Heinz Pentzlin

Heinz Pentzlin (1975)

Heinz Pentzlin (born October 19, 1908 in Schwetz an der Weichsel ; † November 5, 1986 in Hamburg ) was a German economist , journalist and publicist .

Life

Heinz Pentzlin was born in 1908 in the then West Prussian town of Schwetz an der Weichsel. His parents were the judicial officer Karl Pentzlin and his wife Selma Schmidt, who worked as a dentist .

After graduating from high school in Neubrandenburg at Easter 1929, he studied economics and social sciences in Kiel and Frankfurt am Main, where he was influenced by the “ Kiel School ”. He passed his diploma on November 22, 1933 and was then employed as an editorial assistant for the 'express service for foreign trade and foreign trade' of the "Deutsche Wirtschaftsdienst GmbH" in Berlin. A short time later, the employees of this GmbH were transferred to the Reich Office for Foreign Trade of the Reich Ministry of Economics . In addition to his professional activity, Pentzlin was enrolled as a guest student at the University of Berlin, where he received his doctorate on April 28, 1937. rer. pole.

In 1935 he moved to the Free City of Danzig for political reasons and then moved to Poland in 1936, where, in addition to his journalistic work, he was in charge of the Leipzig Trade Fair from May 1, 1936 to August 31, 1938 . From 1938 to 1939 Heinz Pentzlin lived in London, then in the Netherlands, Denmark, Finland and from 1942 in Sweden. During the war years, Heinz Pentzlin worked for various newspapers, some of which were banned - such as the " Frankfurter Zeitung ".

After the war, Heinz Pentzlin returned to Germany and initially worked for various newspapers, for example in 1947 for the newspaper "Die WELT " in Hamburg. Then he became editor of the " Wirtschafts-Zeitung " from Curt E. Schwab Verlag, until he returned to WELT in 1954 as head of the economic section. There he was a member of the editor-in-chief from 1964 to 1968. In 1969 Heinz Pentzlin was first editor-in-chief of the magazine "Dialog", then until it was closed in 1973 as its publisher.

In 1963 he was appointed to the advisory board of Axel Springer Verlag KG and in 1970, after the KG was converted into a stock corporation, to the supervisory board of Axel Springer Verlag AG, to which he was a member until 1983.

Heinz Pentzlin also gained an international reputation in articles and through books (including "What costs prosperity" 1962, "Inflation" 1972, "Das Geld" 1982 and especially a biography about Hjalmar Schacht or "How Hitler came to power") .

Heinz Pentzlin was married to Hanna, b. Feldtange, and he had three children. His older brother Kurt Pentzlin was also an economist.

Award

• In 1984 Heinz Pentzlin was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit, First Class, in the Hamburg City Hall for his “outstanding achievements in the field of journalism” .

Fonts (selection)

• Internal market recovery and world trade. - Borna-Leipzig: Noske, 1937
• Egypt. Berlin: E. Schmidt, 1957
• What does prosperity cost? Oldenburg: Stalling, 1962
• The man at the top. Oldenburg: Stalling, 1964
• Taiwan is advancing in economy . Taipei: China Publ. Co., 1970
• The children of prosperity. Osnabrück: Fromm, 1974
• Inflation. Munich: Goldmann, 1975, orig. Edition.
• Unemployed, lot of the future? Zurich: Edition Interfrom, 1977, ISBN 978-3720150859
• The threat to the social market economy. Würzburg: Naumann, 1979
• Hjalmar shaft . Berlin, Frankfurt / Main, Vienna: Ullstein, 1980, ISBN 978-3550079139
• How much longer inflation? Frankfurt / M., Berlin, Vienna: Ullstein, 1980, original edition, ISBN 978-3548345130
• The money. Berlin: Ullstein, 1982, ISBN 978-3550077081
• How Hitler came to power. Bergisch Gladbach: Lübbe, 1983, original edition, ISBN 978-3404650484
• The Germans in the Third Reich. Stuttgart: Seewald, 1985, ISBN 9783512007156
• Utopians and dropouts. Asendorf: MUT-Verlag, 1985, ISBN 978-3891820117

literature

• Walter Habel (Ed.): "Who is who? The German Who's Who", XI. Edition of Degener's “Who is it”? Arani, Berlin 1951.
• An article about his award in the WELT from September 28, 1984
• An obituary in the Welt on Sunday 9th Nov. 1986

Web links

• Publications in the German National Library: