Meinhard Miegel

Meinhard Miegel ( born April 23, 1939 in Vienna ) is a German social scientist and publicist.

Life

Miegel studied after high school, which he completed in Bad Langensalza 1957, first two semesters of music at the Musikhochschule in Weimar. After escaping to West Germany he began in 1958 with the study of sociology and philosophy at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main. In 1959 he went to Washington, D.C. and where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in 1961. From 1961 to 1966 he studied in Frankfurt am Main, law, philosophy and economics. In 1966 he passed the first and 1969, the second state examination. In 1967 he became a Doctor of Law. utr. doctorate.

From 1970 to 1973 Miegel was staff lawyer at the company Henkel, Dusseldorf. From 1973 to 1977 he was an employee of the Secretary General of the CDU, Kurt Biedenkopf, from 1975 head of the department policy, information and documentation of the Federal office of the CDU.

Along with Kurt Biedenkopf Miegel founded in 1977, the Institute for Economic and Social Bonn (IWG BONN ), a privately funded research institute, which he headed until its dissolution (2008). Miegel 1992 was appointed extraordinary professor at the University of Leipzig, where he taught until 1998 and headed the Centre for International Economic Relations. This center is an interdisciplinary research institution that " the political and historical conditions and the socio- cultural influences of economic change in Central and Eastern Europe" explored. From 1995 to 1997 he was also Chairman of the Commission on the future of the Free States of Bavaria and Saxony.

Since 2007 Miegel CEO of Denkwerk future - Foundation for Cultural Renewal.

Views

The focus of Miegels work are analyzes of the changing conditions of the economy and society. Especially frequently he speaks publicly on demographic change and its consequences for the PAYG social security systems. He calls for the transformation of the wage-related statutory pension in a general, tax-financed basic security in old age, which is to be supplemented by private pensions. Miegels proposals aim, " to overcome the traditional workers' society and to build a self-responsible civil society. " Under the Denkwerk future, he argues for a suppression of the growth ideology and the creation of a future and generalizable culture.

Miegel 2003 was a member and Chairman of the Association Bürgerkonvent.

Charge of integration with the insurance industry

Miegels Institute for Business and Society funded, among others, through corporate donations and lived on contract work, such as the German Institute for retirement. Since Miegel publicly pronounce for private pensions, it sees the economist Albrecht Müller as an example of the integration of politics, science and the insurance industry. Miegel itself rejects the allegations. Another critic Miegels is Gerd Bosbach.

Memberships

  • European Academy of Sciences and Arts (since 1994)
  • Board of Trustees of the Gerda Henkel Stiftung, Dusseldorf (since 1997)
  • Expert of the Bundestag Study Commission on growth, prosperity, quality of life

Awards

Writings (selection )

  • The concept of undertaking the Companies Act 1965., Taking particular account of the general problem of the concept of undertaking. Gehlen, Bad Homburg / Berlin / Zurich 1970 ( dissertation)
  • Kurt H. Biedenkopf: ways out of unemployment. Labor market policy in the social market economy. Publisher Bonn Currently, Stuttgart 1978, ISBN 3-87959-083-4
  • In front of us: 30 lean years. In: Time, No. 31/ 2002; Contribution to the series agenda Germany
  • The deformed society - How the Germans suppress their reality, Propylaea Verlag, Berlin, 2002, 304 pp.
  • Epochenwende - Recovers the West, the future, Propylaea Verlag, Berlin 2005, 312 pp.
  • Thomas Petersen: The programmed stop. The contradictory relationship of Germans to economic growth and material wealth, Olzog Verlag, Munich 2008, 128 pp.
  • With Stefanie choice / Martin Schulte: From winners and losers - The income development of selected population groups in Germany, Bonn 2008, 75 pp.
  • Exit. Prosperity without Growth, Propylaea Verlag, Berlin 2010, 304 pp.
  • With Stefanie choice / Martin Schulte: For a change of consciousness. From the consumer to the affluent culture, Memorandum of Denkwerk future, Bonn, July 2011, 76 pp.
  • What kind of growth and prosperity which we need? In: From politics and contemporary history, 27-28/2012, in June 2012, the Federal Agency for Civic Education
  • With Stefanie choice / Martin Schulte / Elias Butzmann: Livable cities falling under Bedingenen material prosperity, Memorandum of Denkwerk future, Bonn, June 2012, 220 pages.
  • Hubris. The overtaxed society, Propylaea Verlag, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-549-07448-0. Appeared March 10, 2014
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