Achim von Loesch

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Achim von Loesch (born July 16, 1923 in Kammerswaldau, Silesia ; Polish Janowice Wielkie ; † June 1, 2019 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German banker, director of the Bank for Community Economy and theoretician of the community economy and alternative economy .

Career

Achim von Loesch was the eldest son of the Silesian landowner Ernst Heinrich von Loesch and his wife Martha, née von Boyneburgk. After military service , imprisonment and a commercial apprenticeship at the University of Marburg, he studied economics . Also with Wolfgang Abendroth . In Marburg he did his doctorate with Karl Paul Hensel . He began his professional career in 1955 in the economic department of the IG Metall board in Frankfurt. From there in 1959 he moved to the Bank für Gemeinwirtschaft (BfG) under Walter Hesselbach. He worked for the BfG between 1959 and 1980. Between 1967 and 1980 he was the managing director of the public economy department. In 1981 he moved to the Beteiligungsgesellschaft für Gemeinwirtschaft (BGAG) , where he was also the managing director of the community economy department until 1984. In 1984 he retired. He was still active as a journalist.

At IG Metall, he took up the topic of "wealth creation for employees" and developed a counter-position to Nell-Breuning and deepened it for a dissertation.

Together with Walter Hesselbach , in the 1960s and 1970s, building on the research work of Gerhard Weisser and Hans Ritschl, he developed a concept for the common economy and thus a philosophy for trade union corporate groups. From June 16, 1975 to October 16, 1987 he was a member of the Social Advisory Board .

He was married to the SPD politician Grete von Loesch, who was a member of the Frankfurt city parliament from 1968 to 1977 and 1981 to 1989 and is the daughter of the resistance fighter Heinrich Hamacher . You lived in Frankfurt / Main.

Achim von Loesch was related to the journalist and writer Maria Frisé . His son is the musicologist Heinz von Loesch .

literature

  • On the problem of co-ownership: The plans for the formation of property by the workers from the self-financing rate of the industry. , Achim von Loesch, 1961, Duncker & Humblot, ISBN 978-3428009367
  • The limits of a broader wealth formation On the problem of property policy , Achim von Loesch, 1965, European publishing house
  • The North American Workers' Banks in the Twenties , Achim von Loesch and Bank für Gemeinwirtschaft (eds.), 1972, European Publishing House
  • The German working class banks in the twenties , Achim von Loesch, 1974, European publishing house
  • The Bank for Community Economy , Achim von Loesch, 1975, European Publishing House
  • Materials public economy. 59 Series of publications by IG Metall. Questions and answers. Achim von Loesch, 1977, Union (Frankfurt am Main)
  • The public service enterprise. From the anti-capitalist principle of order to the market-based regulative. , Achim von Loesch, 1977, Bund-Verlag GmbH, ISBN 978-3766301444
  • German Labor Banks in the Twenties , Achim von Loesch, 1978, Bank Fur Gemeinwirtschaft Aktiengesellschaft (Cologne)
  • The public enterprise of the German trade unions. Origin, functions and problems , Achim von Loesch, 1979, Bund-Verlag GmbH, ISBN 978-3766302960
  • Public sector companies in the Federal Republic of Germany. A manual , Achim von Loesch, 1986, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, ISBN 978-3789011733
  • "The companies of workers self-help ", Achim von Loesch, in: Journal for public and nonprofit companies: ZögU / Journal for Public and Nonprofit Services Vol. 9, H. 2 (1986), pp. 221–226, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, on JSTOR
  • Privatization of public companies: An overview of the arguments (series of publications by the Society for Public Economy and Community Economy) , Achim von Loesch, 1987, Nomos, ISBN 978-3789013393
  • Self-Managed Enterprises: New Cooperative and Public Sector Enterprises? Overview and assessment of ZögU Beiheft 10, 1988 (Zogu - Beihefte) , Achim von Loesch, 1988, Nomos, ISBN 978-3789016868
  • The transformation of the Bank für Gemeinwirtschaft (BfG) as a morphological-typological problem: The emergence and development of a credit institute. , Rolf W. Nagel, 1992, Duncker & Humblot, ISBN 978-3428075393
  • Financing models of self-administered companies , Marlene Kück and Achim von Loesch, 1996, Campus-Verlag, ISBN 978-3593337852
  • Alternative economics and community economy , Jens Harms (editor), Doron Kiesel (editor), Achim von Loesch (editor), 1998, Haag + Herschen, ISBN 978-3892281016
  • Kammerswaldau. The history of a Silesian village, its castle and its manor , Achim von Loesch, Association for the History of Silesia, Würzburg 2001, ISBN 3-931889-05-X
  • Social democratic economic policy in transition. Contributions to the program discussion of the SPD party congress , Gerhard Himmelmann and Achim von Loesch, undated

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituaries of Achim von Loesch | trauer-rheinmain.de. Accessed June 12, 2019 (German).
  2. ↑ Peter Eichhorn : Journal for Public and Public Economic Enterprises, Vol. 11, H. 2 (1988) pp. 211-213, Nomos-Verlag
  3. ↑ Peter Eichhorn: Journal for Public and Public Economic Enterprises, Vol. 11, H. 2 (1988) pp. 211-213, Nomos-Verlag
  4. ↑ Frankfurter Rundschau of April 18, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Loesch, Achim von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German banker, director of the Bank für Gemeinwirtschaft and theoretician of the common economy and alternative economics
DATE OF BIRTH July 16, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Kammerswaldau, Silesia
DATE OF DEATH June 1, 2019
Place of death Frankfurt am Main