Klaus Macharzina

Klaus Macharzina (born July 2, 1939 in Waldenburg - Silesia ) is a German economist, business scientist and management teacher, he was President of the University of Hohenheim (1994–2002).

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Macharzina was born in Silesia as the son of an independent businessman. After moving to the west, he received his school education in Kreiensen and Ingolstadt . After graduating from high school, he first studied music at the State University of Music in Munich and then economics and business administration at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich with a degree in business administration and a doctorate. oec.publ. 1970.

As an academic advisor at the University of Augsburg, he was responsible for establishing contact studies at this university from 1970–1973. From 1973 to 1976 Macharzina was Senior Lecturer and Professor of International Accounting at the University of Lancaster in Great Britain. In 1976 he accepted the position of professor of business administration at the University of Hohenheim and remained despite several appointments from other universities until his retirement in 2005. He was dean of the faculty of economics and social sciences in Hohenheim (1981-1983), visiting professor at the University of Antwerp (WS 1981/82), the University of Sydney (WS 1984/85), the Institute for International Studies and Training, Tokyo and Fujinomiya-Shi (SS 1988) and the University of Hawaii (WS 1988/89).

Macharzina was elected President of the University of Hohenheim in 1994 (confirmed in 1998) and held this office until 2002. He acted as deputy chairman of the Baden-Württemberg State Rectors' Conference in 2001/02.

From 1980 to 2005 he was editor of the scientific journal Management International Review (MIR). His former colleagues Joachim Wolf and Michael-Jörg Oesterle have been the editors since 2005 , while he was also made honorary editor.

Macharzina is married to Anja Macharzina and has three children.

honors and awards

• 1995 Professor hc, Universidad Gabriela Mistral, Santiago, Chile
• 1998 Fellow of the Academy of International Business (AIB)
• 2000 Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 2001 Doctorate from Moscow State Academy of Veterinary Medicine and Biotechnology
• 2001 Professor hc at Moscow State University of Food Production
• 2003 Fellow of the European International Business Academy (EIBA)
• 2008 Doctorate from the Technical University of Dortmund

Main publications and sources

• Interaction and Organization, Dissertation Munich 1970;
• Management Development for Industrializing Countries 1972;
• Change of leadership in companies and administration 1974;
• Personnel Management, 2 vols. Gabler Wiesbaden 1977;
• Discontinuity management 1984;
• Financial and banking problems in international business activities 1985;
• European Approaches to International Management 1986;
• Company constitution, internal information policy of the company and employee behavior 1988;
• Manual dictionary export and international company Poeschel 1989 ISBN 3-7910-8029-6 ;
• Values ​​in the new federal states; Verlag Gabler Wiesbaden 1993 ISBN 3-409-13859-5 ;
• Corporate management 1993, 7th completely revised. u. exp. 2010 edition (from 5th edition with J. Wolf); Gabler Wiesbaden 2010 ISBN 978-3-8349-2214-4 ;
• Handbook International Management 1997, 2nd revised. u. exp. Edition 2002 Verlag Gabler Wiesbaden ISBN 3-409-22184-0 ;
• More than 100 further articles in magazines and compilations.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j} Klaus Macharzina's curriculum vitae published by the University of Hohenheim (PDF; 19 kB); Accessed: January 29, 2010.
2. ↑ Hohenheim's directors, rectors and presidents ( memento of the original from March 25, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

Web links

• Literature by and about Klaus Macharzina in the catalog of the German National Library