Hans Bachmann (economist)

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Hans Bachmann (born August 1, 1898 in Frauenfeld , † September 13, 1989 in St. Gallen , reformed , resident in Stettfurt and Thundorf , since 1953 in Neuhausen am Rheinfall ) was a Swiss economist .

Life

Hans Bachmann was born on August 1, 1898 in Frauenfeld as the son of the businessman Emil Bachmann. Between 1918 and 1922, Hans Bachmann began studying law, economics and history in Zurich , Montpellier , Paris , Berlin and Oxford . In 1921 received his doctorate he in Zurich Dr. rer. cam.

As a result, after a stay in the USA , Hans Bachmann was initially employed between 1924 and 1939 as a management secretary. Afterwards, Bachmann worked until 1941, in addition to his work as General Secretary of the European Aluminum Association, as Director of the Testing Department at Aluminum Industrie AG in Neuhausen. Subsequently he was General Secretary of Alliance Aluminum Cie. employed in Basel before he was director of various aluminum companies until 1952.

In addition, Hans Bachmann taught at the University of St. Gallen from 1942 as a private lecturer , from 1946 as adjunct professor and from 1952 to 1968 as associate professor for special areas of applied economics, in particular for foreign economics . In 1968 he was finally appointed honorary professor. He also worked as a co-founder in 1943 and until 1972 as director of the Swiss Institute for Foreign Trade and Market Research, as well as vice-president and later honorary member of the European League for Economic Cooperation .

In 1923 Hans Bachmann married Frieda Emma, ​​the daughter of the cantonal school teacher Johann Heinrich Tanner. He died on September 13, 1989, one month after he had turned 91 in St. Gallen.

Act

Hans Bachmann's research interests were in the economic integration of Europe, international currency issues , development policy and agricultural policy problems. Between 1956 and 1969 he worked as a development expert in South America and Asia on behalf of the federal government and the UN . In 1968 Bachmann published a pioneering handbook on economic and trade problems in developing countries, namely "The External Relations of Less Developed Countries" .

In addition, Hans Bachmann was a central figure in the New or National Front between 1932 and 1940 , but without declaring himself politically, among other things as a sponsor of the frontist newspaper "Der Grenzbote" .

literature

  • Georg Thürer: St. Gallen University of Economics and Social Sciences 1899-1974, 1974
  • Paul Jolles : "The work of Prof. Bachmann", In: Aussenwirtschaft 33, 1978, pp. 233-237
  • Matthias Wipf: "The border messenger - a Swiss front newspaper between 1933 and 1939", In: Writings of the association for the history of Lake Constance and its surroundings 118, 2000, p. 202 f.

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personal data
SURNAME Bachmann, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss economist
DATE OF BIRTH August 1, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Frauenfeld
DATE OF DEATH September 13, 1989
Place of death St. Gallen