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Born in Neunkirchen/Saar, he studied sociology, psychology, philosophy, and legal and social philosophy at Saarland University, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt, and – thanks to a scholarship from the French government – at the Sorbonne. In December 1968, he received his doctorate in Saarbrücken with a thesis supervised by his academic teacher Georges Goriely on ‘The Fraternal Society. Aspects of Claude-Henri de Saint Simon's Theory of Society and the State’. He then worked as a research assistant and research group leader at the Institute for Empirical Sociology headed by Professor Otto Neuloh and as a research assistant at Saarländischer Rundfunk (Saarland Broadcasting) as part of the school television project ‘Social Studies’. In 1971/72, he was a lecturer at the Catholic University of Applied Sciences for Social Work.
From 1972, he continued his academic career at the Saarland University of Education and, after completing his habilitation, took up a professorship in sociology in 1973. In 1977/78, he also held the office of vice-rector. After the dissolution of the University of Education, he moved to Saarland University. His name is associated with a wide range of activities. Among other things, he headed the women's studies continuing education project from 1984 to 1990. As the university's representative for cooperation with the Chamber of Labour and the German Trade Union Confederation, he founded the ‘University and Working World’ cooperation centre in 1994, which he headed from his retirement at the end of the winter semester 2001 until the end of 2004.
Under his aegis, numerous projects and publications analysed the various current challenges in the working world of the Saar-Lor-Lux region. As a visiting professor and in joint research projects, including on changes in economic and corporate culture in transformation processes, Professor Krämer also devoted himself intensively to the university partnership with Sofia for around 15 years. Until recently, he served as a liaison lecturer for the Friedrich Ebert Foundation. He also founded the Institute for Practice-Oriented Research and Education, which he headed for over a decade, and served for many years as a professor at the Institut Pédagogique in Walferdange, Luxembourg.
The jubilarian has published several studies on his various fields of research, on regional sociology, but also on French education and educational sociology. In 2013, he edited the documentation of an international congress on the ideas of André Gorz, which he organised and chaired, under the motto ‘The horizon of our actions – thinking about the collapse of capitalism’ in the series of publications by the Cooperation Centre ‘Science and the World of Work’. He is currently writing his memoirs of the early days of sociology in Saarbrücken, entitled ‘Marx kam fast bis Saarbrücken’ (Marx almost made it to Saarbrücken).
Further information:
Dr. Wolfgang Müller, University Archives
Email: wolfgang.mueller@uni-saarland.de