Edmund Sundhoff

Edmund Hugo Sundhoff (born April 1, 1912 in Dortmund ; † 1998 in Cologne ) was a German economist and professor of business administration , most recently at the "Seminar for Commercial Operations " at the University of Cologne .

Career

His father was a business consultant, his son studied in Cologne from 1938 and graduated with a degree in business . in 1941. In 1944 he received his doctorate with Rudolf Seyffert in Cologne with "The functions of the wholesale", he became an assistant at Seyffert in 1945 and began with his own lectures. His habilitation thesis , which was also accompanied by Seyffert, was published in 1949 under the title “Die Handelsspanne”. He taught in Cologne until 1951 and then moved to the University of Hamburg , where he stayed until 1954. From 1954 he took the professorship for general business administration at the University of Göttingenwhich he held until 1962. He returned to Cologne at the end of 1962 as the successor to his teacher Seyffert, where he also took on the post of director of the Institute for Retail Research in 1963 and the position of Director of the Institute for Distribution Research in 1968 . Sudhoff retired in Cologne in 1979.

Edmund Sundhoff's exact date of death is unknown; However, he died before May 20, 1998, because he is mentioned as dead in the annual celebration of the University of Cologne on May 20, 1998.

Publications

His habilitation thesis "Die Handelsspanne", published as a book in 1953, dealt in detail with the trade range , its types, its significance for trading companies and its economic and political significance, and is considered to be the basic work for this economic indicator . His publication "Fundamentals and Technology of the Procurement of Raw Materials and Supplies" (1958) offered significant insights into a neglected subject area of business administration . This was followed in particular by “Sales Organization” (1958), “The Rationalization of Distribution” (1964), “Handicrafts as Suppliers of Industrial Enterprises” (1964), the article “Commerce” (in the dictionary of social sciences, Volume 4, 1965, p. 762 -779), “Structure and performance analyzes of retail businesses in the main branches” (1968, together with Fritz Klein-Blenkers ) or “Wirtschaftslehre des Handels” (1972; as editor of the original published by Seyffert). His book "Advertising costs as a determinant of commercial advertising" (1976) is considered an important contribution to cost theory . In the work “Three Hundred Years of Commercial Science. Contributions to the history of business administration ”(1979) he reviewed the history of commercial science in his retirement year. Sundhoff continued as editor of the "Schriften zur Handelsforschung" founded by his teacher Seyffert in 1951.

Scientific focus

His teaching and research focus was commercial science .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Peter Mantel, Business Administration and National Socialism , 2009, p. 845
2. ↑ University of Cologne (ed.), Annual celebration of the University of Cologne on Wednesday May 20, 1998 , 1998, p. 7
3. ^ Edmund Sundhoff, Die Handelsspanne , 1953, p. 93