Otto Gandenberger

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Otto Gandenberger (born April 1, 1929 in Bad Soden ; † October 23, 2019 ) was a German economist and emeritus professor of finance at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich .

Life

Otto Gandenberger was born in Bad Soden near Salmünster in Hesse in 1929 . After studying economics in Frankfurt, Mainz and Evanston from 1951 to 1954, he was employed as a research assistant at the Research Institute for Economic Policy at the University of Mainz until 1967 . During this time Gandenberger received his doctorate with the grade summa cum laude . His habilitation in 1967, through which he received the license to teach economics, including finance, was followed by a year-long deputy professor at the University of Hamburg . In 1968 he was appointed full professor of finance at the University of Mainz. He held this post until 1978. In 1974/75 he was also Dean of the Faculty of Law and Economics, and in the following year he was a member of the Senate of the University of Mainz. In 1978 he was appointed to the Chair of Public Finance at the University of Munich. 1987 to 1989 Gandenberger was dean of the economics faculty and member of the Senate of the University of Munich (1986–88). On April 1, 1994 he finally retired, but continued to give the lecture “Introduction to Economics” until 2008.

From 1970 he was a member of the Scientific Advisory Board at the Federal Ministry of Finance .

Gandenberger was a co-signer of the Euro-critical manifesto The Monetary Policy Decisions of Maastricht: A Danger for Europe (1992).

Fonts (selection)

  • The tender: organized competition for public contracts. Quelle & Meyer, Heidelberg 1961.
  • The financial monopoly: Fiscal and extra-fiscal effects compared to the consumption tax. Quelle & Meyer, Heidelberg 1968.
  • To measure the cyclical effects of public budgets: comparative discussion of the cyclically neutral budget and the high employment budget surplus. Mohr, Tübingen 1973.
  • Income-dependent state transfers: inventory, effects - options for action and limits for action. Nomos-Verlags-Gesellschaft, Baden-Baden 1989.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Death Süddeutsche Zeitung, October 26, 2019 trauer.sueddeutsche.de,
  2. ↑ http://www.fachschaft.soziologie.uni-muenchen.de/studium/downloads/abc_wise0708.pdf Archived copy ( Memento from April 28, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ See list of signatories for the online reproduction of the manifesto in the economic blog Wirtschaftliche Freiheit , blog entry from December 11, 2016; accessed July 12, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Gandenberger, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH bad Soden
DATE OF DEATH 23 October 2019