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Personal Data

Name:
Horst Jürgen Helle

Address: 

Office: Institut für Soziologie, Konradstr. 6, 80801 München, Germany
Home: Heinz-Hilpert-Str. 4, 81739 München, Germany

Telephone:
Office: x4989-2180-3242 (Frau Heindl)
Mobil: x49160-400-1699

E-Mail:
horsthelle@hotmail.com
mail@horsthelle.de

Current Position

Professor emeritus of Sociology, Institut für Soziologie, Universität München, Munich, Germany

Educational Background

1953-56
Universität Hamburg: Business Administration, Economics, Civil Law, Dutch, English

1956
Diplom-Kaufmann (Business Degree)

1956 - 57
University of Kansas: Graduate Study in Business Administration and Social Psychology

1957
Master of Business Administration: University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas

1959
Dr. phil. (Sociology, Psychology, Business Adm.): Universität Hamburg, Germany

1961 - 66
Wissenschaftlicher Assistent, Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Universität Hamburg

1966 - 67
Fellowship, awarded by the American Council of Learned Societies: Postdoctoral Research at the Department of Sociology of “The University of Chicago”

1967
Habilitation (Sociology): Privatdozent, Universität Hamburg

Employment

1959 - 61
Marketing Manager in Industry: Unilever Germany, Hamburg

1961 - 69
Universität Hamburg: Assistant, Sociology 1961-1968, Universitätsdozent, Sociology 1968-69

1969 - 72
RWTH Aachen (Aachen Institute of Technology): Professor of Sociology

1972 - 73
Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria: Professor of Sociology

1973 - 2002
Universität München, Professor of Sociology and Co-director of Institut für Soziologie

Awards

1956 - 57
Fulbright Scholarship, University of Kansas

1958 - 59
Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, scholarship for graduate work toward doctorate

1966 - 67
American Council of Learned Societies: American Studies Fellow

1984
Killam Visiting Scholar, The University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada (Sept./Dec.)

1990
Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD), Bonn: Travel grant for sabbatical leave at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque (Aug.-Dec.)

1991
Fulbright Professorship for summer school teaching at the University of Colorado at Boulder (July-Aug.)