Paul Gert von Beckerath

Paul Gert von Beckerath (born January 22, 1917 in Krefeld ; † February 9, 2009 in Brühl ) was a German economist .

Training, labor and military service

As the son of the businessman Helmut von Beckerath and his wife Frida Melsbach, he attended a secondary school and began an apprenticeship as a banker at Deutsche Bank in 1935 . He then did an internship in the textile industry. He then went to the Reich Labor Service and had to take part in the Second World War as a soldier .

Studies, doctorate and KfW

After the war ended in 1945 he was imprisoned for six months. Then began studying economics in Bonn , which he finished in 1948 with a degree in economics. At the University of Bonn he received his doctorate in 1949. rer. pole. on the subject of the change in the economic order during the years 1792/3 in France: investigation on the basis of the decrees of the first French national convention . He then worked in the secretariat of Hermann Josef Abs in the Reconstruction Loan Corporation .

Bayer AG

From 1951 he worked at Bayer AG , first as a deputy and later as director of the human resources and social affairs department. In this position he also took part in numerous assignments relating to vocational training in the chemical industry. In the same way he was also active on the board of the employers' association of the chemical industry. This work also led to a teaching position at the Ruhr University Bochum for the area of ​​human resources in business, where he was appointed honorary professor in 1972.

He also dealt with leadership methods in the Anglo-Saxon area. As early as 1949 he was studying for three months in Great Britain and in 1954 he traveled to the USA. He also dealt with the Harzburg model , which he considered to be a fad for senior board members at Bayer AG. He also campaigned on issues relating to the protection of monuments and founded the Schlosskapelle Türnich Trust Foundation in memory of his wife Ingeborg and his sister Erica von Beckerath . At Bayer AG, he also devoted himself to the cultural department of the plant and the history of Bayer AG. In the series of monographs on the history of human resources , he dealt with historical topics of the working world at Bayer AG.

In 1977 he retired.

He was particularly committed to social policy issues and tasks in many institutions.

Fonts

• Youth in companies in the chemical industry , Wiesbaden 1957
• The concept of social responsibility in Friedrich Naumann with Annrose Gröppler, Bonn 1962
• Organization and management: selected essays with Chester Irving Barnard, Stuttgart 1969
• Concise dictionary of industrial psychology and industrial sociology with Peter Suaremann and Günther Wiswede, Stuttgart 1981
• 25 years Friedlandhilfe eV: Germans help Germans , Friedland 1982
• The education officer in organizations of the plural society , lecture, given on August 31, 1983 at the annual conference of the Bildungswerk des Nordrhein-Westfälischen Wirtschaft eV, Düsseldorf 1983
• Behavioral ethics in human resources: principles and rules for the conception of a company human resource policy , as publisher, Stuttgart 1988
• About the professional ethics of a personnel manager , in: Paul Gert von Beckerath (Ed.), Ethics of behavior in human resources. Principles and rules for the conception of a company personnel policy, Stuttgart 1988

Awards

• 1962: I. Prize of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom
• 1997: Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Walter Habel: Who is who? Berlin, 1970
2. ↑ Kristian Kleinschmidt, The productive gaze: Perception of American and Japanese management and production methods by German entrepreneurs 1950 - 1985, Berlin 2002, pp. 178–179
3. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives:
4. ↑ Kristian Kleinschmidt, ibid, p. 199
5. ↑ St. Jakobi in Stralsund is to be awakened to new life through events. ( Memento from November 13, 2011 in the Internet Archive )

Web links

• Family website