Hans Möller (economist)

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Hans Möller (born June 12, 1915 in Berlin , † December 16, 1996 in Munich ) was a German economist .

Hans Möller, son of the painter Otto Möller , completed his studies of economics, which he began in 1933, first with the diploma exam in 1936 and then with a doctorate in Dr. economics at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin, the later Humboldt-Universität Berlin on May 28, 1941; his dissertation dealt with "calculation, sales policy and pricing". He was a student and assistant to Heinrich von Stackelberg (1905–1946) in Berlin. As an expert in questions of monetary policy , he was one of the ten German members of the "Conclave von Rothwesten " (in a barracks near Kassel) in 1948 , which led the US economist Edward Tenenbaum to introduce the DM in the western world under strict secrecy Occupation zones prepared. In 1954 he was appointed professor of economics at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main ; In 1955 he was offered the Robert Schuman Chair at the Europa-Kolleg Bruges. In 1958 he moved to the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . Möller was the initiator and from 1950 until his death a member of the “Scientific Advisory Board” at the Federal Ministry of Economics ; from 1970 to 1977 he was chairman of this advisory body. He has also worked as an economic policy advisor to international organizations such as the EU and the OECD .

Möller was an honorary doctor of the Universities of Kiel (1983) and Frankfurt (1994) and a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . The economics faculty of the LMU Munich named a series of seminars after Möller. In 1994 Möller was the "founding father" of the "Alumni Club" of economists at LMU Munich. The club has been awarding the “Hans Möller Medal” since 2004 as “thanks and recognition for great services to the economy”.

Publications

  • Calculation, sales policy and pricing. The theory of the company's sales policy based on price theory and business administration . Vienna 1941, reprint (with a new introduction on “The Development of Modern Price Theory”), Tübingen 1962
  • International business organizations . (The Economics, Series B, No. 15, edited by Erich Gutenberg ). Wiesbaden 1960
  • Foreign trade policy . (The Economics, Series B, No. 14, edited by Erich Gutenberg ). Wiesbaden 1961
  • The soil in political economy . Wiesbaden 1967 (49 pages)
  • The end of a world monetary order? Munich: Piper, 1972, ISBN 9783492003346
  • with Rigmar Osterkamp , Wolfgang Schneider: Environmental Economics . Athenaeum 1981, ISBN 978-3-7610-5020-0

literature

  • Knut Borchardt , Franz Holzheu (ed.): Theory and politics of international economic relations. Hans Möller on his 65th birthday. Fischer, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-437-50248-4 [with a selection library by Hans Möller]
  • Knut Borchardt: Hans Möller June 12, 1915– December 16, 1996 In: Bavarian Academy of Sciences Yearbook 1997. Munich 1998, pp. 259–264.
  • Johann-Matthias Graf von der Schulenburg , Hans-Werner Sinn (Hrsg.): Theory of economic policy. Festschrift for the 75th birthday of Hans Möller. Mohr, Tübingen 1990, ISBN 3-16-145570-3
  • Dean of the Department of Economics (Ed.): Speeches on the occasion of the award of an honorary doctorate to Professor Dr. Dr. hc Hans Möller (= series of publications, Department of Economics, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main. Volume 4). Schulz-Kirchner Verlag, Idstein, 1995, ISBN 3-8248-0143-4 .
  • Faculty of Economics at the Humboldt University of Berlin / Economic Society at the Humboldt University of Berlin (Ed.): Speeches on the occasion of the celebrations for the 50th return of the doctorate by Prof. Dr. Dr. hc Hans Möller on February 16, 1996
  • Scientific society at the JW Goethe University Frankfurt am Main (ed.): Obituary for Hans Möller, by Karl Häuser . Steiner, Stuttgart 1999, pp. 59-63.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Eckhard Wandel : The emergence of the bank of German countries and the German currency reform 1948. (Habilitation), 1979, p. 107. The other nine were Karl Bernard , Wolfgang Budczics, Walter Dudek , Heinrich Hartlieb , Erwin Hielscher , Otto Pfleiderer , Walter Bussmann , Rudolf Windlinger and Victor Wrede.
  2. ↑ http://www.hans-moeller-seminar.vwl.uni-muenchen.de/organisation/index.html
  3. ↑ Homepage
personal data
SURNAME Möller, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist
DATE OF BIRTH June 12, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH December 16, 1996
Place of death Munich