Ludwig Froehler

Ludwig Fröhler (born April 28, 1920 in Rohrstetten, Hunding (Lower Bavaria) ; † July 5, 1995 in Linz ) was a German-Austrian legal scholar and economist. He was a university professor at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and founding rector of the Johannes Kepler University in Linz .

Life

Fröhler completed legal and economic studies at the universities of Munich and Innsbruck . He then entered the civil service and worked in the Bavarian State Ministry for Economics and Transport . From 1953 he was government director . Subsequently, from 1955 to 1959, he was a senior administrative judge at the Bavarian Administrative Court . He completed his habilitation in 1956 .

In 1959 he was appointed professor of public law at the University of Economics and Social Sciences in Nuremberg , which was integrated into the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in 1961. In 1965 he was appointed as one of the first four professors at the newly founded University of Social and Economic Sciences in Linz . The four-member professors elected him on October 19, 1965 as rector of the university. At the opening ceremony at Linz's main square on October 8, 1966, Federal President Franz Jonas handed him the keys to the university . In addition to the rector's office, he was a full professor at the Institute for Public Law and was significantly involved in other institutes.

The Ludwig Fröhler Institute in Munich, which he headed for many years, is named after Fröhler. In Linz the Fröhlerweg is named after him.

Awards

• Ring of Honor of the City of Linz (1968)
• Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class (1984)
• Grand Decoration of Honor in Gold for Services to the Republic of Austria (1990)

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1. ^ Ludwig Fröhler Institute, Munich. Retrieved November 27, 2012 . 
2. ↑ Linz street names