Albert Oberhofer

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Albert Friedrich Oberhofer (born August 5, 1925 in Veitsch ; † July 31, 2016 ) was an Austrian engineer , business economist and university lecturer . He was Rector of the Montan University Leoben from 1974 to 1979 and from 1991 to 1995 .

Life

Albert Oberhofer attended a technical college for mechanical engineering after high school . This was followed by studies at the Montanistische Hochschule Leoben, which he finished in 1950 with the graduation as a graduate engineer . In 1956 he received his doctorate from RWTH Aachen University as Dr.-Ing. with a dissertation on the hot blast cupola furnace in the Siemens-Martin factory . From 1951 to 1957 he was assistant and later operations manager in the steelworks of Hahn'sche Werke AG Duisburg , then department head for business administration at Bochumer Verein AG in Bochum.

In 1963 he was appointed full university professor at the newly founded Institute for Economics and Business Administration at the Montanistische Hochschule Leoben, where he stayed until his retirement in 1995. From 1974 to 1979 and from 1991 to 1995 he was elected rector of the Montanuniversität Leoben . During his term of office, the implementation of the University Organization Act 1993 fell , and the Institute for Structural and Functional Ceramics and the Institute for Automation were founded during his rectorate.

He spent most of the last few years in Millstatt am See . He died on July 31, 2016 at the age of 90.

Awards (selection)

Publications (selection)

  • 1969 (together with Rolf Wartmann and Volkmar Steinecke): For the optimal program planning of competing profile and fine steel rolling mills, second heat , Verlag Stahleisen, Düsseldorf 1969
  • 1969 (together with Wolfgang Marin and Robert Rupp): Planning an economical crude steel production and distribution , Verlag Stahleisen, Düsseldorf 1969
  • 1970 (together with Helmut Pötzl): Simulation model as the basis for planning a heavy plate mill , Verlag Stahleisen, Düsseldorf 1970
  • 1984 (as editor): Wirtschaftspraxis für Ingenieure , Verlag Stahleisen, Düsseldorf
    • Volume 1, Planning and Costs , Verlag Stahleisen, Düsseldorf 1984, ISBN 978-3-514-00325-5
    • Volume 4, organization and communication in companies and operations , Verlag Stahleisen, Düsseldorf 1986, ISBN 978-3-514-00328-6
  • 1997 (as editor): Innovative Uni-Management: an orientation , publishing house of the Austrian State Printing House, Vienna 1997, ISBN 978-3-7046-1027-0

literature

  • Friedwin Sturm: 150 Years of the Montan University Leoben 1840-1990. Academic printing and Publishing House, Graz, 1990, ISBN 978-3-201-01522-6 , p. 98. ( PDF )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Kleine Zeitung: Two former Montanuni rectors died . Article dated August 2, 2016, accessed August 2, 2016.
  2. ↑ a b Small newspaper: Obituary notice from Albert F. Oberhofer . Retrieved August 3, 2016.
  3. ↑ Dr.Ing., Dr.DI hcem. Univ.-Prof. Albert F. Oberhofer ( Memento from August 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved August 2, 2016.
  4. ↑ Kleine Zeitung: Albert Oberhofer: "I just like the Carinthian way" . Article dated November 15, 2015, accessed August 2, 2016.
  5. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 153 , 466
personal data
SURNAME Oberhofer, Albert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Oberhofer, Albert Friedrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian engineer, business economist and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH August 5, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Veitsch
DATE OF DEATH July 31, 2016