Horst Jecht

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Horst Jecht (born January 7, 1901 in Görlitz , † October 1965 in Nancy ) was a German economist , financial scientist and university professor , who was mainly through his 1957 book Pension Reform and Economic Development. Problems and dangers became known.

Live and act

After graduating from high school , Jecht began studying economics at the University of Leipzig and the University of Halle and completed his studies in 1923 with a doctorate with a dissertation on the subject of contributions to the history of the East German forest trade and the textile industry . In 1924 he published a new edition of Ernst Grünfeld 's guidebook for students of social economics (economics) at the University of Halle , where he became an assistant at the political science seminar . After his habilitation in 1928 at the University of Halle, he became a lecturer in finance there in 1930 , before he was a representative of professors at the Friedrich Wilhelms University and the Berlin School of Business between 1933 and 1934 . His studies and teaching activities were particularly influenced by Friedrich von Gottl-Ottlilienfeld , Max Weber and Werner Sombart .

On April 26, 1933, he first became a member of the NSDAP under membership number 2 260 777 and then in November 1933 also the SA , the BNSDJ and the NSLB .

In 1934 he initially accepted a professorship at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität and in 1936 became an associate professor at the Berlin Business School until he became professor of economics, finance and economic history at both the university and the Berlin Business School in 1938 Reputation as a specialist in war finances. During this time, Jecht was also block leader of the NSDDB between 1935 and 1939 .

In 1942 he accepted a professorship at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and taught there until his dismissal in 1945. In 1943, in the article The development towards the European economic community in the book European Economic Community Hitler-Germany published by Walther Funk , he described as a pioneer European integration and extolled the values ​​of Western civilization threatened by Bolshevism and Anglo-Saxon imperialism .

After the end of National Socialism , he was classified as a follower in an award chamber procedure in 1947 and in 1949 was initially given a teaching position at the Georg-August University of Göttingen and a substitute professor at the newly founded University of Labor, Politics and Economics in Wilhelmshaven . In 1951 he moved to the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität as a professor of economics and wrote his main work on pension reform and economic development during this time in 1957 . Problems and dangers .

In 1959 he finally became professor and director of the Institute for Finance at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and retained these functions until his death. At the same time he was chairman of the scientific advisory board of the Federal Ministry of Finance until his accident death .

more publishments

Jecht wrote numerous other specialist books that dealt with various economic and financial issues. His major publications include:

  • Nature and forms of finance. Outlines of a finance economics and finance sociology. G. Fischer, Jena 1928, DNB 580992527 .
  • Economic history and economic theory (= law and state in past and present. Volume 60). Mohr, Tübingen 1928, DNB 580276864 .
  • Economic fluctuations and the world economic crisis (= economic theory in individual presentations. Volume 8 = Reclams Universal Library . No. 7273). Reclam, Leipzig 1934, DNB 58027683X .
  • War finances (= research on public finance. Issue 1). Fischer, Jena 1938, DNB 580276848 .
  • Problems of income tax reform. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1948, DNB 452190789 .
  • German economic history since the end of the 18th century (= Der Leitfaden der Volkswirtschaftslehre. Volume 13). Publishing house for law and economics, Salzgitter 1949, DNB 452190819 .
  • with Lutz Köllner: Textile Industry Today (= The Textile Industry. Volume 1). Konradin, Stuttgart 1955, DNB 455031215 .
  • Economic problems of the productivity pension (= publication series of the Federal Ministry of Labor. Issue 4). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1956, DNB 452190797 .
  • Financial policy and capital formation (= law and state in past and present. Volume 217). Mohr, Tübingen 1958, DNB 452190770 .
  • On the value of money. A series of lectures (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 257). Kröner, Stuttgart 1961, DNB 455480907 .
  • Problems of the public budget (= writings of the Verein für Socialpolitik. NF, Volume 31). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, DNB 453855202 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In the chronicle of the Ludwig Maximilians University for the academic year 1965/66 the date of death is given as September 29, 1965.
  2. ^ CVCE Luxembourg .
personal data
SURNAME Jecht, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist and finance scientist
DATE OF BIRTH January 7, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Goerlitz
DATE OF DEATH October 1965
Place of death Nancy