Karl-Heinrich Hansmeyer

Karl-Heinrich Hansmeyer (born July 30, 1929 in Lennep ; † December 3, 2007 in Cologne ) was a German economist , financial scientist and environmental economist .

Life

Hansmeyer studied economics and business administration at the University of Cologne from 1950 to 1954 . In 1956 he was promoted to Dr. rer. pole. PhD . In 1961 he qualified as a professor for economics and political science . Hansmeyer was a student of Günter Schmölder . In 1951 he was one of the new founders of the Cologne Wingolf .

In 1964 he received a call on the Department of Economics at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz . In 1967 Hansmeyer became full professor for economic political science at the University of Cologne , director of the university's seminar for public finance and director of the public finance research institute at the University of Cologne. From 1973 to 1974 and from 1991 to 1993 he was Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences. In 1994 he retired .

Act

Hansmeyer was the head of the research center for local finance at the Association for Local Science in Berlin. From 1989 to 1993 he was chairman of the finance committee of the Verein für Socialpolitik .

Hansmeyer became involved in environmental economics early on and was founding chairman from 1972 to 1978 of the Advisory Council for Environmental Issues , of which he was a member until 1981. He brought this relatively young field of science into his party, the FDP , which in those years appointed the Federal Minister of the Interior (BMI) responsible for environmental issues .

Since 1976 he has been a member of the Scientific Advisory Board at the Federal Ministry of Finance (BMF), and since 1989 he has also been a member of the Scientific Advisory Board at the Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Forestry .

Hansmeyer was honored on May 23, 1978 with the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon. In 1989 he was awarded the University Medal of the University of Cologne for his services as a special representative for the preparation of the 600th anniversary celebrations from 1981 to 1988. From 1982 to 1996 he was a member of the board of trustees of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation .

He was the founding director of the Institute for Broadcasting Economics, founded in Cologne in 1990, and was a co-signatory of the euro-critical manifesto The Monetary Policy Decisions of Maastricht: A Danger for Europe (1992).

Works

• The Road to the Welfare State - Changes in State Activities as Reflected in Financial Policy , Frankfurt 1957.
• Financial state aid for agriculture - On the theory of a sectoral financial policy , Tübingen 1963.
• Subsidies as an economic policy instrument , in: Subsidies in the Federal Republic , Financial Research, NF, H. 25.
• On the question of the burden of public debt on future generations (in French), in: Revue de Science Financière , no.4 , 1963.
• Municipal borrowing and economic growth , in: Archive for Municipal Sciences , Vol. 4, 1965.
• Public credit - the main features of debt policy, Fritz Knapp Verlag 1965.
• History of teaching and methods , in: Compendium for Economics , Volume 1, Göttingen 1966.
• Changes in the central bank's room for maneuver? , in: Monetary Theory and Monetary Policy. Günter Schmölders on his 65th birthday , Berlin 1968.
• With D. Fürst: The fees , 1968.
• The optimal debt structure with a given debt level , manuscript of a presentation to the financial committee of the Verein für Socialpolitik, Nuremberg 1969.
• The provision of central local facilities in selected central locations in Rhineland-Palatinate , 1970.
• With Bert Rürup : State economic planning instruments , Werner Verlag 1973.

Web links

• Literature by and about Karl-Heinrich Hansmeyer in the catalog of the German National Library
• ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: Website of Karl-Heinrich Hansmeyer (University of Cologne) )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Office of the Federal President
2. ↑ see list of signatories for the online reproduction of the manifesto in the economic blog Wirtschaftliche Freiheit , blog entry from December 11, 2016; accessed July 12, 2020.