Gerhard Bry

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Gerhard Bry (born June 29, 1911 in Berlin ; † August 17, 1996 in West Orange , United States ) was a German-American economist .

family

Gerhard Bry, called "Gerd", grew up in a Jewish family. He was the eldest son of the pharmacist Isaac Egon David Bry (1885–1944), originally from Thorn in West Prussia , and his wife Olga (1887–1957), born Kamnitzer, from Arys (Masuria) in East Prussia . He had a younger brother.

In 1939, Gerhard Bry married Thea Henkin (1911-2000), née Hackelberg. He met the medical student around 1932 while studying in Berlin. For them it was the second marriage, but the first was just a so-called "Passport Marriage". With her he had two children, Peter M. Bry (1940-1990) and Ava Penman Bry.

School and education

In the spring of 1930, Bry passed his matriculation examination at the reformed educational rural education home Schule am Meer on the North Sea island of Juist , founded and managed by Martin Luserke , which he completed with Walter Georg Kühne , among others . That same year he participated in the Ruprecht-Karls University in Heidelberg studying law in which he participated in the 1931 Friedrich-Wilhelms University continued to Berlin. After the transfer of power to the National Socialists , he had to give up his academic training because of his underground political activities and keep his head above water with auxiliary work. Later he started a commercial apprenticeship.

Political activity

In Heidelberg in 1931 he met Richard Löwenthal , who gave him great political and intellectual inspiration. Back in Berlin he was recruited in 1932 through Franz Borkenau , Georg Eliasberg and Vera Franke ("Ilse Schwarz") from the Marxist underground organization Neu Beginnen , initially called "Org." When Thea Hackelberg set out for Palestine in the fall of 1932 , Bry accompanied her to the ship to Italy. In 1934 she returned to Berlin as Thea Henkin with a new passport and switched from studying medicine to psychology.

In the summer of 1935, Bry was in increasing danger due to his underground activities, so that friends urged him to emigrate . He left Germany with his future wife. Both went to London in 1936 and emigrated to the United States in 1939, where they married. From there, Bry supplied his former comrade-in-arms Robert Havemann (1910-1982) with food broadcasts and scientific publications during the Second World War .

academic career

In the United States, Bry began again in 1942 to study at Columbia University . In 1955 he received his doctorate with a thesis on the development of wages in Germany between 1871 and 1945 at Columbia University. From 1955 to 1961 he taught as an associate professor of economics at Rutgers University , and from 1961 to 1976 as a full professor at the Graduate School of Business Administration at New York University . Between 1952 and 1967, Bry also worked for the National Bureau of Economic Research. He died in the United States at the age of 85 and was buried in Waltham , Middlesex, Massachusetts , near Brandeis University .

Works

  • The average workweek as an economic indicator . National Bureau Of Economic Research 1959. OCLC 757513920
  • Why cyclical turns in hours of work precede those in employment . National government publication. United States Bureau of Labor Statistics. Washington, DC 1959. OCLC 966750649
  • with Charlotte Boschan (assistant): Wages in Germany 1871–1945 . A study by the National Bureau of Economic Research, New York. No. 68, General Series. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ 1960. OCLC 222149073
  • with Charlotte Boschan (Assist.), Richard Kilgore: A Monthly Index of Manufacturing Production in New Jersey . New Brunswick, New Jersey. Rutgers 1963. OCLC 4910928
  • with Charlotte Boschan (Assist.): Nine Business Cycle Indicators for nine States . National government publication. United States Bureau of Labor Statistics. Washington, DC 1964. OCLC 966754645
  • with Charlotte Boschan (Assist.): Economic Indicators for New Jersey . New Jersey Department of Labor and Industry, Division of Employment Security, 1964. OCLC 5820591
  • with Charlotte Boschan (Assist.): Cyclical Analysis of Time Series - Selected Procedures and Computer Programs . 1971. OCLC 959514064
  • Resistance. Recollections from the Nazi Years . Autobiography. West Orange 1979. OCLC 5525193
  • Brief Stories from a Long Life . Skyline of New York Publishers, New York City 1988. OCLC 314178601

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Isaac Egon David Bry , at newspaperarchive.com, accessed May 14, 2018.
  2. ↑ Werner Röder / Herbert A. Strauss (ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 . Vol. 2.1. Saur, Munich 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 163.
  3. ^ Logbook of the Schule am Meer Juist, entry from March 25, 1930.
  4. ↑ Oliver Schmidt: My home is - the German labor movement. Biographical studies on Richard Löwenthal in the transition from exile to the early Federal Republic . Peter Lang Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Bern, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2007. ISBN 978-3631558294 , pp. 69–70.
  5. ↑ Ursula Langkau-Alex: History of the committee for the preparation of a German popular front . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2009. ISBN 978-3050048383 , pp. 305, 311, 312, 319, 331, 488, 559.
  6. ^ William David Jones: The Lost Debate: German Socialist Intellectuals and Totalitarianism . University of Illinois Press, Champaign, IL 1999. ISBN 0252067967 , p. 78.
  7. ^ Bry, Gerhard: Resistence. Recollections from the Nazi Years . West Orange, New Jersey, USA, 1979.
  8. ↑ Richarz, Monika: Citizens on withdrawal. Testimonies of German Jews 1790–1945 . Verlag CH Beck, Munich 1989. ISBN 978-3406338564 , pp. 458-470.
  9. ↑ Oliver Schmidt: My home is - the German labor movement. Biographical studies on Richard Löwenthal in the transition from exile to the early Federal Republic . Peter Lang Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Bern, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2007. ISBN 978-3631558294 , pp. 83, 93, 95, 104.
  10. ↑ Dirk Draheim (ed.): Robert Havemann: Documents of a life . Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 1991. ISBN 978-3861530220 , pp. 58-59, 70-73.
  11. ↑ Werner Röder / Herbert A. Strauss (ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 . Vol. 2.1. Saur, Munich 1983, p. 163.
  12. ^ Roland I. Robinson: Postwar Market for State and Local Government Securities . Princeton University Press. Princeton NJ 2015. ISBN 978-0691652429 .
  13. ^ Gerhard Bry Memorial Site in the Beth Israel Memorial Cemetery . Retrieved November 25, 2017 from billiongraves.com.
  14. ^ Jürgen G. Backhaus: Navies and State Formation: The Schumpeter Hypothesis Revisited and Reflected . LIT Verlag, Münster 2012. ISBN 978-3-643-90212-2 , p. 211.
personal data
SURNAME Bry, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American economist
DATE OF BIRTH June 29, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 17th August 1996
Place of death West Orange , United States