| 2011 | Michael Römer (MSc4) | |||||||||
| 2010 | Tobias Wolff (M10) | |||||||||
| 2009 | Matthias Stöver (K22), Robert Heesen (M.Sc.2), Soňa Žáčková (M9) | |||||||||
| 2008 | Robin Buschmann (K21), Cora Theißen (M.Sc.1), Philip Meißner (M8), Thomas Klein (P3) | |||||||||
| 2007 | Daniela Schramm (K19), Lili Grigorova (M7), Friedhelm Wachs (P2) | |||||||||
| 2006 | Nicolas Niedhart (K17), Florian Haubold (K19), Peter Barthel (K20), Florian Mathias Sölva (M6) | |||||||||
| 2005 | Simon Strauch (K15), Hannes Behacker (K16), Marc Schumacher (P1), Guido Schernewski (M5) | |||||||||
| 2004 | Christoph Behn (K13), Ulrike Killy (K14), Elmar Günther (K15), Conny Kummer (K16), Martin Keese (M4), Pedro Vazquez (M4) | |||||||||
| 2003 | Lutz Schmelter (K11), Robert Jacob (K13), Alexander Krujatz (K14), Jack Artman (M3), Friedhart Böttger (M3) | |||||||||
| 2002 | Bernd Öhring (K10), Jesko-Philipp Neuenburg (K12), Yevgeni Mushkin (M2), Vengadan Swaminathan (M2) | |||||||||
| 2001 | Sebastian Just (K8), Philipp Leutiger (K9), Patrick Siegel (K9), Kathrin Rothe (K10), Monika Swierczek (M1) | |||||||||
| 2000 | Michael Krecek (K6), Matthias Herfert (K7), Stefanie Leenen (K7), Florian Will (K8) | |||||||||
| 1999 | Ulrich Bannmüller (K5), Ralph Dietrich (K6), Timo Voswinckel (K6), Christa von Waldhausen (K7) | |||||||||
Eugen Schmalenbach (1873-1955) - the father of business studies in Germany - was born in Schmalenbach (North-Rhine Westphalia). After a technical and commercial apprenticeship he was one of the first students at the newly founded Handelshochschule (commercial college) in Leipzig, the forerunner of today’s HHL – Leipzig Graduate School of Management.
From 1906 to 1933 and again between 1945 and 1950 he taught as a full professor at the Commercial College in Cologne, which later became a founding part of the University of Cologne. Schmalenbach made outstanding contributions to the development of cost and accounting theory. His dynamic accounting theory laid the foundation stone for the German income tax system. In 1930 he was appointed honorary senator of HHL.
