Egon Wöhlken

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Egon Wöhlken (born May 7, 1928 in Bremerhaven ; † November 24, 1994 in Gießen ) was a German agricultural economist and lecturer at the Georg-August University of Göttingen and the Justus Liebig University of Gießen .

Life

Wöhlken studied agricultural science at the University of Göttingen. There he received his doctorate in agricultural economics in 1953 . After working for many years at the Institute for Agricultural Market Studies at the University of Göttingen (today part of the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development), he was appointed to a chair at the Justus Liebig University in Gießen in 1970. From 1970 to 1986 he was Professor of Agricultural Economics and Director of the Institute for Agricultural Policy and Market Research. His research areas were national and international agricultural policy, agricultural trade and the competitiveness of the agricultural sector.

Among other things, Wöhlken was an honorary member of the Society for Economic and Social Sciences in Agriculture. V.

Fonts (selection)

  • Introduction to agricultural market theory. Stuttgart 1991, 3rd revised. Ed.
  • (with Jana Filip): Demand for food in private households. An evaluation of the income and expenditure sample 1978. With the collaboration of Christel Trautmann. Münster-Hiltrup 1984.
  • Food consumption in a multi-country comparison. Analysis of level and development tendency for OECD and EC countries. Assistance: Jana Filip. Münster-Hiltrup 1981.
  • (with Michael Besch): Migration from agriculture with weakened economic growth. With the collaboration of R. Albrecht. Edited by the Hessian Farmers Association. Friedrichsdorf u. a. 1980.
  • (with others): Agricultural forecasts. Part 2: Possibilities of applying certain models, methods and techniques in the community (In-House Communication on Agriculture 63). Brussels 1970.
  • The supply elasticity of agricultural products and their problems. Göttingen 1955.

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personal data
SURNAME Wöhlken, Egon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German agricultural economist
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremerhaven
DATE OF DEATH November 24, 1994
Place of death to water