Heinz-Dietrich Ortlieb

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Heinz-Dietrich Ortlieb (born January 19, 1910 in Neuwarp / Pomerania, † August 30, 2001 in Hamburg ) was a German economist . From 1964 to 1978 he was head of the Hamburg World Economic Archives (HWWA).

Life

The son of a Protestant pastor visited the High School in Angermünde and then first began at the Universities of Berlin and Rostock , a medical school , but later switched to economics and sociology . Werner Sombart (Berlin) and Eduard Heimann (Hamburg) were among his academic teachers . In 1934 he graduated with a degree in economics , two years later he received his doctorate as Dr. rer. pol., in 1940 his habilitation and appointment as a private lecturer at the University of Hamburg . From 1941 he was a soldier on the Eastern Front and was wounded in East Prussia shortly before the end of the war in March 1945.

After the end of the war, Ortlieb resumed teaching at the University of Hamburg, where he was appointed adjunct professor in 1948. During this time, the SPD member made a name for himself (since 1931) as an advocate of an economic “ third way ” between capitalism and socialism and as a critic of Ludwig Erhard's economic policy . Together with Eduard Heimann , Gerhard Weisser and others, he was also one of the supporters of the Hamburg SDS group. The later Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt was a member of this group .

In 1949 Ortlieb became a full professor at the newly founded trade union academy for community economy , which later became the University of Economics and Politics (HWP) in Hamburg. From 1952 to 1955 and again from 1958 to 1961 he was head of this institution of the second educational path . From 1964 until his retirement in 1978, Ortlieb was a full professor at the University of Hamburg and at the same time director of the Hamburg World Economic Archive (HWWA). Under his leadership, the institute developed into one of the leading economic research institutes in Germany.

He was a member of the founding committee of the Bund Freiheit der Wissenschaft .

The university professor and mathematician Claus Peter Ortlieb (1947–2019) was his son.

Fonts (selection)

  • Native nutrition and nutrition policy in tropical Africa (Habilitation thesis, 1941)
  • Changes in Socialism (1947)
  • Economic order and economic policy without dogma (1954)
  • The end of the economic miracle (1962)
  • The irresponsible society or how to gamble away democracy (1971)
  • The splendor and misery of the German economic miracle or the corruption of prosperity. Thoughts and observations since the establishment of the FRG (1974)
  • From People's Capitalism to Playboy Democracy (1974)
  • What will happen to Africa? Racism, Neo-Colonialism, Development Aid (1976)
  • (with Christa Meves ) Does equality make people happy? (1978)
  • From totalitarian state to total egoism. Anarchist Shadow of the German Past (1978)
  • (with Christa Meves ) The Ruined Generation (1982)
  • The future of our past. On economic and social policy in the years 1956 - 1984 (1984)
  • What will happen to South Africa? (1985)
  • So it started. Memoirs from 1910 to 1945 (2001)

Awards

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See the entry of Heinz-Dietrich Ortlieb's matriculation in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ^ Uwe Rohwedder: Helmut Schmidt and the SDS. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2007, p. 34 f.
personal data
SURNAME Ortlieb, Heinz-Dietrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ortlieb, Heinz Dietrich; Ortlieb, Heinz-Dieter; Ortlieb-Spandau, ...
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH New warp
DATE OF DEATH August 30, 2001
Place of death Hamburg