Economist Erhard Kantzenbach, Goethe University’s first president, has died at the age of 93. “We mourn the loss of such an extraordinary person as our colleague and my predecessor Erhard Kantzenbach, whose work in higher education policy has left an indelible mark on Goethe University,” emphasized University President Prof. Enrico Schleiff. Erhard Kantzenbach was appointed professor of economics at Goethe University in 1967. His studies in economics, law and political science serve as a testimony to his interdisciplinary interest in the interface between economics and politics, which is important to the university as well as society as a whole. He was deeply involved in university self-administration: first in 1969/70 as dean of the Faculty of Economics, then from 1971 to 1975 as the – first – president of Goethe University; his predecessors were still rectors. He was also deeply committed to science outside of his university career, as impressively demonstrated by his membership in the Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Hamburg and his work as editor of the journals Wirtschaft und Wettbewerb and Hamburger Jahrbuch für Wirtschafts- und Gesellschaftspolitik.
