George Nikolaus Halm

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George Nikolaus Halm (actually Georg Halm ; born September 10, 1901 in Munich ; died July 1, 1984 in Santa Rosa , California ) was a German-American economist.

Life

Georg Halm, son of the graphic artist Peter Halm , was an associate professor for social policy , social welfare , statistics and insurance at the University of Würzburg before he emigrated . He was married to Leonore Friedlaender, a Jew, had two “half-Jewish children” and was professionally disadvantaged for racist reasons. From 1937 he taught as professor of economics at Tufts University , from 1944 as professor of international economics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy . In 1955 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Fonts (selection)

  • The competition , Munich: Duncker & Humblot, 1929.
  • Money, credit, banks , Munich: Duncker & Humblot, 1935.
  • Monetary theory: a modern treatment of the essentials of money and banking , Philadelphia: Blakiston, 1942.
  • Economic Systems: A Comparative Representation , Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 1960.
  • Jamaica and the par-value system (pdf). In: Essays in International Finance , No. 120 (1977)

literature

  • Klemens Wittebur: The German Sociology in Exile. 1933-1945 . Lit., Münster / Hamburg 1991 (dissertation from 1989), p. 62.
  • Hans-Michael Trautwein : Halm, Georg Nikolaus. In: Harald Hagemann , Claus-Dieter Krohn (Hrsg.): Biographical manual of the German-speaking economic emigration after 1933. Volume 1: Adler – Lehmann. Saur, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-598-11284-X , pp. 229-233.
  • Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 . Volume 2.1. Munich: Saur, 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 453

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Eberhard Haas; Eugen Ewig: Max O. Friedlaender. Pioneer and thought leader in legal law. In: Helmut Heinrichs (Ed.): German lawyers of Jewish origin . Munich: Beck 1993 ISBN 3-406-36960-X , p. 556
  2. Max Friedlaender : The memoirs of the lawyer Max Friedlaender at the Federal Bar Association, p. 150f