Richard Vahrenkamp

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Richard Vahrenkamp (born November 19, 1946 in Osnabrück ) is a German economist and logistics expert. He is a professor emeritus for production management and logistics at the University of Kassel .

Life

Vahrenkamp obtained his higher education entrance qualification in 1966 at the Ratsgymnasium Osnabrück and studied mathematics and economics at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen and the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . At the University of Karlsruhe (TH) he received his doctorate in 1974 with a thesis on homogeneous cone images and cone-balanced growth , and in 1978 he completed his habilitation with a paper on growth processes in linear technologies . From 1977 to 1981 he worked on a project for innovation research at the Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in the Karlsruhe Research Center . In 1981 he became Professor of Operations Research, Logistics and Production Management at the University of Kassel and in 1998 Professor of Production Management and Logistics at the Department of Economics at the University of Kassel (now the University of Kassel ).

He is a member of the Scientific Commission on Logistics in the Association of University Lecturers for Business Administration , co-editor of the journal Logistik Management and spokesman for the Kassel regional working group of the German Logistics Association.

Vahrenkamp stood out through numerous publications in the field of mathematical optimization, logistics and production management. In extensive studies of economic history , he examined the history of motorway construction and logistics service providers in the 20s and 30s of the 20th century or the development of Taylorism in the 19th and 20th centuries up to high-performance logistics in the 21st century. In the volume on Viennese Modernism , which he co-edited , he also devotes himself to the cultural and information technology development at the beginning of the 20th century. His expertise as a logistics expert is also in demand in the media, for example in the debate about the night flight ban at Frankfurt am Main Airport .

Vahrenkamp works in Berlin as a logistics consultant and as a lecturer at the Berlin School of Economics and Law .

Publications (selection)

  • With Dirk Mattfeld: Logistics networks: models for location selection and route planning. 2. updated and revised. Ed., Springer Gabler, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-8349-2269-4 .
  • With Herbert Kotzab : Logistics: Management and Strategies. Among employees by Christoph Siepermann, 7th revised. and exp. Ed., Oldenbourg, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-486-70579-9 .
  • The logistical revolution: the rise of logistics in the mass consumer society. Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt / M. New York 2011, ISBN 978-3-593-39215-8
  • The German autobahn 1920–1945: Hafraba visions and mega projects. Eul, Lohmar Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-89936-940-3 .
  • From Taylor to Toyota: Rationalization Debates in the 20th Century. Eul, Lohmar Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-89936-983-0 .
  • Production management. Among employees by Christoph Siepermann, 6th revised. Ed., Oldenbourg, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-486-58784-5 .
  • Motorway construction in Hesse until 1943. Hessisches Wirtschaftsarchiv, Darmstadt 2007, ISBN 978-3-9804506-6-9 .
  • With Jürgen Nautz (ed.): The turn of the century in Vienna: Influences, environment, effects. Böhlau, Vienna a. a. 1993; 2nd edition 1996, ISBN 3-205-98536-2
  • Production and logistics management. Oldenbourg, Munich Vienna 1994, ISBN 978-3-486-22455-9 .
  • Growth processes in linear technologies. Habil. Univ. Karlsruhe 1978, Hain, Königstein / Ts. 1980, ISBN 978-3-445-01963-9 .
  • Conical homogeneous images and cone-balanced growth. Diss. Univ. Karlsruhe 1974.

literature

  • Christoph Siepermann, Michael Eley (Ed.): Logistics - yesterday, today, tomorrow. Festschrift for Richard Vahrenkamp on the completion of the 65th year of life, Gito-Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-942183-44-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Christoph Siepermann, Michael Eley (Ed.): Logistics - yesterday, today, tomorrow. Festschrift for Richard Vahrenkamp on the completion of the 65th year of life, Berlin 2011, p. 7 f.
  2. ↑ Prof. Dr. Richard Vahrenkamp , Gabler Wirtschaftslexikon
  3. ^ Curriculum Vitae , Institute for Business Administration, University of Kassel
  4. ^ Karl-Eugen Kurrer and Stefan Poser: Aircraft industry as the place of origin of machine computing 1944-1955. Lecture announcement. Association of German Engineers (VDI), Berlin-Brandenburg district association, Technical History Working Group, January 17, 2019, accessed on January 7, 2019 .
  5. ^ A b Richard Vahrenkamp: Guest contributions: Fraport must shrink , Frankfurter Rundschau , March 5, 2015
  6. ^ Peter Neumann: Goods transport: Berlin economic traffic in stress , Der Tagesspiegel , June 23, 2015
  7. ↑ Sven Felix Kellerhoff: Second World War - Air War: "Bombing stations would have been the solution" , interview with Richard Vahrenkamp, Die Welt , July 18, 2014
  8. ↑ Ban on night flights over Frankfurt / Main: Good night for the business location? Interview with Richard Vahrenkamp, Detector.fm , April 4, 2012
  9. ↑ Air freight: Night flights from Frankfurt / Hahn? Expert Prof. Vahrenkamp wants to relocate cargo flights to the Hunsrück. Logistik Today , November 2, 2011
  10. ^ Vahrenkamp, ​​Richard , Berlin School of Economics and Law
  11. ↑ Monika Dommann : Review of: Vahrenkamp, ​​Richard: The logistic revolution. The rise of logistics in the mass consumer society . Frankfurt am Main 2011, in: H-Soz-Kult , October 24, 2012; on-line
  12. ↑ Klaus Lichtblau : Review of: Jürgen Nautz / Richard Vahrenkamp (ed.): The turn of the century in Vienna. Influences - environment - effects . Böhlau, WienKöWGraz 1993. In: Sociologia Internationalis 33 (1995), pp. 116-119; on-line
personal data
SURNAME Vahrenkamp, ​​Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist and logistics expert
DATE OF BIRTH November 19, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Osnabrück