
DATE OF BIRTH June 8, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Buckeburg