Paul Harff

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Paul Harff (born October 14, 1938 in Riga ) is a German-Baltic economist and university professor.

Life

After attending primary schools in Leslau , Zeesen and Stolberg (Harz) , Harff attended secondary school in Sangerhausen from 1952 . After graduating from high school, in 1956 he went to the training center for young seafarers on the Priwall to go to sea with the merchant navy . After completing a special course for GDR high school graduates in Wuppertal - Elberfeld in 1958 , he studied civil engineering at RWTH Aachen University in the 1958 winter semester . In the summer semester of 1959, he switched to the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität to study economics and a year later to the Georg-August-Universität . There he became active in the Curonia Goettingensis . In May 1965 he passed the diploma exam. A scholarship from the Volkswagen Foundation he wrote his doctoral thesis at the Ibero-America Institute for Economic Research at the University of Goettingen, which him on 13 December 1968 by Dr. rer. pole. PhD. After two years at Deutsche BP in Hamburg, he went to the state engineering school in Lemgo as a construction officer in 1971 . The Ostwestfalen-Lippe University of Applied Sciences appointed him professor for economics, statistics and corporate research in December 1973 . At times he was vice dean and dean . In 1985 he moved to Paderborn University and taught statistics as well as economic and social statistics. From 1994 to 1999 he sat on the board of the Sparkassenverband Westfalen-Lippe and headed the economics department of the Lippischen Heimatbund . As Mayor of Barntrup (1979–1999), he provided a memorial stone for the victims of National Socialism.

Honors

Individual evidence

  1. Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 29/8
  2. ^ Alumni of the IAI
  3. Dissertation: The contribution of national merchant fleets to the economic development of the Latin American countries .
  4. 6th meeting of Paderborn Emeriti ( memento from March 24th 2015 in the web archive archive.today )
  5. Lippischer Heimatbund
  6. ^ Lippische Landes-Zeitung of May 28, 2005