Konrad Mellerowicz

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Konrad Mellerowicz (* December 24, 1891 in Jersitz (since 1900 part of Posen ), † January 25, 1984 in Berlin ) was a German business economist .

Life

Mellerowicz began his professional career in Beuthen in Upper Silesia in his father's factory as an industrial clerk. After initially studying philosophy and new philology in Wroclaw (1914) , he decided - following his military service in the First World War - to study business administration at the Berlin School of Economics, which he completed in 1921 as a business teacher. In addition, he studied economics at the University of Berlin, then at the University of Hamburg, where he was awarded a Dr. rer. pole. PhD and decided to become a university professor.

The twenties were the first great heyday of the still young, up-and-coming business administration (BWL). At that time, three schools in particular made great contributions to the establishment of the subject: the Cologne school around Eugen Schmalenbach , the Frankfurt school around Fritz Schmidt and the Berlin school around Heinrich Karl Nicklisch and Friedrich Leitner . Mellerowicz was a student and for several years research assistant at Leitner. He habilitated in 1926 at the Graduate School of Berlin, took over in the same year the representation of a Bank Chair, in 1929 associate professor, 1934 full professor and 1938 successor Leitner at the Chair of Business Administration and Industrial Business Administration at the School of Economics and from 1936 Business School Berlin, WHS , which was incorporated into the Humboldt University in 1946. During the Nazi era he joined the SA and the NSDAP . In November 1933 he signed the professors' declaration of Adolf Hitler at German universities and colleges . In 1936 Mellerowicz published the study "War Economics Tasks in Business Research", a first contribution by a German business economist to military economics .

Mellerowicz was able to hold the East Berlin chair until the beginning of 1950, but had great difficulties because he now advocated the political independence of research and teaching and the freedom of speech in the lecture hall. After he had to leave East Berlin, the TU Berlin offered him a chair in general business administration and industrial business administration, which he held until his retirement in 1963. Here Mellerowicz made great contributions to the development of business studies. Many of his listeners had followed him to West Berlin, where he was able to implement the “Diplom-Kaufmann” course and the establishment and organization of the Faculty of Economics (today Faculty of Economics and Management ).

As early as 1962, Mellerowicz advocated the introduction of the subject “data processing” as a compulsory course and thus contributed significantly to the development of business informatics as a subject and as a scientific study in Germany. Mellerowicz's greatest merit probably lay in his successful advocacy of a real understanding of business administration related to operational problems, which he developed further as an application-oriented management theory and thereby maintained contact with important entrepreneurs.

Honors

In 1961 Mellerowicz was awarded the Great Cross of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany , in 1965 the academic dignity of Honorary Senator of the Technical University of Berlin, in 1966 the Finnish Order of the White Rose , in 1976 the "Golden Ring of Honor for Business Administration" of the German Society for Business Administration and in 1983 at the suggestion of Ernest Kulhavy and Lutz J. Heinrich was awarded the academic title of honorary doctor from the Johannes Kepler University Linz , primarily because of his services to the development of business informatics.

Konrad Mellerowicz Prize

The founder of the Konrad Mellerowicz Prize is his late son, Harald Mellerowicz, a recognized scientist in the field of sports medicine . The prize of 5,000 euros serves the memory of Konrad Mellerowicz and has been awarded every two years since 1991 for outstanding work in the field of corporate management. The first prize winner was Rolf Brühl.

Later winners were: Heiner Müller-Merbach , Guido Krupinski, Stefan Wolf, Andreas Bausch, Christian Kluge, Kerstin Willms, Ulrich Pape, Hartmut Zadek, Martin Grunow and Alexander Eisenkopf.

Works (selection)

Mellerowicz made contributions of extraordinary importance to various areas of business administration and published a large number of fundamental, repeatedly reprinted works (the year of the first edition in brackets):

  • General business administration (1929)
  • Costs and cost accounting (1933)
  • with Hermann Funke (1st and 2nd edition) and Hans-Günther Abromeit (2nd edition): Basic questions and technology of operational accounting. (1949, 2nd edition: 1954)
  • Business Administration in Industry (1957)
  • Planning and cost accounting (1961)
  • Modern calculation methods (1966)
  • Company policy (1963/64)
  • Socially oriented corporate management (1975).

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Mantel: Business Administration and National Socialism , Wiesbaden: Gabler, 2010 p. 213, p. 776.See also: Hans-Jürgen Gerhard: Structure and Dimension: Festschrift for Karl Heinrich Kaufhold on the 65th birthday , Volume 2, Stuttgart: Steiner, 1997, p. 217
  2. ↑ Peter Mantel: Business Administration and National Socialism , Wiesbaden: Gabler, 2010 p. 215
personal data
SURNAME Mellerowicz, Konrad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German university professor, business economist
DATE OF BIRTH December 24, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Jersitz (part of Poznan )
DATE OF DEATH January 25, 1984
Place of death Berlin