Helene Lieser

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Helene Lieser , later also Berger, (born December 16, 1898 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; died September 20, 1962 there ) was an Austrian political scientist and national economist.

Life

Helene Lieser was born as the daughter of the wealthy Viennese textile industrialists Justus Lieser (1864–1927) and Henriette Amalie Lieser , b. Landau (1875–1943) born. She had a brother and a sister. In 1916 she graduated from the girls' college in Vienna-Hietzing with distinction. She then began to study philosophy and in 1919 switched to the Faculty of Law and Political Science. On June 26, 1920 she was the first woman to do her doctorate there under Othmar Spann and Ludwig von Mises on the subject of "The monetary policy literature of the Austrian bank note period". Later she worked for the "Association of Austrian Banks and Bankers" and was a member of the "National Economic Society". 

She resigned from the Israelite Religious Community in 1921   . Nevertheless, she had to emigrate in 1938. Through a marriage of convenience she was given the name Berger and became a Yugoslav citizen. Helene Lieser managed to flee to Geneva, where she worked with Ludwig von Mises at the Institut Universitaire des Hautes Études Internationales until 1940.

Her mother and uncle were murdered in concentration camps . 

In Switzerland she worked for the Soviet and later for the British secret service and got involved with people who were persecuted by the National Socialists. After the Second World War she went to Paris. She has worked for international organizations such as the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization ( UNESCO ), the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OEEC ) and the International Economic Association .

Helene Lieser died shortly after her retirement in 1962 in Vienna. She was buried under the name "Helene Berger" in the urn grove of the Simmering fire hall in Vienna (Department ML, Group 166, Number 7).

Commemoration

The Helene-Lieser-Platz in Atzgersdorf in Vienna-Liesing was named after Helene Lieser .

literature

  • Jürgen Nautz: Lieser, Helene. In: Brigitta Keintzel, Ilse Korotin (ed.): Scientists in and from Austria. Life - work - work. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2002, ISBN 3-205-99467-1 , p. 476f.
  • Jürgen Nautz: Lieser, Helene. In: Harald Hagemann , Claus-Dieter Krohn (ed.): Biographical handbook of German-speaking economic emigration after 1933. Volume 2: Leichter branch. Saur, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-598-11284-X , pp. 386f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Katharina Kniefacz: Helene Lieser, Dr. In: 650 plus . November 7, 2016 ( univie.ac.at [accessed December 10, 2017]).
  2. ↑ Online editorial team: Getting married in exile: "It was like an epidemic" - Wina - The Jewish city magazine . In: Wina - the Jewish city magazine . July 26, 2012 ( wina-magazin.at [accessed December 10, 2017]).
  3. ^ Helene Lieser in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
  4. ↑ What did Dr. BERTHA NEUMANN, Dr. MARGARETE OTTILLINGER & Dr. HELENE LIESER together? Retrieved December 10, 2017 .
  5. ↑ mandl_mcapelli: Liesing - meeting of the Liesing district council on June 29, 2017. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 10, 2017 ; accessed December 10, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wien.gv.at
personal data
SURNAME Lieser, Helene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian political scientist and national economist
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH 20th September 1962
Place of death Vienna