Who wants to be a banker now?.

Previously, here on the World Revolution discussed now have stock portfolios - the University of Frankfurt has changed more than almost any other German university. Today, the bankers of tomorrow approached. And even the financial crisis, the euphoria little murky.

 

So a bit of global economic crisis brings Rainer Emsland region not from the concept. Banks may crash together, entire industries falter, the study continues. "There will always be crises," says Emsland.

Even the fellow Ann Sofie Aschenbrenner and Markus Rückert with text to see the hustle and bustle, they have already suffered enough for the ears. They study economics at the Frankfurt Goethe University. And one day, they want to be
Investment bankers play himself in the throng of derivatives, short selling and betting on something.

Now right. "I feel confirmed in my choice," said Aschenbrenner. "People who have something to understand the matter, are always needed."

The young banker push, do not panic

The profession itself may be temporarily less demand globally, the formerly admired Geldvermehrer just released in droves. But if the Frankfurt with the study and are ready to enter the market, are already two to three years. "The financial world," says Markus Rückert, "was still recovering." Rainer Emsland also looks like this: "The good years will come back."

The pragmatism is as healthy as it should be for a university in Germany's leading financial center. Among the students here prevailing view that it is not too many investment bankers do, but to little good.

The successor to equip itself to do better. And the city provides them with everything just out for what is needed: a brand-new university, free of pesky regulations, well equipped with donations and are fantastically located in the most elegant corner of Frankfurt.

If all go well, the three second-half of their unshakable master's degree in the new "House of Finance" training. That is a noble building, built as an interdisciplinary center for the higher financial magic. The best business lawyers and economists from around the world to be here under one roof research. Who it, does not have to pay after the Federal Rules his existence deadlines. The university is free to pay what they want. Particularly, it was possible for an amount ungenannter extent the spouses and Nicola Schündeln Matthias Fuchs Schündeln, both prominent researchers from Harvard zurückzulocken.

"Es gibt wohl keinen schöneren Campus auf dem Kontinent"

Another step on the way to the top university. This is in Frankfurt, said the goal in many brochures is elite and excellence of the speech. The House of Finance is already an external drive Inbild the top. It looks like a bank. For the facade erzsolide expensive Trosselfels was just right. From the polished marble floor shimmers. There are lounges with leather chairs Senator class, and in the lecture halls (here: Lecture Rooms), everything is solid oak, from the floor up to the gently curving rows of seats.

UNIblogs 6 / 2008

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Crisis. What Crisis?
The rebuilding of the University of Frankfurt for the elite school of high finance

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Through the windows, the view of a park around anything that insulted the upscale tastes: South rises Trutzburg the sweeping arch of the architect Hans Poelzig, a protected historic building. This former residence of the group of IG Farben after the war until the nineties, the V Corps of the U.S. army headquarters here. Now in eight floors of the humanities building.

In the spacious park, the construction of Poelzig-out limited to the West, growing up in two rows up new buildings, which are now gradually be populated. In the center is the architect Ferdinand Hörsaalbau heath. Large glass fronts are schiefwinklig incised in the cube. They are so cleverly distributed that all auditoriums daylight received. In the twilight of construction starts from the inside wondrous light.

On the green between the buildings will be when the construction works are completed, more relaxed than a thousand trees are distributed, to ponds, fountains, promenades. "There is probably no more beautiful campus on the continent," says Rudolf Steinberg, the outgoing president.