Peter Albrecht

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Peter Albrecht (born March 22, 1956 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein ) is a German university professor , mathematician , economist and actuary .

Academic activity

Albrecht studied mathematics and economics and received his doctorate in 1981 with a thesis on “Dynamic statistical decision-making processes for damage number processes” and also completed his habilitation in 1986 at the University of Mannheim. The habilitation and doctoral supervisor was Elmar Helten .

Since 1989 he has held the chair for general business administration , risk theory, portfolio management and insurance at the University of Mannheim . In addition, since 2002 he has been the managing director of the Institute for Insurance Science. In addition to Albrecht, Martin Weber , Ernst Maug , Stefan Ruenzi and Erik Theissen hold the other four chairs in the “Area Banking, Finance and Insurance” department at the University of Mannheim.

Albrecht is co-founder of the German AFIR group (Actuarial Approach for Financial Risks), a section of the International Actuarial Approach for Financial Risks group. Until 2003 he was its scientific director and at the international level a member of the Presidium ( AFIR Committee ). He was also deputy chairman of the German Society for Insurance and Financial Mathematics and a member of the board of the German Society for Insurance Science . Albrecht is also a founding board member and former board member of the German Actuarial Association . In 2003 Albrecht was a member of the CDU's so-called Herzog Commission .

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Albrecht is (co-) author of ten specialist books and over 150 scientific publications, some of them international.

The textbooks written by Albrecht are of national importance . His textbook Financial Mathematics for Economists , published in 2007 . Basics, application examples, case studies, tasks and solutions can be counted among the standard works for the financial-mathematical courses of the Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, which was newly created as part of the Bologna Process . His textbook Basic Principles of Financial and Actuarial Mathematics , also published in 2007, puts financial mathematics and actuarial mathematics (including building society savings mathematics) on a common basis for the first time and is used as a basic work within the framework of the training to become an actuary (DAV) of the German Actuarial Association. The third edition of the textbook Investment and Risk Management , written together with Raimond Maurer , was published in 2008 and is considered an investment bible .

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Individual proof

  1. ↑ Portrait of Peter Albrecht ( Memento from January 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) on the website “Chair for General Business Administration, Risk Theory, Portfolio Management and Insurance” at the University of Mannheim, accessed on June 15, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Albrecht, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mathematician and economist
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Ludwigshafen am Rhein