Dietger Hahn

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Dietger Hahn (born April 4, 1935 in Berlin ; † November 13, 2017 ) was a German economist and university professor.

Life

Dietger Hahn studied industrial engineering at the Technical University of Berlin , where he graduated in 1959 as a qualified industrial engineer and was a research assistant at the chair for general business administration and industrial business administration from 1959 to 1963 . In 1962 he was at Konrad Mellerowicz to Dr.-Ing. PhD . In 1965 he graduated in metallurgy . After that he was executive assistant and authorized signatory of the Thyssen group until 1967 . At the same time he completed his habilitation at the TU Berlin.

In 1969 he was offered a professorship at the Justus Liebig University in Gießen for the chair of industrial management and corporate planning , which he later expanded to include industrial management and controlling . In 1975, on the basis of his initiative, the “Institute for Business Planning - IUP Gießen / Berlin” was founded, in which he worked as chairman of the scientific management until his retirement. He received calls to the RWTH Aachen , University of Kiel and also to his home university , the TU Berlin. In the latter, he was an honorary professor from 1989 to 2001 . In March 2002 he retired.

Act

His research and teaching focus was on strategic management, corporate planning and controlling, and production management. By integrating decision theory ( Heinen ) and systems theory ( Ulrich ), Hahn succeeded in providing a closed theoretical basis for planning and planning systems.

As an author and editor, Dietger Hahn has published several books and over a hundred articles and manual contributions. His most important work is "PuK - Controlling Concepts", which has been translated into various languages ​​and is a standard work for controlling. In the first edition of "PuK" (1974), the concept was combined with the presentation of corresponding planning systems in practice by managers from various companies / groups ( VW , Rasselstein , Henkel , SEL , later Daimler , Haniel and Siemens ).

Today (2008) six of his former employees and one former employee hold their own professorship at a college or university.

Dietger Hahn was a board member of the Association of German Industrial Engineers. V., Berlin , in the company of friends of the Technical University Berlin e. V., in the Gießener Hochschulgesellschaft e. V. and in the Schmalenbach Society for Business Administration e. V., Berlin / Cologne - here also as scientific director of the working groups "Integrated Business Planning" and "Management Organization". He has been a member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech) in Munich since it was founded .

Hahn worked for a number of years on supervisory boards / advisory boards and as a consultant for various industrial and service companies. Most recently he was a member of the supervisory board of the industrial company Zwiesel Kristallglas AG and the advisory board of a service company as well as advisory boards of funding institutions.

Publications (selection)

  • PuK - Value-oriented Controlling Concepts , 2001, Wiesbaden, Hahn / Hungenberg, Harald, ISBN 3-409-62601-8
  • Handbook of industrial procurement management , 2002, Wiesbaden, Hahn / Kaufmann, Lutz, ISBN 3-409-22253-7
  • Production Management , 1999, Heidelberg, Hahn / Laßmann, Gert,
  • Strategic business planning - Strategic business management , 1999, ISBN 3-7908-1155-6

honors and awards

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ^ Dietger Hahn: Obituary notice. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . November 18, 2017. Retrieved November 18, 2017 .
  2. ^ Journal of Business Research, p. 281
personal data
SURNAME Hahn, Dietger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German industrial engineer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 4, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH November 13, 2017