House of Finance

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House of Finance
founding 2008
place Frankfurt am Main
state Hesse
country Germany
management Wolfgang König
Employee approx. 200 (2016)
including professors 40 (2016)
Website www.hof.uni-frankfurt.de
House of Finance, Frankfurt

The House of Finance ( HoF for short ) brings together various interdisciplinary research and further education institutions from the Faculty of Law and Economics at Goethe University , an institute of the Leibniz Association and alumni associations of the university.

structure

The House of Finance, based on the Westend campus in the Westend district of Frankfurt am Main, houses several, both university and legally independent, research and further training institutes in the field of finance, finance law and the insurance industry. In addition to academic institutions, several alumni associations of the Goethe University have their headquarters in the House of Finance.

In March 2011, the Goethe University established a House of Finance Foundation, the proceeds of which are intended to benefit research, further education and policy transfer in the House of Finance. The building was built with funds from the state of Hesse, and some of the equipment was subsidized by sponsors. The institutes that are active in the House of Finance are partly supported by university funds and partly by private funds. The Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the House of Finance is Otmar Issing .

A total of around 200 scientists work in the House of Finance, including around 40 professors. They belong to the university departments of the Goethe University located in the House of Finance :

  • Finance departments (business administration professorships in the economics department)
  • Money and Currency Department (Economics professorships in the Department of Economics)
  • Focus on corporate law and finance (professorships in the Faculty of Law)

In addition, eight other institutions work in the House of Finance:

  1. Center for Financial Studies (CFS)
  2. Leibniz Institute for Financial Market Research SAFE (SAFE)
  3. E-Finance Lab Frankfurt am Main (EFL)
  4. Goethe Business School (GBS)
  5. Graduate School of Economics, Finance, and Management (GSEFM)
  6. Institute for Law and Finance (ILF)
  7. Institute for Monetary and Financial Stability (IMFS)
  8. International Center for Insurance Regulation (ICIR)

PhD programs

Several English-language doctoral programs are offered through the Graduate School of Economics, Finance, and Management - a cooperation between Goethe University , Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and the Technical University of Darmstadt , including:

  • Ph.D. Program in Economics
  • Ph.D. Program in Finance
  • Ph.D. Program in Law and Economics of Money and Finance
  • Ph.D. Program in Management
  • Ph.D. Program in Marketing

Training programs

  • Master of Science in Money and Finance
  • Master of Laws in Finance ( LL.M. Finance)
  • MSQ Programs in Economics, Finance, Management, Marketing and Law and Economics
  • Part-Time Master in Finance
  • Part-Time Master of Digital Transformation Management
  • Part-Time Master of Pharma Business Administration

Professors (selection)

architecture

The House of Finance is a new building on the Westend campus of Goethe University. The building design comes from the architects Kleihues + Kleihues (succeeding the late Josef Paul Kleihues ). The Westend campus is characterized by the IG-Farben building by the architect Hans Poelzig , whose external appearance is characterized by a perforated facade in the forms of the new objectivity and the extensive use of travertine , and is therefore stylistically close to neoclassicism . In keeping with this, the House of Finance, like the other new buildings on the campus, follows classicist style principles. The front and side facades are strongly gridded and strictly axially symmetrical, they are each divided into three parts with building corners that are emphasized by narrower window cuts, and by central fields that open outwards with larger windows. The window openings themselves are emphasized by profiled walls. Windows and wall surfaces are coordinated in such a way that a continuous joint grid of the natural stone cladding is achieved.

Inside, the building on the upper floors is characterized by individual offices and combination zones for scientists and students, in which both individual and collective use is possible. This made it possible to achieve a high level of compression of the usable areas. At the head end there are seminar rooms on the upper floors. After entering the building, a spacious, naturally-lit foyer opens on the ground floor, to which lecture halls and seminar rooms as well as the information center - a reference library  - are connected. The floor, walls and ceiling of the foyer take up the design grid of the entire building, which is inspired by Raphael's fresco The School of Athens , which is particularly evident in the floor design. The building also houses computer rooms on the ground floor, a data room with Bloomberg terminals and a public cafe of the Studentenwerk Frankfurt am Main named after the sponsor as the Börsen-Zeitung bistro .

criticism

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The establishment of the House of Finance as part of the Goethe University has met with criticism, especially from left-wing student groups. The focus of the criticism is the participation of the financial sector, which is seen as influencing the orientation of research and teaching. The sponsor notices that are conspicuously present in the House of Finance are perceived as inappropriate and provocative; some rooms are named after sponsors. It is also criticized that the presence of the House of Finance on the university campus is not compatible with the principles of an educational and research facility open to students and citizens. Areas of the building are only accessible with a chip card, cameras are installed at the emergency exits and lockers. However, other areas of the university are also not open to the public and only accessible to a limited extent using the so-called Goethe Card . In other buildings of the university, too, emergency exits and the library entrances with book security systems are secured with cameras.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE: Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE. February 28, 2020, accessed February 28, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from March 25, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ http://www.hof.uni-frankfurt.de/de/about-us/organisation.html
  4. ↑ http://www.hof.uni-frankfurt.de/en/research/research-institutions.html
  5. ↑ data room. In: Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE. Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE, February 28, 2020, accessed on February 28, 2020 .
  6. ↑ See https://www.fr.de/frankfurt/josef-ackermann-per36381/ungestoert-geld-erforschen-11450805.html
  7. ↑ Goethe University: Goethe Card - door locking systems . Retrieved May 19, 2013.

Coordinates: 50 ° 7 ′ 37 ″  N , 8 ° 39 ′ 54 ″  E