Alfred Gutersohn
Alfred Gutersohn (born February 12, 1904 in Islikon TG ; † March 10, 2003 in Bern ) was a Swiss university professor .
Life
From 1956 to 1976, Alfred Gutersohn was an associate professor for applied economics with a special focus on trade policy at the University of St. Gallen (HSG). Already in the winter semester of 1935/36 he fulfilled his first teaching assignment at what was then the commercial college (HH), which appointed him adjunct professor in 1946 and associate professor in 1956. The founding of the Swiss Institute for Commercial Economics at the University of St.Gallen (today KMU-HSG) in 1946, which Professor Gutersohn headed until 1975, provided the organizational basis for the early establishment of international connections to other researchers in his specialty, shortly afterwards the second World War. In 1948 he founded the research conference “Rencontres de St-Gall”, thereby creating an institution that has retained its international reputation to this day.
Prof. Dr. rer. pole. Probably Gutersohn's best-known basic idea was that of the "differentiated production of services" by the commercial economy. They fundamentally distinguish commercial enterprises from industrial manufacturing companies.
Publications (selection)
- together with Hans Georg Geisbüsch: Power imbalances and counterbalances in economic reality . in: The counterweight principle in the economic system, Vol. 2, Heymann, Cologne, Berlin, Bonn, Munich, 1966
- The trade in the free market economy , volumes I to III, 1st edition Polygraphischer Verlag (today: Schulthess), Zurich 1954ff., 2nd, revised. Edition Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin / Munich / St. Gallen 1977
- The more recent developments in Swiss trade as reflected in the federal company (workplace) censuses of 1965 and 1975. in: Series of publications by the Swiss Institute for Commercial Economics at St. Gallen University of Economics and Social Sciences, 8th, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin, 1980
literature
- Werner Schuder (Hrsg.): Kürschner's German learned calendar . Volume 1, 13th edition, De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1980, ISBN 3-110-07434-6 . P. 1252.
Web links
- Literature by and about Alfred Gutersohn in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gutersohn, Alfred |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 12, 1904 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Islikon |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 10, 2003 |
| Place of death | Bern |