Karl Heinrich Oppenländer

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Karl Heinrich Oppenländer (born January 17, 1932 in Dörzbach , Künzelsau district ; † August 29, 2014 ) was a German economist.

Live and act

Karl Heinrich Oppenländer studied at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich and was there in 1963 with the dissertation The modern growth theory. A critical examination of the building blocks, the concept of equilibrium and the realism as a doctoral student of Erich Preiser is doing his doctorate. From 1958 to 1966 he was a research assistant at the Ifo Institute for Economic Research in Munich, then head of the Industry Department. Since 1972 he has been a member of the institute's board of directors. In 1975 he completed his habilitation at the University of Tübingen with the habilitation thesis Calculation and Analysis of Technical Progress in the Manufacturing Industry in the Federal Republic of Germany using a model for investment-induced technical progress for economics and business statistics. The next year he was re-qualified at the University of Munich, where he was appointed associate professor in 1983. From 1976 to 1999 he was President and Chairman of the Executive Board of the Ifo Institute, succeeding Karl Maria Hettlage .

During the presidency of Karl Heinrich Oppenländer, the Ifo Institute expanded and third-party funded projects were acquired with great success. In the opinion of the Science Council , academic economic research fell behind. At the age of 67, Oppenländer retired as president. He was succeeded by Hans-Werner Sinn .

Honors

In 1977 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon , in 1987 the Federal Cross of Merit 1st class and in 1994 the Bavarian Order of Merit .

literature

  • Helmut Marcon, Heinrich Strecker: Article 131. Karl Heinrich Hermann Oppenländer. In: 200 years of economics and political science at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen. Life and work of the professors. Volume I. Steiner, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-515-06657-8 , pp. 835-843.
  • Karl-Heinrich Oppenländer: Memories of an economic researcher: private and professional. Books on Demand , Norderstedt 2011, ISBN 978-3-8423-5340-4 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Former Ifo President Oppenländer has died

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personal data
SURNAME Oppenländer, Karl Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist
DATE OF BIRTH January 17, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Dörzbach , Künzelsau district
DATE OF DEATH 29th August 2014