Friedrich Lenz (economist)

Friedrich Lenz (born December 8, 1885 in Marburg an der Lahn; † October 2, 1968 in Bonn ) was a German economist and co-founder of the "Working Group for the Study of the Soviet Russian Planned Economy" (Arplan).

Life

Friedrich Lenz was a son of the historian Max Lenz . Max Planck was one of his relatives . After studying in Lausanne, Bonn, Munich and Berlin , he received his doctorate in Berlin in 1909. iur. and in 1912 Dr. phil. After his habilitation with Gustav v. Schmoller worked as a university lecturer at the TH Braunschweig from 1912 and from 1919 to 1933 at the Ludwigs-Universität Gießen . He was a co-founder of the Friedrich List Society .

In 1929 Arvid Harnack completed his doctorate with him. Together with Harnack and Georg Mayer , he founded the study group for the study of Soviet Russian planned economy (Arplan) in 1931 as a continuation of his doctoral colloquium .

From 1933 he was, according to his own biographical information, on the "study visit" in Italy and England, also in the USA, where he obtained his MA at the American University in Washington, DC . Lenz was thus in a kind of “veiled emigration” during the National Socialist era .

In 1947 he became director of the Institute for Economics and Statistics at the University of Berlin in the Soviet-administered sector. In 1948 he gave up this position, but did not go to the Free University of Berlin like many other professors who were disappointed by the SED policy, but to the newly founded University of Labor, Politics and Economics in Wilhelmshaven . This was incorporated into the Göttingen University in the early 1960s .

Works (selection)

• The history of the Gebrüder Schickler banking house . Berlin 1912.
• Agricultural doctrine and agricultural policy of the German Romanticism . Berlin 1912. New print Scientia-Verlag, Aalen 1979.
• Is Germany's War an Economic War? Paetel, Berlin 1915.
• Power and economy . Bruckmann, Munich 1916.
• State and Marxism . Cotta, Stuttgart 1921. 2nd edition. 1923. New print Scientia-Verlag, Aalen 1980 (online)
• German retaliatory measures in the economic war . K. Schroeder, Bonn 1924.
• Outline of the political economy . JG Cotta'sche Buchh., Stuttgart 1927.
• Friedrich List, the 'vulgar economy' and Karl Marx . G. Fischer, Jena 1930.
• The Young Plan , the Churches and the Soviet Union . The pioneer, Krefeld 1930 (national revolutionary pamphlet).
• Founding report on the study group for the study of the Soviet planned economy . 1931. Again in: Economic planning and planned economy (1948)
• The significance of the Soviet Union for a German Ostpolitik. In: The Middle East. Volume 23, 1932.
• Friedrich List, the man and the work . Oldenbourg, Munich 1936. Reprint with a foreword by Gottfried Eisermann, Scientia-Verlag, Aalen 1970.
• Friedrich List and Greater Germany . Lühe, Leipzig 1938.
• United States Politics and Armaments . Lühe, Leipzig 1942.
• The crisis of capitalism in the United States . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1944.
• The United States on the rise to world power . German publishing house, Stuttgart 1946.
• Friedrich List and German Unity (1789–1846) . German publishing house, Stuttgart 1946.
• In memoriam Arvid Harnack . In: Structure. No. 12, 1946. Again in: Economic planning and planned economy. (1948)
• Economic planning and planned economy . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1948.
• Political Economy in Our Time . Mohr (Siebeck), Tübingen 1958.
• Friedrich List as a political publicist . Heymann, Berlin 1958.
• Society in the past and present . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961.
• Global economy in upheaval . Blick und Bild Verlag for Political Education, Velbert 1964.
• Friedrich List's political and social theory . Luchterhand, Neuwied 1967.
• Contributions to economic and social organization . Friedrich Lenz (editor). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1968.
• German Central Europe Plans [1960]. Steinschulte, Wiesbaden-Amöneburg 1999.

literature

• Gottfried Eisermann : Friedrich Lenz. The man and the work . Foreword In: Friedrich Lenz: Friedrich List. The man and the work . Reprint of the edition Munich 1936. (Scientia Verlag, Aalen 1970, ISBN 3-511-00791-7 , pp. V – VIII (5–13))
• Friedrich Lenz (1885–1968) national economist. In: Hans Georg Gundel (Ed.): Pictures of life from Hessen . Volume 2: Hans Georg Gundel et al. (Ed.): Gießen scholars in the first half of the 20th century. (= Publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony. 35, 2, 2,). Volume 2, Elwert, Marburg 1982, ISBN 3-7708-0723-5 , pp. 602-611.
• Reimann, Bruno W .: Dismissal and emigration. The University of Giessen in the years after 1933. In: Between Unrest and Order, A German reading book for the period from 1925-1960 using the example of a region: Central Hesse, ed. Gideon's student. Giessen: Focus-Verlag 1989
• Günter Wirth : Reoriented opportunities rejected. Two writings from 1948 . (PDF file; 100 kB) In: UTOPIE Kreativ. H. 183, January 2006, ISSN  0863-4890 , pp. 48-57.
• Michael Hüther : Lenz, Bernhard Hermann Friedrich. In: Harald Hagemann , Claus-Dieter Krohn (ed.): Biographical handbook of German-speaking economic emigration after 1933. Volume 2: Leichter branch. Saur, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-598-11284-X , pp. 371-374.

Web links

• Literature by and about Friedrich Lenz in the catalog of the German National Library