Hans Hermann Lechner

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Hans H. Lechner (born November 17, 1931 in Röthenbach an der Pegnitz ; † February 27, 2020 ) was a German economist and professor of economics , especially international economic relations, at the Technical University of Berlin .

Life

Lechner received his doctorate in 1959 from the Technical University of Berlin with a thesis on the "market economy theory of neutral money". Together with his teacher Alfred Kruse , a student of Adolf Weber , in 1970 he published a much-noticed work on “Money and Credit”.

In 1988 Lechner published his main work "Currency Policy", which his students also refer to as "The Red Bible", is still a standard work on the topics of money and credit today.

His research and teaching activities focused on monetary theory and policy as well as foreign trade theory and policy.

Lechner was a member of the Corps Berlin and the KBStV Rhaetia Munich . His personal boy was Helmut Kalkbrenner .

Fonts

  • Money and credit. Selected texts on the history of a science (edited and introduced by Alfred Kruse and Hans H. Lechner). Koehler, Stuttgart 1970
  • Monetary policy . de Gruyter, Berlin 1988. ISBN 3-11-007412-5

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