Friedrich Henzel

Friedrich Henzel also in the name variant Fritz Henzel (* February 7, 1891 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein ; † February 18, 1984 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German business economist and university professor .

Life

Family and education

The Evangelical baptized, was born in Ludwigshafen Friedrich Henzel, son of the brewer Georg Henzel and its Spouse Maria nee Jung, completed after high school training as a mechanical engineer . In addition, he devoted himself to studying economics at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and at the Mannheim Business School , and in 1926 he obtained the academic degree of Dr. rer. pole.

Friedrich Henzel married Margot nee Wyrtki in 1928. Henzel died in February 1984 at the old age of 93 in Frankfurt am Main. His granddaughter Annette Mehlhorn is a theologian, university lecturer and theater pedagogue.

Professional career

After several years in industry as an engineer and as a commercial department head , Henzel completed his habilitation in 1929 as a private lecturer in business administration at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main with Fritz Schmidt (business economist) , and in 1934 he was appointed as an extraordinary professor . In 1938, Henzel accepted the call to the full professorship for business administration at the Leipzig Business School . During the war he served as a councilor in the Reich Aviation Ministry and was responsible for checking prices.

In Leipzig, Hentzel was dismissed as a National Socialist in 1945, but was soon commissioned again to provide expert opinions for the Saxon state government under the SED. New appointments to the Leipzig or Berlin University ultimately failed, in 1950 Henzel fled to the West for fear of arrest. He was reappointed to the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, and in 1954 to the Mannheim Business School. In 1960 he was ceremoniously adopted into retirement. In addition, in 1953 he was appointed head of the Institute for the Promotion of Productivity in Frankfurt am Main, newly founded by the Federal Ministry of Economics, which he held until 1955.

He, who was awarded the Great Federal Cross of Merit in 1964 , stood out in particular with fundamental publications on his subject.

Works (selection)

• Recording and offsetting of overhead costs in the company, Spaeth u. Linde, Berlin [et al.], 1931
• Market analysis and budgeting, Spaeth u. Linde, Berlin [et al.], 1933
• The cost accounting of the commercial economy: Common introduction to the basics of the calculation especially in manufacturing companies, Muth, Stuttgart, 1939
• Costs and performance, 2nd revised edition, Konkordia, Bühl, 1941
• Operational planning, Schlösser, Braunschweig, 1950
• Warehousing, Girardet, Essen, 1950
• Sources of loss in industry, Gabler, Wiesbaden, 1951
• The entrepreneur in the economy: guidelines for practice, Nowack, Frankfurt am Main, 1959

literature

• August Ludwig Degener, Walter Habel: Who is who? Das deutsche Who's Who, Volume 16 ,, Arani, Berlin, 1970 ISBN 3-7605-2007-3 , pp. 483, 484.
• Werner Schuder (Hrsg.): Kürschner's German learned calendar . Volume 1, 13th edition, De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1980, ISBN 3-110-07434-6 , p. 1475.
• Peter Mantel: Business Administration and National Socialism. A study of the history of institutions and people, Wiesbaden 2009, pp. 719f.

Web links

• Literature by and about Friedrich Henzel in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry on Friedrich Henzel in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database