Hans D. Barbier

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Hans Dietmar Barbier (spoken: Barbié ; born April 15, 1937 in Mönchengladbach ; † February 17, 2017 in Bonn ) was a German journalist . Until June 2014 he was chairman of the Ludwig Erhard Foundation .

Life

Hans D. Barbier studied economics and received his doctorate in 1968 with a decision-theoretic thesis on training economics at the University of Saarland under Herbert Giersch .

Barbier left a habilitation thesis that had already been started in order to join the stock exchange editorial office of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) in 1969 . Different convictions on basic economic policy issues (for example, Barbier pleaded - against the majority opinion in the FAZ - for the release of fixed exchange rates ), led to his leaving the FAZ in 1974 and moving to the Süddeutsche Zeitung as its Bonn correspondent. In 1986 he returned to the FAZ and headed its economic policy department until 2002. Even after his retirement, Barbier wrote for the FAZ in the column “To order”.

Barbier was the curator, ambassador and testimonial of the New Social Market Economy Initiative . He was a member of the board of the action group social market economy . From 1985 to 2013 he was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom . From 2003 to 2011 he was managing editor of the magazine liberal .

Jürgen Nordmann counts Barbier among the outstanding neoliberal journalists ( “second hand dealers in ideas” sensu Hayek ) in the German-speaking newspaper sector . In its obituary, Der Spiegel wrote “... became probably the most highly regarded business journalist in the country. The fact that the right criticized him for writing too bad texts about Helmut Kohl and his government didn't bother him any more than the accusation of the left that he was a neoliberal. "

Barber was married and Catholic.

Awards

Publications

  • together with Rainer Hank : Bubenstücke. From nonsense in economic policy . Frankfurter Allgemeine Buch in the FAZ Institute, Frankfurt 2004, ISBN 3-89981-042-2 .
  • together with Berthold Sillich: Social market economy as a task. New challenges and proven principles . Sinus-Verlag, Krefeld 2001, ISBN 3-88289-418-0 .
  • together with Jürgen Jeske (ed.): Handbuch Wirtschaft. This is how you use the business and finance section of a daily newspaper . Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3-7973-0744-6 .
  • Perspectives of European antitrust law . Frankfurter Institut, Bad Homburg 1999, ISBN 3-89015-071-3 .
  • (Ed.): The morality of the market . Gabler Verlag, Wiesbaden 1990, ISBN 3-409-19135-6 .
  • together with Heinrich Weiss , Klaus Oberländer: The German unification process from the point of view of the economy . Industry Club, Düsseldorf 1990.
  • together with Fides Krause-Brewer (Ed.): The person behind the product . Norman Rentrop Verlag, Bonn 1988, ISBN 3-8125-0067-1 .
  • (Co-author): Development policy in the field of tension between solidarity and self-interest . Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 3-437-50306-5 .
  • The demand for training. A consumption theory interpretation. Cologne u. a. 1969 (at the same time: Diss. Univ. Des Saarlandes, 1968).

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ David Hein: Roland Tichy elected chairman. Horizont , June 27, 2014, accessed February 21, 2017 .
  2. ↑ a b Uwe Jean Heuser : A contender for freedom . In: Die Zeit from February 23, 2017, p. 27.
  3. ↑ The board of directors. Action Group Social Market Economy , archived from the original on October 9, 2012 ; accessed on February 21, 2017 .
  4. ^ Jürgen Nordmann: No Alternative - Neoliberal Positions in the Print Media after the Financial Crash . In: Walter Otto Ötsch / Claus Thomasberger (eds.): The neoliberal market discourse. Origins, history, effects . Metropolis, Marburg 2009, pp. 257–276, here: p. 263.
  5. ↑ Hans D. Barbier . In: Der Spiegel , 9/2017, p. 135.
  6. ↑ Obituary notice in the FAZ .
  7. ^ Bernhard Harms Medal. ifw-kiel.de , accessed on February 21, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Journalists awarded the Maier Prize . In: Berliner Zeitung , September 28, 1995, accessed on February 21, 2017.
  9. ↑ Award ceremony 2001. Friedrich August von Hayek Foundation, archived from the original on May 12, 2010 ; accessed on February 21, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Barbier, Hans D.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Barber, Hans Dietmar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Mönchengladbach
DATE OF DEATH 17th February 2017
Place of death Bonn