Fritz W. Meyer
Fritz Walter Meyer (born November 8, 1907 in Freiburg im Breisgau ; † March 4, 1980 ibid) was a German economist and an important representative of ordoliberalism . He was a full professor at the University of Bonn and from 1964 to 1966 economist .
Life
Fritz Meyer was born in 1907 as the son of a hotel owner. After graduating from high school in 1927, he studied economics at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg and the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . In 1927 he joined the Danubia Munich fraternity .
Following the diploma in 1931, he was in 1934 when Walter Eucken to the process of balance of payments compensation to Dr. rer. pole. ( summa cum laude ) doctorate. With the help of a grant from the American Rockefeller Foundation , he then wrote the book The Big Cities in the Stream of Internal Migration together with Rudolf Heberle . After a research work at the Institute for World Economy (IfW) in Kiel Meyer in 1938 returned to Freiburg in order to Walter Eucken habilitation . The trend-setting book The Balance of Payments was created . Meyer then returned to Kiel as assistant director and in 1943 became associate professor at the University of Kiel . Meyer was a member of the NSDAP and the SA from 1933 . After the successful denazification, he moved to the University of Bonn in 1946 , where Meyer became a full professor in 1949 and, despite numerous attempts to poach him to Cologne and Munich, stayed until his retirement in 1973.
As a student of Eucken, he advanced to become one of the most important representatives of ordoliberalism in the early Federal Republic. From 1950 to 1980 Meyer was a member of the Scientific Advisory Board at the Federal Ministry of Economics . He then worked as a consultant and reviewer in numerous other committees (including for the DFG ), including from 1964 to 1966 in the newly created Advisory Council to review macroeconomic developments . He supported u. a. floating exchange rates . From 1951 he was a member of the liberal Mont Pelerin Society . In 1961 he was a member of the founding committee of the Ruhr University Bochum . He was also head of the economics department at the Institute for SME Research in Bonn and a member of the advisory board of the Social Market Economy Action Group as well as co-editor of the business journal ORDO .
Fonts (selection)
Monographs
- with Rudolf Heberle : The big cities in the stream of internal migration. Economic and population studies studies on migration and mobility in German cities . Hirzel, Leipzig 1937.
- The equalization of the balance of payments (= problems of theoretical economics , volume 5). Fischer, Jena 1938.
- with Anton Zottmann: The Schuman Plan and its problems . Steinebach, Munich a. a. 1951.
- On the economic problem of consumer finance . Knapp, Frankfurt am Main 1954.
- with Alfred Schüller : Spontaneous orders in the money economy and the inflation problem (= lectures and essays , volume 59). Mohr, Tübingen 1976, ISBN 3-16-338801-9 .
Editorships
- with Erwin von Beckerath , Alfred Müller-Armack : Economic issues of the free world [On the 60th birthday of Federal Minister of Economics Ludwig Erhard]. Knapp, Frankfurt am Main 1957.
- with Franz Greiss: Economy, Society and Culture. Ceremony for Alfred Müller-Armack . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961.
Awards
- 1978: Large Federal Cross of Merit
literature
- Horst Heinrich Jakobs, Hans Willgerodt : In memoriam Fritz Walter Meyer. Speeches given on January 24, 1981 at the commemoration of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . Bouvier, Bonn 1981.
- Bernd Ottnad (ed.): Baden-Württemberg biographies . Volume 1, Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 978-3-17-012207-9 , p. 234.
- Hans Willgerodt: Introduction: Fritz W. Meyer (1907–1980). In: Nils Goldschmidt, Michael Wohlgemuth (Hrsg.): Basic texts on the Freiburg tradition of order economics (= studies on order theory and order policy , volume 50). Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-16-148297-7 , p. 223 ff.
Web links
- Literature by and about Fritz W. Meyer in the catalog of the German National Library
- Newspaper article about Fritz W. Meyer in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
- Helmut Gröner: Fritz W. Meyer at the Konrad Adenauer Foundation
Individual evidence
- ^ Old gentlemen's association of the Danubia fraternity in Munich (ed.): History of the Danubia fraternity . Volume 1, Munich 1978, p. 325.
- ↑ a b c d Jan-Otmar Hesse: Economy as a science. Economics in the early Federal Republic (= Campus Research , Volume 947). Campus, Frankfurt am Main u. a. 2010, ISBN 978-3-593-39315-5 , p. 197.
- ^ Matthias Schmelzer: Freedom for exchange rates and capital. The origins of neoliberal monetary policy and the Mont Pèlerin Society . Metropolis, Marburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-89518-791-9 , p. 222.
- ↑ Founding Committee , Ruhr University Bochum, accessed on April 16, 2014.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Meyer, Fritz W. |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Meyer, Fritz Walter (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German economist |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 8, 1907 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Freiburg in Breisgau |
DATE OF DEATH | March 4th 1980 |
Place of death | Freiburg in Breisgau |