Gunther Kohlmey

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Gunther Kohlmey (born July 27, 1913 in Berlin ; † December 25, 1999 in Berlin) was a Marxist economist in the GDR .

Life

Kohlmey was born into a family of teachers Berlin, studied in Berlin and Freiburg economics and a doctorate in Berlin in 1939 with the thesis "The industrialization of British India and Argentina. A contribution to the problem of new industrialization ” . He then worked as a research assistant at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin. Kohlmey joined the NSDAP in 1937 . As a lieutenant in the Wehrmacht , he defected to the Red Army at Kuban in 1943 . Until 1947 he was a teacher at the Central Antifa School in Krasnogorsk . After returning to Germany, he joined the SED in 1948 and became dean of the economics faculty and director of the Institute for Political Economy of Socialism at the German Administrative Academy Forst Zinna .

In 1953 Kohlmey was the founder and editor-in-chief of the magazine "Wirtschaftswwissenschaft" and founding director of the Institute for Economic Sciences of the German Academy of Sciences . In 1955 he gained international fame with his work "The Democratic World Market" . In the same year he received the GDR National Prize . In 1957 he was targeted by the SED's official "fight against revisionism " and - like Fritz Behrens and Arne Benary - was forced out of his offices. He became head of department at the Institute for Economic Sciences of the German Academy of Sciences (from 1972 Academy of Sciences of the GDR ) and from 1961 to 1969 professor and holder of the chair for international trade and currency relations at the Berlin- Karlshorst University of Economics . In 1978 he retired .

Since 1964 he was a full member of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR , 1978 to 1983 chairman of the National Committee for Economics of the GDR. At times he was economic advisor to the Cuban revolutionary government in the era of economic leadership by Che Guevara . Member of the "Council of the Elderly" of the PDS .

His grave is in the cemetery of the Evangelical Blessing Community in Berlin-Weißensee .

Fonts (selection)

  • The democratic world market , Verlag Die Wirtschaft, Berlin 1955
  • The monetary system of the German Democratic Republic , Academy, Berlin 1956
  • National productivity, dynamic productions, international division of labor , Die Wirtschaft publishing house, Berlin 1965
  • Socialization and Integration in Socialism , Academy, Berlin 1973
  • Socialism as an alternative. Texts from 1947 to 1993 , series: Texts of the RLS , 3. Karl Dietz Verlag Berlin , Berlin 2001, ISBN 3320029665 (Online: full text see web links)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Harry Waibel : Servants of many masters. Former Nazi functionaries in the Soviet Zone / GDR. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-63542-1 , p. 176.
  2. ^ Gunther Kohlmey: Two studies on the world situation, in the magazine UTOPIE Kreativ, issue 15, September 1991, p. 13 ISSN 0863-4890
  3. ^ Day of Victory, Day of Freedom * Result and End of the German Misery * 1947, The People's Own Wholesale in the Reproduction Process * 1951, Four Basic Questions of Monetary Theory * 1956, On the Systematisation of Today's Bourgeois Money and Credit Theories * 1956, Foreword to Hans-Peter Krüger: Values ​​and World Market * 1984, Ethnic Self-Determination and Globality * 1983, Letters GK to Werner Mittenzwei * 1987, to Karl-Georg Zinn * 1993, to the painter Klaus Tober * 1993, to Jannek Streber * Appendix: Fred Oelßner Eine Neue Etappe der Marxist political economy (excerpt) * 1953, the unified socialist financial system, social practice and the views of G. Kohlmey (document) * 1958, Walter Tuchscheerer , Kurt Zieschang, Karl Bichtler: Assessment of Comrade Kohlmey * 1959, letter to Günter Noon * 1963, comment on the draft article by Comrade Gunther Kohlmey * 1964, Wolfram Adolphi , speech at the funeral of Gunther Kohlmey on January 28, 2000 * Olympia and Ca rlos Menendez, Mail to the Family * 2001, Bibliography of Kohlmey's writings
personal data
SURNAME Kohlmey, Gunther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist, economist of the GDR
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH December 25, 1999
Place of death Berlin