Gérard Gäfgen

Gérard Gäfgen (born February 26, 1925 in Luxembourg ; † September 30, 2005 in Konstanz ) was a German economist .

Career

From 1950 to 1955 he studied economics and sociology at the University of Cologne . There he received his doctorate in 1955 on the "Problem of the Investment Quota in the West German Economy". Six years later, in 1961 , he completed his habilitation on the "Elementary Theory of Economic Decision". He represented Karl Schiller as a full professor at the University of Hamburg . In 1969 he took the reputation of the University of Konstanz , and remained there until his retirement . He did not accept appointments to Vienna and Zurich . He was significantly involved in the further development of the subject of health economics , which had been neglected in Germany due to the National Socialist racial hygiene .

View of the sculptures by Friedrich Gräsel in the Hockgraben below the chair of Gérard Gäfgen (2012)

Full professor at the Technical University of Karlsruhe, 1962–1965
Head of the Economics Institute at the Technical University of Karlsruhe
Director of the Social and Economic Seminar at the University of Hamburg
Director of the Institute for Industrial and Commercial Policy at the University of Hamburg
Member of the Advisory Board at the Federal Ministry of Economics, 1970
Member of the scientific advisory committee of the State Ministry of Baden-Württemberg, 1978
Honorary Chairman of the Committee for Health Economics of the Verein für Socialpolitik , 2005

personal data
SURNAME	Gäfgen, Gérard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German economist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	February 26, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH	Luxembourg
DATE OF DEATH	September 30, 2005
Place of death	Constancy