Rolf Peffekoven

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Rolf Peffekoven (born June 29, 1938 in Gummersbach ; † May 24, 2019 in Nieder-Olm ) was a German financial scientist . From 1991 to 2001 he was a member of the Advisory Council for the assessment of macroeconomic development .

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Rolf Peffekoven obtained his Abitur at the State New Language High School in Neuwied in 1958 . From 1959 to 1963 he studied economics at the Universities of Cologne , Heidelberg and finally in Bonn , where he became a qualified economist in 1963. From 1963 to 1967 Peffekoven was a research assistant at the Institute for Public Finance at the Technical University of Berlin . He received his doctorate in 1966 , followed by a research stay in the USA in 1967/1968. From 1968 to 1970 he was a research assistant at the Institute for Public Finance at the University of Mainz . In 1970 he received his habilitation and from 1970 to 1980 a full professorship at the Ruhr University in Bochum at the chair for international economic relations.

From 1980 to 1983 Peffekoven was a full professor at the University of Kiel (as director of the Institute for Public Finance). From 1983 he was a full professor at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (also there as director of the Institute for Public Finance). In September 2007 Peffekoven retired.

Functions and offices

Since 1973 he has been a member of the Scientific Advisory Board at the Federal Ministry of Finance . He was also a member of the scientific advisory board of the economic policy journal “ Wirtschaftsdienst ”, for which he has written numerous articles. He was a member of the advisory boards of Landesbank Rheinland-Pfalz , Coface-Versicherung (formerly Allgemeine Kreditversicherung), DZ-Bank and VR-Leasing .

In 1991 and again in 1996, he was appointed by the Kohl government to the Advisory Council to assess macroeconomic developments , of which he was a member until 2001. He was a shadow candidate for the office of finance minister in the election campaign team of the CDU Rhineland-Palatinate in the 2006 state election campaign without being a member of the CDU himself. He was also an ambassador for the New Social Market Economy Initiative .

Honors

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedrich Roeingh, Christiane Stein: “Wirtschaftsweiser” Rolf Peffekoven died. In: Darmstädter Echo , May 27, 2019. Retrieved May 27, 2019.
  2. ^ WHG Alumni , homepage of the Werner-Heisenberg-Gymnasium, Neuwied, accessed on April 28, 2018.
  3. ↑ Böhr appoints financial experts Peffekoven to his campaign team

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personal data
SURNAME Peffekoven, Rolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German finance scientist
DATE OF BIRTH June 29, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Gummersbach , Germany
DATE OF DEATH May 24, 2019
Place of death Nieder-Olm