Edith Hirsch
Edith Jarislowsky Hirsch (born November 2, 1899 in Berlin ; † January 7, 2003 in Georgetown University Hospital , Washington, DC ) was a German -born American economist and management consultant .
Career
Hirsch studied economics and history at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin , the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and the Ruprecht Karls University in Heidelberg , where she graduated in 1925. With her husband Julius Hirsch , whom she met in 1927 at Albert Einstein's house and whom she married in 1928, she set up the retail research center at the Berlin School of Commerce in Berlin from 1929 . After the National Socialists came to power and the subsequent forced retirement, the couple emigrated to Denmark with their son . After the German invasion of Denmark on April 9, 1940 , Julius Hirsch was briefly arrested, but the family came to the United States in 1941 via Sweden , Russia and Japan .
While Hirsch's husband worked as a lecturer at the New School for Social Research , she resumed her studies at the university with Richard Schüller , among others . In 1943 she graduated with a Master of Social Science . Together with her husband, she then worked as a management consultant and took over the management of the company after the latter had been appointed chief consultant of the US price control authority, the Office of Price Administration , following the entry of the United States into World War II . In doing so, she advised the United States Department of Agriculture and Migros owner Gottlieb Duttweiler , to whom she suggested the concept of self-service shops. In the primaries for the presidential election in the United States in 1948 she supported the his term California governor Earl Warren in economic issues, which, however, First prize at nearly balanced preselection results against the compromise candidate Thomas E. Dewey drew the short straw and then only as a vice presidential candidate of the Republican Party nominated has been. From the 1950s she was also a lecturer at the New School for Social Research. After the death of her husband in 1961, she dissolved the consulting company and focused on her research and teaching activities. In 1989 she moved to Washington, DC , where she died at the age of 103 in early 2003.
Hirsch published many of her studies and articles in the 1940s and 1950s under the name of her husband, as women had a difficult time, especially in the raw material and agricultural economics .
Web links
- Literature by and about Edith Hirsch in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hirsch, Edith |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hirsch, Edith Jarislowsky |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-born US economist and business consultant |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 2, 1899 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 7, 2003 |
| Place of death | Washington, DC |