Claus Koehler

Claus Köhler (born March 5, 1928 in Berlin ) is a German economist .

Career

• Graduate economist (1949 Humboldt University Berlin )
• Dr. rer. pole. for economics (1950 Free University Berlin )
• Privatdozent for Economics (1961 Technical University Berlin )

From 1950 to 1951 he worked at the German Institute for Economic Research , then until 1959 at Berlin banks. From 1959 to 1966, Köhler was a member of the board of a German finance company and a member of the administrative board of a Swiss financial holding. From 1966 to 1974 he was a full professor of economics at the Technical University of Hanover .

Since 1974 he has been honorary professor at the University of Hanover, since 1981 honorary professor at the University of Frankfurt a. M.

Private

Köhler was married to the economist Ingeborg Rieckenberg from 1958 until her death in 2015 .

Memberships

• 1969–1974: Member of the Advisory Council for the assessment of macroeconomic development
• 1974–1990: Member of the Governing Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank
• 1990–1996: Member of the Board of Directors of the Treuhandanstalt and the Federal Agency for Unification-Related Special Tasks (BvS)
• 1991–2000: Member of the board of directors of two New York mutual funds
• 1991–2003: Member of the Advisory Panel of the Central Bank of Oman

Honors

• Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany (1982)
• Great Cross of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (1988)
• Large Cross of Merit with Star of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (1990)
• Honorary Doctorate - Dr. rer. pole. - for political science at the University of Hanover (1991)
• Goethe Medal from the Faculty of Economics at the University of Frankfurt am Main (1993)

Works

• The money cycle. Monetary theory theses in the mirror of empiricism. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1962.
• Guidance on credit policy. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1968.
• Money economy.
  • Vol. I Money Supply and Credit Policy. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1970, 2nd Ed. 1977.
  • Vol. II Balance of payments and exchange rate. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1979, ISBN 3-428-04405-3 .
  • Volume III Economic Policy Goals and Economic Policy Strategy. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1983, ISBN 3-428-05374-5 .
• Potential-oriented credit policy. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1971, ISBN 3-428-02842-2 .
• Problems of central bank money supply control. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1976, ISBN 3-428-03643-3 .
• Monetary Control - Stability in the World Monetary System. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-428-05789-9 .
• International economy - a system of open economies. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-428-06841-6 .
• The voltage number - an indicator of macroeconomic development. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-428-07937-X .
• The transition from a planned economy to a market economy in East Germany - 4 1/2 years Treuhandanstalt. Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-428-08359-8 .
• Price Stability and Full Employment in a Global Economy - The Contribution of a Potential-Oriented Monetary and Credit Policy. Olzog, Landsberg / Lech 1996, ISBN 3-478-39830-4 .
• Short economic commentary: contractual foundations of the European monetary union. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-09655-X .
• Short economic commentary: Resolutions on an economic development free of undesirable developments in the EMU. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-428-10197-9 .
• Guidance for economic policy. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-428-11620-8 .
• Economic policy goals in the global world. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-428-14181-4 .
• Rethinking economic policy in the global world. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-428-15692-4 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Claus Köhler in the catalog of the German National Library
• Information about Claus Köhler in Who's Who