Walter Krämer

Walter Krämer (born 21 November 1948 in Ormont, Germany) is a German economist. He is a professor for economic and social statistics at the Technical University of Dortmund.

Krämer studied mathematics and economics at the University of Mainz where he was conferred 1979 a doctorate. He qualified as a university lecturer in econometrics at the Vienna University of Technology. He has been a professor of economic and social statistics at the Technical University of Dortmund since 1988. In addition, he was active as a guest professor at the Management Institute of Fudan University in Shanghai.

In 1997 he founded Verein Deutsche Sprache (German Language Association), where he has shown particular commitment as the chairman against the use of Denglish. Krämer is also a spokesman of the foundation executive board of the Stiftung Deutsche Sprache (German Speaking Foundation). Since 1996 Lexikon der populären Irrtümer (Dictionary of Popular Mistakes) has been published, triggering a wave of publications of similar mistake dictionaries.

Krämer is a member of Gesellschaft der Freunde der Hebräischen Universität Jerusalem (Society of Friends of Hebrew University of Jerusalem), the Ruhr Graduate School in Economics, and the Schweizer Orthographische Konferenz (Swiss Orthographical Conference).

He has been editor of the German Economic Review since 1 January 2008.

Since 2008 Krämer has been a member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts.

He is in addition a member of the Gesellschaft zur wissenschaftlichen Untersuchung von Parawissenschaften (Society for the Scientific Investigation of Parasciences).

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