Ingo Schmidt (economist)

Ingo Schmidt (born May 30, 1932 in Breslau ; † January 2, 2020 ) was a German economist and professor emeritus for economics , in particular price, market and competition theory and policy at the University of Hohenheim .

Life

Ingo Schmidt was born in 1932 as the son of the chemist Lothar Schmidt and his wife Emmy Schmidt, b. Jaersch, born in Breslau. In 1954 he passed his Abitur at the Friedrich-Engels-Gymnasium in Berlin-Reinickendorf with distinction. From 1954 to 1958 he completed his studies in economics and law at the Free University of Berlin , from which he graduated with a degree in economics. In January 1961 the doctorate to Dr. rer pol. with the distinction magna cum laude. In April of the same year he became a research assistant at the chair of Prof. Bülow and Prof. Littmann at the Free University of Berlin. From 1964 to 1972 he taught competition theory and policy at the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at the Free University of Berlin. In April 1972, the economics department of the Ruhr University Bochum awarded him the venia legendi . In the following period he held further lectures in economics until, in April 1977, he was finally appointed to the chair of economics, in particular price, market and competition theory and policy at the University of Hohenheim. Here he taught and researched until his retirement on September 30, 1999. In the meantime, he received a visiting professorship at the Humboldt University in Berlin in 1990/91 and one at the University of Potsdam in 1992/92. In the same years he became dean or vice dean of the WiSo faculty at the University of Hohenheim.

Outside of his academic career, Schmidt became involved as a consultant at the Federal Cartel Office from January 1962 , where he became head of the key economic department nine years later. He was also a member of the Advisory Committee on Antitrust and Monopoly Issues of the EC in Brussels, and in 1972 he worked on the OECD Competition Committee in Paris. In 1989 and 1997 he was also managing director of the Institute for Economics.

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

Fonts (selection)

• Effects of the pension reform on the stability of the monetary value. Duncker & Humblot , Berlin 1961
• US and German competition policy versus market power: a comparative study and critical analysis d. Jurisprudence against facts d. external u. internal company growth and d. Disability competition. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1972.
• Competition Theory and Policy: An Introduction. Fischer , Stuttgart 1981. (later as: Competition Policy and Antitrust Law: an Introduction. )
• Competition Policy in International Comparison. Inst. For Economics, Stuttgart 1994 (later in Verlag Recht und Wirtschaft, Heidelberg)
• European competition policy: an introduction. Vahlen, Munich 1997.

Web links

• CV UNIVPROF DR. INGO SCHMIDT. (PDF)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Obituaries, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, January 8, 2020, p. 12
2. ↑ 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.