Eugen Schmalenbach

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Eugen Schmalenbach (20 August 1873 – 20 February 1955) was a German academic and Economist. He was born in Halver, and attended the Leipzig College of Commerce starting in 1898. That college later became part of the the University, only to emerge again as the Handelshochschule Leipzig.

He gained most of reputation as a professor at the University of Cologne, and was well known as a conttibuter to Germam language journals in Economics and the emerging fields of Business Managerment and Financial Accounting. Schmalenbach retired from active university life in 1933; one reason for this was to avoid attention since his wife, Marianne Sachs, was Jewish. The couple had two children: Marian and Fritz. He died in Cologne in 1955.