Fritz Mertsch

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Fritz Mertsch (born October 3, 1906 in Goldbach , † May 15, 1971 in Berlin ) was a German statistician .

Life

Fritz Mertsch initially studied economics at the University of Königsberg , but then went to the University of Rostock because of political differences with the National Socialists . There he became a doctoral student and assistant to Erich Preiser and on June 14, 1941, with the dissertation “Conceptual and statistical studies on prosperity , carried out using the example of a Mecklenburg district” as a doctor rer. pole. PhD. After Preiser accepted an offer at the University of Jena in 1940 , Mertsch followed him and remained his assistant until 1945.

After the reopening of the Jena University on October 15, 1945, Mertsch received a teaching position there , which he held until 1949. Then he moved to the Free University of Berlin , where he also initially worked as a lecturer . In 1952 he completed his habilitation in statistics and then worked as a private lecturer . In 1958 he was appointed professor for statistical methodology, business statistics, financial statistics and financial mathematics , and in 1960 he was appointed to the Scientific Council.

Fritz Mertsch died in Berlin in 1971 at the age of 64. His grave is in the forest cemetery in Zehlendorf .

Works

  • The tasks of statistics in the various economic systems. With introductory remarks on the concept of statistics (Wirtschaftswwissenschaftliche Abhandlungen 4), Duncker & Humblot , Berlin 1954.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See the entry of Fritz Mertsch's matriculation in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 636.
personal data
SURNAME Mertsch, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German statistician
DATE OF BIRTH October 3, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Goldbach , East Prussia
DATE OF DEATH May 15, 1971
Place of death Berlin