Rudolf Hickel transferred to the University of Bremen in 1971, accepting the chair in "Finanzwissenschaft" in 1993.
20 Facts About Rudolf Hickel
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Rudolf Hickel was born into a Catholic family in Nuremberg at the height of the Second World War.
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Rudolf Hickel grew up in Bad Wildbad, a little town in south-west Germany which after 1945 became part of the French occupation zone and then, in May 1949, of the German Federal Republic.
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Rudolf Hickel attended school at the business oriented secondary school in nearby Pforzheim, and it was here that he passed his "Abitur", opening the way for progression to university-level education.
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Rainer Hickel, his younger brother, would build a career as a professional musician, but it seems to have been accepted by the time he left school that Rudolf Hickel would follow another path.
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Rudolf Hickel remained at Tubingen as a research assistant for a further two years, with a focus on Economic Theory.
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Shortly after that Rudolf Hickel accepted a professorship in "Politische Okonomie" at the University of Bremen, relocating north in 1971.
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The university at Bremen, like that at Konstanz, was newly established: Rudolf Hickel has played a key role in establishing and building up the Economics department.
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Between November 2001 and September 2009 Rudolf Hickel served as director of the university Institute for Labour and Economics.
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Rudolf Hickel was succeeded in the post by Gunter Warsewa.
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In 1989 Rudolf Hickel became co-producer of the political-economic monthly Berlin-produced magazine Leviathan and of Blatter fur deutsche und internationale Politik.
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Rudolf Hickel's submissions continue to appear frequently in the latter.
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In 1991 Rudolf Hickel shared some of his thoughts in his book "Der Preis der Einheit", co-authored with Jan Priewe.
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Since 1997 Rudolf Hickel has taken turns with Robert Kurz, Christa Luft and Harry Nick as the author of a challenging and respected column on economic policy in Neues Deutschland, which before 1989 was the mass circulation party newspaper of East Germany's ruling party, and has since carved itself a role across Germany as an important left-leaning daily newspaper.
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Rudolf Hickel continues to contribute robustly and regularly in the Frankfurter Rundschau, Junge Welt and Tageszeitung.
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Rudolf Hickel is a member of the economics advisory committee at ATTAC, an international activist organisation opposed to abusive aspects of globalization.
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Rudolf Hickel's sat as a member of the supervisory board at Salzgitter AG, a major steel producer, between 1984 and 2008, and for many years at GEWOBA, a north German construction business headquartered in Bremen and specialising in residential tower blocks.
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Rudolf Hickel was on the supervisory board at the vast Allianz insurance and banking conglomerate between 1998 and 2006, a period that included the conversion of the Allianz holding company into a pan-European "Societas Europaea".
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Critical supply-side economists included the liberal Hans-Werner Sinn, who sharply attacked Rudolf Hickel's backing of a cut on working hours with no corresponding cut in wages.
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In 2017 Rudolf Hickel was honoured by the senate with the Medal for Arts and Humanities of the Free Hanseatic City [of Bremen].