Claus Noé

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Claus Noé (born April 8, 1938 in Mannheim , † March 2, 2008 in Berlin ) was a German economist (economist). In 1998/1999 Noé was State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Finance for a few months .

Life

Claus Noé was born in Mannheim in April 1938, where he also graduated from high school in 1958. From 1959 to 1963 he studied economics, constitutional and international law, history, German studies and political science in Mannheim and Heidelberg , where he received his doctorate in 1967. phil. received his doctorate. In 1967 Helmut Schmidt , from 1967 to 1969 chairman of the SPD parliamentary group, appointed him to the press office of the SPD parliamentary group as press spokesman for economic and financial policy . After the Bundestag election in 1969 , he joined the Federal Ministry of Economics under Karl Schiller , where he was a sub-department head ( ministerial director ) for structural policy until 1987, Transport and agricultural policy. From 1987 to 1994 he was State Councilor (State Secretary) for Economics in the Hamburg Senate and then worked as an economic advisor and economic policy columnist for the weekly newspaper Die Zeit . Soon after the red-green election victory on October 27, 1998 , he was appointed by Oskar Lafontaine as a permanent state secretary to the Federal Ministry of Finance , but had to vacate this post soon after Lafontaine's resignation on March 11, 1999. Most recently, Noé worked as a freelance advisor to the parliamentary group of Die Linke . He died in March 2008 shortly before his 70th birthday after a long, serious illness in a Berlin hospital.

Services

Like his fellow State Secretary Heiner Flassbeck, Claus Noé was an advocate of a demand-oriented financial and tax policy. During his time as State Secretary, he wanted to achieve an economic and financial policy turn towards an anti-cyclical spending policy. Together with Heiner Flassbeck, he advised Lafontaine on his plan to establish a Keynesian financial and currency policy at the European level together with the then French Finance Minister Dominique Strauss-Kahn ( Jospin cabinet ) .

Awards

Works (selection)

  • Tamed class struggle - collective bargaining autonomy in Germany. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1970.
  • Mark for market, mark for power - the republic has taken over. Foreword by Helmut Schmidt. Bouvier, Bonn 1991.
  • For a renaissance of macro politics . In: 25 Years of the Stability Act: Considerations on a Timely Design of Stability and Growth Policy (1992, proceedings)
  • New Keynesianism. by Ulrich Busch et al. Berliner Debatte, Berlin 2006.
  • Politics on the back burner - The responsibility of the state for the German economic crisis. Hugendubel, Kreuzlingen 2003.

literature

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ For more information on this plan see z. B. the following chronology: Der Spiegel 40/1999
personal data
SURNAME Noé, Claus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist and State Secretary
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim
DATE OF DEATH March 2, 2008
Place of death Berlin