Andreas Paulsen

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Andreas Paulsen (born March 4, 1899 in Flensburg , † December 14, 1977 in Berlin ) was a German economist and rector of the Free University of Berlin .

Life

After studying economics in Leipzig and Kiel , Paulsen received his doctorate in Leipzig in 1923 with a thesis on The Press of Free Trade Unions . He then worked for many years in the Leipzig Chamber of Commerce and Industry until the beginning of the Second World War . a. as head of the school system.

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After the war, Paulsen was initially a lecturer in Leipzig from 1946 to 1947 and, after completing his habilitation, became an associate professor in Jena . While still in Leipzig he joined the SPD , was taken over in 1946 when it was forced to merge with the KPD , but from which he left again in 1947. In 1948 he left the Soviet occupation zone and headed for West Berlin , where in 1949 he was appointed to a professorship for economics at the newly founded Free University . From 1955 to 1957 he was rector there. In 1967 Paulsen retired and died ten years later in Berlin. He is buried in the Dahlem forest cemetery.

Fonts (selection)

  • The press of the free trade unions (dissertation 1923)
  • Social justice as a value norm of the economic order (1948)
  • Liquidity and risk in economic development. A contribution to dynamic economic theory (1950)
  • New economics. Introduction to John Maynard Keynes ' economic theory and the economic policy of full employment (1950, reissued several times)
  • University and science in our time. Academic Addresses (1957)
  • General economics in 4 volumes (1956-60, reprinted several times)

literature

  • Günter Ollenburg, Wilhelm Wedig (Hrsg.): Balance, development and social conditions of the economy. Andreas Paulsen to commemorate his 80th birthday with a selection of writings from his estate . Duncker and Humblot, Berlin 1979, ISBN 3-428-04439-8 ( excerpts from Google Books )

Web links

  • Paulsen. In: Small Chronicle of the Free University of Berlin

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Academic style 1960? The professors' dispute at the Free University of Berlin - last resort: the court . In: Die Zeit , No. 15/1960.
personal data
SURNAME Paulsen, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist and rector of the Free University of Berlin
DATE OF BIRTH March 4, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Flensburg
DATE OF DEATH December 14, 1977
Place of death Berlin