ZEW Director of Business and Administration Ernst-O. Schulze Celebrates 60th Birthday

Ernst-O. Schulze, Director of Business and Administration at the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), Mannheim, celebrates his 60th birthday on Friday, 23 July 1999. As founding director of ZEW, he considerably contributed to the setting up and expansion of the institute to the extent that it has become one of Germany’s leading economic research institutes. Together with the former ZEW Scientific Director, Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Heinz König and the current President of ZEW, Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Wolfgang Franz, he helped to convert ZEW into an economic research institute which the German Council of Science and Humanities recommended to include on the list of institutes ("Blaue Liste") jointly funded by the Federal Government and the Länder a few days ago. This kind of recognition of ZEW's excellent scientific reputation was probably the most pleasant birthday present for him to receive and a nice acknowledgement of his high level of personal commitment to ZEW throughout the past nine years as Director of Business and Administration.

After having obtained a degree as a qualified teacher in business administration as well as economic and business pedagogics, Ernst-O. Schulze began his teachings at the Academy for Data Processing of Böblingen (Akademie für Datenverarbeitung Böblingen) in the fields of IT, organisation and economics. In 1974, he took over a position in the department of academic education of the then ministry of culture of Baden-Württemberg, where he was responsible for the planning and deployment of IT in the academic area of the state. As a Managing Director of the Institute for Information Infrastructure in Karlsruhe (FIZ) between 1978 and mid-1991 he considerably contributed to the setting up and expansion of the institute. Between 1990 and 1997 he was the Managing Director of the Association for Culture and the Advancement of Science Baden-Württemberg (GKW) as well as of the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg in Ludwigsburg. In 1990 he became Director of Business and Administration at ZEW.

Ernst-O. Schulze currently lives in Bruchsal, where he engages in voluntary activities as chairman of the friends’ association "Freunde des Schönborn-Gymnasiums Bruchsal e.V.".

Contact

Katrin Voss, E-mail: voss@zew.de