Hans-Jürgen Krupp

Hans -Jürgen Krupp ( born April 15, 1933, Elbing, East Prussia ) is a German economist and politician of the SPD. He is married and has four children.

Curriculum vitae

In 1952 he began his studies in Industrial Engineering at the Technical University of Darmstadt, where he makes his 1957 earning his degree in industrial engineering after a temporary stay abroad at the University of Wisconsin. In 1961, he concludes there his dissertation The system character of the economy and the need for methodological pluralism from 1967 he habilitated with a work on the theory of income distribution and obtained the venia legendi of Economics and Econometrics.

In 1969 he was appointed Professor of Economic and Social Policy at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt. From 1972 he is head of the DFG-funded research project " Social -political decision - making system in the Federal Republic of Germany " ( SPES ), from the 1979 Collaborative Research Centre 3 " Microanalytical Foundations of Social Policy" at the Universities of Frankfurt and Mannheim in 1983, today the DIW Berlin is moved Socio-Economic Panel shows. Using the SOEP, the empirical research on poverty and labor economics gets a significant boost in and outside Germany. In 1973 he was vice-president, from 1975 ( to 1979 ) President of the University of Frankfurt.

1979 Hans -Jürgen Krupp to succeed Karl King as President of the German Institute for Economic Research ( DIW) in Berlin appointed. He has held this office until 1988. Under Hans -Jürgen Krupp DIW performs the first structural reports as mandated by the federal government and established the structural changes in the course of globalization and the exploration of the service sector as a new research focus of the Institute.

From 1982 to 1984 he is a member of the Advisory Council on the Assessment of economic development. In 1987 he was appointed to the Chair of Economics, especially Empirical Research in Economics at the Technical University of Berlin, which he held until 1993. He was a member of the Academy of Sciences in Berlin.

Policy

1988 changes Hans-Jürgen Krupp in politics and goes to Hamburg. Under Henning Voscherau he is senator of Finance of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, as of June 1991 he has been Senator for Economic Affairs and 2nd Mayor of Hamburg.

From 1993 to 2001, the beginning of his retirement, Hans -Jürgen Krupp President of the State Bank of Hamburg, Schleswig -Holstein and Mecklenburg- Vorpommern and member of the Central Council of the Deutsche Bundesbank.

Others

  • Since 1998, Hans -Jürgen Krupp Chairman of the Social Chamber of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD )
  • From 1999 to 2001 he was chairman of the employed by Federal Minister Edelgard Bulmahn Commission to improve the information infrastructure between science and statistics
  • March 15, 2000, he broke Hans Joachim Knieps as Neutral Member of the Supervisory Board of Salzgitter AG from
  • In December 2003, Hans- Jürgen Krupp is co-founder of the Keynes Society
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