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Gerhard Scherhorn

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Career

  • Doctoral thesis on "Needs and Wants" (Bedürfnis und Bedarf) 1959
  • Qualification as a university lecturer in Economics at the University of Cologne 1965
  • Professor of Economics at the Academy of Economy and Policy, Hamburg, 1966-75 (Director of the Academy 1973-75)
  • Professor of Consumer Economics at Hohenheim University, Stuttgart, 1975–98
  • In 1993, Seghorn formed the project group "Ethical-Ecological Rating" together with Johannes Hoffmann. This resulted in 1997 in the Frankfurt-Hohenheim Leitfaden, which was the first criteriology for the ethical evaluation of companies and capital investments.
  • Director, Research Group on New Models of Wealth 1996-2003, and Research Group on Sustainable Production and Consumption 2004-2005, at Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment, Energy
  • Memberships: Council of Economic Advisors to the German Federal Government 1974-78; Advisory Council on Consumer Policy to the Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs; Board of Stiftung Warentest 1975-84; Editorial Board of Journal of Consumer Policy 1977-95; Vereinigung für Ökologische Ökonomie (VÖÖ)
  • Today Professor Emeritus at Hohenheim University, and Senior Consultant at Wuppertal Institute; lives at Mannheim, Germany

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