Heinz Grossekettler

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Heinz Grossekettler (born April 6, 1939 in Istanbul ; † January 17, 2019 ) was a German economist .

Life

Born in Istanbul as the son of the export manager of a German mechanical engineering factory, Grossekettler came to Mainz after the early death of his father and a few war or flight-related stops ( Sopot , Weimar , Berlin , Kassel , Baden-Baden ) , where he attended high school until he graduated from high school visited. To finance his studies, he trained as a naval officer . He was frigate captain of the reserve until the end of his life .

From 1963 to 1968 he studied economics at the University of Mainz ; he was a scholarship holder in Paris and Brussels. In 1972 he received his doctorate under Professor Otto Gandenberger , and in 1975 he completed his habilitation with the Venia for “Economics including finance”. From 1975 to 2007, Grossekettler taught at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Münster, initially industrial economics and - from 1978 and after declining an offer to Hamburg - finance. Appointed director of the Institute for Public Finance in 1979, he was appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board of the Federal Ministry of Finance in 1989, where he was chairman from 2003 to 2006.

He ended his active time as a professor at the Westphalian Wilhelms University on July 6, 2007. He devoted his farewell lecture to the topic of "40 Years of the Stability and Growth Act ". His successor at the Institute for Public Finance at the University of Münster is Johannes Becker . He also held lectures in economics at the VWA (Administration and Business Academy) in Münster.

Grossekettler was married to Sigrid Grossekettler (née Flasse) for the second time and has a son, the cardiologist Ulrich Grossekettler.

Act

Grossekettler's main research interests in finance were state economic allocation theory and administrative economics (cf. New Public Management ). Other focal points of his work were the analysis of the functionality of markets with the help of the coordination deficiency diagnosis concept ( KMD concept ), causes of state failure and constitutional economics. In addition, he deals with the history of economics, in particular the history of ordoliberalism , as its representative he was considered. He was visiting professor in Kristiansand and Paris .

His many former students and employees include the former Saxon Prime Minister Georg Milbradt , the former Rhineland-Palatinate Finance Minister Ingolf Deubel and the university professor Korbinian von Blanckenburg .

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

Publications

Books

  • Fritz Neumark. Dedicated finance scientist and political advisor. Societäts Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2013.
  • with Andreas Hadamitzky and Christian Lorenz: Economics. 2nd Edition. Constance 2008.
  • with Th. Apolte among others: Vahlens Compendium of Economic Theory and Economic Policy. 9th edition. Munich 2007.
  • The economic order as a design task. History and development prospects of ordoliberalism after 50 years of social market economy. Münster / Hamburg 1997.
  • with M. Borchert: Price and competition theory. Market processes as an analytical problem and a regulatory task. Stuttgart u. a. O. 1985.
  • Power, Strategy and Competition. Attempt of a testable theory of strategic corporate behavior. Dissertation . Mainz 1972. (Dissertation award 1972 from Johannes Gutenberg University)

literature

  • Michael Kübbeler, Christian Langer (ed.): Economic and financial policy according to ordoliberal principles. Selected contributions to the theoretical foundation and practical implementation. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999. (on his 60th birthday)
  • Georg Milbradt, Ingolf Deubel (ed.): Regulatory contributions to financial and economic policy. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2004. (on their 65th birthday)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Institute for Public Finance mourns Prof. Dr. Heinz Grossekettler. Faculty of Business and Economics, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, January 18, 2019, accessed on January 21, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Obituary notice. In: Westfälische Nachrichten. January 19, 2019, accessed January 21, 2019 .
  3. ^ Obituary of the PhD students. In: FAZ. January 22, 2019, accessed January 22, 2019 .
  4. ↑ 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.
personal data
SURNAME Grossekettler, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Istanbul
DATE OF DEATH 17th January 2019