Carl Landauer

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Carl Landauer (born October 15, 1891 in Munich ; died October 16, 1983 Oakland , California ) was a German social democrat and theorist of comparative economic systems .

Career

He received his doctorate in Heidelberg , was editor or editor of the magazine Der Deutsche Volkswirt with Gustav Stolper and Georg Katona and was associate professor at the Berlin School of Management until 1933 .

Since 1912 he was a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany . In 1919 he campaigned against the Munich Soviet Republic .

Carl Landauer had to flee from National Socialism and got a position in the Department of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley in 1934 . Scientifically, he dealt with economic systems in comparison. He is considered to be one of the first theorists of a “socialist market economy”.

In 1974 he received the culture award of the German Trade Union Federation .

Fonts (selection)

  • Planned economy and transport economy . Duncker & Humblot, Munich / Leipzig 1931.
  • Theory of national economic planning. University of California Press, Berkeley, California 1944. (2nd edition. 1947).

literature

  • Heinz Rieter, Regina Schlueter-Ahrens: Landauer, Carl. In: Harald Hagemann , Claus-Dieter Krohn (Hrsg.): Biographical manual of the German-speaking economic emigration after 1933. Volume 1: Adler – Lehmann. Saur, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-598-11284-X , pp. 345-352.
  • Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933–1945. Volume 2.2. Saur, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 686.

Web links

Single receipts

  1. ↑ Albert Schweitzer, Theological and Philosophical Correspondence 190–-1965. Works from the estate of Verlag CH Beck. Munich 2006, p. 340, fn. 96 ( books.google.de ).
  2. ^ Theodor Heuss Stuttgart edition letters - Theodor Heuss on the defensive, letters 1933–1945 Edited and edited by Elke Seefried. Federal President Theodor Heuss House Foundation. KGSaur-Verlag 2009. p. 162, fn. 12 ( books.google.de ).
  3. ^ Wilhelm Bernsdorf, Horst Knospe: International Sociological Lexicon. ( books.google.de ).
personal data
SURNAME Landauer, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German social democrat, economist, theorist of economic systems in comparison
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH October 16, 1983
Place of death Oakland