Liesel Beckmann

Liesel Beckmann (born October 28, 1914 in Limburg an der Lahn , † July 22, 1965 in Munich ) was a German business economist and professor of business administration and the first woman in Germany to hold her own chair for this subject.

Life

Beckmann passed her Abitur in 1933 and then studied economics at the University of Bonn, which she graduated with a diploma in 1937 . She then worked as Karl Rößle 's research assistant . A year later she did her PhD. rer. pole. with the task, development, type and change of the craft promotion also in Bonn and was then scientific assistant at the business institute of the TH Munich . At the same time, she began working at the German Craft Institute, which was to last until the end of the Second World War.

In 1939 she was given a teaching position at the TH and one year later she qualified as a professor for business administration in the craft and cooperative with The position of the craft in business administration .

In 1941 the full professor of the TH Munich was called to military service and Beckmann therefore took over the task on a temporary basis. Although she continued to give lectures in Munich, in 1943 she also became a provisional professor at the Königsberg commercial college . In 1946 she was appointed to an extraordinary professorship at the TH Munich. She took over the temporary representation of the full professorship of business administration in the political science faculty of the University of Munich one year later. In 1949 she stayed in the USA for six months to study . Furthermore, in 1949 she became the deputy scientific director of the German Crafts Institute in Munich under Karl Friedrich Rößle, and a year later she was deputy chairwoman of the board.

In 1952 she was a representative of the Münchner Block voter community on the Munich City Council . In 1953 she was offered an extraordinary chair for business administration at the University of Munich. Three years later, she was appointed full university professor. She became chairman of the board of directors of the German Craft Institute in 1959. The international craft and EEC conference was held in 1961 at her endeavor and was under her leadership.

Memberships

• German Craft Institute
• Administrative Advisory Board for the Care of Sciences and Universities at the Munich School Department
• Board of Trustees of the Munich Adult Education Center
• Bavarian working group for spatial research and regional planning
• Member of the supervisory board of the Munich Association
• Co-founder and chairwoman of the advisory board of the business management Karl-Rößle-Vereinigung
• Rencontres de St. Gall a working group of business scientists for international exchange

Works

• Business finance , 1949
• Foundation, transformation, merger, redevelopment , Wiesbaden 1961
• Introduction to industrial business administration, Stuttgart 1961

literature

• Karl Friedrich Hagenmüller , Liesel Beckmann, October 28 , 1914-22 July 1965 , ZfhF 1966, pp. 74-78
• Peter Mantel: Business Administration and National Socialism: A Study of Institutional and Personal History . Wiesbaden: Gabler, 2010, ISBN 978-3-8349-8515-6 , pp. 654-656