William Robert Spriegel (14 May 1893 – 28 August 1972) was an American automotive businessman, educator, and academic administrator specializing in the study of personnel management.
In the period between the completion of his graduate degrees, Spriegel pursued a career in education and later business, serving two years as school superintendent in Waynesville, Ohio, and working successively in management roles for the United States Rubber Company, Dodge Brothers, Fisher Body Corporation, and the Charles A. Strelinger Company in Detroit.
[1][2] Spriegel returned to academia with a two-year tenure as an assistant professor at the University of Michigan School of Business Administration.
He then taught at the Western Kentucky State Teachers College from 1934 to 1937, when he moved to Northwestern University.
Spriegel died in Austin, Texas, on 28 August 1972, and was buried in Roseland Park in Berkley, Michigan.