HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management

HHL (HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management) was Established in 1898, is a non-profit private higher education institution located in the urban setting of the medium-sized city of Leipzig (population range of 500,000-1,000,000 inhabitants), Saxony.

In February 1946, it then was integrated into the reopened University of Leipzig as Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences.

• The foundation of a Hochschule für Binnenhandel Leipzig (Graduate School of Domestic Trade) – established in 1953 and closed again in 1963 – was followed by the formation of the state-run Leipzig Graduate School of Management in 1969, which after the fall of the Berlin Wall, had to close down under the Saxon Higher Education Act by the end of September 1992.

• Almost at the same time, in October, 1992 the Leipzig Chamber of Industry and Commerce (IHK Leipzig) and the Society of Friends of HHL (GdF) founded a new and independently operated Graduate School of Management which under the name of HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management has become one of the leading business schools in Europe.