Hermann Remsperger

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Hermann Remsperger (born December 24, 1949 in Flörsheim am Main ) is a German economist , former bank manager and university professor .

Life

After graduating from high school, Hermann Remsperger studied economics at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . He then worked there as a research assistant and then did his doctorate there with a thesis on rule-based monetary and financial policy.

At the university he became a lecturer in 1979 and was honorary professor for monetary policy and international currency issues from 1990 to 2014 . From 1984 to 1998 he was chief economist at BHF Bank . In the same year he was the proposal from the Federal Government of Federal President Roman Herzog as member of the Executive Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank appointed. From May 2002 to April 2009 he was a board member and represented the monetary policy issues and interests of the Federal Republic of Germany from 2006 "foreign policy" in international organizations and bodies of the G7 , G20 , BIS , OECD and the FSF .

From 2002 to 2015 he was the honorary founding chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Money and Currency Foundation and made a significant contribution to the development and further development of the foundation, which, among other things, gave decisive impetus for the establishment of the Institute for Monetary and Financial Stability (IMFS) in 2004 whose board of trustees was Remsperger chairman. One of his particular concerns in this office was to support young academics in researching new monetary policy issues. The establishment of several graduate schools , e.g. B. at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg , the Friedrich Schiller University Jena and the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt as well as the funding of the interdisciplinary study by Elke Gurlit and Isabel Schnabel on questions of financial stability in the euro area as well as the Helmut Siekmann's comment on the European Economic and Monetary Union was one of them.

Remsperger was also treasurer of the Verein für Socialpolitik (VfS) from 1998 to 2009 , after which he worked there as a cash auditor . In addition, he was active in the Society for Economic and Social Sciences and a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Center for European Economic Research (ZEW), where he made outstanding contributions in the run-up to the evaluation by the Leibniz Association . He was also Chairman of the Research Advisory Board of the Center for Financial Studies (CFS) and curator of the Institute for Bank History Research (now Institute for Bank and Financial History ) and from 2007 to 2015 of the House of Finance (HoF). He was a jury member of the Deutsche Bank Prize in Financial Economics, which was awarded from 2005 to 2015 . At the regional level, he was a member of the board of directors and the local team of St. Katharina in Flörsheim-Wicker in the church district of Main-Taunus , since 2011 member of the advisory board of the in-patient hospice Lebensbrücke in Flörsheim, since 2013 in the "Green Aid for Needy People in Flörsheim am Main" (GALF) and member of the board of the support group Musik Main-Taunus e. V., who, among other things, as the organizer of the Gallus Concerts in the St. Gallus parish church in Flörsheim, form part of the cultural landscape in the Main-Taunus district and the Rhine-Main region .

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Axel A. Weber : On the solemn farewell to Dr. Hans Reckers and Professor Dr. Hermann Remsperger from the board of the Deutsche Bundesbank. Deutsche Bundesbank, April 30, 2009.
  2. ↑ a b Hermann Remsperger. Ökonomenstimme.org , KOF Economic Research Center , ETH Zurich .
  3. ↑ a b Laudation for Prof. Dr. Hermann Remsperger. (Excerpt) ( Memento of the original from October 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stiftung-geld-und-waehrung.de archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Foundation money and currency
  4. ↑ Volker Wieland : Laudatory speech on leaving Goethe University , November 7, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Remsperger, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist, bank manager and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH December 24, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Flörsheim am Main