Edmund Heinen

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Edmund Heinen (born August 18, 1919 in Eschringen ; † June 22, 1996 in Munich ) was a professor of business administration in Munich. He is considered to be the founder of the decision-making approach .

Life

Edmund Heinen was born as the son of Ludwig and Philippina Heinen (née Welsch). He spent his childhood in neighboring Fechingen , the birthplace of his father. In 1937 he was in Saarbruecken , the High School and began his studies at the TH Danzig . After the Second World War and a subsequent imprisonment , he resumed his studies at the TH Aachen and the University of Minnesota . His wife Thea, b. Langenbahn, married Heinen in July 1946 in Brebach . In 1948, Heinen graduated from the University of Frankfurt am Main with a degree in business administration . He returned to Saarland and received his doctorate a year later at Saarbrücken University . He completed his habilitation in business administration in 1951 and initially taught as a private lecturer. In 1954 he was appointed professor.

In 1957, Heinen accepted a call to the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , where he founded the Institute for Industrial Research as full professor . His academic students included Werner Kirsch , Arnold Picot , Peter Kupsch , Heinz Rehkugler , Ralf Reichwald , Ekkehard Kappler , Michael Stitzel , Hannes Streim , Heribert Meffert and Rainer Marr .

In numerous publications, the student of Fritz Schmidt and Erich Gutenberg formulated important ideas and decisively developed business administration with its decision-oriented approach. His books have been published worldwide. Heinen received countless honors, including the Federal Cross of Merit on May 30, 1979 . On May 24, 1985 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Economics and Organizational Sciences at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich . On the occasion of his 70th birthday in 1989, a commemorative publication was published by the Munich professors Werner Kirsch and Arnold Picot with the title “Business Administration in the Field of Tension Between Generalization and Specialization”.

He named traveling, gardening, chess and music as his hobbies. But his passion was philately .

Significant work

Heinen made significant contributions in the following areas:

"The decision-oriented business administration tries to systematize, explain and shape the phenomena and facts of practice from the perspective of operational decisions."

Publications (selection)

  • Basic questions of decision-oriented business administration . Goldmann, Munich 1976, ISBN 3-442-13203-7
  • as publisher: Business management leadership: a decision-oriented approach. Gabler, 1978, ISBN 3-409-31692-2 (2nd combined and extended edition. 1984, ISBN 3-409-31693-0 )
  • Introduction to business administration . 9th edition Gabler, 1985.
  • Corporate culture: perspectives for science and practice . Oldenbourg, 1987, ISBN 3-486-20449-1 . (2nd, edited and expanded edition. 1997, ISBN 3-486-23108-1 )
  • Industrial management: decisions in industrial operations. 6th edition. Springer, 1978 (Gabler, 1991, ISBN 3-409-33152-2 )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The development of tax law in Saarland after 1945 . Dissertation .
  2. ↑ Office of the Federal President
  3. ↑ Honorary doctorates of the faculties. In: Directory of people and courses. Spring trimester 2001. University of the Federal Armed Forces Munich, Neubiberg 2001, pp. 14–15.
  4. ↑ quoted from Heinen, 1991, p. 12.
  5. ↑ Reading sample
personal data
SURNAME Heinen, Edmund
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist
DATE OF BIRTH August 18, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Eschringen
DATE OF DEATH June 22, 1996
Place of death Munich