Karin Peschel

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Karin Peschel (born October 25, 1935 in Leipzig - Eutritzsch ; † June 19, 2020 ) was a German economist .

Life

Born in Leipzig, she spent most of her school days in Braunschweig . In 1956, she began studying economics. In the third semester she moved from the University of Braunschweig to the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster. There she completed her studies with the receipt of the diploma.

Peschel's actual career aspiration was to work as a journalist. Due to the lack of paid jobs, she started working on a research project on behalf of the German Society for Transport Science, which was based at the Münster Institute for Transport Science. She then did her doctorate in Münster with a thesis on the transport policy of the European Economic Community. The doctorate took place in 1963.

In the following years she first worked as a research assistant in Münster, then moved to the Technical University of Karlsruhe. There she completed her habilitation in 1970. In 1971 she accepted a position at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel and taught economics as a professor. Three years later she became the head of the local institute for regional research and succeeded Reimut Jochimsen , who founded the institute in 1970.

She taught as a professor of economics at the University of Kiel , where she was director of the Institute for Regional Research for many years .

From 1992 to 1996 Karin Peschel was rector of the University of Kiel. This made her the second woman to ever head a university in Germany. On November 15, 1993, it decreed - which no other German rector had dared - that all doctoral degrees from the university that had been revoked by the National Socialists would be returned to their holders.

In 2000 Peschel retired.

Fonts

  • as editor: Regional growth and regional policy within the framework of European integration. Proceedings of a Conference on the Occasion of 25 Years Institute for Regional Research at the University of Kiel 1995. Physica-Verlag, Heidelberg 1997, ISBN 3-7908-0957-8 .
  • Johannes Bröcker , Hayo Herrmann (Ed.): Spatial change and interregional flows in the integrating Europe. Essays in honor of Karin Peschel. Physica-Verlag, Heidelberg et al. 2000, ISBN 3-7908-1344-3 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Death in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 27.06.2020
  2. ↑ See: First award of the Ferdinand Tönnies Medal by the Christian Albrechts University. In: Christiana Albertina. H. 66, May 2008, ISSN  0578-0160 , p. 46. The act was never legally contested, but not dared by any other German university.
personal data
SURNAME Peschel, Karin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist and university professor; Rector of the University of Kiel
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Eutritzsch , Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH 19th June 2020