Ingo Böbel
{{Short description|German political scientist and economist (1947–2020)}}
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Ingo Böbel (1947–2020) was a German political scientist and economist. He was board member of the Bundesliga football team 1. FC Nürnberg. In 1994, he was sentenced to prison for fraud and tax evasion. He was Professor of Economics at the International University of Monaco from 2000 until his death in 2020.
Biography
Ingo Böbel received a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and was habilitated there.{{Cite web|title=Die Präsidenten des 1. FC Nürnberg – 10|url=https://www.fcn.de/tradition/historie/praesidenten/die-praesidenten-des-1-fc-nuernberg-10/|access-date=2022-01-26|website=fcn.de|archive-url=https://archive.today/20210207151057/https://www.fcn.de/tradition/historie/praesidenten/die-praesidenten-des-1-fc-nuernberg-10/|archive-date=7 February 2021|language=de}} He received a Leverhulme European Research Fellowship from Leverhulme Trust in 1978 and became a research fellow at Newcastle University, before becoming a visiting associate professor of economics at Rutgers Business School – Newark and New Brunswick 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 International Joseph A. Schumpeter Society.{{Cite web|title=Prof. Dr. Ingo Bobel, affiliate of the Center for Competitiveness, passed away (March 2020)|url=https://www.unifr.ch/pes/en/news/23077|access-date=2022-01-27|website=www.unifr.ch}}
In 1986, he became treasurer of the 1. FC Nürnberg football team, and was a member of its board of directors.{{Cite web|title=FCN-Skandal 1992: Der Entdecker der "schwarzen Kasse"|url=https://www.nordbayern.de/region/schwabach/fcn-skandal-1992-der-entdecker-der-schwarzen-kasse-1.5742021|access-date=2022-01-26|website=www.nordbayern.de}} 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 German Football Association.{{Cite web|last=Redelings|first=Ben|title=Der Skandal, der den Club fast zerstörte|url=https://www.n-tv.de/sport/fussball/redelings_nachspielzeit/Der-Skandal-der-den-Club-fast-zerstoerte-article23048691.html|access-date=2022-01-26|website=n-tv.de|language=de}}
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.{{Cite news|date=1992-10-08|title=■ Verhaftung: Schatzmeister sitzt|language=de|pages=19|work=Die Tageszeitung: taz|url=https://taz.de/!1649411/|access-date=2022-01-26|issn=0931-9085}} 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.{{Cite web|title=Gerd Schmelzer: Der Mann für schwierige Projekte|url=https://www.nordbayern.de/2.5886/gerd-schmelzer-der-mann-fur-schwierige-projekte-1.234429|access-date=2022-01-26|website=www.nordbayern.de}}
In 2000, he became a professor at the private International University of Monaco. In 2007 he became a visiting professor at SCQM Shanghai Jiao Tong University, in the People's Republic of China, and taught the microeconomics of competitiveness programme at Harvard Business School.{{Cite news|date=2013-06-25|title=Ingo Bobel, International University of Monaco|work=Financial Times|url=https://www.ft.com/content/907fb5a4-d4eb-11e2-b4d7-00144feab7de|access-date=2022-01-26}}
In 2012, he was named to The Economist