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Kálmán Kádas

1908 – 1985

Hungarian mechanical engineer

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Lived 1908 – 1985 (aged 76). Kálmán Kádas was a Hungarian mechanical engineer, university teacher, statistician and engineer.

Kálmán Kádas (Kisoroszi, 1908 July 30 – Budapest, 1985 March 17) was a Hungarian engineer, economist, statistician, transport economics author and professor, co-worker of Farkas Heller, doctor of engineering.

Early life and career His parents were Sándor Kádas and Gabriella Bentsik. He married in 1943, his wife was Emma Bartha (1908–1990) and they had two sons: István (1946) and Sándor (1948).

Kálmán Kádas completed his elementary schools in Kisoroszi, graduated from the Piarist High School in Vác in 1926, his class teacher was József Öveges. He obtained a degree in Budapest University of Technology and Economics mechanical engineering in Budapest in 1931, with a degree in economic engineering in 1932, and a doctorate in economics in 1936. He received his CSc degree (PhD equivalent) in 1961 at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS), "High-efficiency types of transport development. Based on his dissertation entitled Reasonable application and research of new technology in transport, he was awarded the title of Candidate of Technical Sciences.

He received the degree DsC of the HAS in 1974. The title of the doctoral dissertation: Some types of technical-economic contexts enhancing the macroeconomic efficiency of transport development and the possibilities of their systematic utilization.

Positions 1933–1948 at the Department of National Economy and Finance of the Technical University (from 1934 to 1948 Royal Hungarian Nádor József University of Technology and Economics) under Farkas Heller, from 1933 as an assistant lecturer, from 1936 as lecturer, from 1943 to 1948 as a university private professor at the department headed by Farkas Heller until the termination of the department. 1938–1949 industrial economics expert of the Central Statistical Office 1949–1955 employee of the Ministry of Transport and Post (KPM) 1955–1976 professor, head of the Department of Transportation Economics at the Technical University of Construction and Transport 1957–1964 dean of the Faculty of Transportation Engineering of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics 1967–1970 deputy rector of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics Research His diverse work in economics covered industrial economics, transport economics, transport statistics, econometrics, and prognostics. After 1945 he was engaged in industrial and transport economics research.

Notable works Sources: "Statistical analysis of human labor productivity in the Hungarian manufacturing industry". (in Hungarian); Magyar Statisztikai Szemle, 1944. July–August Economic issues in transport. University textbook. (in Hungarian); Tankönyvkiadó. Bp., 1958 Major economic issues in transport. Engineering manual. (in Hungarian); Bp., 1961 Fazekas Ferenc-Kádas Kálmán. Applications of mathematical methods in the transport repair industry. (in Hungarian); Mérnöki Továbbképző Intézet. Bp., 1966 Acta Oeconomica. 4. 1969 / 1. REVIEWS. Kádas Kálmán: 8th European congress of the regional Science Association Statistics. 1–2. (in Hungarian); Tankönyvkiadó. Bp., 1966; 2nd, extended edition, 1972

Business Economics. (in Hungarian); Tankönyvkiadó. Bp., 1968; 2nd, extended edition, 1971 Technisch-ökonomische Steuerung von Verkehrsabläufen mit Hilfe kybernetischer Systeme. (in German); Göttingen, 1970 Transport Economics. (in Hungarian); university textbook, Tankönyvkiadó. Bp., 1972; 2nd edition, 1976

Society memberships 1945–1951 general secretary of the Hungarian Economic Society 1959–1976 vice president of the Hungarian Economic Association 1948–1951 secretary of the Hungarian Statistical Society 1963–1985 member of the International Statistical Institute in The Hague 1969–1985 member of the Environment and Planning editorial board in London 1970–1985 member of the editorial board of Regional and Urban Economics in Amsterdam 1972–1985 elected member of the Österreichische Verkehrswissenschaftliche Gesellschaft in Vienna

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Budapest University of Technology and Economics
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State Award of the People's Republic of Hungary

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Hungarian mechanical engineer (1908-1985)

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Kálmán Kádas was born on 30 July 1908 in Kisoroszi.

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Kálmán Kádas died on 17 March 1985 in Budapest.

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Kálmán Kádas was a mechanical engineer, university teacher, statistician and engineer.

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Kálmán Kádas was Hungarian.

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