Wilhelm Hill (economist)

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Friedrich Hill-Gerling (1925–2017), business economist, Dr. rer. pole. hc University of Freiburg, Oberwil Cemetery, Basel-Land, Switzerland
Grave, Oberwil cemetery

Wilhelm Hill (born July 16, 1925 in Dortmund ; † August 30, 2017 in Binningen , Canton of Basel-Landschaft ) was a German-Swiss business economist.

Life

Hill studied from 1943 to 1945 economics at the University of Tübingen . In 1944 he became a member of the SC comradeship "Theodor Körner" , which was mainly supported by the Corps Franconia Tübingen . From 1947 he was licensed at the St. Gallen Commercial College (HSG), where he was awarded a Dr. oec. HSG was awarded a doctorate . In 1953/54 he ran a food factory. In 1956 he completed his habilitation in St. Gallen on the methodology of business administration. As a private lecturer and associate professor (1959), he taught at the HSG from 1957 to 1960. After attending Harvard Business School in 1961 , he returned to the HSG in 1962 as full professor of finance and accounting. At the same time he was deputy director of the Institute for Business Administration. In 1965 he moved to the University of Basel . Here he founded the Business Administration Institute, which he headed until 1994. From 1973 to 1974 he was dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and History and from 1984 to 1986 rector of the University of Basel. In 1994 he retired. He was a member of the expert commission for the total revision of the Federal Constitution of the Swiss Confederation . From 1991 to 1999 he was a trustee of the Asian Institute of Technology in Bangkok and the Swiss AIT Management Development Program in Vietnam . Wilhelm Hill died in Binningen near Basel in 2017 at the age of 92.

Honors

Fonts

  • Sankt Gallen Economic Research , Volume 13.
  • with Hans Ulrich and Beat R. Kunz: Brevier des Accounting , 1958, 8th edition 1994. ISBN 978-3258050324 .
  • Corporate Finance Breviary , 1967
  • Marketing , 2 vols. 1971, 6th edition. 1988.
  • with Emil Gsell , Hans Ulrich and Robert Staerkle: The St.Gallen University . 1963.
  • with Ignaz Rieser: Marketing Management , 1990, 2nd edition 1994. ISBN 978-3825280482 .
  • with P. Ulrich and R. Fehlbaum: Organizational theory , 2 vols. 1974, 5th edition. 1994. ISBN 978-3258039961 .
  • with Peter Attiger, Urs Bumbacher and Fabian Ziegler: Service companies in international competition . Peter Lang AG , 1995. ISBN 978-3906753812 .
  • The quality of the university , 1985.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 39/1087
  2. ↑ Dissertation: The industrialization of the agricultural states and their repercussions on the European textile industry .
  3. ↑ 50 years of the Institute for Business Administration (University of St. Gallen 2004)
  4. ↑ The faculty mourns the loss of Prof. em. Dr. Wilhelm Hill. University of Basel, Faculty of Business and Economics, September 11, 2017, archived from the original on September 11, 2017 ; accessed on May 15, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Hill, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German business economist and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH July 16, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Dortmund , Germany
DATE OF DEATH August 30, 2017
Place of death Binningen , Switzerland