Carl Zimmerer

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Carl Gerhard Zimmerer (born December 4, 1926 in Bad Berneck ; † April 23, 2001 ) was a German corporate broker and management consultant.

Life

At the age of 17, Zimmerer was called up for military service in 1944, and in 1945 he was taken prisoner by the United States and France. In 1947 he made up his Abitur in Kulmbach and studied political science in Erlangen , Frankfurt am Main and Geneva . He received a degree in economics and obtained his doctorate in 1953 under Wilhelm Röpke as a doctor ès sciences politiques (ès sc. Pol.) In Geneva. After studying carpenters worked as Assistant Professor at the Universities of Mannheim and Cologne , before he in 1955 Dusseldorf for Commerzbank was active. From 1956 to 1958 he was director of the main Düsseldorf branch.

Zimmerer founded InterFinanz in 1958 together with Gerhard Kienbaum , Willy Rasche and Walter Scheel . As managing partner, he led this company to one of the most important in the merger & acquisition industry in German-speaking countries. In addition, he was a member of the supervisory board of Agrippina Rückversicherungs AG and a long-standing member of the board of the Schmalenbach-Gesellschaft.

In 1988 the state government of North Rhine-Westphalia awarded him the title of professor.

In 1997 the private business school WHU in Vallendar awarded him the title of Dr. rer. pole. hc

Carl Zimmerer published 15 books and over 200 specialist articles.

Politically, Zimmerer, a former “thought leader” of the FDP , most recently placed himself in the right-wing conservative spectrum. Since the beginning of the 1980s, alongside Günther Kissel and Karl-Heinz Kausch, he was one of the organizers of the Düsseldorf men's group , which organized monthly lecture evenings with national conservatives and right-wing extremists. Zimmerer published a. a. in Criticón , Nation und Europa , the Preussische Allgemeine Zeitung and the Junge Freiheit .

Zimmerer was a member of the Corps Altsachsen in the WSC.

He is the father of the current board member of Allianz SE, Maximilian Zimmerer. His son Xaver Zimmerer is the managing partner of InterFinanz. His daughter Carola Kryschi is a professor of physical chemistry at the University of Erlangen.

Works

  • Interim assessment of liberalization , with a foreword by Federal Minister of Economics, Prof: Dr. Erhard, Fritz Knapp Verlag, Frankfurt 1953.
  • Is the 40-hour week coming? . Fritz Knapp Verlag, Frankfurt 1955.
  • Kompendium der Betriebswirtschaftslehre , 1st, 2nd, 3rd edition, Müller-Albrechts Verlag, Düsseldorf, 1955–58, 4th edition, Fritz Knapp Verlag, Frankfurt 1971, also in Farsi, Elite Press, Kabul 1970.
  • How do you read industry balances? . Müller-Albrechts Verlag, Düsseldorf 1956, later under the title: Reading and assessing industrial balances , Verlag Moderne Industrie, Munich, 1st - 6th edition 1967–1978, 7th edition 1991.
  • Bank cost accounting . Fritz Knapp Verlag, Frankfurt 1956.
  • Banking management . Social science publisher, Essen 1956.
  • Compendium of economic and social policy . Müller-Albrechts Verlag, Düsseldorf 1959.
  • Compendium of Economics . Müller-Albrechts Verlag, Düsseldorf 1960.
  • In search of the balance sheet truth . Business publisher Dr. Th. Gabler, Wiesbaden 1963, later published by the same publisher under the title: Bilanzwahrheit, Wunsch und Demokratie , 1st and 2nd edition 1970, 1972, later under the title: Die Bilanzwahrheit und die Bilanzlücke , 1st and 2nd edition 1980, 1981.
  • Be a hammer - not an anvil . Dr. Seewald Verlag, Stuttgart and Herborn, 1st and 2nd edition 1985, 3rd edition 1986.
  • together with Herbert Schönle: Brief commentary on the Banking Act . Business publisher Dr. Th. Gabler, Wiesbaden 1962.
  • Investment manual . Edited by Fritz Knapp Verlag, Frankfurt, 1. – 4. Edition 1966 - 1969 (also in single issues).
  • together with Arno Sölter: Handbook of corporate mergers (ed.), Verlag Moderne Industrie, Munich, 1972.
  • We children of the economic miracle have gotten older . Verlag Busse + Seewald, Herford 1987.
  • Comments from someone who remained liberal . Verlag Busse + Seewald, Herford 1990. ISBN 3-512-00972-7 .

literature

  • Changing economy and science, commemorative publication for Dr. Carl Zimmerer on his 60th birthday . Fritz Knapp Verlag, Frankfurt 1986.
  • Claussen, Hahn, Kraus: Upheaval and Change - Challenges at the Turn of the Century - Festschrift for Professor Dr. Carl Zimmerer on his 70th birthday . Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 1997.
  • Horst Albach (editor), Willy Kraus (editor): "Values, competition and change: Messages for tomorrow - memorial for Carl Zimmerer" . German University Publishing House, Wiesbaden 2003.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Focus, No. 3/1996, p. 161; quoted from Dietzsch / Maegerle
  2. ↑ Martin Dietzsch , Anton Maegerle: Politicizing psycho sects from the right . (January 1997)
personal data
SURNAME Carpenter, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zimmerer, Carl Gerhard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German business broker and business consultant
DATE OF BIRTH 4th December 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Berneck
DATE OF DEATH April 23, 2001