Dieter Pohmer

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Dieter Pohmer (born December 31, 1925 in Berlin ; † March 19, 2013 in Tübingen ) was a German economist and university professor .

Dieter Pohmer, son of the merchant Herbert Pohmer and Berta born Bünte, studied at the Universities of Mannheim (WS 1948/49 - WS 1949/50) and the Free University of Berlin (SS 1950 - SS 1951) Economics , where he in the fall of 1951 passed his diploma in business administration . On 18 July 1953 he received his doctorate just there to Dr. rer. pole. with the dissertation “The nature and limits of the economic justification of hidden reserves in the annual balance sheet in dynamic and static consideration” (first reviewer: Wilhelm Eich). On June 19, 1957, he completed his habilitation at the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at the Free University of Berlin with the habilitation thesis "Basics of operational taxation" (reviewers Wilhelm Eich and Erich Kosiol ). On October 1, 1957, he was awarded the Venia legendi for business administration there. In 1959 he was appointed to a chair for business administration at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen and was co-director of the business administration seminar from 1959 to 1970. From 1962 to 1994 he was also head of the concentration research department there. In the winter semester of 1967/68, he also represented the chair for economics and finance at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . 1970 Pohmer was for Economics umhabilitiert . From 1970 until his retirement he held a chair for economics and was director of the department of economics, especially finance, at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen (successor to Woldemar Koch ). On April 1, 1994, Pohmer retired; Wolfgang Wiegard was appointed his successor .

From winter semester 1959/60 to winter semester 1993/94 Pohmer also gave lectures at the Administration and Business Academy (VWA). He was also a specialist reviewer for public finance for the German Research Foundation (DFG).

Pohmer, who was particularly concerned with concentration and financial policy , was also active in scientific policy advice. From 1962 until his death in 2013, Pohmer was a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Federal Ministry of Finance , of which he was Deputy Chairman from January 1, 1982 to December 31, 1990 and Chairman from January 1, 1991 to December 31, 1994. In addition, from July 21, 1984 to February 28, 1991, he was the successor to Kurt Schmidt and a member of the Advisory Council for assessing macroeconomic developments . Rolf Peffekoven became his successor in the Expert Council .

Pohmer was a member of numerous commissions, including from 1990 to 1992 in the commission set up by the Federal Ministry of Finance to improve the tax conditions for investments and jobs (the so-called Goerdeler Commission ), which took on the development of a corporate tax reform, and from 1993 to 1995 in the income tax commission set up by the Federal Ministry of Finance for the tax exemption of the subsistence level from 1996 and for the reform of the income tax (so-called Bareis commission). Pohmer was awarded the 1st Class Cross of Merit on April 14, 1981 and the Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany on November 9, 1995.

Pohmer was a member of numerous clubs and associations, including the Verein für Socialpolitik , whose finance committee he headed from 1977 to 1981 as chairman.

Dieter Pohmer, who married Gisela Hustedt in 1961, with whom he had three sons (Klaus Pohmer, Frank Pohmer and Jörg Pohmer), died in Tübingen in 2013 at the age of 87. He was buried on April 4, 2013 in the Bergfriedhof (Tübingen) .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Personnel at the University of Tübingen. ( Memento of the original from March 19, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.uni-tuebingen.de
  2. ↑ Newsletter Uni Tübingen current No. 1/2013: People
  3. ↑ Schwäbisches Tagblatt, March 23, 2013
  4. ↑ Economics at the University of Tübingen.
  5. ^ Federal Ministry of Finance The Scientific Advisory Board at the Federal Ministry of Finance: Expert opinion ... , 1988, 700 pages, page 603.
  6. ^ [1] Members of the Scientific Advisory Board
  7. ^ Personnel composition of the Expert Council since its establishment. (PDF; 52 kB)
personal data
SURNAME Pohmer, Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH March 19, 2013
Place of death Tübingen