Günter Kirchhoff

Günter Kirchhoff (born October 21, 1922 in Bautzen ) is a German economist and entrepreneur . He was a professor at the Federal University of Applied Sciences for Public Administration and co-initiator of the Society for Military Economics .

Life

Kirchhoff was born in 1922 as the son of a trained locksmith and later a businessman and his wife in Upper Lusatia . At a young age he and his father attended the Leipzig trade fair . He completed his secondary school leaving certificate and the business assistant examination at the higher commercial college in Bautzen. In 1941 he passed the Abitur at the secondary school in Bautzen and was called in to the Reich Labor Service in Bremen and Poland. In 1942 he was drafted into the Navy , and completed his basic training in the 9th Ship Mastery Department in Stralsund. He attended the Naval Administration School in Eckernförde and took part in an internship in Bulgaria. He then served in the Marine Flak Department 720 on a Greek island. In 1943/44 he completed his officer training in Wilhelmshaven. In 1944 he was made lieutenant (V) in the reserve, d. H. Naval officer in administrative service, promoted. In 1945 he switched to the Army of the Wehrmacht as a lieutenant , where he served in the 388th Grenadier Replacement and Training Battalion in Wildflecken. In Dachau he was finally taken prisoner by the US for a few months .

After the Second World War, the unencumbered Kirchhoff initially worked at Telefunken AG Apparatewerk Dachau from 1945 to 1947 . As early as 1946 he enrolled at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich to study economics and later business administration . In 1949 he obtained a degree in business administration . Then he was assistant at the chair for banking and auditing (Professur Otto Hintner ) and worked in its auditing firm. In 1951 he was at the State Economic Faculty with the thesis of capital and capital taxes for Dr. oec. publ. PhD.

In 1951 he started at the State Agency for Reconstruction Financing in Munich and eventually became head of the special department there. In 1956 he became the head and organizer of Losos property management in Munich. In 1958, together with Alfred Vogel, he was the founder of HMT Medizin und Technik GmbH in Munich, of which he became the main shareholder and managing director.

In 1966 he gave the trial lecture "Economic Value of Education" at the Air Force Officers' School in Neubiberg. He became a lecturer in economics at the "Scientific Group" there and received a research assignment to establish an operational management apprenticeship in the German Armed Forces . In 1967 he became deputy head and in 1971 head of the group. In 1973 he became a scientific advisor to the school commander and a lecturer in leadership courses.

The desired habilitation in business ethics could not be achieved due to the deaths of Professors Friedrich Lütge († 1968) and René Marcic († 1971). In 1971, however, the Bavarian State Ministry for Education and Culture committed itself to Kirchhoff, so that in 1979 he was given a full professorship for economics and finance in the Department of Armed Forces Administration at the Federal University of Applied Sciences for Public Administration in Waldbröl, later Mannheim. There he was deputy department head. In 1985 he retired, where he stayed at the FH until 1987.

In 1981 he co-founded the Society for Military Economics and became its second chairman. The affiliated Berlin Research Institute for Military Economics and Applied Conversion was able to find accommodation at the Fürstenfeldbruck Air Base in 2000 . He also acted as editor-in-chief of the magazine Infodienst Sicherheit und Ökonomie . In 1986 he received the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon for his services .

He was the diocesan and chairman of the Bavarian Catholic Family Association . In 1979 he was one of the co-founders and later one of the chairmen of the ecumenical research and sponsorship community, Familie-Christ-Schule.

Kirchhoff is widowed and has six children.

Fonts (selection)

• Responsibility . Bavarian State Center for Political Education. Munich 1978.
• with Walter Eberle: Living with conflicts. Creation, avoidance and processing of conflicts in the world of work (= socio-political educational materials . H. 8). Deutscher Instituts-Verlag, Cologne 1981, ISBN 3-602-24958-1 .
• (Editing / Editing): Handbook on the economics of defense policy . Walhalla and Praetoria Verlag, Regensburg 1986, ISBN 3-8029-6499-3 .

literature

• Robert Buck (Ed.): The Cost of Peace. Festschrift for the 80th birthday of Prof. Dr. Günter Kirchhoff . Society for Military Economics, Dachau 2002, ISBN 3-925042-19-9 .
• Kurt Guss (Hrsg.): The human being in the center of the military economy. Festschrift for Günter Kirchhoff's sixty-fifth birthday . Society for Military Economics, Koblenz 1987, ISBN 3-925042-01-6 .
• Wacław Stankiewicz: Günter Kirchhoff and the new view of military economics . Society for Military Economics, Dachau 2002, ISBN 3-925042-18-0 .
• Jana Steudten u. a. (Red.): Defense and Economics. Festschrift for the 70th birthday of Prof. Dr. Günter Kirchhoff . Edited by the Research Institute for Military Economics and Applied Conversion, Berlin a. a. 1992, ISBN 3-925042-04-0 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Günter Kirchhoff in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Günter Kirchhoff  in the German Digital Library