Wolfgang Hien

The ergonomist Wolfgang Hien (Bremen) - photographed by Fritz Hofmann (Ludwigshafen)

Wolfgang Hien (* 1949 ) is an ergonomist and long-time author of the publishing house for the study of the labor movement . With his work on work-related stresses and diseases, which is based on health sciences, medical sociology and biographies, he has attracted particular attention in trade union and company discussions. He lives and works in Bremen. His main work to date, Die Arbeit des Körper , was published by Mandelbaum Verlag in Vienna in 2018 .

education

After training and many years of operational experience as a laboratory assistant and union activist, he studied biochemistry and philosophy in Heidelberg and Sociology, Psychology, Education and Work Science in Bremen, which in 1988 a degree in teacher and 1992 promotion to Dr. rer. pole. led.

Professional career and current focus of work

Hien has been active in research and teaching since (1988 or) 1989; Between 2003 and 2005 he was head of the health protection department at the DGB federal executive board.

Since January 2006 he has been the owner and head of the Research Office for Work, Health and Biography. His main areas of work there are: illness and society; Memorial project volcano ; Work situation, work biography; Work-related illnesses; Problems of occupational medicine ; Social history of work; Work, aging and illness as well as masculinity patterns in work behavior.

He recently published a review of the interactions between the environmental, health and labor movements in the FRG in the 1970s and 1980s .

Book publications since 2008

At some point it doesn't work anymore . Getting older and health in the IT profession, VSA: Hamburg, 2008.
Care until 67? The health situation of older nurses, Mabuse : Frankfurt am Main, 2009.
Sick working world . Ethical and socio-cultural perspectives, VSA: Hamburg, 2016.
together with Herbert Obenland, Pollutants and Public Health . A health science look at the living and working environment. Aachen: Shaker , 2017.
The work of the body . From the high industrialization in Germany and Austria to the neoliberal present. With an afterword by Karl Heinz Roth , Mandelbaum: Vienna, 2018 [ above author: REZENSION / 696: Wolfgang Hien - The work of the body (SB). In: Schattenblick. July 2, 2018, accessed February 17, 2019 (ISSN 2190-6963). ].
together with Peter Birke, Against the Destruction of Heart and Brain . “68” and the struggle for decent work, VSA: Hamburg, 2018.

Web links

Commons : Wolfgang Hien - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Literature by and about Wolfgang Hien in the catalog of the German National Library
Publications by Wolfgang Hien from 1986 to 2000
12 hits (12.02.2019) for Wolfgang Hien at Labournet Germany
Wolfgang Hien at the University of Bremen

References and comments

↑ Hien / Birke, Against the Destruction of Heart and Brain , 2018, back cover ("Ergonomist Wolfgang Hien (* 1949)") and the homepage of Wolfgang Hien ("Born 1949").
↑ Hien / Birke, Against the Destruction of Heart and Brain , 2018, back cover ("Ergonomist Wolfgang Hien").
↑ Publishing house homepage .
↑ Homepage of Wolfgang Hien ("Health scientist, medical sociologist, biography researcher")
↑
For example:
- Review by Stefan Schoppengerd: "Everything, but different" - Peter Birke and Wolfgang Hien on the life path of a company 68er , in: express . Journal for socialist company and trade union work 11/2018
- Gerd Peter : Review of Wolfgang Hien et al., It wasn't a new beginning in the end , VSA: Hamburg, 2007. (PDF [1 page; 440 KB]) In: Arbeit . Journal for work research, work design and work policy issue 1/2008. 2008, p. 69 , accessed on February 19, 2019 (ISSN 0941-5025; ZDB-ID1106284-8).
- Book excerpt from Wolfgang Hien, Work of the Body , 2018 in: Health needs politics . Journal of Social Medicine (edited by the Association of Democratic Doctors ) 2/2018, 22-25.
- Review by Peter Nowak on: Against the Destruction of Heart and Brain , in: der Freitag , No. 43, October 25, 2018; online: the reviewer's homepage
and
- Review without the responsibility of the author on: Illness of work by Wolfgang Hien, in: Wildcat No. 100, summer 2016; online homepage of the magazine .
↑ Homepage of Wolfgang Hien .
↑ Publishing house homepage .
↑ See on this and the following section: Homepage of Wolfgang Hien
↑ Especially on this also: Authors , in: 1999 . Journal for Social History of the 20th and 21st Century, issue 4/1988, pp. 172-173 (172): "Activity as a chemical laboratory assistant in the chemical industry and cancer research".
↑ Specifically: Hien / Birke, Against the Destruction of Heart and Brain , 2018, back cover page (“The former union activist and today's ergonomist Wolfgang Hien”).
^ Authors , in: 1999 . Journal for Social History of the 20th and 21st Century, Issue 4/1988 (!), Pp. 172 - 173 (172): "Lecturer in the department of 'Industrial and Educational Sciences' at the University of Bremen".
↑ Homepage of Wolfgang Hien (submenus to “Focal Points and Topics”).
^ Wolfgang Hien: Health as a political category. Interactions between the environment, health and labor movements in the FRG in the 1970s and 1980s. (PDF [465 KB]) In: Social.History Online. Issue 23. 2018, pp. 167 - 198 , accessed on February 13, 2019 .

personal data
SURNAME	Hien, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German ergonomist
DATE OF BIRTH	1949

[1] Hien / Birke, Against the Destruction of Heart and Brain , 2018, back cover ("Ergonomist Wolfgang Hien (* 1949)") and the homepage of Wolfgang Hien ("Born 1949").

[2] Hien / Birke, Against the Destruction of Heart and Brain , 2018, back cover ("Ergonomist Wolfgang Hien").

[3] Publishing house homepage .

[4] Homepage of Wolfgang Hien ("Health scientist, medical sociologist, biography researcher")

[5] For example:

Review by Stefan Schoppengerd: "Everything, but different" - Peter Birke and Wolfgang Hien on the life path of a company 68er , in: express . Journal for socialist company and trade union work 11/2018

Gerd Peter : Review of Wolfgang Hien et al., It wasn't a new beginning in the end , VSA: Hamburg, 2007. (PDF [1 page; 440 KB]) In: Arbeit . Journal for work research, work design and work policy issue 1/2008. 2008, p. 69 , accessed on February 19, 2019 (ISSN 0941-5025; ZDB-ID1106284-8).

Book excerpt from Wolfgang Hien, Work of the Body , 2018 in: Health needs politics . Journal of Social Medicine (edited by the Association of Democratic Doctors ) 2/2018, 22-25.

Review by Peter Nowak on: Against the Destruction of Heart and Brain , in: der Freitag , No. 43, October 25, 2018; online: the reviewer's homepage

and
Review without the responsibility of the author on: Illness of work by Wolfgang Hien, in: Wildcat No. 100, summer 2016; online homepage of the magazine .

[6] Review by Stefan Schoppengerd: "Everything, but different" - Peter Birke and Wolfgang Hien on the life path of a company 68er , in: express . Journal for socialist company and trade union work 11/2018

[7] Gerd Peter : Review of Wolfgang Hien et al., It wasn't a new beginning in the end , VSA: Hamburg, 2007. (PDF [1 page; 440 KB]) In: Arbeit . Journal for work research, work design and work policy issue 1/2008. 2008, p. 69 , accessed on February 19, 2019 (ISSN 0941-5025; ZDB-ID1106284-8).

[8] Book excerpt from Wolfgang Hien, Work of the Body , 2018 in: Health needs politics . Journal of Social Medicine (edited by the Association of Democratic Doctors ) 2/2018, 22-25.

[9] Review by Peter Nowak on: Against the Destruction of Heart and Brain , in: der Freitag , No. 43, October 25, 2018; online: the reviewer's homepage

[10] Review without the responsibility of the author on: Illness of work by Wolfgang Hien, in: Wildcat No. 100, summer 2016; online homepage of the magazine .

[6] Homepage of Wolfgang Hien .

[7] Publishing house homepage .

[8] See on this and the following section: Homepage of Wolfgang Hien

[9] Especially on this also: Authors , in: 1999 . Journal for Social History of the 20th and 21st Century, issue 4/1988, pp. 172-173 (172): "Activity as a chemical laboratory assistant in the chemical industry and cancer research".

[10] Specifically: Hien / Birke, Against the Destruction of Heart and Brain , 2018, back cover page (“The former union activist and today's ergonomist Wolfgang Hien”).

[11] Authors , in: 1999 . Journal for Social History of the 20th and 21st Century, Issue 4/1988 (!), Pp. 172 - 173 (172): "Lecturer in the department of 'Industrial and Educational Sciences' at the University of Bremen".

[12] Homepage of Wolfgang Hien (submenus to “Focal Points and Topics”).

[13] Wolfgang Hien: Health as a political category. Interactions between the environment, health and labor movements in the FRG in the 1970s and 1980s. (PDF [465 KB]) In: Social.History Online. Issue 23. 2018, pp. 167 - 198 , accessed on February 13, 2019 .