Harald Juergensen

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Harald Jürgensen (born October 14, 1924 in Garding , Schleswig-Holstein , † January 31, 2008 in Ensenada , Mexico ) was a German economist and university professor .

Life

Jürgensen studied economics at the University of Kiel , among others with Erich Schneider and Andreas Predöhl . In 1952 he was at Max Predöhl with the work "The Western European industry core in its exchange relationships for iron and steel and the common market ECSC " PhD ; In 1956 he completed his habilitation at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster .

In 1959 he received a reputation as a professor at the European Research Institute of the University of Saarland . In 1960 he moved to the University of Hamburg as professor for economics . In 1961, Jürgensen was the founder of the Institute for European Economic Policy and also director of the Institute for Transport Science at Hamburg University. Together with Fritz Voigt (1910–1993), Jürgensen founded the “Society for the Promotion of Transport Research” in 1961, and since 1995 “Society for Transport and Logistics”. Jürgensen was its founding president from 1961 to 1968. In 1990 he retired .

Act

Harald Jürgensen's main research areas were European integration policy and transport policy. He has published numerous publications and scientific papers on this.

Among other things, he was a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Federal Ministry for Transport, Building and Urban Development , a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development and a member of the Expert Commission for Codetermination . He was a member of the Bergedorf Round Table .

Jürgensen was one of the signatories of the Euro-critical manifesto The Monetary Policy Decisions of Maastricht: A Danger for Europe (1992).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. FAZ , February 9, 2008, No. 34, page 36 (obituary)
  2. see list of signatories for the online reproduction of the manifesto in the economic blog Wirtschaftliche Freiheit , blog entry from December 11, 2016; accessed July 12, 2020.