Benedikt Fehr

Benedikt Fehr (born July 5, 1952 in Bonn ) is a German business journalist .

Fehr (left) presents a book by Michael Best (right) at the Frankfurt Book Fair

Life

In Bonn he attended the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Gymnasium up to the Abitur . For the Bundeswehr he translated Russian and English news texts. From 1973 he studied economics and sociology at the University of Freiburg i. Br.

After completing his degree in economics, he assisted Professor Werner Ehrlicher at the Freiburg Institute for Public Finance . In 1984 he received his doctorate with an "Analysis of Government Expenditures" . In the same year he joined the business department of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . His subjects were banks, stock exchanges and financial markets .

From 1989 to 1999 he reported as a correspondent in New York on US companies and the Wall Street stock exchange. After a brief job at Manager-Magazin in Hamburg , he returned to the FAZ in Frankfurt in 2000. There he wrote about the European Central Bank , the Deutsche Bundesbank , the major Frankfurt banks and the financial markets.

In the field of monetary theory, he has been campaigning for a presentation of the topic of "money creation" that deviates from the textbook literature of the time since 2007 with his own contributions. This representation is now widely accepted.

From 2007 to 2009 he was honorary managing director of the ICFW International Club Frankfurt Business Journalists.

From July 2009 to the end of July 2011, Fehr headed the central communications department of the Deutsche Bundesbank. In this function he reported to the President of the Deutsche Bundesbank, Axel A. Weber . From August 2011 to January 2018 he was responsible for the central area of economic education, universities and central technical bank cooperation at the Deutsche Bundesbank. In this role, he was responsible, among other things, for the redesign of the Deutsche Bundesbank's Money Museum, which reopened in December 2016.

Fehr is married and has two children.

Awards

2006 Media Prize of the Initiative Finanzstandort Deutschland

literature

Explanatory approaches to the development of government spending: A method-critical analysis. HochschulVerlag in Günter Mainz Verlag, 1984, ISBN 3-8107-2199-9 .
Crash: financial crises yesterday and today. With: Gerald Braunberger. Frankfurter Allgemeine Buch ; Edition: 1, 2008, ISBN 3-89981-177-1 .

Web links

Commons : Benedikt Fehr - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Literature by and about Benedikt Fehr in the catalog of the German National Library
Biography ( Memento from May 6, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (FAZ.net)

Individual evidence

↑ Benedikt Fehr: Creation from nothing. December 13, 2007, accessed on May 1, 2019 (German).
^ ^A ^b Bank of England: Money Creation in the Modern Economy. Bank of England, 2014, accessed April 28, 2020 .
↑ ICFW: ICFW homepage. ICFW, 2020, accessed on April 28, 2020 (German).
^ Deutsche Bundesbank: Benedikt Fehr directs. Deutsche Bundesbank, April 17, 2009, accessed April 28, 2020 .
↑ Archive link ( Memento from October 28, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 1.7 MB)
^ BDZV: Benedikt Fehr and Matthias Hannemann awarded. October 29, 2013, accessed April 28, 2020 .

personal data
SURNAME	Fehr, Benedict
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German business journalist
DATE OF BIRTH	5th July 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bonn

[1] Benedikt Fehr: Creation from nothing. December 13, 2007, accessed on May 1, 2019 (German).

[:0-2] A ^b Bank of England: Money Creation in the Modern Economy. Bank of England, 2014, accessed April 28, 2020 .

[3] ICFW: ICFW homepage. ICFW, 2020, accessed on April 28, 2020 (German).

[4] Deutsche Bundesbank: Benedikt Fehr directs. Deutsche Bundesbank, April 17, 2009, accessed April 28, 2020 .

[5] Archive link ( Memento from October 28, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 1.7 MB)

[6] BDZV: Benedikt Fehr and Matthias Hannemann awarded. October 29, 2013, accessed April 28, 2020 .