Gerhard Schmitt-Rink

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Gerhard Wilhelm Schmitt-Rink , also Willy Rink , (born January 22, 1926 in Wiesbaden ; † May 24, 2020 ) was a German economist and author . He was a professor of economics , most recently retired .

Life

Schmitt-Rink grew up as an illegitimate half-Jew in Wiesbaden and was adopted by his mother's second, Catholic partner. The family lived in a multi-family house inhabited by Jews and Christians, in which social tensions arose from 1935 during the Nazi era . In order not to attract attention, he took the first name “Gerhard” and initially believed in “world capitalist Jewry”. Through many conversations with his mother and “illegally” listening to the BBC , he soon had doubts and distanced himself from Nazi propaganda.

After the war, studied Schmitt Rink economics and business administration in Frankfurt and was at the University of Mainz in 1962 to Dr. rer. pole. PhD . In 1965 he completed his habilitation in economics.

Schmitt-Rink was appointed full professor at RWTH Aachen University , the University of Tübingen and the University of Bochum . In 1990 he was appointed the founding dean of the new economics faculty at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and retired in 1991.

He was also a visiting professor at the University of Kabul , the School of International Relations at the University of Southern California , the Osmania University Hyderabad , the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore and the Tongji University in Shanghai. On behalf of the Goethe Institute , he taught in Egypt, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Ghana, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Iran, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Malaysia, Nepal and Nigeria.

Private life

Schmitt-Rink was married to the politician Margret Funke-Schmitt-Rink, who died in 1998 .

Honors

Schmitt-Rink was an honorary doctor of the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg and the Technical University of St. Petersburg and was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class .

Works

Author of the following books

  • Marx's law of the tendency for the rate of profit to fall . Mainz 1962 (dissertation)
  • Consumption dynamics. The qualitative expansion of private consumption . Göttingen 1967 (habilitation thesis)
  • Basics of distribution theory . Göttingen 1971
  • Growth theory . Düsseldorf 1975
  • Distribution theory . Düsseldorf 1978
  • Macroeconomics . Heidelberg 1990
  • Macroeconomics of closed and open economies , (co-author: Dieter Bender). Heidelberg 1992
  • Hitler's picture of the world economy. A look back at his economic mistakes and knowledge gaps . Berlin 2010

Editor and co-author of the following books

  • Foreign trade and terms of trade of Afghanistan 1961–1975 . Bochum 1979
  • Ghana's Foreign Trade 1968–1978. Trends and Structures . Bochum 1981
  • Malaysia's Foreign Trade 1968–1980. Trends and Structures . Bochum 1982
  • EC-ASEAN. Trade Among the European Community and the Association of South-East Asian Nations . Bochum 1982
  • Problems of population economy . Bochum 1983

Author of the following books under his maiden name Willy Rink

  • The Jewish house. Memories of Jews and non-Jews under one roof. 1933-1945 . Wiesbaden 2008. ISBN 978-3-941289-02-4
  • The Invention of the Eternal Jew: A Review of Fateful Prejudices in the Third Reich . Berlin 2010. ISBN 978-3-8442-0442-1
  • Stumbling blocks. Late thoughts about life in the Jewish house. Berlin 2015 . ISBN 978-3-7375-4455-9

In addition, Schmitt-Rink is the author of numerous articles in scientific journals, conference proceedings and festival publications.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice in the FAZ (accessed June 17, 2020). Deviating from this, the obituary is given by Professor Dr Dr Gerhard Schmitt-Rink (1926-2020). Administrative and Business Academy Wiesbaden, May 31, 2020, accessed on June 3, 2020 . May 25, 2020 as the date of death.
  2. ↑ Daniel Honsack: attempt to make the incomprehensible comprehensible , in: Allgemeine Zeitung of 6 March 2009 (PDF, 89 kB)
  3. ↑ Mirjam Ulrich: The house at Hermannstrasse 26: A new book reports on everyday life in Wiesbaden during the Third Reich , in: Frankfurter Rundschau from October 29, 2008
personal data
SURNAME Schmitt-Rink, Gerhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmitt-Rink, Gerhard Wilhelm (full name); Rink, Willy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist and author
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiesbaden
DATE OF DEATH May 24, 2020