Carl-Ludwig Holtfrerich

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Carl-Ludwig Holtfrerich (born January 23, 1942 in Everswinkel / Westphalia) is a German economic historian . Holtfrerich taught as a professor of economics and economic history at the Department of Economics and at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies at the Free University of Berlin .

Life

After an exchange student year in the USA in 1959/60 and the Abitur in the old-language branch of the State High School Coesfeld in 1961, he studied in Münster and Paris and graduated in 1966 with the diploma in economics at the University of Münster. He worked there as a research assistant and received his doctorate in 1971 from the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster . From 1971 to 1974 he worked as a consultant in the foreign trade department of the Federation of German Industries (BDI). From 1974 to 1980 he worked as an assistant professor for economics and economic history at the Free University of Berlin, with a one-year stopover as a John F. Kennedy Fellow at the "Center for European Studies" at Harvard University in 1975/76. He completed his habilitation in 1979 at the Faculty of Economics at the Free University of Berlin . This was followed by a call to a professorship for modern economic and social history at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main , where he worked from 1980 to 1983. In the spring of 1982, he taught for three months as a visiting professor at St Antony's College of Oxford University in England. In 1982/83 he researched for a year at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC. In 1983 he was appointed to a chair in economics at the Free University of Berlin . He retired there in October 2007.

In 1995 he and the four other authors received the “Financial Times / Booz-Allen & Hamilton Global Business Book Award” for the book “Deutsche Bank: 1870–1995” as the world's best corporate history. Since 2008 he has been a full member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences .

In the Handelsblatt ranking (2011), Holtfrerich was counted among the top emeriti of economics. In 2015 he was awarded the Helmut Schmidt Prize for German-American Economic History in Washington DC .

Holtfrerich has two children.

Publications

  • Quantitative economic history of Ruhr coal mining in the 19th century, 1973.
  • The German inflation 1914-1923 . Causes and consequences from an international perspective, 1980 ( ISBN 978-3110083187 ). Translations: English 1986, Italian 1989, French 2008.
  • Alternatives to Brüning's economic policy during the Great Depression , 1982.
  • German inflation. An interim balance sheet / The German Inflation Reconsidered. A Preliminary Balance, 1982.
  • The Experience of Inflation in an International Context and Comparison / The Experience of Inflation. International and Comparative Studies, 1984. ( ISBN 978-3110096798 )
  • The Adaptation to Inflation / The Adaption to Inflation, 1986.
  • From world believer to world debtor: Explanatory approaches to the historical development and structure of the international asset position of the USA, 1988.
  • Consequences of Inflation / Consequences of Inflation, 1989.
  • Economic and Strategic Issues in US Foreign Policy, 1989.
  • Interactions in the World Economy: Perspectives from International Economic History, 1989.
  • From the customs union and currency pluralism to the unified imperial currency, 1989.
  • Economy USA. Structures, institutions and processes, 1991.
  • The German bank 1870-1995, 1995 ( ISBN 978-3406389450 ). English translation 1985.
  • Fifty years of German marks . Central bank and currency in Germany since 1948, 1998. English translation 1999.
  • Frankfurt financial center . From medieval trade fair town to European banking center, 1999. English translation 1999.
  • The Emergence of Modern Central Banking from 1918 to the Present, 1999.
  • Requiem on a currency. Die Mark 1873-2001, 2001. ( ISBN 978-3421055682 )
  • International Financial History in the Twentieth Century: System and Anarchy, 2003.
  • Where are the jobs? A pamphlet for more work, 2007.
  • Public Debt: Causes, Effects and Limits, 2015. English translation 2016.
  • The Reich Ministry of Economics of the Weimar Republic and its predecessors. Structures, actors, fields of action, 2016.
  • Economic Policy in Germany 1917–1990. 2016.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ handelsblatt.com
personal data
SURNAME Holtfrerich, Carl-Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist and economic historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Everswinkel , Westphalia