Herbert Hax

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Herbert Hax (born September 24, 1933 in Cologne ; † December 3, 2005 there ) was a German economist. For a long time he was a member of the Expert Council for the Assessment of Overall Economic Development and Professor at the University of Cologne .

Life

Herbert Hax was born in 1933 as the son of Karl Hax (1901–1978). He grew up in Trier , Cologne and Darmstadt , where his father was a professor. Karl Hax was a well-known economist in the post-war period .

Hax studied business administration at the Technical University in Darmstadt , the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and the University of Chicago in Chicago from 1953 to 1957 . In 1957 he graduated in Frankfurt.

At the University of Cologne , he was in 1960 with the work "Vertical price-fixing in the branded" with Erich Gutenberg doctorate . He completed his habilitation there in 1964. He was initially a teacher at the University of Saarbrücken and the University of Vienna , and in 1976 became professor of business administration and holder of the chair for finance theory at the University of Cologne. In 1998 Hax retired.

From 1982–1998, Hax was a director of the Institute for SME Research in Bonn . From 1983 until his death, Hax was an honorary professor and from 1999 to 2001 as a visiting professor at the Chair of Controlling at the University of Vienna . From 1985 he was a member of the Scientific Advisory Board at the Federal Ministry of Economics . Hax was a member of the Scientific Society at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt and a member of the jury for the Georg von Holtzbrinck Prize . In addition, Hax was a member of the Academia Scientiarum et Artium Europaea , a full member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Düsseldorf , a member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and an honorary member of the Center for Financial Research (CFR) Cologne.

From March 1989 to February 2000, Hax was the successor to Helmut Hesse as a member of the Advisory Council for assessing macroeconomic developments and from March 1992 to February 2000 its chairman. His successor as chairman of the expert council was Juergen B. Donges (at that time also a professor at the University of Cologne), and Bert Rürup as a normal member .

Grave of the Hax family at Melaten cemetery

In his research and numerous publications, Hax dealt with decision theory , organizational theory , capital market theory and principal-agent theory, among other things . Hax was a committed advocate of the free market economy.

He died of a serious illness that was only discovered four months before his death. Hax was buried in the family grave at the Melaten cemetery in Cologne (lit. O).

Awards (selection)

  • 1990 Honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Economics at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt / Main
  • 1999 Hans-Georg Plaut Science Prize for his outstanding business research
  • 2002 Honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Economics at the University of Tübingen
  • 2004 Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon

Quotes

  • “The council of experts has to remind of what is economically necessary. Political opportunities must not play a role " (Hax in Handelsblatt 2000)
  • "We do not have the problem that companies exploit five million citizens, but five million citizens in this country have the problem of not having an exploiter" (Hax in connection with the " locust debate " of the SPD 2004 (?) )

Works (selection)

  • Herbert Hax: "Decision models in the company: Einf. In Operations Research" , Rowohlt Reinbek 1974, ISBN 3-499-21063-0
  • Herbert Hax: "Investment theory" , Physica-Verlag Heidelberg 1993, ISBN 3-7908-0323-5 (5th edition, 1995 edition, ISBN 3-7908-0323-5 )
  • Herbert Hax: "Companies and entrepreneurs in the market economy" , Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-525-34033-8

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ www.cfr-cologne.de
  2. ↑ spiegel.de: Obituary at the mirror
  3. ↑ handelsblatt.com: Obituary
  4. ^ Günter Franke, Helmut Laux: Herbert Hax in Memoriam . Schmalenbach's Journal for Business Research Volume 58, pp. 121–127 (2006) (link.springer.com: DOI 10.1007 / BF03371646 )
  5. ↑ Speeches on the occasion of the award of honorary doctorates to Professor Edmond Malinvaud and Professor Dr. Herbert Hax , Schulz-Kirchner Verlag 1991, ISBN 3824800144 .
personal data
SURNAME Hax, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH December 3, 2005
Place of death Cologne