Hans-Jürgen Schmahl

Hans-Jürgen Schmahl (born December 2, 1929 in Bargteheide ; † October 20, 2012 in Hamburg ) was a German economist .

Life

Hans-Jürgen Schmahl was born in 1929 as the son of a board member in Bargteheide near Hamburg. After graduating from the baccalaureate in 1949, he studied economics at the University of Hamburg and graduated there in 1954 with the Master of Economics from. In 1956 he received his doctorate there as Dr. rer. pole. Two years later he became an employee at the HWWA Institute for Economic Research . Here he was promoted to head of the business cycle department (1962), later to the main department head for general economic and business cycle policy (1967) and deputy head of the institute (1970). In 1987 he became vice president of the institute and remained so until 1994. From 1966 to 1973 Schmahl had a teaching position for economics at the University of Hamburg, in 1973 he was awarded the title of professor. In addition, from 1968 to 1976 he worked on the annual report of the German Advisory Council on the assessment of macroeconomic developments .

He had been married since 1956 and had two daughters and a son. In his private life he liked to read literature on contemporary history and was a member of the Verein für Socialpolitik .

Schmahl was a co-signer of the Euro-critical manifesto The Monetary Policy Decisions of Maastricht: A Danger for Europe (1992).

Research priorities

Hans-Jürgen Schmahl devoted himself in particular to

• Need for reform of the international currency order
• the " stagflation "
• the connection between process politics and economic order
• the problem of investment management in market economies
• and the growing conditions in the Federal Republic.

Fonts

• Economic problems of banking supervision . 1956 (dissertation)
• Global control of the economy: The new economic policy in the Federal Republic of Germany. Weltarchiv publishing house, Hamburg 1970
• Accelerated currency depreciation. Weltarchiv publishing house, Hamburg 1973
• Short and medium term economic prospects in the Federal Republic of Germany. Textile Association North-West, Münster 1979

literature

• Hans-Jürgen Schmahl , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 43/1994 of October 17, 1994, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of the article freely available)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ see list of signatories for the online reproduction of the manifesto in the economic blog Wirtschaftliche Freiheit , blog entry from December 11, 2016; accessed July 12, 2020.