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Gert Harald August von Kortzfleisch (born August 3, 1921 in Remscheid ; † October 16, 2007 in Mannheim ) was a professor at the University of Mannheim and a member of the Club of Rome . He was an honorary knight of the Order of St. John .

family

Kortzfleisch came from a Westphalian family raised to the Prussian nobility in 1731 and was the son of the auditor Hermann von Kortzfleisch (1883–1942) and Elisabeth Klophaus (1894–1978). He married Elisabeth Bausch (born February 6, 1921 in Cologne) in Cologne on August 21, 1956, the daughter of the shipyard owner Fritz Bausch.

Life

Kortzfleisch was a full professor and head of the industrial seminar and the institute for chemical and physical technology at the University of Mannheim and chairman of the association of university lecturers for business administration .

In 1968 he worked at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , after returning from there he introduced the ideas of system dynamics in Germany. Among his students, Erich Zahn and Peter Milling should be mentioned as co-authors of the study The Limits to Growth .

Kortzfleisch was a member of the Club of Rome and chairman of the board of trustees of the student initiative Club of Rome (SICoR). He was also an old man at the Corps Franco-Guestphalia student union in Cologne at the Weinheim Senior Citizens' Convention .

Gert von Kortzfleisch died on October 16, 2007 at the age of 86.

Honors

Since 2008, the German Society for System Dynamics eV has been awarding the Gert von Kortzfleisch Prize, named after him, for outstanding system dynamics work.

literature

Web links

in the minutes of the 131st cabinet meeting of July 15, 1964, point (C.) Expert Commission for the Deutsche Bundespost
personal data
SURNAME Kortzfleisch, device of
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kortzfleisch, Gert Harald August von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist, university professor, member of the Club of Rome
DATE OF BIRTH August 3, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Remscheid
DATE OF DEATH October 16, 2007
Place of death Mannheim