Axel Zerdick

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Axel Zerdick (born November 5, 1941 in Elbing ; † November 3, 2003 in Berlin ) was a German economist and journalist .

Axel Zerdick (Munich, 2002)

Life

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Axel Zerdick studied electrical engineering , law and business administration in Berlin and Canada . He completed his studies with a degree in business administration and received his doctorate in 1970 on the subject of “Preventive merger control in Japan: legal design and practical application” at the Free University of Berlin. Initially as a professor at the Berlin University of Applied Sciences (FHW), he became a professor at the Institute for Media and Communication Studies at the Free University of Berlin in 1980 (department of media economics). His main research interests were communication politics and economic aspects of individual and mass communication .

During this time, Zerdick was able to prove in a study carried out jointly with Manfred Knoche that the press support (= subsidies) demanded by newspaper publishers at the time was not justified on the basis of the newspaper publishers' own data. The press funding was then discontinued.

In addition to his work at the Free University of Berlin, Zerdick was the founder and spokesman of the European Communication Council at the end of the nineties , to which an independent group of mainly European communication scientists has come together. The European Communication Council includes Arnold Picot and Klaus Schrape as well as Roger Silverstone (LSE), Alexander Artopé, Ulrich Lange and Klaus Goldhammer . The standard economic work Die Internet-Ökonomie - Strategies for the digital economy appeared in 1999 as the European Communication Council Report and deals with the influence of new technologies on the media and communication industry.

Zerdick was also a member of the Scientific Working Group for Regulatory Issues of the Regulatory Authority for Telecommunications and Post and a member of the Broadcasting Council at Sender Free Berlin (SFB) and the successor broadcaster Rundfunk Berlin Brandenburg (RBB) as well as a member of the supervisory board of ART + COM Medientechnologie und Gestaltung AG .

He was married and has two children.

Axel Zerdick died in Berlin in 2003, two days before his 62nd birthday. His grave is in the Dahlem cemetery .

Fonts

author
  • Preventive merger control in Japan. Legal form and practical application . Diss., FU Berlin 1970.
editor
  • Telephone and Society . 3 vols. Berlin: Spiess, 1989 and 1990. (Ed. Research Group Telephone Communication, together with Ulrich Lange and Klaus Beck)
  • The internet economy. Strategies for the digital economy . Berlin [u. a.]: Springer, 1999. (Edited together with Arnold Picot et al.)
  • Broadcasting turnaround. The upheaval in the German broadcasting system after 1989 from the perspective of the actors. Berlin: Vistas, 2000. (Edited together with Günther von Lojewski et al.) ISBN 3-89158-292-7

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 574.
personal data
SURNAME Zerdick, Axel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH November 5, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Elbing (today Elbląg )
DATE OF DEATH November 3, 2003
Place of death Berlin