Fritz Nordsieck

Fritz Nordsieck (born March 8, 1906 in Düsseldorf ; † May 23, 1984 ) was a German business economist , local politician ( SPD ), district administrator , author and malacologist .

Live and act

Nordsieck was the son of a commercial employee and had three siblings. He studied business administration , economics , sociology and law at the University of Cologne and worked at the university's retail institute to finance his studies. After his doctorate as Dr. rer. pole. in 1930 he was a research assistant in the economics and social sciences faculty of the University of Cologne until 1934 . He then worked as an auditor for the Treuhandgesellschaft Wirtschaftsberatung Deutscher Gemeinde AG in Berlin and then as a scientific consultant at the German Municipal Association . During this time he was also chief editor of the magazine for public economy.

During the time of National Socialism , the habilitation he was aiming for in 1936 could not be completed for political reasons. During the Second World War , Nordsieck was stationed as an officer in Russia and Norway, among others.

After the end of the war, he continued his professional career, initially as a provisional district administrator and from 1947 to 1959 as senior district director in the Lower Saxony district of Gandersheim . As a local politician of the SPD, he was initially a member of the Haan City Council from March 1961 and later a member of the district council and the landscape assembly. In 1964 he took over the office of district administrator in the Mettmann district , which he held until 1967. Here he acquired u. a. special merits in the development of the district administration as well as in the area of ​​social administration and the public health service.

Private

Nordsieck had been married to Hildegard Nordsieck-Schröer, who had a doctorate in business administration, since 1934, whom he knew from studying together. The marriage had five children, including the biologist and malacologist Hartmut Nordsieck. After his political career he turned to malacology and philosophy as well as painting, which he was interested in from his youth. His works - especially watercolors and oil paintings - have been shown at various art exhibitions in the Rhineland.

Scientific work

Business administration

Frederick Winslow Taylor , Max Weber , Henri Fayol and Werner Sombart were particularly influential in Nordsieck's scientific work . He is considered to be the founder of business organization theory and laid the foundations for today's organizational theory as early as 1931. He published specialist books on business organization, on organizational theory and on topics of municipal administration, which were published several times. He was also a brief lecturer in organizational theory at the Technical Academy in Wuppertal .

Hans-Dieter Zollondz describes Nordsieck's scientific work on company organization as follows:

“He kept his presentation of the company organization very abstract and general. He saw the operational tasks (goals) as “a socially objectified goal, the achievement of which requires human work performance ”. The goals to be achieved are seen as the central point of the organization and the organization as a " system of applicable organizational (company-shaping) regulations, the context of which is given by the highest operational task ." The people are seen as functional or working carriers, they have the role of an imaginary person who is assigned a certain subtask. Nordsieck only saw the social structures as relevant if they fulfilled a permanent function. The focus of his approach is the separation of the entire organizational theory into a relationship and a process theory. The relationship theory deals with the relationships of employees to the task and to each other; The course theory deals with the sequence of work performances and their temporal interrelationship. Nordsieck's separation of organizational considerations into structural and procedural organization influenced almost all subsequent studies of business organization theory. Nordsieck was "rediscovered" in the 1980s for organizational and management theory, because as early as 1931, in its subdivision into structural and process organization, he called for the division of tasks in the company to be based on corporate processes "

Malacology

In the 1950s, Nordsieck began to study marine mollusks . On numerous trips to the Mediterranean region, especially to Italy and southern France , he deepened his research. Here he also gained an awareness of the increasing pollution of the seas. He dealt intensively with the mollusc fauna of the European seas, with the support of the Senckenberg Museum in Frankfurt am Main . The malacologists Wilhelm Kobelt and Wilhelm Wenz in particular were role models for his work .

Nordsieck's books on the European sea shell snails with a new compilation of known species from the European seas were illustrated by himself and received international attention. He directed his focus particularly to the small forms. In his publications he set up over 400 new species, subspecies and varieties and named over 100 new genera and higher categories, which is why he was in some cases met with severe criticism.

In addition to his books, he wrote numerous articles and was at times co-editor of the Italian magazine La Conchiglia .

In view of the decline in biodiversity , Nordsieck and his wife campaigned intensively for nature conservation and received the nature conservation medal from the Rheinisch-Bergisches Naturschutzverein. His philosophical book “The New Consciousness” also deals with the need to preserve nature.

After his death, his widow left the collection, which comprised around 5000 series and some of which he had compiled himself, to the Senckenberg Research Institute .

The Tricolia nordsiecki Talavera was named after him.

Publications (selection)

Business organization

• The graphical recording and investigation of the company organization , dissertation 1932
• Basic problems and basic principles of the organization . 3-part series of articles, DBW , 1931
• The organization of the workflow . 3-part series of essays, DBW, 1934
• Basics of organizational theory . Poeschel Verlag, Stuttgart, 1934
• Rationalization of the company organization . (2nd revised edition of Basics of Organizational Theory ), Poeschel Verlag, Stuttgart 1955
• The local parliament . Kohlhammer Verlag, Stuttgart 1949
• Business organization. Establishment and operation . (4th edition), Poeschel Verlag, Stuttgart 1972, ISBN 978-3-7910-9003-0
• Business organization. Teaching and Technology , 1961; 2nd revised edition: Poeschel Verlag, Stuttgart 1972, ISBN 978-3-7910-0081-7

Zoology / Malacology

• The European sea shell snails (Prosobranchis). From the Arctic Ocean to Cape Verde and the Mediterranean and Black Sea . Gustav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart 1968; 2nd revised edition, Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 978-3-437-30360-9
• The European sea clams ( Bivalvia ) . Gustav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart 1969
• The Miocene mollusc fauna. From Miste-Winterswijk NL (Hemmoor) . Gustav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart 1972, ISBN 978-3-437-20107-3
• The European sea snails. Opisthobranchia with Pyramidellidae, Rissoacea . Gustav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart 1972, ISBN 978-3-437-20098-4

Others

• The new consciousness , Kugler Verlag, Oberwil bei Zug 1980, ISBN 978-3-85768-024-3
• Life as a creative work , Kugler Verlag, Oberwil bei Zug 1982
• The mock family and other stories from the cat's soul , Kugler Verlag, Oberwil bei Zug 1982, ISBN 978-3-85768-040-3

literature

• Rolf Franken, Erich Frese: Fritz Nordsieck and the development of organizational theory . In: Zeitschrift für Organization, Volume 50, H. 2, 1981, pp 85-92.

Web links

• Literature by and about Fritz Nordsieck in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Portrait of Fritz Nordsieck of the Senckenberg Society for Nature Research with a list of publications

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r} Archive for Molluscology of the Senckenberg Natural Research Society : Fritz Nordsieck (1906–1984). Accessed February 1, 2020 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Hans-Dieter Zollondz, Michael Ketting , Raimund Pfundtner : Lexicon quality management: Handbook of modern management based on quality management . Carl Hanser Verlag GmbH & Company KG, 2019, ISBN 978-3-446-46048-5 ( google.de [accessed on January 31, 2020]).
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Haaner social democrat built a modern Mettmann district administration (PDF). In: Social democratic résumés in the Mettmann district. SPD district association Mettmann, accessed on January 31, 2020 . 
4. ↑ District administration Mettmann / district administrators & senior district directors since 1816. Accessed on February 1, 2020 . 
5. ^ Neue Ruhr Zeitung Mettmann of March 7, 1966
6. ^ Catalog of the German National Library
7. ↑ Senckenberg Society for Nature Research Frankfurt am Main: Team: FFM Malacology. Accessed February 1, 2020 . 
8. ^ Fritz Nordsieck | Shellers From the Past and Present. Accessed January 31, 2020 (English).