Franz Nemschak

Franz Nemschak (born July 27, 1907 in Graz , † March 17, 1992 in Vienna ) was an Austrian economic researcher .

Life

Nemschak was the son of a working class family. His father was employed in the Puch works . Nemschak studied law and political science (doctorate 1931) and worked as a student trainee at Kastner & Öhler from 1926 to 1933 . He joined the social democracy at a young age and, after its defeat in the February 1934 uprising, the communist movement. In the course of the KPÖ's change of strategy from boycotting the institutions and organizations of the “corporate state” to trying to infiltrate it , Nemschak worked together with Herbert Eichholzer and Axl Leskoschekin the Social Working Group of the Patriotic Front; especially in the weeks and days before the "Anschluss" they tried to do everything to defend the independence of Austria and made propaganda work for not more that have been made Schuschnigg - referendum on 13 March 1938. After the occupation of Austria Nemschak fled with Eichholzer and Leskoschek over Trieste to Paris, but later returned to his homeland. During the war he was considered politically unreliable and unfit for front duty.

At the end of the war he succeeded in getting the institute for economic research buried in the bombed-out wreckage of the Vienna Stock Exchange , with which he had previously been in contact, to work again. Nemschak also managed to win the support of the new state government and the re-established economic policy associations and named it the Austrian Institute for Economic Research . Despite his initial proximity to the KPÖ and the end of its participation in government (1947), Nemschak was also busy analyzing production structures and investment programs in the ERP office during the period of the Marshall Plan . He also produced studies that enabled the price and wage agreements rejected by the communists and the containment of post-war inflation in the Austrian currency. Nemschak was also open to modern methods of macroeconomics such as national accounts . Nemschak's closest employees included his later deputy and successor Hans Seidel , as well as Stephan Koren , Kurt Rothschild and Josef Steindl . Even Eduard March was after his return from the US employees of Nemschak. Before and during the Prague Spring , Nemschak made a name for himself as an advocate of far-reaching reforms in Eastern Europe and as a protector of scientists working in this direction there. After the end of his function as head of the Economic Research Institute (1972), Nemschak built up the relevant Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies , which he headed from 1973 to 1978, which was mainly dedicated to Eastern European research. In 1959, Franz Nemschak received the professional title of professor and high state awards in recognition of his services . Under the editorship of Friedrich Levcik, Nemschak became the Festschrift: International Economics - Comparisons and Interdependences in 1978 . International Economy - Dedicated to Comparisons and Interdependencies .

Works (selection)

• according to with Manfred Mautner Markhof (Hg): 40 years of the Austrian Institute for Economic Research 1927–1967
• Ten years of the Austrian economy . Vienna 1955
• For an industrial policy concept for Austria Vienna 1970
• Austria's economy in the 60s and 70s: review and Outlook , Vienna 1970

Individual evidence

1. ^ Wolfgang Neugebauer (DOEW): Lecture on Herbert Eichholzer. Web document ( Memento of the original from December 20, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ Source: WIFO monthly reports 8/1987 p. 491, as well as WIFO monthly reports, 4/1992, p. 147.

Web links

• Lecture by Franz Nemschak in the online archive “Österreich am Wort” of the Austrian Media Library