Short vita

Researcher, CEO and management consultant

Personal Data:

born in 1938, married, two children

Studies:

Business and Social Sciences in Mannheim and Vienna
Degrees: Dipl.-Kfm., Dr. rer. pol. from the University of Mannheim

Academic career:

Practical experiences in small and medium-sized companies, chemical industry and forwarding company/shipping followed by an assistant position and habilitation from the University of Mannheim

• Professor for General Business Studies especially HR Management, University of Cologne

• Professor for General Business Studies and HR Management, University of Stuttgart (since 1975); Executive Director of the Institute of Business Administration; Dean of the Faculty of Historical, Social and Business Sciences

• chairman and member of various commissions and research groups

• appointments to the Vienna University of Economics and Business and to the University of Cologne (rejected)

• commissioner of the Bundesrat for the exchange of scientists between the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic

• guest lecturer at various universities/institutes at home and abroad

• retirement March 30, 2006

Interim Management:

• CEO of the TTI (Technology-Transfer-Initiative) GmbH, Stuttgart 2003/2004
  

• CEO of the SIMT (Stuttgart Institute of Management and Technology), Stuttgart 2006/2007

Consulting BDU:

• foundation and managing partner of ISPA consult GmbH, Stuttgart (since 1989) with focus on HR consulting

• since 2007 full-time CEO of ISPA consult GmbH with a young team of professionally experienced specialists (graduates in business administration) for the personnel sector

• section "Personnel Management"

• section "International Management"