Draft:Rolf Hofmeier

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Rolf Hofmeier
Prof. Dr.
Born(1939-10-23)23 October 1939
NationalityGerman
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Rolf Hofmeier (born October 23, 1939) was director of the Institute for Africa Studies (IAK) from 1976 to 2000 in the network of the German Overseas Institute (DÜI), founded in 1964, in Hamburg. The latter was merged into the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA), a member of the Leibniz Association, in 2007. Rolf Hofmeier was appointed associate professor on 23 October 1999. After his retirement, Hofmeier remained an associate member of the GIGA.[1]

Biography[edit]

Rolf Hofmeier gradated as economist (Ph.D.) from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. Before working at the ‘Institute for African Studies’, Hofmeier worked for six years in Tanzania at the University of Dar es Salaam, in the Ministry of Economic Affairs and as head of a development aid project.[2] In his scientific career he researched solutions to the problem of Sub-Saharan Africa with a focus on East Africa. Central points of his work were economic analyses of crisis prevention in ethnic-social conflicts, opportunities for democratization, liberalization of economic policy and the effects of development aid.[3] In line with the assignment of tasks of the DÜI, Hofmeier pursued an application-oriented approach in close cooperation with Hamburg's economy, the Federal Foreign Office and the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) in Bonn. For example, Hofmeier was prominently involved in the critical evaluation of the German political foundations, notably the Hanns Seidel Foundation, in South Africa on behalf of the BMZ.[4] Hofmeier was also instrumental in a large-scale study for the German Ministry of Economic Affairs on raw material purchases from Africa and their hedging.[5]

Hofmeier was involved as a project supervisor or co-project supervisor in numerous research projects on Sub-Saharan Africa, for example, in a project of the Collaborative Research Centres (SFB), financed by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) at the University of Hamburg, on 'State consolidation and state failure in East and Central Africa: Local statehood and political change in Tanzania/DR Congo'.[6]

Publications (selection)[edit]

  • Die Politische Ökonomie von Verkehrsvorhaben in Afrika: Zur Einschätzung der ökonomischen, gesellschaftlichen und politischen Wirkungen von großen Eisenbahn- und Straßenprojekten. Africa Spectrum, vol. 14 (1) (1979), pp. 4–18
  • The political economy of transport projects. Intereconomics, vol. 15, pp. 94–99 (1980)
  • Die wirtschaftliche und rohstoffpolitische Bedeutung Afrikas und seiner einzelnen Regionen (Südafrika, Schwarzafrika, Nordafrika) für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Hamburg: Institut für Afrika-Kunde im Verbund der Stiftung Deutsches Übersee-Institut (DÜI), 1981, 506 p.
  • Politisches Lexikon Afrika, eds.. Rolf Hofmeier & Mathias Schönborn. Munich: C.H. Beck, Beck'sche schwarze Reihe; Bd. 281, 1984, 524 p.
  • Aid from the Federal Republic of Germany to Africa. Journal of Modern African Studies, vol. 24 (4), (1986), pp. 577–601
  • Politische Konditionierung von Entwicklungshilfe in Afrika: Neue Form der Einmischung oder legitime Unterstützung von Demokratiebestrebungen? Africa Spectrum, vol. 25 (2), (1990), pp. 167–177
  • Das subsaharische Afrika: Stiefkind der aussenpolitischen Aufmerksamkeit. In: Kaiser, Karl, Joachim Krause (eds.): Deutschlands neue Außenpolitik. volume 3. Interessen und Strategien. Munich: 1996, pp. 203–210
  • Five decades of German-African relations: limited interests, low political profile and substantial aid donor. In: Engel, Ulf, Robert Kappel (eds.): Germany's Africa policy revisited. Interests, images and incrementalism. Münster u. a., LiT-Verlag, 2002, pp. 39–62
  • Kleines Afrika-Lexikon: Poltik, Wirtschaft, Kultur. (eds.), with Andreas Mehler, München: C.H.Beck, 2004, 359 S.
  • Afrika Jahrbuch - Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft in Afrika südlich der Sahara. Eds.: Institut für Afrika-Studien & Rolf Hofmeier, Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 1987ff
  • A Decade of Tanzania: Politics, Economy and Society 2005–2017, with Kurt Hirschler. Leiden: Brill, 2019, 261 S.

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References[edit]

  1. ^ Team GIGA, associated members
  2. ^ Rolf Hofmeier: „Der Vater des afrikanischen Sozialismus“. Hamburger Abendblatt, 19.Oktober, 1999
  3. ^ Rolf Hofmeier: „Der Vater des afrikanischen Sozialismus“. Hamburger Abendblatt, 19.Oktober, 1999
  4. ^ Willi Germund: 'Deutsche Entwicklungshelfer streiten am Kap', Berlin: Die Tageszeitung (taz), 2 June 1995
  5. ^ '50 Jahre Weltblick'. Hamburg: German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA), (Ed.) Hanseatischer Merkur, p. 19, ISBN 978-3-922857-65-5
  6. ^ DFG, GEPRIS (Geförderte Projekte der DFG), completed projects


Category:1939 births Category:German economists Category:Scientists from Hamburg Category:Academic staff of the University of Hamburg Category:Living people Category:African studies Category:Area studies

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