Helmut Seitz

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Helmut Seitz lecturing a lecture on economics at the TU Dresden , January 13, 2009

Helmut Seitz (born July 27, 1956 in Bad Dürkheim , † April 1, 2009 in Dresden ) was a German financial scientist . Seitz was Professor of Public Finance at the Technical University in Dresden , since October 1995 Research Professor at the Center for European Economic Research (ZEW) in Mannheim, since July 1999 Senior Fellow at the Center for European Integration Research (ZEI) in Bonn ( Jürgen von Hagen ) and since September 2002 research professor at the Ifo Institute for Economic Research , Munich, especially in Dresden.

Life

Born in Bad Dürkheim in Rhineland-Palatinate in 1956 , Seitz studied economics in Mannheim from 1978 to 1983 . He completed his doctoral thesis on planning and implementation decisions by industrial companies in 1989. His habilitation followed in 1994; the title was: Local infrastructure supply, taxation and inter-regional competition. Theoretical aspects and empirical findings. From 1995 to 2004 Seitz held the chair for macroeconomics at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder) and from 2004 until his death he held the chair for economics, in particular empirical finance and financial policy, at the economics faculty of the TU Dresden .

Seitz became known, among other things, as an appraiser for the lawsuit brought by the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen for further financial aid before the Federal Constitutional Court and as an expert for the Federalism Commission .

Helmut Seitz died on April 1, 2009 in an accident in Dresden.

Fonts

  • Planning and implementation decisions by industrial companies. A theoretical and empirical study. Dissertation. Ifo Institute for Economic Research, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-88512-098-4 .
  • with Jürgen Egeln, Manfred Erbsland, Annette Hügel, Peter Schmidt: The business location "Rhein-Neckar-Dreieck". Location profile and company dynamics. Nomos, Baden-Baden 1996, ISBN 3-7890-4263-3 .
  • with Jürgen Egeln (Ed.): Cities face new challenges. Nomos, Baden-Baden 1998, ISBN 3-7890-5571-9 .
  • The influence of population density on the cost of public service provision. Duncker and Humblot, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-428-10668-7 .
  • with Marcel Thum , Thomas Fester, Andreas Kappler: Public Infrastructure and Municipal Finances. Assessment. Ifo Institute for Economic Research, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-88512-436-X .
  • with Joachim Ragnitz , Stefan Eichler, Beate Grundig, Harald Lehmann, Carsten Pohl, Lutz Schneider, Marcel Thum: The demographic development in East Germany. Expert opinion on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology. Ifo Institute for Economic Research, Munich 2007, ISBN 3-88512-457-2 .
  • with Ingrid Hamm, Martin Werding (Eds.): Demographic change in Germany. The economic and fiscal consequences. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York 2008, ISBN 3-540-68135-3 .

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ^ The daily newspaper : When an expert speaks plain language ... October 7, 2005
  2. ↑ Press office of the Senate of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen : Study shows: Bremen cannot overcome extreme budget difficulties on its own . February 24, 2006
  3. ^ Leipziger Volkszeitung : Financial expert Helmut Seitz dies after a fall from a window in Dresden ( Memento from April 8, 2009 in the Internet Archive ). April 3, 2009
  4. ↑ Lausitzer Rundschau : Financial expert Helmut Seitz dies in a fall from the balcony . April 4, 2009
  5. ↑ Sächsische Zeitung : When tinkering against pigeon plague: Professor fell from high-rise. April 3, 2009, Retrieved May 19, 2009 .
  6. ↑ Free press : financial expert dies in falling from balcony. (No longer available online.) April 3, 2009, archived from the original ; Retrieved May 19, 2009 .
personal data
SURNAME Seitz, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German finance scientist
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Dürkheim
DATE OF DEATH April 1, 2009
Place of death Dresden