Axel Troost

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Axel Troost (born September 1, 1954 in Hagen ) is a German economist and politician ( Die Linke ) who has also been one of the deputy chairmen of his party since June 3, 2012.

Life

education and profession

After graduating from the Schloss Salem School in 1973 , Troost studied economics at the Philipps University in Marburg , which he completed with a degree in economics . In 1982 he gained there his doctorate to Dr. rer. pole. with work national debt and credit institutions - public borrowing within the framework of the entire credit and service business of commercial banks .

Since 1981 Troost has been managing director of the Alternative Economic Policy working group and since 1984 managing partner of the Progress Institute for Economic Research (PIW GmbH) in Bremen and Teltow. In addition, from 1990 to 2001 he was managing director of the structural research office Rostock gGmbH in Rostock .

From 2005 to 2017 Troost was a member of the German Bundestag , where he was the financial policy spokesman for the left-wing parliamentary group .

After leaving the German Bundestag, Troost is employed as a Senior Fellow for Economic and European Policy at the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation (RLS).

Party career

Troost, who was a member of the SPD from 1970 to 1973 and a member of the DKP from 1976 to 1984 , is one of the founders of the WASG and was a member of its executive board from 2005 to 2007. Since the merger of Linkspartei.PDS and WASG, he has been a member of the federal executive committee of Die Linke . From 2005 to 2007 he was state spokesman in the state association of Bremen and from 2009 to 2011 a member of the state board of the state association of Saxony . Since June 3, 2012 he has been deputy chairman of Die Linke.

Member of Parliament

From 2005 to 2017 Troost was a member of the German Bundestag . Here he was the financial policy spokesman for the left parliamentary group . In the 16th electoral term he was a deputy member in the Federalism Commission II and a member of the HRE investigation committee , which was supposed to shed light on the processes in Hypo Real Estate in the context of the financial crisis . In the 17th electoral term he was one of the parliamentary directors and a member of the finance committee and the municipal subcommittee.

In the 18th electoral term he was again the financial policy spokesman and chairman of the finance committee, member of the administrative board of the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) and spokesman for the Saxon state group of left-wing members of the Bundestag.

In the 2017 federal election , Troost ran for 6th place on the state list of Saxony of his party, but received no more mandate.

Other engagement

Axel Troost has been a board member of the Solidarity Modern Institute (ISM) since 2010 and one of the five speakers and managing director of the ISM since 2014. He is a long-time member of Attac and the Association of Democratic Scientists (BdWi). After a long membership in IG Metall , he has been a ver.di member since 2009 .

Since November 2017 he has been a Senior Fellow for Economic and European Policy at the Institute for Social Analysis of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation (RLS)

Private

Axel Troost is married and has two children and three grandchildren.

Publications

  • National product calculations in the FRG and the GDR: comparison of the methods and results . Marburg 1978.
  • Public debt and credit institutions: Public borrowing within the framework of the entire credit and service business of commercial banks . Frankfurt am Main 1984. Dissertation online
  • with Martin Mathes: The attack on the savings banks . In: Sheets for German and International Politics , issue 7/2007
  • with Raoul Didier / Philipp Hersel: Beyond Liechtenstein. Control justice and German small states , In: Blätter für German and international politics , issue 4/2008
  • with Nicola Liebert: The Trillion Grave. Tax havens and shadow banks . In: Sheets for German and International Politics , Issue 3/2009
  • with Philipp Hersel: The failure of the Landesbanken . In: Sheets for German and International Politics , Issue 6/2009
  • The casino remains open . In: Blätter für German and international politics 2/2011, pages 75–84 online
  • Quo vadis financial reform? The plans to regulate the international financial markets and what has become of them. RLS standpoints 3/2011 online
  • Democratization of the financial sector: feasible ways - concrete actors. in: SOCIALISM 3/2012 Online
  • with Philipp Hersel: The euro crisis as a turning point: A new financial, monetary and economic policy in Europe. In: LUXEMBOURG from April 16, 2012 online
  • »Everyone has made a leap beyond their own shadow.« Conversation with Axel Troost about ways into the WASG and ways into the LINKE. In: SOCIALISM 6/2012 Online
  • with Rudolf Hickel : Euro zone about to end? Rescue through short-term decision-making with a vision for Europe Online
  • with Nicola Liebert and Rainald Ötsch: Deals in the dark. Objectives and ways of regulating shadow banks. RLS Papers, online
  • Background: National debt in Germany - 2nd updated version online
  • with Tobias Kaphegyi and Henrik Piltz: Education financing in the federal lean state. In: Socialism 5/2013 Online
  • with Nicola Liebert: Taxation with a sense of proportion - not all wealth is created equal. In: Blätter für German and international politics 6/2013, online
  • Scenarios of the end of the euro zone - exemplary presentation of economic effects online
  • EU: tax evasion as a business model. In: Blätter für German and international politics 12/2013 Online
  • with Philipp Hersel: The ECB could easily shoulder losses on bond purchases. On-line
  • with Rainald Ötsch: bail-in instead of bail-out: banking union without bite. In: Blätter für German and international politics 7/2014 online
  • with Lisa Paus : A European Compensation Union - The Monetary Union 2.0 , series of publications by the Solidarity Modern Institute (ISM) online
  • with Philipp Hersel: Solidarity with one another instead of ruinous competition - European compensation union. in: SOCIALISM 12/2011 online
  • with Cansel Kiziltepe and Lisa Paus: The unsolved euro crisis - interim conclusion and outlook on the occasion of the European elections. ISM food for thought No. 16 online
  • with Jan Restat: State financial equalization 2020: The division of the republic. In: Blätter für German and international politics 9/2014 online
  • with Carsten Sieling: “Black zero” or public growth impulses? (2015), about red-red-green communication potentials. In: SOCIALISM 2/2015 Online
  • Red-red-green: departure without prohibition of thinking. In: Blätter für German and international politics 3/2015 Online
  • with Alexander Recht, Paul Schäfer and Alban Werner: April theses. Where we stand and what should be done. In: SOZIALISMUS 4/2015 Online, pdf
  • with Rainald Ötsch: Bank settlement: Between a mirage and reality. Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Series of Analyzes, July 2015 Online (PDF)
  • with Joachim Bischoff and Björn Radke: Industry of the future? Value creation between de-industrialization and the fourth industrial revolution. Supplement to the journal Socialism 6/2015 Online
  • with Marco Bülow and Lisa Paus: Debt Colony Greece - a lasting assignment for the pluralist left , Institute Solidaric Modernism (ISM), series of food for thought No. 17, August 2015 online
  • Deutsche Bank - one of the most criminal banks in the world. 12/2015 Online
  • Does the state financial equalization take away the incentive to enforce taxes? In: Wirtschaftsdienst 9/2016  Online
  • Klaus Busch / Axel Troost / Gesine Schwan / Frank Bsirske / Joachim Bischoff / Mechthild Schrooten / Harald Wolf: Europe is also based on solidarity. Policies for another EU , VSA-Verlag 2016 Online
  • Fact-checking Greek politics - what Greece has actually done to overcome the crisis. RLS ONLINE publication 10/2017  Online
  • Sebastian Dullien, Dierk Hirschel, Jan Priewe, Sabine Reiner, Daniela Trochowski, Axel Troost, Achim Truger and Harald Wolf: Enable future investments - use the leeway of the debt brake in the federal states!  On-line
  • Axel Troost and Rainald Ötsch: Lost Opportunities - Ten Years of Financial Crisis and Regulation of Financial Markets - A Balance Sheet. RLS analyzes August 2018  online
  • Klaus Steinitz and Axel Troost: promise not fulfilled. On the economic development of Eastern Germany since autumn 1989. RLS analyzes September 2018 https://www.axel-troost.de/de/article/9875.versufen-nicht-erf%C3%BCllt.html
  • Klaus Busch, Joachim Bischoff and Axel Troost: Where is Europe going? A short summary of the 2019 European Parliament elections  online
  • Rainald Ötsch and Axel Troost: change course in Athens. Greek tax policy under Syriza and the memoranda. RLS-Analyzes 55, June 2019 Online
  • After coal - alternatives for structural change in Lusatia. Study by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation June 6, 2019 Online
  • Axel Troost: Coal phase-out - involve the districts! From: Blätter für German and international politics 9/2019 online
  • Axel Troost and Rainald Ötsch: CO2 price: Neither superhero nor super villain. To classify a meaningful climate protection instrument. RLS Standpunkt 8/2019 September 19, 2019 Online
as editor
  • 10 years working group alternative economic policy: experiences, effects, tasks . PIW, Bremen 1986.
  • Focus issue: Ten years of “Aufbau Ost” - contradicting results, problems and alternatives . PIW, Bremen 2000.
  • Full Employment and a Strong Social Constitution - Alternatives for a New Economy in Europe: Declaration and Memorandum of European Economists . PIW, Bremen 2001.
  • Fighting mass unemployment - giving work a perspective: the publicly funded employment sector, ÖBS congress of the PDS parliamentary group on April 26 and 27, 2002, Berlin, Haus am Köllnischen Park. PIW, Bremen 2002.
  • with Thomas Händel : Working time development in Europe . A study by Steffen Lehndorff, Alexandra Wagner and Christine Franz on behalf of GUE / NGL , 2011 online
  • with Thomas Händel (Ed.) From the Social State Party to the new LEFT. A history of the electoral alternative work and social justice (WASG) , 288 pages, May 2016  online

literature

  • Wilfried Kurtzke, Gunter Quaißer (ed.): Alternative economic policy - Tro (o) st in theory and practice. Festschrift for Axel Troost on his 60th birthday. Marburg 2014 Online

Web links

Commons : Axel Troost  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Saxony's LINKE strongly represented in parliamentary group leadership in the Bundestag"
  2. ↑ Troostlos in Saxony. Left MP Axel Troost narrowly missed re-entry into the Bundestag in Saxony , Neues Deutschland , September 26, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Troost, Axel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist and politician (Die Linke), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Hagen