Otto H. Poensgen
Otto Herbert Poensgen (born August 9, 1932 in Aachen ; † October 29, 1982 ) was a German economist .
Life
Poensgen came from the important entrepreneurial family Poensgen and was the son of the hut director Otto Poensgen (* 1896) and Frieda, née Püngeler (* 1909), daughter of the District Court Councilor Rudolf Püngeler . He studied at the Technical University of Aachen with a degree in engineering in 1957. From 1961 to 1967 he taught at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he obtained a Ph.D. acquired. In 1966 he became a full professor for business administration at Saarland University in Saarbrücken. From 1969 to 1971 he was chairman of the Economic and Social Science Faculty Conference .
Poensgen was married to one of Danckelmann's and had three children. After his death in 1982 he found his final resting place in Aachen's Westfriedhof .
Fonts (selection)
- Business area organization . Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1973, ISBN 3-531-11173-6 .
literature
- Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German Who's Who . 16th edition, arani Verlag, Berlin 1970, ISBN 3-7605-2007-3 , p. 984.
Web links
- Portrait and short biography on the MIT Museum website at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Search for "Otto H. Poensgen" in the SPK digital portal of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation
Individual evidence
- ↑ Klaus Brockhoff: Business Administration in Science and History. A sketch . Wiesbaden 2017, p. 278 ( digitized version ); exact life dates according to tombstone.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Poensgen, Otto H. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Poensgen, Otto Herbert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German economist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 9, 1932 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Aachen |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 29, 1982 |