Ingo Böbel (1947–2020) was a German

political scientist Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and power, and the analysis of political activities, political thought, political behavior, and associated constitutions and la ...

and

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. He was board member of the Bundesliga football team 1. FC Nürnberg. In 1994, he was sentenced to prison for

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and tax evasion. He was Professor of Economics at the

International University of Monaco Founded in 1986, the International University of Monaco (IUM) (french: Université internationale de Monaco) is located in the Monaco, Principality of Monaco. It offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in business specialized in finance, market ...

from 2000 until his death in 2020.

Biography

Ingo Böbel received a Ph.D. in political science from the

University of Erlangen-Nuremberg A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. ''University'' is derived from the Latin phrase ''universitas magistrorum et scholarium'', which ...

and was habilitated there. He received a Leverhulme European Research Fellowship from

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in 1978 and became a research fellow at

Newcastle University Newcastle University (legally the University of Newcastle upon Tyne) is a UK public research university based in Newcastle upon Tyne, North East England. It has overseas campuses in Singapore and Malaysia. The university is a red brick unive ...

, before becoming a visiting associate professor of economics at

Rutgers Business School – Newark and New Brunswick Rutgers Business School – Newark and New Brunswick (also known as the Rutgers Business School, or RBS) is the graduate and undergraduate business school located on the Newark and New Brunswick campuses of Rutgers University. It was founded in ...

in 1980. He became an associate professor of economics at Rutgers Business School in 1983. He was a founding member of the European Association for Research in Industrial Economics and the

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. In 1986, he became treasurer of the 1. FC Nürnberg football team, and was a member of its board of directors. In 1991, Peter Kargs, former treasurer for the team, published an open letter which brought attention to financial irregularities of Böbel's book-keeping. Before the scandal, Böbel had been praised for his "clean book keeping" by the

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. Böbel resigned from his position as treasurer and was investigated by the Nuremberg-Fürth public prosecutor's office. It was found that as treasurer he had organized illegal earnings, diverted funds past the bookkeeping and used it to pay for football players' personal expenses such as private air travel to Monaco and Venice. In 1994, Böbel was sentenced to three years and six months in prison for embezzlement of club funds amounting to DM 700,000 and for tax evasion of DM 675,000. In 2000, he became a professor at the private

. In 2007 he became a visiting professor at SCQM

Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU; ) is a Public university, public research university in Shanghai, Shanghai, China. The university is funded by the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, Ministry of Education of China ...

, in the People's Republic of China, and taught the microeconomics of competitiveness programme at

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. In 2012, he was named to ''

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'''s list for the Business Professor of the Year Award. In 2013, the ''

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'' reported on Böbel as "Professor of the Week". Böbel died in March 2020.

References

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