Curriculum Vitae

em. Professor of Public Administration Science

Specialization: Impact of New Technologies on Public Administration; Electronic Governance;
New Public Management

Career

• 1957 - 1959 Commercial Apprenticeship (Klöckner-Werke AG)
• 1959 - 1964 Studies of Business Administration at the Universities of Hamburg, Münster and Mannheim
• 1964 Graduation, MBA (Diplom-Kaufmann)
• 1966 Ph.D. (Dr.rer.pol.), Thesis won 1966's Academic Award of the University of Münster
• 1967 - 1968 Vising Scholar at Stanford University (Computer Science Department and Business School)
• 1973 Qualification as a University Professor (Habilitation, Second thesis), University of Mannheim
• 1973 - today with German Postgraduate School of Administrative Sciences Speyer
• 1981/82, 1987/88, 1997 and 2000/2001 Visiting Policy Scientist at University of Wisconsin, Madison, and University of California, Irvine
• 1990 - 1994 Rector and Prorector of the German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer

Member of the Center for Research on Information Technology and Organizations (CRITO) of the University of California Irvine
Speaker of Section 6 "Informatik in Recht und öffentlicher Verwaltung" of the Gesellschaft für Informatik e. V. (German Informatics Society)
Board member of the AWV (Association for Economic Administration)
Editor of the journal "Verwaltung und Management"
Co-Editor of the series "Verwaltungsinformatik"
Birth Year 1937 (Osnabrück, Federal Republic of Germany)

Author/coauthor of 19 books and some 330 articles.
Editor/coeditor of 21 books.