Bernhard Benning
Bernhard Karl Benning (born September 17, 1902 in Munich ; † 1974 ) was a German economist .
Career
Benning was born the son of police officer Karl Benning. He attended the Maximiliansgymnasium in Munich from 1912 to 1921 and completed an apprenticeship at Bayerische Hypotheken- und Wechsel-Bank with Wolfgang Weber (journalist) , among others . He then studied political economy and political science at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . He graduated with a diploma and did his doctorate in 1928 under Adolf Weber . From 1928 to 1933 he was a scientific advisor at the Reich Statistical Office and then until April 1945 director of the economic department and at the same time deputy head of the Reichs-Kredit-Gesellschaft AG . In 1942 he wrote a policy on raising war costs, freeing up capital and excess money in order to stabilize the financial economy of the German Reich, which at the time was occupying half of Europe and looting the occupied economies for war purposes.
From May 1945 to February 1950, he was without charge or trial by the NKVD in the Soviet special camps Frankfurt / O., Jamlitz , Mühlberg / E. and Buchenwald imprisoned. After his release he became a member of the board of directors of the Bank deutscher Länder in March 1950 and, from 1957, a member of the board of directors of the Deutsche Bundesbank . In 1972 he retired.
Honors
- 1967: Large Cross of Merit with Star of the Federal Republic of Germany
Fonts (selection)
- The "Black Friday": A sub. of the stock market intervention v. May 13, 1927 . Jena: Fischer, 1928. Munich, State Economy. Diss., 1928, partial print.
- with Günther Keizer: Capital formation and investments in the German economy 1924 to 1928 . Reimar Hobbing, Berlin 1931.
- with Robert Nieschlag : Sales, warehousing and costs in German retail 1924 to 1932 . Reimar Hobbing, Berlin 1933.
- with Otto Donner : War Costs and Limits of National Debt . Fischer, Jena 1942.
- Expansion and contraction of the money supply, in: Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv 58th Volume, Issue 2, September 1943, pp. 205–242.
- (with Erich Achterberg, Karl Lanz): Encyclopedic lexicon for money, banking and stock exchange. Fritz Knapp, Frankfurt am Main 1967/68.
- German and international capital market. Fritz Knapp, Frankfurt am Main 1970.
- The role of individual types of security on the capital market. Fritz Knapp, Frankfurt am Main 1973.
literature
- Der Spiegel, No. 21, May 19, 1965.
- Cabinet minutes of the federal government online : Cabinet Committee for Economics 1954-1955. The representatives of the Bank of German Länder .
- Volkmar Muthesius; Günther Dermitzel; Karl Guth; Wilfried Guth; Kurt Hunscha; Hermann Jannsen; Karl-August blade; Ludwig Mellinger; Hans Möller; Otto Pfleiderer; Otto Veit; Adolf Weber: Bernhard Benning. BB 1902-1952. A gift from a friend for September 17, 1962. Fritz Knapp, Frankfurt / M. 1962.
- Who is who? Volume 17, Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1971.
- Götz Aly: Hitler's People's State. Robbery, Race War and National Nationalism. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2005. ISBN 3-10-000420-5 .
- Peter Mantel: Business Administration and National Socialism: A Study of Institutional and Personal History . Gabler, Wiesbaden 2010, ISBN 978-3-8349-8515-6 , p. 657.
Web links
- https://www.zeit.de ›DIE ZEIT Archive› Volume 1972 ›Issue: 25.
Individual evidence
- ^ Annual report of the Maximiliansgymnasium in Munich for the school year 1920/21
- ↑ Christian Gerlach , Götz Aly : The last chapter. Realpolitik, ideology and the murder of the Hungarian Jews. Stuttgart: DVA, 2002 ISBN 3-421-05505-X , pp. 211ff
- ↑ Federal Minister of Justice (ed.): Bundes Anzeiger, Volume 20, No. 12, January 18, 1968, p. 1
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Benning, Bernhard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Benning, Bernhard Karl (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German economist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 17th September 1902 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1974 |