Fritz W. Meyer

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Fritz W. Meyer (second from left) and the other members of the Expert Council, February 1964

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

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Old gentlemen's association of the Danubia fraternity in Munich (ed.): History of the Danubia fraternity . Volume 1, Munich 1978, p. 325.
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ↑ Founding Committee , Ruhr University Bochum, accessed on April 16, 2014.
personal data
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