About the person
About the person
Prof. Dr Walter Siebel
University Professor of Sociology with a focus on urban and regional research at the University of Oldenburg.
Scientific career
| 1958 | Abitur Humboldt-Gymnasium, humanistic branch, Düsseldorf |
| 1968 | Diplom in Sociology in Frankfurt a.M. |
| 1969 - 1971 | Assistant at the TU Darmstadt |
| 1971 - 1974 | scient. Research assistant at the Institute Housing and Environment, Darmstadt |
| 1974 | Doctorate at the TU Darmstadt |
| 1975- | Professor at the University of Oldenburg |
| 1978- | Head of the urban research working group |
Activities in practice/consultancy
| 1989 - 1995 | scient. Director of the International Building Exhibition Emscher-Park - leave of absence at the University of Oldenburg |
| 1990 - 1992 | Advisory Board for Urban Development of the City of Vienna |
| 1994 - 1995 | Enquetè Commission for Urban Development Hamburg |
| 1996 - 1999 | Correspondent of the IBA Emscher-Park |
| 1996 - 2001 | scient. Accompanying research Offensive Future Bavaria - Settlement models |
| 1996 - 2002 | Advisory Board of the Hamburg Urban Development Corporation |
| 2003 - | Advisory Board of the Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Housing |
Activities in academic self-administration
| 1982 - 1983 | Dean of Faculty 3 |
| 1988 - | Liaison lecturer of the DFG |
| 1996 - 2000 | Director of the Institute of Sociology |
| 2002 - | Chair of the doctorate committee of Department 3 |
Honorary posts - Memberships - Prizes - Academic appointments
| 1982 - 1984 | Deputy. Chair of the scient. Advisory Board of the Federal Research Centre for Regional Studies and Spatial Planning |
| 1984 - 1986 | Chair of the scient. Advisory Board of the BfLR |
| 1982 | Appointment to the University of Dortmund |
| 1991 - 1993 | Fellow at the Kulturwiss. Institute at the NRW Science Centre |
| 1992 | Appointment at the TU Hamburg/Harburg |
| 1995 | Fritz Schumacher Prize of the Alfred Toepfer Foundation |
| 1990 - | Member of the German Academy for Urban and Regional Planning |
| 1992 - | Corresponding member of the Academy for Spatial Research and Regional Planning |
| 1992 - | Member of the Lower Saxony Social Science Technology Research Working Group. Since 1999 Lower Saxony research network for technology, development and structural change |
| 2003 | Schader Prize of the Schader Foundation |
Scientific focus
Regional and urban research, housing sociology, connections between social and spatial change, integration issues.
Book publications including (together with other authors): Arbeit nach der Arbeit - Schattenwirtschaft, Wertewandel und Industriearbeit (1987); Ökologie und urbane Lebensweise (1997). New Urbanity (2000⁶); Service Societies (2000³); Sociology of Housing (2000²).