Robert Klaus
Freiherr
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von Weizsäcker (born 6 December 1954) is a German
economist
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The individual may also study, develop, and apply theories and concepts from economics and write about economic policy. Within this ...
, Chess Grandmaster, and Honorary President of the
German Chess Federation
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. He has held the Chair of Economics, Public Finance and Industrial Organization at
Technical University of Munich
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. He is the eldest son of the late former German President
Richard von Weizsäcker
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(1920–2015).
Biography
Robert K. von Weizsäcker studied mathematics and economics at the
University of Bonn
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, received a
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at the
London School of Economics
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/ University of Bonn in 1985, and attained the
Habilitation
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at the University of Bonn in 1990.
From 2003 to 2020, he has been full professor of economics, public finance and industrial organization, and since 2020 he is ''Emeritus of Excellence'' at Technical University of Munich. Previously he had research and teaching positions at the University of Bonn, the
Humboldt-University of Berlin
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, the
University of Halle-Wittenberg
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, and the
University of Mannheim
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. He was a visiting scholar at Cambridge University, Université Catholique de Louvain, London School of Economics, Stanford University, Oxford University, and the International Monetary Fund in Washington D.C.
Robert von Weizsäcker is research fellow of the
Centre for Economic Policy Research
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in London, the
Ifo Institute for Economic Research in Munich, and the
Institute for the Study of Labor
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in Bonn. He was a
Heisenberg
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Fellow of the German National Science Foundation and a member of the German Scientific Council.
In addition he held positions as faculty member of the
Munich Intellectual Property Law Center
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at the
, as member of the managing board of the Institute for Mittelstand-Research in Mannheim, and as board member of the
Carl von Linde Academy in Munich.
He has published numerous books and articles, particularly in the fields of public economics (public debt, tax reform, and social security financing), microeconomics (income and wealth distribution, decision theory), population economics, and the economics of education.
Other
Robert von Weizsäcker is an International
Correspondence Chess
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Grandmaster and member of the German national correspondence chess team. In the Correspondence Chess Olympiad in 2008, he won both the team and the individual gold medal. He was a team vice world champion in 2015 and 2021, as well as a team world champion in 2023. From 2007 to 2011 he has been President, and since 2011 he is Honorary President of the German Chess Federation.
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Robert von Weizsäcker holds an international Amateur Radio license with the call sign DL1BOB.
References
External links
Official website of Department of Economics at TUM
Official Website of Technical University of Munich
Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law
Ifo Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
Institute for the Study of Labor
Website of German Chess Federation
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German economists
Academic staff of the Technical University of Munich
1954 births
Living people
Barons of Germany
Robert K.
University of Bonn alumni
Richard von Weizsäcker