Erhard Kantzenbach

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Erhard Kantzenbach (born January 28, 1931 in Hanover ) is a German economist . He is emeritus professor for economics and former president of the Hamburg World Economic Archive (HWWA).

Life

Kantzenbach was born in 1931 as the son of a meteorologist. After attending school in Hanover and Göttingen, between 1952 and 1957 he studied economics , law and political science at the Georg-August University of Göttingen , the Free University of Berlin and the University of North Carolina . In 1959 he was at Max Predöhl on the legal and political science faculty at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster with the dissertation possibilities and limits of economic policy in the European Economic Community to Dr. rer. pole. PhD. Until 1965 worked as a research assistant at the Universities of Saarbrücken and Hamburg . In 1965 he completed his habilitation at the University of Hamburg with the thesis The functionality of competition and was a visiting scientist at Princeton University .

In 1967 he was appointed Professor of Political Economy at the University of Frankfurt am Main appointed and in 1971 elected the first president of the university. In 1975 he moved back to the University of Hamburg, where he became head of the Institute for Industrial and Commercial Policy. He retired in 1996 .

Between 1979 and 1986 he was chairman of the Monopolies Commission (member from 1974). From 1989 to 1996 he was President of the Hamburg World Economic Archive (HWWA). From 1990 to 1993 he was chairman of the economic policy committee in the Verein für Socialpolitik . He is a member of the European Economic Association and the SPD .

He was co-editor of the journal Economy and Competition and the Hamburg Yearbook for Economic and Social Policy .

He has been awarded the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class (1986) and is a senior member of the Academy of Sciences in Hamburg .

Kantzenbach has been married since 1961 and has three children.

Fonts (selection)

  • Possibilities and limits of economic policy in the European Economic Community (= lectures and contributions from the Institute for Transport Science at the University of Münster , 20). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1960,
  • The functionality of competition (= economic policy studies , 1). 2nd edition, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1967.
  • with Elke Kottmann, Reinald Krüger: collective market dominance. New industrial economics and experiences from European merger control (= publications of the HWWA Institute for Economic Research, Hamburg , Volume 28). Nomos, Baden-Baden 1996, ISBN 3-7890-4338-9 .

literature

  • Jörn Kruse , Otto G. Mayer (ed.): Current problems in competition and economic policy. Erhard Kantzenbach on his 65th birthday (= publications of the HWWA Institute for Economic Research , Volume 23). Nomos, Baden-Baden 1996, ISBN 3-7890-4171-8 .
  • Peter Oberender , Thomas Rudolf: Erhard Kantzenbach . In: Henry W. de Jong, William G. Shepherd (Eds.): Pioneers of Industrial Organization. How the Economics of Competition and Monopoly Took Shape . Elgar, Cheltenham et al. a. 2007, ISBN 978-1-84376-434-2 , p. 55.
  • Association for Socialpolitik (Ed.): The university professors of economics in the Federal Republic of Germany, Austria and German-speaking Switzerland. Career and writings . 2nd edition, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, p. 331.

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Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Kantzenbach, Erhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover