Gerd Aberle

Gerd Aberle (born September 30, 1938 in Stolp , Province of Pomerania ) is a German economist and transport scientist. He is a professor emeritus for economics at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen and has specialized in logistics and transport management.

Life

Gerd Aberle studied economics and social sciences at the University of Freiburg and the University of Cologne . He finished his studies in Cologne in 1962 with the examination to become a business graduate , and in 1965 he received his doctorate there. rer. pole. and in 1971 he completed his habilitation there for the subject of economic political science . 1972 to 1973 Scientific Councilor and Professor at the University of Cologne.

In 1973 he became a full professor for economics at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen. He received various calls to different universities, for example to the University of Dortmund in 1972 , to the Technical University of Berlin in 1979 , and to the University of Cologne in 1989. As part of the turnaround he was appointed September 15, 1990 visiting professor at the University of Transport in Dresden . There he was also the founding dean from March 1, 1991 to September 30, 1992. In 1994 he became honorary professor at the TU Dresden . In January 2007 Aberle received an honorary doctorate from the TU Dresden.

Until his retirement in 2006, Professor Aberle taught at the Department of Economics in Giessen .

He is married and has a daughter.

activities

In addition to his university activities, Aberle was or is

• 1989 to 1991 member of the Government Commission Rail , whose task was to prepare the reform of the Federal Railroad .
• Member of the scientific advisory board at the Federal Ministry of Transport
• Vice-President of the German Transport Science Society in Cologne
• Member of the scientific advisory board of the Society for Transport Management and Logistics in Frankfurt am Main
• Member of the advisory board of the Federal Logistics Association in Bremen
• Chairman of the Group Advisory Board of Deutsche Bahn AG
• Member of the supervisory board of various transport companies
• Curator of AIESEC in Giessen
• Co-editor and editor-in-chief of the magazine Internationales Verkehrwesen
• Member d. Scientific Advisory Board d. Association of German Transport Companies (VDV)
• Chairman d. Scientific Advisory Board of the Center for Innovations and Social Change (InnoZ GmbH)

Publications

(The publications below are a selection.)

• The basics of an economic traffic coordination with special consideration of the incoming and outgoing traffic of the inland ports , Düsseldorf 1966 (also dissertation of the University of Cologne 1965)
• Transport infrastructure investments in the growth process of developed economies , Düsseldorf 1972
• Ways to rehabilitate the railway. The Bundesbahn in an international comparison of performance (with Rainer Willeke), Frankfurt am Main 1973
• Transport economy - individual economic and macroeconomic fundamentals , 5th edition, Munich, 2009, ISBN 978-3-486-57951-2
• Competition theory and competition policy , 2nd edition, Stuttgart a. a. 1992, ISBN 3-17-011662-2
• Future prospects of the Deutsche Bundesbahn , Heidelberg 1988
• Future development of freight transport: are saturation limits recognizable? , Freiburg i. Br. 2005

Web links

• Portrait of the University of Giessen