Fritz Klein-Blenkers
Friedrich Karl Klein-Blenkers (born November 23, 1924 in Cologne-Mülheim , † April 14, 2015 in Bergisch Gladbach) was a German economist .
Career
After graduating from high school in 1942, he was drafted into labor service and then military service. After a short period as a prisoner of war, he studied business administration at the University of Cologne from the winter semester 1945/46 to 1949 , including commercial and marketing studies with Rudolf Seyffert . After graduating ( Dipl.-Kfm. ) He became Seyffert's assistant; In 1951 he did his doctorate with him ( doctoral thesis “The sales performance in retail trade related to an operating person”). Also at Seyffert, he completed his habilitation in 1962 with the habilitation thesis "The Economization of Distribution".
From 1967 he was a full professor at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg . In 1970 he accepted an appointment at the University of Cologne. Until 1989 he was director of the trade and sales seminar at the University of Cologne and until 1990 director of the Institute for Trade Research. In the spring of 1990 he retired .
He dealt with the systematic analysis of publications on action science before 1898 and published commented reprints of historically significant works on business administration . In 1996 he initiated the establishment of the non-profit association for the promotion of the history of business administration .
Since 1948 he was a member of the Catholic student association KDStV Rheno-Baltia Cologne.
He is buried in the Catholic cemetery on Sonderburger Strasse in Cologne-Mülheim .
Honors
- 1989: Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 2002: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
literature
Edmund Sundhoff : An exempt person who, however, makes himself responsible: Fritz Klein-Blenkers. , in: Communications from the Institute for Retail Research at the University of Cologne, Volume 42, No. 3, March 1990, pp. 41–42 ( online (pdf 1.5 MB))
Web links
- Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar Online: Klein-Blenkers, Fritz † (no free access)
Individual evidence
- ^ Commemorative page by Fritz Klein-Blenkers. Retrieved May 5, 2018 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Klein-Blenkers, Fritz |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Klein-Blenkers, Friedrich Karl (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German economist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 23, 1924 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cologne |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 14, 2015 |
| Place of death | Cologne |