Rolf Wolff

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Rolf Wolff (born January 12, 1953 in Wuppertal ) is a German economist and university manager. Most recently, he was President and Managing Director of the private EBS University of Economics and Law in Wiesbaden until April 2015 .

Life

Rolf Wolff studied business administration in Wuppertal and social sciences in Gothenburg . He completed his German studies with a degree in economics in 1977. The study abroad ended with one of the University of Gothenburg conferred master's degree in 1979th

Wolff received his doctorate in 1981 under Ekkehard Kappler at the chair for corporate management, planning and organization at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal with an organizational and learning theory work on the "process of organizing". The second reviewer of the dissertation was the Swedish-born organizational researcher Bo Hedberg .

In 1984 Wolff was granted the license to teach and the Swedish title "docent" from the Stockholm School of Commerce , which is equivalent to a habilitation and German private lecturer status .

Wolff is married and has five children.

Act

Founding dean of the Nordic University of Flensburg

Wolff returned to Germany in the mid-1980s to become the founding dean of the private Nordic University in Flensburg , which began teaching in the 1986/1987 winter semester. In parallel to this function, he was temporarily managing director of companies related to the university, such as Technologie- und Gewerbezentrum Flensburg GmbH or INDEVO GmbH .

Due to insufficient capital resources, the Nordic University was closed in 1989 and teaching was discontinued.

Worked in Gothenburg and Copenhagen (1990-2010)

Wolff then founded the Gothenburg Research Institute at the University of Gothenburg in 1990 . In 1997 Wolff moved to the Danish University of Copenhagen Business School as a professor . From 2000 to 2010 he was rector of the Faculty of Economics and Law at the University of Gothenburg.

President of Stockholm University of Commerce (2012-2013)

In 2012 the university manager became president of Stockholm School of Business . In May 2013, however, they split up prematurely as a result of a crisis of confidence. Wolff had shortly after taking office, Justin Jenk for Dean appointed even though he was convicted of insider trading in Greece and head of the IFL Executive Education. After the commercial college initially denied that Jenk's conviction was known, it later had to admit that Jenk had already informed Wolff about it in August 2012. Finally, the board of the Wolff University of Applied Sciences withdrew its trust and it came to a separation.

President of the EBS University of Economics and Law (2013–2015)

Wolff then returned to Germany in October 2013 and became President of the private EBS University of Economics and Law in Wiesbaden. On March 31, 2015, the EBS Wolffs Supervisory Board terminated the contract that ran until 2018 prematurely after only one and a half years in office. Wolff initially pointed out that there was still to be talked about his "future involvement at the university", but could no longer stop his expulsion. The chairwoman of the EBS Board of Trustees Barbara Dauner-Lieb and EBS supervisory board chairman Winfried Zimmermann justified Wolff's resignation in a press conference with the fact that he had not pushed the cooperation between EBS Business School and EBS Law School enough. In addition, Wolff maintained too little cooperation with former students. Wolff pointed out in a press release that his involvement with EBS required "a great deal of commitment" and his family "a lot of patience" with his frequent absences.

In parallel to his academic management positions, Wolff also repeatedly performed supervisory tasks in private universities. For example, until 2004 he sat on the board of directors of the private University of Witten / Herdecke , which was once founded by Wolff's doctoral supervisor Kappler.

Wolff has also been a member of the Lower Saxony Science Commission (WKN) since 2011 and has sat or sits on several supervisory boards, including at Svenska Handelsbanken and Stena Metall AB in Gothenburg. He is a partner in the management consultancy Cavendi.

Works (selection)

  • 1982: The Process of Organizing: Towards a Theory of Organizational Learning, ISBN 3922919030

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Commercial register announcements of April 11, 1997 (Essen, PR176): Heike Wolff & Partner, management consultant
  2. ↑ EBS press release: Professor Rolf Wolff new President of EBS Universität (October 9, 2013) ( Memento from July 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Commercial register announcements of January 23, 1987 (Flensburg, HRB1627): INDEVO GmbH
  4. ↑ Commercial register announcements of January 23, 1987 (Flensburg, HRB1625): Technologie- und Gewerbezentrum Flensburg GmbH
  5. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento from November 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento from November 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ EBS fires presidents , Frankfurter Rundschau of April 17, 2015, accessed on June 9, 2015
  8. ↑ FAZ of April 21, 2015: Hope for the alumni, accessed on June 9, 2015
  9. ↑ Frankfurter Rundschau of April 21, 2015: Ebs wants to get out of the crisis with more students, accessed on June 9, 2015
  10. ↑ EBS press release of April 17, 2015, accessed on April 28, 2015 ( Memento of June 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  11. ↑ Federal Gazette (7B38BF42069AE77AE1F113F044F24D18): Annual financial statements of the Private University of Witten / Herdecke gGmbH 2005
  12. ^ Website of the Lower Saxony Science Commission
  13. ↑ Official curriculum vitae at EBS Universität ( Memento from December 25, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  14. ↑ CV Cavendi ( Memento of 28 April 2015 Web archive archive.today )
personal data
SURNAME Wolff, Rolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist and university manager
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Wuppertal