Werner Zohlnhöfer

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Werner Zohlnhöfer (born November 19, 1934 in Lichtenau ) is a German economist and professor emeritus for economics , especially economic policy, at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz .

Life

Werner Zohlnhöfer grew up in Lichtenau in Middle Franconia and was raised Protestant. His father died in the war in 1943, so that from then until 1954 his mother had to run the parental business alone. He attended the Carolinum grammar school in Ansbach . He completed his studies in economics at the Universities of Munich, Erlangen and Freiburg in 1958 with a degree in economics from the University of Freiburg. Then studied Zohlnhöfer political science at the University of Freiburg, the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Bologna and acquired in 1966 at the University of North Carolina the Master of Arts in Political Science. After graduating, he returned to Freiburg, where he received his Dr. rer. pole. PhD and remained a research assistant until 1972. His habilitation took place in 1972, and a year later he moved to the University of Dortmund . There he held the chair for economic policy, in particular market and competition regulation, until 1980. In 1981 he finally followed his appointment to the chair for economics, especially economic policy at the University of Mainz.

He is married and has three grown children.

Zohlnhöfer was a co-signer of the Euro-critical manifesto The Monetary Policy Decisions of Maastricht: A Danger for Europe (1992).

Research priorities

Fonts (selection)

  • Competition Policy in the Oligopoly: Experiences of American Antitrust Policy. Kyklos-Verlag, Basel 1968
  • Future problems of the world economic order. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1996 (as editor)
  • Europe on the way to political union ?: Problems and perspectives of European integration before “Maastricht II”. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1996 (as editor)
  • Perspectives of eastward expansion and need for reform of the European Union. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1998 (as editor)
  • The economic policy will and decision-making in a democracy: Approaches to a theory. Metropolis-Verlag, Marburg 1999

Individual evidence

  1. a b Cornelia Caroline Funke: The current short interview. (PDF) typoscriptum medicinae, accessed December 24, 2013 .
  2. Werner Zohlnhöfer: A political theory the creeping inflation . In: Stabilization Policy in the Market Economy. Duncker & Humblot, 1975, p. 533
  3. Curriculum Vitae. Retrieved December 24, 2013 .
  4. see list of signatories for the online reproduction of the manifesto in the economic blog Wirtschaftliche Freiheit , blog entry from December 11, 2016; accessed July 12, 2020.