Hans Herbert Hohlfeld

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Hans Herbert Hohlfeld (born April 25, 1903 in Greiz ; † March 10, 1956 in Berlin ) was a German economist .

Life

After graduating from school, Hohlfeld studied philosophy, German literature and economics in Leipzig, Dresden and Freiburg. He completed his studies in Freiburg in 1927 with a diploma in economics. In parallel to his studies, he completed a two-year banking apprenticeship. In 1928 he received his doctorate under Karl Diehl with a thesis on "The question of a European customs union". In 1931 he completed his habilitation with Ernst Walb in Cologne while he was an assistant at the University of Rostock .

From 1935 he represented chairs in Rostock, Cologne, Rostock again and finally Berlin, before he was offered a professorship at the University of Cologne . From 1938 he was director of the "Seminar (s) for banking and finance".

Hohlfeld, who had belonged to the national liberal DVP in 1931/32 , was a member of the SA from 1933 to 1936 and joined the NSDAP in 1937 . During the Second World War , Hohlfeld was called up as a Panzergrenadier for the Waffen-SS in April 1944 , was stationed in or near Warsaw and was appointed SS-Sturmmann on April 1, 1945 .

After his release from captivity, he first tried to regain his old position at the University of Cologne. However, this failed because of its proximity to the SD due to the resistance of the faculty. Therefore, he worked as a business consultant until 1952, before he was able to take up a professorship for business administration, in particular banking management, at the Technical University of Berlin from 1952 until his death in 1956 .

Hans Herbert Hohlfeld died in Berlin in 1956 at the age of 52. His grave is in the Dahlem forest cemetery .

Technical focus

His banking apprenticeship was characterized by the close connection between business and economic issues. The focus of his publications was on the structure of the money and capital markets, the state central bank policy and credit policy, in particular their effects on the business policy of the commercial banks and on the development of the banking system at home and abroad.

literature

  • Peter Mantel: Business Administration and National Socialism: A Study of Institutional and Personal History . Gabler, Wiesbaden 2010, ISBN 978-3-8349-8515-6 , pp. 80-87, and pp. 729 f.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Mantel: Business Administration and National Socialism. A study of institutional and personal history . Gabler, Wiesbaden 2010, ISBN 978-3-8349-8515-6 , pp. 729 .
  2. ↑ Peter Mantel: Business Administration and National Socialism. A study of institutional and personal history . Gabler, Wiesbaden 2010, ISBN 978-3-8349-8515-6 , pp. 86 .
  3. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 582.
personal data
SURNAME Hohlfeld, Hans Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Greiz
DATE OF DEATH March 10, 1956
Place of death Berlin