Hans Sennholz

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Hans F. Sennholz (born February 3, 1922 in Bergkamen , † June 23, 2007 in Grove City , Pennsylvania ) was a German economist . He is one of the well-known representatives of the Austrian School of Economics founded by Carl Menger .

Life

Sennholz experienced the effects of the global economic crisis and the rise of National Socialism at a young age . During the Second World War he lost his mother in an Allied bombing raid on his hometown, his father died in a mine accident , and his only brother, a Wehrmacht soldier, is missing in Russia.

Sennholz was drafted into the German Air Force and trained as a fighter pilot. He flew missions over France , the Soviet Union and northern Africa . During a mission over Egypt he was shot down by New Zealand flak and became a prisoner of war . As a prisoner of war, he was taken to South Africa , New Zealand, and eventually the United States, where he spent the remainder of the war in POW camps in New Mexico , Texas , Oklahoma , Kansas and Arkansas .

As an American prisoner of war, he received support from various American relatives who emigrated to the United States in the 1920s. The support enabled him to complete a correspondence degree at the University of Texas at Austin .

After his release from American captivity, he returned to Germany, where he obtained his diploma in economics at the University of Marburg in 1948 . In 1949 he received his doctorate from the University of Cologne . He then returned to the USA, where he continued his studies with Ludwig von Mises at New York University and obtained an American Ph.D. completed.

Sennholz taught first at Iona College in New Rochelle in New York and in 1956 a professor of economics at Grove City College in Pennsylvania , USA, where he remained active until the year 1992nd During the presidency of Ronald Reagan (1981-1989) he was one of Michael Novak's leading ghostwriters . In 1992 Sennholz became President of the Foundation for Economic Education in Irvington on Hudson, NY, and in 1997 he retired.

He died on June 23, 2007 in Grove City. The pre-burial church mourning ceremony took place on June 27, 2007 at Bethesda Church in Farmer's Mills, PA, where his wife, Mary, was married. He later bought and renovated the church to keep it from deteriorating. Sennholz left behind his wife Mary, née Homan, with whom he was married for 52 years, his son Robert, his daughter-in-law Lynn and two grandsons.

Awards

Sennholz was an Honorary Citizen of Lubbock and Houston , Texas and an Honorary Colonel of New Mexico . He was an Honorary Doctor of Law from Francisco Marroquín University in Guatemala , Honorary Doctor of Law from Culver-Stockton College in Canton, Missouri, and Honorary Doctor of Law from Grove City College in Grove City.

He also received the Gary G. Schlarbaum Award for Freedom. On his seventieth birthday, the commemorative publication A Man of Principles: Essays in Honor of Hans F. Sennholz (1992) with contributions from 36 authors was dedicated to him.

Publications

  • Trade unions and councils after the First World War, Diss. July 27, 1949, Univ. Cologne, Economic u. social science F.
  • A good education
  • Age of inflation
  • Beware of Despair
  • Death and Taxes
  • Debts and Deficits
  • In pursuit of excellence
  • Poor countries
  • The Dreams of Youth
  • The Costs of Crime
  • The Great Depression: Will We Repeat It?
  • The high ground
  • The Politics of Unemployment
  • The Savings and Loan Bailout: Valiant Rescue or Hysterical Reaction?
  • Three Economic Commandments
  • Two Standards of Morality
  • Man must work
  • Minimum wages
  • Money and Freedom
  • Multiculturalism is Anticulturalism
  • Wasting the Later Years of Life

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personal data
SURNAME Sennholz, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sennholz, Hans F.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist
DATE OF BIRTH February 3, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Bergkamen
DATE OF DEATH June 23, 2007
Place of death Grove City, Pennsylvania , USA