Alfred Lansburgh

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Alfred Lansburgh (born 1872 ; died 1937 ) was a banker and publicist (pseudonym: Argentarius ). His fundamental works on the monetary system are still sold today, cited in academic papers and used as specialist literature in courses at universities.

Life

Not much is known about Alfred Lansburgh's life. All sources refer primarily to his works on money. He was of Jewish origin, lived in Berlin and had a son, Werner Lansburgh , who later became known as the author of various books. He was friends with Kurt Tucholsky .

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Alfred Lansburgh was first and foremost a banker and a sharp critic of the big banks and their influence on the country's markets and politics. From 1910 he tried, rather unsuccessfully, to merge small city and provincial banks in order to create a counterpoint to the powerful big banks. Between 1908 and 1931 he wrote over a hundred works, some of which are still very popular today.

His most fertile years were between 1921 and 1923, when the steadily increasing inflation in the Weimar Republic led to ever greater economic problems. During these years he published the books Vom Gelde: Letters from a bank director to his son (basics about money and economics), Valuta (about international monetary transactions and foreign trade) and Currency Not (causes of inflation) a self-contained doctrine of money , like it is called in the volume value date . All books are written in the form of letters to his son.

Lansburgh was from 1908 to 1934 editor of the magazine "Die Bank", monthly and weekly books for finance and banking.

reception

Lenin repeatedly referred to Lansburgh in his essays and described him as the most competent of the bourgeois morons .

The New York Times referred to him as a well-known economist in the 1920s .

At the secret conference of the Friedrich List Society in September 1931 on the possibilities and consequences of a credit expansion , Lansburgh argued unequivocally against the Lautenbach Plan, against credit expansion and generally against the banking industry and relativized the deflationary “crisis”. Lansburgh was a classically liberal.

His books, especially the volume Vom Gelde , have been reprinted since the 1980s and, especially since the financial crisis of 2008/2009, have been widely seen as a sensible basis for thinking about a healthy monetary system.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=273547
  2. ^ Carl-Ludwig Holtfrerich: German Inflation1914-1923 - Google Books
  3. ↑ http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=2818620
  4. ^ Lothar Gall ( inter alia): Die Deutsche Bank 1870-1995 , Verlag CH Beck, Munich, 1995, ISBN 3-406-38945-7
  5. ↑ Seven Greek pastoral scenes: for four-part chorus of women's voices, soprano and alto solos, oboe, harp, and strings, or piano accompaniment: op.74
  6. ↑ Who is Argentarius? about the author of the book "Vom Gelde"
  7. ^ Hanns Weber: Bankplatz Berlin - Google Books
  8. ↑ VI Lenin: Imperialism II
  9. ↑ Doosie, please report! Werner Lansburgh's teaching and love letters. In: The time. 1981.
  10. ↑ NEW GERMAN BANK RATE AND MARKET - Reichsbank's 10 Per Cent. Charge Still Below That of Private Banks. FALL OF WIRTH MINISTRY Financial Circles Had Expected It, and Strongly Approve the Selection of Cuno. - NYTimes.com
  11. ↑ Knut Borchardt, Hans Otto Schötz (ed.): Economic policy in the crisis. The (secret) conference of the Friedrich List Society in September 1931 on the possibilities and consequences of credit expansion. Baden-Baden 1991, p. 195 f.
  12. ↑ Uwe Dathe: Walter Euckens Weg zum Liberalismus (1918-1934). In: Ordo. Yearbook for the Order of Economy and Society. Volume 60. Stuttgart 2009, p. 74.
  13. ↑ Karl Mocnik: able to defeat the Ergokratie economic growth imperative? 2004 (PDF; 2.3 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Lansburgh, Alfred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Argentarius (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Banker, economist and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH 1872
DATE OF DEATH 1937