Reinhard Blum (economist)

Reinhard Blum (* 22. September 1933 in Gnewin , Pomerania ) is a German retired university professor of business administration at the University of Augsburg .

biography

Blum was born as the eldest son of the independent farmer Walter Blum and his wife Luise, nee. Sengstock born. After economic studies at the Universities of Cologne and Kiel he received his PhD on 27 March 1961, the work to economic and competition issues of export cartels Dr. sc. pol. This was followed by a job as a research assistant in the Federal Ministry of Economics . In 1963 he moved to the University of Münster and completed his habilitation there in 1968 with a thesis on "Social Market Economy". After acting as professor at the Universities of Hamburg and Kiel, he was appointed Scientific Councilor and Professor in Münster in 1971. In the same year he followed a call to the newly founded University of Augsburg, where from 1971 to 2000 he held the chair for economics with a focus on economic and corporate policy as a full professor . From 1991 to 1999, Blum was rector of the University of Augsburg. Reinhard Blum's teaching and research activities focused on systems and order theory, industrial economics and development theory and policy. In the summer semester of 2000 he was relieved of his teaching duties.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Who is who? - The German Who's Who 2013–2014. 51st edition. Lübeck 2013, ISBN 978-3-7950-2054-5 .

literature

Helmut Hesse; Peter Welzel (Hrsg.): Economic policy between social demands and economic limits : Festschrift for Reinhard Blum on his 65th birthday, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1998.

Web links

• Literature by and about Reinhard Blum in the catalog of the German National Library