Heinz Sauermann

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Heinz Sauermann (born March 17, 1905 ; † May 27, 1981 ) was a German economist and sociologist .

Sauermann initially studied musicology in Freiburg, Vienna and Paris, then switched to economics and sociology . He received his doctorate at the age of 22 (doctoral supervisor: Othmar Spann ). Under Karl Dunkmann , he worked in 1929 at the Institute for Applied Sociology in Berlin, where he completed his habilitation on The Shape of the Entrepreneur . From 1937 he worked as a university lecturer in Frankfurt am Main, Göttingen, Heidelberg and Giessen.

After the end of the war, he advised the Allied military authorities on economic issues, particularly in connection with the currency reform . After a long stay in the USA as a visiting professor at the University of Chicago (where he read about Max Weber ), Sauermann played a key role as a professor at the University of Frankfurt in the mathematization of German economics, which was still oriented towards the humanities. Together with Reinhard Selten , who later won the Nobel Prize , Sauermann founded experimental economic research in Germany.

Shortly before his death, Sauermann was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Heidelberg . In his honor, the Society for Experimental Economic Research (which he founded) has been awarding the Heinz Sauermann Prize for experimental economic research to young scientists since 1990 .

Works (selection)

  • Textbook of Sociology and Social Philosophy (1931)
  • Problems of German Sociology (1933)
  • The figure of the entrepreneur (1937)
  • Contributions to monetary and finance theory (1951)
  • Contributions to experimental economic research (1967)
  • Dynamic economic analysis (1975)

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SURNAME Sauermann, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist and sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1905
DATE OF DEATH May 27, 1981