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Gertrud Höhler

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Gertrud Höhler (born 10 January 1941) is a German literary scholar, management consultant and political consultant. Höhler was born in Wuppertal, Germany, and is the second of four children of parish priest Heinrich Höhler (1907–1995) and his wife Helene, daughter of the theologian Fritz Horn. The German cardiologist Mia Helene Höhler (1939–2020) was her sister; the German architect Ernst Höhler (1942–2019) was her brother. Höhler graduated from high school in Wuppertal. She then studied literature studies and art history in Bonn, Berlin, Zurich and Mannheim from 1960 to 1966. Her studies were supported by a scholarship from the German Academic Scholarship Foundation. In 1967 she was awarded her doctorate with a thesis on Unruhige Gäste. Das Bibelzitat in Wilhelm Raabes Roman (The Biblical Quotation in Wilhelm Raabe's Novel Unruhige Gäste), and worked at the University of Mannheim. In 1972, at the age of 31, Höhler was appointed to the founding senate of the University of Paderborn as an academic councilor. From 1976 to 1993, Höhler was Professor of German Studies and General Literature Studies at the University of Paderborn. In 1993, she resigned her professorship in Paderborn to work as a freelance publicist and management consultant. In addition, Höhler was a Fellow of the Berlin Institute for Advanced Study as well as a member of the Senate of the Fraunhofer Society. From 1987 to 1989, Höhler was a consultant to Alfred Herrhausen, the chairman of the board of Deutsche Bank. In addition, Carl Hahn engaged her as a consultant for Volkswagen. While working for Deutsche Bank, she served as a consultant for other associations and companies and was on leave from her professorial duties. Höhler also consulted, among others, for the British company Grand Metropolitan, the Swiss insurance holding company Bâloise, the chemical company Ciba and the engineering company Georg Fischer. Höhler gained international fame through numerous publications as well as media appearances in which she took a stand on current political and economic issues.
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