Nordic University

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Nordic University
motto Think internationally, interdisciplinary and interpersonal
activity 1985-1989
Sponsorship Nordic University V. (private agency)
place Flensburg and Neumünster
state Schleswig-Holstein
country Germany
management Rolf Wolff (Dean)

Claus Bahne Bahnson (University President )

Students 86 (1989)
Employee 100 (1987)

The Nordic University (NU) in Flensburg and Neumünster was a privately owned university founded in 1985 and closed in 1989 due to lack of liquidity. After the University of Witten / Herdecke and the Scientific University for Business Management in Vallendar , the NU was the third private university in Germany.

history

founding

The university was founded in June 1985, is temporarily recognized by the state and also has the right to award doctorates . The West India warehouse in Flensburg served as the administrative headquarters . An association was founded as a sponsor, chaired by Jürgen Westphal , on whose initiative the university's founding declined significantly. Originally, when the University of Witten / Herdecke was founded, it was assumed that the costs for setting up and running the university would be financed exclusively from own income, donations from the economy, tuition fees, fees and research assignments. Björn Engholm , at the time the university was founded, was still an SPD opposition leader in the state parliament, but warned in the spring of 1986 that the university was dependent on state subsidies, which he would neither approve nor support.

The Westindienspeicher served as the administrative center

Teaching company

Teaching was originally supposed to start in the 1986 summer semester at the Flensburg and Neumünster locations. With 31 students who, in addition to the general university entrance qualification, also had to show a commercial education , the university did not start teaching in Flensburg until the winter semester 1986/1987. It took place in a building on the Museumberg, which today bears the name Hans-Christiansen-Haus . Jürgen Westphal, the then Schleswig-Holstein Economics and Transport Minister and chairman of the NU sponsoring association , described the founding of the university as an "experiment" during an opening ceremony. At the opening, Peter Bendixen , then Minister of Education and Cultural Affairs, was pleased with the strengthening of competition and a more differentiated university and research landscape in Schleswig-Holstein.

In the initial phase, only one economics faculty was established in Flensburg. At that time, it was still planned to set up a technical faculty at the Neumünster site, which would then follow electrical engineering, medical technology and later communication technology and thermodynamics as subjects. The profitability calculation was planned with up to 2000 enrolled students in the final stage.

The founding dean was Professor Rolf Wolff, then 33 years old, who moved from the Stockholm School of Economics to Flensburg.

The establishment of a university was initially interpreted very positively by politicians. Schleswig-Holstein's Prime Minister Uwe Barschel , for example, described the NU as part of “the new, promising economic program in Schleswig-Holstein”.

From the beginning, the central idea of ​​the university was to create an intensive connection between science and practice. In particular, the university hoped to gain new sources of funding by offering consulting services based on the model of management consulting in practice. In August 1987, for example, an investment company called "Nordische Universität Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH" was founded, which was to participate in companies that were to be spun off from the institutes and faculties of the NU .

As a result, the costs for setting up and setting up the study and research operations significantly exceeded the original plans. After far fewer research funds and financial support from industry were recorded in 1987, the University received immediate financial aid of 1.2 million DM from the Kiel state government. At the same time, the university applied for 5 million DM public grants for 1988.

Teaching took place in the Hans Christiansen House .

Setting the university

After the change of government in Schleswig-Holstein, the new finance minister Heide Simonis emphasized in 1988 that the new and now SPD- led state government under Prime Minister Björn Engholm saw little future potential for the university concept. The public sector had supported the development of the university with 5.6 million DM annually, while the sponsoring association was only able to raise around 1.2 million DM in private donations. As a result, the state government set up a commission to develop possible continuation and future concepts.

This report, which was largely drawn up by employees of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft and under the direction of Max Syrbe , assessed the university's future prospects as extremely negative. Right from the start, the university had insufficient start-up capital. On the basis of this report, the state government stated that the financial basis was not in place, in particular due to a lack of support from business, and stopped public funding with immediate effect. On July 14, 1989, the provisional state recognition was also withdrawn. The 90 or so students who were still enrolled at the time were offered the opportunity to continue their studies at state colleges or the University of Kiel . Burkhard Schwenker , research associate of Rolf Wolff, was the only employee during the short history of the NU who received a doctorate from the university.

The SPD state government wanted to replace the established Nordic University with the local pedagogical university , which it ultimately renamed the University of Flensburg at the end of the 1990s .

Persons connected to the NU

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Shaky foundling. The Nordic University, the first private university in Schleswig-Holstein, is bankrupt. Der Spiegel (17/1989), April 24, 1989, accessed January 24, 2013 .
  2. ↑ Handelsblatt (April 28, 1989 p. K03): Movement at the private universities. Problems at the Nordic and in Witten - recognition for EBS.
  3. ↑ a b c Handelsblatt (November 27, 1987, p. 4) Nordic University: Research funds from industry are flowing more sparsely than planned.
  4. ↑ Wirtschaftswoche (December 4, 1987, p. 11): Grants from Kiel.
  5. ^ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (November 3, 1986, p. 3): In Schleswig-Holstein the government tried to change the image of the country. The SPD has only a few points of attack.
  6. ↑ Wirtschaftswoche (November 22, 1985 page 106): Schleswig-Holstein - the forgotten province.
  7. ↑ Handelsblatt (November 5, 1986, p. 8): NORDISCHE UNIVERSITAET. Teaching began.
  8. ↑ Wirtschaftswoche (February 21, 1986): Soon Nordic University.
  9. ^ Handelsblatt (August 29, 1986): In the far north.
  10. ↑ Wirtschaftswoche (February 27, 1987, p. 37): The north is gaining momentum. Guest contribution by Uwe Barschel .
  11. ↑ manager magazin (June 1, 1988, No. 6, pp. 179–192): Professors advise companies and top managers.
  12. ↑ Commercial register announcements of September 24, 1987 (HRB1697): Nordische Universität Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH.
  13. ↑ Wirtschaftswoche (November 4, 1988, p. 10): Nord-Uni wobbles.
  14. ↑ Handelsblatt (November 8, 1988, p. 7): The commission is to develop a viable concept for the Nordic University.
  15. ↑ Handelsblatt (April 20, 1989, p. 7): "Aus" for Flensburg private university. The business finance plan did not work.
  16. ^ University of Flensburg : 60 years of the University of Flensburg. (No longer available online.) February 18, 2011, archived from the original on October 14, 2012 ; Retrieved January 24, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.uni-flensburg.de
  17. ↑ Wirtschaftswoche (February 8, 1996, p. 54): Private universities as rare as jewels.
  18. ↑ top v .: Roland Berger's unpretentious legacy. Handelsblatt, June 18, 2003, accessed January 26, 2013 .
  19. ↑ Burkhard Schwenker: In search of future research fields in the service sector: e.Meta analysis of the newer literature. In: Working paper of the Nordic University, Faculty of Economics.

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