Thomas Retzmann

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Thomas Retzmann (* 1963 in Karbach) is a German economist , business educator and university professor .

Life

After training as an industrial clerk, he studied economics at the University of Siegen from 1982 to 1988, as well as studying business education at the University of Cologne , which Retzmann graduated in 1988 as a commercial teacher. He then worked as a research assistant in Cologne until 1995 . There was carried out in 1994 promotion to Dr. rer. pole. at the economics and social science faculty with the award-winning dissertation on business ethics and business education. A didactic analysis of possibilities to promote the moral judgment and action competence of executives . Retzmann moved to the chair for economics and the didactics of economics and social sciences at Bielefeld University as a research assistant and stayed there until 2001.

In 2002 Retzmann became director of the Palatinate Academy in Lambrecht . In 2003 he received his habilitation at the philosophical faculty of the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel with the thesis didactics of professional moral education in business and administration . He worked as a private lecturer in Kiel and took over a professorship at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg from 2003/2004 and from 2004 to 2006 at the Schwäbisch Gmünd University of Education . In 2004 he was also a lecturer at the Cologne Business School and the Hochschule Fresenius in Cologne . In 2006, Retzmann was given the professorship for economics and its didactics at the Schwäbisch Gmünd University of Education, which he has represented since 2004. In 2008 he followed then a call to the Department of Economics and Teaching of Economics at the Faculty of Economics at the University of Duisburg-Essen .

Retzmann is the founder and head of the Business Ethics and Vocational Education Forum in the German Business Ethics Network . Since 1997 he has also been a member of the German Society for Economic Education , of which he was elected in 2004 and of which he has been chairman since 2009.

Research priorities

Among the research areas Retz's counting the business education , particularly economic literacy and business training, competency models and standards of economic education , financial education, entrepreneurship education as well as complex teaching-learning arrangements for the economic and training. He also focuses on morality and ethics in business, for example on professional moral education in business and administration and general business and business ethics in theory and practice.

Awards

  • 1996 Max Weber Prize for Business Ethics for his dissertation
  • 2012 School / Textbook Prize of the Max Weber Prize for Business Ethics for the project "ethos - Business and Business Ethics in Economic and Political Education"

Publications (selection)

  • Business ethics and business education: a didactic analysis of possibilities for promoting the moral judgment and action competence of executives . Cologne 1994: Botermann and Botermann. ISBN 3-88105-156-2 .
  • Start of training and course of training . Laasphe i. Westf. 1996: Carl. ISBN 3-88149-079-5 .
  • The double quality problem of the vocational training contract . Kiel Reports, New Series No. 11. Kiel 2004: Inst. For Pedagogy.
  • Didactics of professional moral education in business and administration: a didactic study on innovation in commercial vocational training . Norderstedt 2006: Books on Demand GmbH. ISBN 978-3-8334-6376-1 .
  • with Volker Bank: Expertise of business teachers: Basics and findings of a further training needs analysis. Schwalbach / Ts. 2012: Wochenschau-Verlag. ISBN 978-3-89974-799-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Retzmann: Didactics of professional moral education in business and administration . Series Modernism of Tradition Volume 3, 2006. S. IV.
  2. ↑ a b c d presence on uni-due.de (as of October 6, 2013).
  3. ↑ a b c Vita for the award ceremony 2012 ( Memento from February 6, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 114 kB) on iwkoeln.de (as of October 6, 2013).
personal data
SURNAME Retzmann, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist, business educator and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Karbach