Bodo Spiethoff (economist)

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Bodo Spiethoff, 1952

Bodo Spiethoff (born January 7, 1918 in Jena ; † August 19, 2000 in Munich ) was a German economist and from 1970 to 1983 Vice President of the Bavarian Savings Banks and Giro Association .

Life

Spiethoff was born as the son of the dermatologist Bodo Spiethoff (1875–1948) and his wife Gerta, geb. Kamp born in Jena . He was a nephew of the economist Arthur Spiethoff (1873-1957) and a grandson of the social reformer and publicist Friedrich Spiethoff . After the end of the Second World War and the relocation of the von Leipzig family to the American occupation zone, Spiethoff began studying economics at the LMU Munich in the winter semester 1945/46 . At the end of 1948 he was already working on “The guaranteed annual wage. Analysis of an American attempt to secure wage income " PhD .

Until mid-1951, Spiethoff worked as a scientific assistant to his doctoral supervisor Adolf Weber at the LMU Munich; then he made the switch to economic practice. In September 1951, Rudolf Zorn commissioned him to set up an economics department at the Bavarian Savings Banks and Giro Association. In addition to his work as director of this department, Spiethoff also took on the credit assessment and press and public relations departments over the next few years . From 1970 until his retirement from active service in 1983, he served as the association's vice-president.

In addition, Spiethoff continued to work in the scientific field. From 1952 to 1997 he held a lectureship on changing topics from political economy at the Munich School of Politics ; Furthermore, in 1959 he was given a teaching position for savings bank management at the LMU Munich, which he completed until 1989. From 1981 until his death in 2000, Spiethoff was chairman of the friends' association of the Munich School of Politics. He is buried in hair b. Munich .

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As an economist, Spiethoff belonged to the neoclassical school represented by Adolf Weber and the founders of the social market economy in the Federal Republic of Germany . His main interest in this research field was political economy. Apart from various contributions to the debate about the role of the state in economic life, he primarily dealt with questions of wage and price policy , as well as arms financing . An international study commissioned by the Verein für Sozialpolitik examined the process of integrating the Sudeten Germans into the Bavarian economic system. There was also work on various topics from the savings bank sector; such as the savings deposit or the savings bank loan. As part of his association activities, Spiethoff also published a series of papers on practical economic education and teaching in the German Sparkasse publishing house . The two late works “Small Economics” and “Money - Credit - Currency”, which were repeatedly expanded and expanded until 1990, saw numerous new editions.

Spiethoff has made lasting merits with his research into economic history . He published a general outline of the history of the economy and economics in 1952 in the "Handbuch für Sozialkunde". Six years later, he presented the first basic overview of the history of the Bavarian savings banks with “Unwanted to the size”, which was followed by many other publications and lectures on the subject. Methodically, Spiethoff was committed to establishing oral history within his specialist field.

Fonts (selection)

  • The guaranteed annual wage. Analysis of an American attempt to secure wages . Dissertation Munich 1949.
  • Secure wages - free prices. Project and problem of the guaranteed annual wage . Duncker & Humblot publishing house, Berlin-West 1950, ISBN 978-3-428-01440-8
  • The savings bank loan today . Richard Pflaum Verlag, Munich 1951 (= Political Economic Issues, edited by Adolf Weber . Issue 11)
  • On the history of the economy and economics . In: Anton Wittmann (ed.): Handbook for social studies. Duncker & Humblot publishing house, Berlin-West 1952, pp. 1-90.
  • Investigations into the Bavarian refugee problem . Publishing house Duncker & Humblot, Berlin-West 1955, ISBN 978-3-428-01441-5 (= series of publications of the Association for Social Policy . NF, Volume 7 / VI).
  • Unintentional to the size. The history of the Bavarian savings banks . Verlag Max Schmidt & Söhne, Munich 1958, 2nd edition 1958.
  • From feudal ownership to savings. A contribution to the history of wealth creation . German Sparkassenverlag, Stuttgart 1961.
  • The European Economic Community, pioneer of European unity. A teaching aid from the savings banks . German Sparkassenverlag, Stuttgart 1963.
  • Small economics. A teaching aid from the Bavarian savings banks . German Sparkassenverlag, Stuttgart 1964, 13th edition 1990, ISBN 978-3-093-10113-7
  • Money - credit - currency. A contribution to political economy . German Sparkassenverlag, Stuttgart 1973, 7th edition 1990.

Sources and literature

  • Christian Dirninger: Result protocol of Bodo Spiethoff's survey on "30 years of experienced and shaped savings bank history" by Eduard Keil . In: Manfred Pix / Josef Wysocki (eds.): Historical market analysis. Early savings bank ideas - utopia and reality . Self-published by the working group for the history of savings banks, Neustadt ad Aisch 1984 (= savings banks in history . Issue 2), pp. 27–43.
  • Ingo Krüger: Speech for Werner Netzel on the occasion of the funeral of Dr. Bodo Spiethoff, Vice President i. R. on August 24, 2000 in Haar . (Archive of the Bavarian Savings Banks Association).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Anonymous: Spiethoff, Bodo GA In: Herrmann AL Degener (ed.): Who is it? Our contemporaries. Biographies of around 20,000 living contemporaries. IX. Output. Verlag Herrmann Degener, Leipzig 1928, p. 1494; Ernst Kamp: Commemorative speech for Arthur Spiethoff, held at a memorial ceremony organized by the Law and Economics Faculty of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität on May 13, 1958. Peter Hanstein Verlag, Bonn 1958, p. 5 u. 39f.
  2. ^ Erwin Günther: On the history of the Jena University Dermatology Clinic. In: Dermatologische Monatsschrift 161 (1975), pp. 225-229, here: p. 227; and University of Munich (ed.): Student directory for the winter semester 1945/46 (semester A 1946). University book printing company C. Wolf & Sohn, Munich 1946, p. 94
  3. ^ Ingo Krüger: 25th Symposium "Bavarian Savings Bank History" - "Currency Unions and Currency Reforms". In: Deutsche Sparkassen-Zeitung No. 72 (September 18, 1998), p. 7
  4. ↑ Christian Dirninger: Result protocol of the survey by Bodo Spiethoff on "30 years of experienced and shaped savings bank history" by Eduard Keil. In: Manfred Pix / Josef Wysocki (eds.): Historical market analysis. Early savings bank ideas: utopia and reality. Working group for Sparkasse history, Neustadt / Aisch 1984 (= Sparkassen in der Geschichte, Vol. 2), p. 26–44, here: p. 33, and [anonymous]: View over the fence. In: Der Spiegel (January 1, 1954), p. 32
  5. ↑ Dirninger: Result protocol S. 26th
  6. ↑ Pix / Wysocki (eds.): Historische Marktanalyse, p. 11; Ingo Krüger: Speech for Werner Netzel on the occasion of the funeral of Dr. Bodo Spiethoff, Vice President i. R. on August 24, 2000 in Haar (Archives of the Bavarian Savings Banks Association)
  7. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from February 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed December 25, 2011)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hfp.mhn.de
  8. ^ Bernhard Löffler : Social market economy and administrative practice. The Federal Ministry of Economics under Ludwig Erhard. Franz Steiner Verlag, Wiesbaden 2002, p. 492. Cf. also Spiethoff's publications mentioned under footnote 9.
  9. ↑ Cf. for example Bodo Spiethoff: Present Problems of the Economy. In: Anton Wittmann (ed.): Handbook for Social Studies, 4th delivery, Berlin-West 1955, BI 2; Ders .: Money and Capital Problems of the Present. In: Thomas Brennauer (ed.): Current questions of economic policy. Isar-Verlag, Munich 1957, pp. 19-29; Bodo Spiethoff: The Achilles' heel of the market economy. In: Politische Studien 9 (1958), pp. 195ff; Ders .: Banking supervision - for whose benefit? In: Journal for the entire credit system 15 (1962), H. 2., P. 72ff .; Ders .: The tragedy of the planned economy. In: Monthly sheets for free economic policy 10/1963.
  10. ↑ See the monographs "The guaranteed annual wage" and "Secured wages - free prices", as well as Ders .: The guaranteed annual wage. In: Schmoller's yearbook for legislation, administration and economics 69 (1949), no. 4, pp. 89-107 and Ders .: The practice of earnings wages. In: Mensch und Arbeit 1 (1949), pp. 59ff.
  11. ^ Lutz Köllner / Hans-Erich Volkmann : Financial, financial and financial aspects of a German contribution to the EVG. In: Beginnings of West German Security Policy 1945–1956, ed. from the Military History Research Office . Volume two: The EVG phase. Oldenbourg Verlag , Munich 1990, pp. 757-873, here in particular: pp. 814f. Cf. also Bodo Spiethoff: The armaments financing. In: Journal for the entire credit system 7 (1954), pp. 746ff., And Ders .: Basic questions of armaments financing. In: Journal for the entire credit system 10 (1957), p. 507ff.
  12. ↑ See the monograph “Investigations on the Bavarian Refugee Problem”, as well as: Leo W. Schwarz: Refugees in Germany Today. Twayne Publishers, New York 1957, p. 161; Martin Kornrumpf : Arrived in Bavaria. The integration of the displaced. Olzog Verlag, Munich a. Vienna 1979, p. 312; Jan Křen and others: V rozdelenej Európe. Česi, Slováci, Nemci a ich štáty v rokoch 1948 - 1989. AEP, Bratislava 1998, p. 44
  13. ↑ Cf. the monograph "Der Sparkassenkredit heute" and Bodo Spiethoff: On the dispute about the nature of savings deposits. In: Sparkasse born in 1952, no. 12, p. 179ff.
  14. ↑ See for example Ders .: The German economy. A teaching aid from the savings banks. German Sparkassenverlag, Stuttgart 1965; Ders .: Money and Gold in the World Economy. German Sparkassenverlag, Stuttgart 1966; Ders .: Currencies in the crossfire: dollars, pounds, francs, D-Mark. German Sparkassenverlag, Stuttgart 1968
  15. ↑ See the review in the magazine for the entire credit system 11 (1958), no. 16, p. 33f.
  16. ↑ Cf. for example Bodo Spiethoff: The history of the savings bank systems. In: Journal for the entire credit system 6 (1953), no. 8, p. 214ff .; Ders .: The way of the German savings banks. From the savings bank to the present day savings bank. In: Stadtsparkasse Kassel (ed.): 125 years Stadtsparkasse Kassel 1832 - 1957. Kassel 1957, pp. 29–47; Ders .: From feudal ownership to savings. A contribution to the history of wealth creation. German Sparkassenverlag, Stuttgart 1961; Ders .: Sparkassen und Sparen from a historical, social and economic point of view. In: 1908 - 1983 Bavarian Savings Banks and Giro Association. Stuttgart 1983, p. 40.
  17. ↑ See Bodo Spiethoff: Oral History. History of the savings banks from oral tradition. In: Journal for Bavarian Sparkasse History 11 (1997), pp. 377–383.
personal data
SURNAME Spiethoff, Bodo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Spiethoff, Bodo K.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 7, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Jena
DATE OF DEATH August 19, 2000
Place of death Munich