Erich Thiess
Erich Thiess (born March 6, 1903 in Hamburg , † December 5, 1968 in Holzminden ) was a German economist .
Life
Thiess initially worked in the banking sector for four years . He then studied at the University of Cologne and later with "The latest attempts to supply the medium and small industry with long-term loans with special emphasis on industrial properties" Dr. rer. pole. PhD . From 1932 to 1935 he was Ernst Kalb's research assistant at the bank seminar in Cologne, where he was particularly concerned with municipal economic management. He completed his habilitation at the University of Frankfurt am Main in 1935 with accounting for municipal companies .
From 1938 he worked for Fried. Krupp AG , where he became managing director of Stahlbau Rheinhausen in 1941 . When his brother-in-law Ewald Loeser , at the time the commercial director at Krupp, wanted to make him head of the accounting and auditing office contrary to custom in 1941, Krupp von Bohlen forbade his appointment and Thiess had to leave the company "at his own request" .
He then completed his habilitation procedure, in which trial lectures were still missing, in Frankfurt am Main and received a teaching position at the University of Göttingen . At the beginning of 1956 he was appointed associate professor at the University of Erlangen , where he taught business administration . In 1958 he became a full professor at the Free University of Berlin .
He died of the consequences of a car accident on the way to Berlin.
literature
- Karl Hax : Professor Dr. Karl Erich Thiess 60 years old . In: ZfbF , Vol. 15 (1963), pp. 143-144, ISSN 0341-2687 .
- Karl Hax: Erich Thiess in memory . In: ZfbF / NS Vol. 21 (1969), p. 199, ISSN 0341-2687 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Werner Abelshauser : Armaments smiths of the nation? The Krupp concern in the Third Reich and in the post-war period 1933 to 1951. In: Lothar Gall (Hrsg.): Krupp in the 20th century. The history of the company from the First World War to the establishment of the foundation. Siedler, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-88680-742-8 , p. 313
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Thiess, Erich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German economist and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 6, 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | 5th December 1968 |
| Place of death | Holzminden |