Ulrich Steger

Ulrich Steger (born November 8, 1943 in Berlin ) is a German economist, university professor, manager and politician ( SPD ).

Life and work

After graduating from high school in 1964, Steger initially trained as a tax assistant and then worked as a temporary officer in the German armed forces. He began studying economics in Münster and Bochum , which he finished in 1972 with an economics degree. He then worked as an assistant at the Department of Theoretical Economics, before 1975 at the Ruhr-University Bochum with the work imbalanced investment hypotheses in macroeconomic models and cyclical growth for Dr. rer. pole. PhD. In 1991 he completed his habilitation.

From 1987 to 1994, Steger was professor of ecology and corporate management at the EBS University of Economics and Law and held a visiting professorship at the University of St. Gallen in 1990/91 . In 1995 he was appointed to the Alcan Chair for Environmental Management at IMD in Lausanne. From 2014 to 2015, Steger was Vice Dean of the Master’s program at the Bucerius Law School in Hamburg.

From 1991 to 1993, Steger was a member of the Brand Board of Management of Volkswagen AG , where he was responsible for the Environment and Transport department. He also became a member of various international supervisory and advisory boards, including as head of the partnership between Daimler-Chrysler AG and Dresdner Bank AG .

With the help of Treuhand, Steger became chairman of the supervisory board of Kaliwerke Bischofferode and was directly responsible for the processing and takeover by K + S AG.

MP

Steger was first elected to the German Bundestag in 1976 . In parliament he represented the constituencies of Recklinghausen-Land (1976–1980) and Recklinghausen II (1980–1984). After being appointed Minister of Economic Affairs in Hesse, he resigned from the Bundestag on July 9, 1984 . He was elected to the Hessian state parliament in 1987 , but renounced his mandate on September 1, 1987 .

Public offices

On July 4, 1984, Steger was appointed to the state government led by Prime Minister Holger Börner as Hessian Minister of State for Economics and Technology . During his tenure he was an advocate of nuclear energy. Among other things, he supported the construction of the planned expansion of production for the nuclear companies ALKEM and NUKEM in Hanau, and in 1986 came into confrontation with the Greens , who had been part of a red-green government coalition since 1985. In 1986 he announced the establishment of an international commission to examine the safety of the Biblis nuclear power plant , but did not support the nuclear phase-out called for by the Greens and was thus instrumental in the failure of the coalition.

After the defeat of the SPD in the state elections in 1987 and the formation of a coalition of CDU and FDP , he resigned from the office of Minister of Economics on April 23, 1987 and was replaced in this role by the FDP politician Alfred Schmidt .

Honors

In 2000, Steger was appointed honorary professor at the Technical University of Berlin , where he co-founded the chair for strategic management, which was established as a separate department in 2008 and taken over by Dodo zu Knyphausen-Aufseß. As part of his honorary professorship, the following doctorates included:

• Carsten Intveen (2004): Corporate strategies of international automobile manufacturers
• Christopher Kummer (2005): International merger and acquisition activity
• Alexander Nick (2008): Effectiveness of strategic early warning

Publications

• Environmental management: experiences and instruments of an environmentally-oriented corporate strategy , 1988
• Environmental Management Manual , 1992
• Meinolf Dierkes , Lutz von Rosenstiel , Ulrich Steger (eds.): Corporate culture in theory and practice: Concepts from economy, psychology and ethnology. Campus, Frankfurt am Main / New York 1993, ISBN 3-593-34853-5 .
• Shaping globalization , 1999
• Local or Global? - Strategies and Concepts of International Corporate Communication , 2001
• Inside the mind of the Stakeholder , 2006
• Managing Complexity in Global Organizations , 2007

Web links

• Literature by and about Ulrich Steger in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography at Prometheus Online
• Career at Wulfen-Wiki Archived and accessed on June 25, 2020 at archive.org

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of December 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ); http://www.law-school.de/article/staff-matters/
2. ↑ mdr.de: Emotional documentary premiere in Bischofferode | MDR.DE. Retrieved June 25, 2020 . 
3. ^ The fight of the potash miners from Bischofferode against the trust. August 26, 2019, accessed June 25, 2020 (German). 
4. ↑ New Germany editorial office: Ending work for Kalikumpel (new Germany). Retrieved June 26, 2020 . 
5. ↑ Carsten Intveen: Corporate Strategies of International Automobile Manufacturers - Effects of Transport Policy Engagement on the Entire Company Level . Deutscher Universitäts-Verlag, Wiesbaden, ISBN 978-3-322-81124-0 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-322-81124-0 .
6. ↑ Christopher Kummer: International Merger and Acquisition Activity - Historical Development, Dissemination and Strategic Intentions . Deutscher Universitäts-Verlag, Wiesbaden 2005, ISBN 978-3-8350-0178-7 , pp. 293 .
7. ↑ Alexander Nick: Effectiveness of strategic early education - An empirical study . Gabler Verlag, Wiesbaden, ISBN 978-3-8349-1258-9 , pp. 225 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-8349-9912-2 .