Bernhard Mann (born in

Stuttgart Stuttgart (; Swabian: ; ) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is located on the Neckar river in a fertile valley known as the ''Stuttgarter Kessel'' (Stuttgart Cauldron) and lies an hour from the ...

West Germany West Germany is the colloquial term used to indicate the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG; german: Bundesrepublik Deutschland , BRD) between its formation on 23 May 1949 and the German reunification through the accession of East Germany on 3 O ...

, 3 December 1950) is a social scientist and

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, professor of

social pedagogy Social pedagogy describes a holistic and relationship-centred way of working in care and educational settings with people across the course of their lives. In many countries across Europe (and increasingly beyond), it has a long-standing tradition a ...

management Management (or managing) is the administration of an organization, whether it is a business, a nonprofit organization, or a government body. It is the art and science of managing resources of the business. Management includes the activities o ...

and coaching at the iba Koeln - University of Cooperative Education, professor emeritus of health and social management at the FHM Bielefeld - University of Applied Sciences, former professor of

health management Health administration, healthcare administration, healthcare management or hospital management is the field relating to leadership, management, and administration of public health systems, health care systems, hospitals, and hospital networks ...

and

vice-president A vice president, also director in British English, is an officer in government or business who is below the president (chief executive officer) in rank. It can also refer to executive vice presidents, signifying that the vice president is on t ...

at the University of Applied Sciences

Bamberg Bamberg (, , ; East Franconian: ''Bambärch'') is a town in Upper Franconia, Germany, on the river Regnitz close to its confluence with the river Main. The town dates back to the 9th century, when its name was derived from the nearby ' castle. C ...

adjunct professor An adjunct professor is a type of academic appointment in higher education who does not work at the establishment full-time. The terms of this appointment and the job security of the tenure vary in different parts of the world, however the genera ...

public health Public health is "the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health through the organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and private, communities and individuals". Analyzing the det ...

, social medicine and

sociology Sociology is a social science that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of Interpersonal ties, social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life. It uses various methods of Empirical ...

at the

University of Bonn The Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University of Bonn (german: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn) is a public research university located in Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded in its present form as the ( en, Rhine U ...

University of Koblenz-Landau The University of Koblenz and Landau (German ''Universität Koblenz-Landau'') is a public university located in Koblenz and Landau, Germany, founded in 1990. History and profile The University of Koblenz and Landau is one of the youngest univers ...

, at the Berlin School of Public Health - Charité, Medical University, at several universities of educational cooperation as well as of applied sciences like in

Bochum Bochum ( , also , ; wep, Baukem) is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia. With a population of 364,920 (2016), is the sixth largest city (after Cologne, Düsseldorf, Dortmund, Essen and Duisburg) of the most populous Germany, German federal state o ...

Düsseldorf Düsseldorf ( , , ; often in English sources; Low Franconian and Ripuarian: ''Düsseldörp'' ; archaic nl, Dusseldorp ) is the capital city of North Rhine-Westphalia, the most populous state of Germany. It is the second-largest city in th ...

Essen Essen (; Latin: ''Assindia'') is the central and, after Dortmund, second-largest city of the Ruhr, the largest urban area in Germany. Its population of makes it the fourth-largest city of North Rhine-Westphalia after Cologne, Düsseldorf and D ...

Koeln Cologne ( ; german: Köln ; ksh, Kölle ) is the largest city of the German western state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and the fourth-most populous city of Germany with 1.1 million inhabitants in the city proper and 3.6 million ...

and

Wuppertal Wuppertal (; "''Wupper Dale''") is, with a population of approximately 355,000, the seventh-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia as well as the 17th-largest city of Germany. It was founded in 1929 by the merger of the cities and to ...

. He is public-health-coordinator of the German program at the IESS - Institut Européen des Sciences de la Santé Casablanca, Maroc.

Education and career

After college education in

London London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a majo ...

and

Paris Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. S ...

and the university-entrance diploma in Stuttgart, Bernhard Mann studied political economics, law, sociology, medical sociology and

social policy Social policy is a plan or action of government or institutional agencies which aim to improve or reform society. Some professionals and universities consider social policy a subset of public policy, while other practitioners characterize soci ...

at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg and the

University of Göttingen The University of Göttingen, officially the Georg August University of Göttingen, (german: Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, known informally as Georgia Augusta) is a public research university in the city of Göttingen, Germany. Founded ...

between 1971 and 1977. Mann acquired a master's degree in social sciences ( M.A.). He could continue his research for

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social gerontology Gerontology ( ) is the study of the social, Culture, cultural, Psychology, psychological, cognitive, and Biology, biological aspects of aging. The word was coined by Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov in 1903, from the Ancient Greek, Greek , ''geron'', "ol ...

and

social planning Social engineering is a top-down effort to influence particular attitudes and social behaviors on a large scale—most often undertaken by governments, but also carried out by media, academia or private groups—in order to produce desired chara ...

at the University of Kassel, his research for a MPH in

at Hannover Medical School and his advanced training in total quality management at the

Kaiserslautern University of Technology Kaiserslautern (; Palatinate German: ''Lautre'') is a city in southwest Germany, located in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate at the edge of the Palatinate Forest. The historic centre dates to the 9th century. It is from Paris, from Frankfur ...

. Bernhard Mann acted as an assistant professor of sociology at the faculty of economics and social sciences of the University of Erlangen–Nuremberg (1978–81) and at the faculty of social sciences of the

University of Konstanz The University of Konstanz (german: Universität Konstanz) is a university in the city of Konstanz in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Its main campus was opened on the Gießberg in 1972 after being founded in 1966. The university is Germany's ...

(1991–96), assistant professor of sociology and public health at the faculties of medicine and philosophy of the

(1999-2011) and the faculty of educational sciences of the University of Koblence-Landau (2001-2017). Mann is an adjunct professor of public health at the FOM - University of Applied Sciences

(since 2013), at the iba - International University of Cooperative Education

Heidelberg Heidelberg (; Palatine German language, Palatine German: ''Heidlberg'') is a city in the States of Germany, German state of Baden-Württemberg, situated on the river Neckar in south-west Germany. As of the 2016 census, its population was 159,914 ...

(since 2015) and as well as an adjunct professor of sociology at the IUBH - International University of Applied Sciences

(since 2017). He was a member of the scientific board of the M.A. program for Health Management in Koblence-Landau elected for certifying the Faculty of Social Sciences in Göttingen and the M.A. program for Health Management in Koblence-Landau. Together with three colleges, he is editor of the Koblence memoire for public health and health management, published by LIT (Münster-Berlin-Hamburg-London-Wien-Zürich).

Sociological consultation

Bernhard Mann operated as project manager for public-health-projects for the German health ministry in the case of consulting political refugees, the German family ministry in the case of health promotion with elderly handicaps and the Bavarian social ministry in the case of the social management with elderly handicaps. He was consultant at the Germany Society for Rehabilitation and at the Institute for Vocational Training, Labour Market and Social Policy (INBAS), Offenbach am Main, is senator of the German Association of Sociologists (since 1997) and belongs to the jury in order to select the German city with the best

quality of life Quality of life (QOL) is defined by the World Health Organization as "an individual's perception of their position in life in the context of the culture and value systems in which they live and in relation to their goals, expectations, standards ...

for the elderly 2010. Mann was appointed to be an honorary judge at the administrative court in Ansbach and

Köln Cologne ( ; german: Köln ; ksh, Kölle ) is the largest city of the German western state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and the fourth-most populous city of Germany with 1.1 million inhabitants in the city proper and 3.6 million ...

, especially in the cases of the procedure for granting the Right of asylum. He is a member of the head of the Social Democratic Party in

Unkel Unkel is a town in the district of Neuwied, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is situated on the right bank of the Rhine, near Remagen, about 20 km southeast of Bonn. Unkel is the seat of the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' ("collective municipali ...

, a place

Willy Brandt Willy Brandt (; born Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm; 18 December 1913 – 8 October 1992) was a German politician and statesman who was leader of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) from 1964 to 1987 and served as the chancellor of West Ge ...

(

Nobel Peace Prize The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Swedish industrialist, inventor and armaments (military weapons and equipment) manufacturer Alfred Nobel, along with the prizes in Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Chemi ...

1971) settled and died (1992). Bernhard Mann is living in a house in Unkel, where Willy Brandt settled (1979-1989).

International projects

Mann was funded for international studies in

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...

Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema ...

England England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe b ...

and

France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of Overseas France, overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, Pacific Ocean, Pac ...

. In 1970 Mann was a selected delegate of the German youth to the World Youth Conference organized in

Tokyo Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, with an estimated 37.468 ...

and

Osaka is a designated city in the Kansai region of Honshu in Japan. It is the capital of and most populous city in Osaka Prefecture, and the third most populous city in Japan, following Special wards of Tokyo and Yokohama. With a population of 2. ...

/ Japan under his patronage the excellence

akihito is a member of the Imperial House of Japan who reigned as the 125th emperor of Japan from 7 January 1989 until his abdication on 30 April 2019. He presided over the Heisei era, ''Heisei'' being an expression of achieving peace worldwide. Bo ...

. In India he held a research project in Bapagram about the

Basic education According to the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED), basic education comprises the two stages primary education and lower secondary education. Universal basic education Basic education featured heavily in the 1997 ISCED ...

Mahatma Gandhi Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (; ; 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948), popularly known as Mahatma Gandhi, was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist Quote: "... marks Gandhi as a hybrid cosmopolitan figure who transformed ... anti- ...

in comparison with the pedagogical concepts by Paulo Freire. In 1996 he was a visiting professor ( German-Erasmus-Program) at the

University of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh ( sco, University o Edinburgh, gd, Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann; abbreviated as ''Edin.'' in post-nominals) is a public research university based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Granted a royal charter by King James VI in 15 ...

. From 2003 to 2005 Bernhard Mann was elected as adviser for the ''Programme national de recherche 45 - Problemes de l´Etat social,

Suisse ; rm, citad federala, links=no). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzon ...

'' and in 2009 as adviser for Health Sociology for the

European Union The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe. The union has a total area of and an estimated total population of about 447million. The EU has often been des ...

at the Republic of Cyprus. 2018 Mann was keynote speaker and member at the organizing committees at international congresses in

Dubai Dubai (, ; ar, دبي, translit=Dubayy, , ) is the most populous city in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the capital of the Emirate of Dubai, the most populated of the 7 emirates of the United Arab Emirates.The Government and Politics of ...

United Arab Emirates The United Arab Emirates (UAE; ar, اَلْإِمَارَات الْعَرَبِيَة الْمُتَحِدَة ), or simply the Emirates ( ar, الِْإمَارَات ), is a country in Western Asia (The Middle East). It is located at th ...

. Mann is coordinator of the German Programm of the IESS - Institut Européen des Sciences de la Santé

Casablanca Casablanca, also known in Arabic as Dar al-Bayda ( ar, الدَّار الْبَيْضَاء, al-Dār al-Bayḍāʾ, ; ber, ⴹⴹⴰⵕⵍⴱⵉⴹⴰ, ḍḍaṛlbiḍa, : "White House") is the largest city in Morocco and the country's econom ...

, Member of the Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region (ASPHER) and Partner of the

City University of New York The City University of New York ( CUNY; , ) is the Public university, public university system of Education in New York City, New York City. It is the largest urban university system in the United States, comprising 25 campuses: eleven Upper divis ...

(CUNY). Since 2008 he is listed in

Marquis Who's Who in the World Marquis Who's Who ( or ) is an American publisher of a number of directories containing short biographies. The books usually are entitled ''Who's Who in...'' followed by some subject, such as ''Who's Who in America'', ''Who's Who of American Wome ...

Willy-Brandt-Forum

Bernhard Mann is a

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- representative of the

Social Democratic Party The name Social Democratic Party or Social Democrats has been used by many political parties in various countries around the world. Such parties are most commonly aligned to social democracy as their political ideology. Active parties For ...

- and a member of the Forum in memory of

German writer

The research in the view of sociology, public health, social planning and social gerontology is documented in various publications: ''Basic Education by Mahatma Gandhi'' and ''Education for liberation'' by Paulo Freire aims to develop the whole personality. The accommodation, adequate supply and health care of ''political refugees'' needs to offer psychosocial services. The elderly entering in a ''retirement home'' needs to protect their personal and social identity and the support of ''elderly handicaps'' in a nursing home require's quality management. In the light of the increasing ''

violence Violence is the use of physical force so as to injure, abuse, damage, or destroy. Other definitions are also used, such as the World Health Organization's definition of violence as "the intentional use of physical force or Power (social and p ...

'', a burden for the health as the

World Health Organization The World Health Organization (WHO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for international public health. The WHO Constitution states its main objective as "the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of h ...

reports, the development of Public Health will be a very important issue.

Works available in English

*''Aging handicapped in Federal Republic of Germany (FRG): social aspects of non-integration and integration.'' In: E. Beregi, I.A. Gergely, K. Rajczi (Ed.) Recent advances in Aging Science II. Monduzzi Editore. Bologna 1993, *''The Pedagogical and Political Concepts of Mahatma Gandhi and Paulo Freire.'' In: Claußen, Bernhard (Ed.): ''International Studies in Political Socialization and Education. Ed. 8.'' Hamburg 1996, *''Development of Public Health in Germany.'' In: Journal of Community Medicine & Health Education. November 2017. Volume 7. Issue 5. *(with Christiane Barbara Piel) ''Sociological and Public Health based help in refugees camps.'' In: T. Correia, V. C. da Silva (eds.) Old Tensions, Emerging paradoxes in Health: Rights, Knowledge, and Trust. 17th Biennial Conference ESHMS Lisbon 2018 *''Strengthening health care by the pedagogical concepts of

and Paulo Freire -

and awareness.'' In: Meetings International. Emergency Medicine and Nursing Care. Journal of Nursing & Patient Care. September 2018. Volume 3. 2573-4571 *''The supply of the disabled becoming elderly by the capability approach by

Amartya Sen Amartya Kumar Sen (; born 3 November 1933) is an Indian economist and philosopher, who since 1972 has taught and worked in the United Kingdom and the United States. Sen has made contributions to welfare economics, social choice theory, econom ...

.'' Global Public Health Congress. In: Journal of Nutrition & Food Sciences. Oktober 2018. Volume 8. *''Development of Public Health in Germany and Japan: A Chance for Strengthening Democracy?'' In: Schmidt, Carmen and Kleinfeld, Ralf (Ed.): ''The Crisis of Democracy? Chances, Risks and Challenges in Japan (Asia) and Germany (Europe).'' Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2020, p. 443-459

Works available in French

* (avec Wolfgang Petran). ''The expertise of sociologists.'' La sociologie professionnelle en Allemagne. Sociologies d'ailleurs. Revue Sociologies pratiques. 149–159. 2010 – No 20.

Presses Universitaires de France Presses universitaires de France (PUF, English: ''University Press of France''), founded in 1921 by Paul Angoulvent (1899–1976), is the largest French university publishing house. Recent company history The financial and legal structure ...

Works available in German

*''Aging with handicaps. Public-Health-Gerontology.'' In: Karl, Fred, Schmitz-Scherzer, Jens (Ed.) Social Gerontology. Theory and practical knowledge. In memory of Reinhard Schmitz-Scherzer (1938-2016). LIT. Münster 2018, p. 85-107 *''Health Sociology.'' Staatslexikon. 8th edition. Freiburg im Breisgau 2018 (E-Book) *''Political Refugee. Sociological aspects and Public Health orientated recommendations in collective points.'' München 2007 . *''Violence and Health. Public Health orientated recommendations by the World Health Organisation (WHO).'' In: Sozialwissenschaften und Berufspraxis 29. Jg. 1/2006. S. 81-91 ISSN 0724-3464 *''Health System Research and Health Sociology.'' In: Health Management (Ed.): Lehrbriefe. University of Koblenz-Landau, Koblenz 2005 *''Aging and Society between Competence and Ageism.'' In: Soziologische Revue 2/2002. S. 133–148. ISSN 0343-4109 *''Ethics in Sociology.'' Munich 2001 ISBN (E-Book) 978-3-638-86215-8 *''Health Sociology.'' In: University of Köln. Institute of Sociology (Ed.) Gute Gesellschaft. Münster-Hamburg-London 2000 *''Home care. Effects of the Social Law.'' Deutsche Hochschulschriften. Bd. 509. Egelsbach-Frankfurt/Main-Washington 1994, *''Qualities of assimilation. Elderly handicaps living in the retirement home.'' Frankfurt/M. 1990, *''Adult handicaps and the old residing in an old people's home.'' In: Zeitschrift für Gerontopsychologie und -psychiatrie, 1, 1988/2, S. 163-172 ISSN 1011-6877 *''Changing to an old people's home and basic strategies in the view of social gerontology.'' In: Bernhard Claußen, Karlheinz Filipp, Klaus Wasmund (Ed.): Materialien zur sozialwissenschaftlichen Forschung. Ed. 3. Frankfurt/M. 1987, *''Political Refugee.'' Foreword:

UNHCR The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is a United Nations agency mandated to aid and protect refugees, forcibly displaced communities, and stateless people, and to assist in their voluntary repatriation, local integrati ...

(United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees). Frankfurt/M. 1983, *''Die pädagogisch-politischen Konzeptionen Mahatma Gandhis und Paulo Freires.'' In: Bernhard Claußen (Ed.): Studien zur Politikdidaktik. Band 9. Frankfurt/M. 1979, ISSN 0344-3299 illiteracy and alphabetization
(28 July 2009)

References

External links

*
Bernhard Mann (German National Library of Science and Technology - University Library Hannover)

Bernhard Mann (FHM Bielefeld - University of Applied Sciences)

* ttp://www.lernende-region-hamburg.de/index.php?id=69 Community development in the region of Hamburg
Political refugees and Public Health

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