Helmut Creutz

Helmut Creutz

Helmut Creutz (born July 8, 1923 in Aachen ; † October 10, 2017 there ) was a German business analyst and publicist .

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Creutz's professional goal was an engineer, but he was initially involved in the Second World War : labor service , pilot training and flight instructor training, prisoner of war , then two years of illness.

In 1949 he got a part-time job in a company for interior fittings, later he became head of the planning office and temporarily operations manager.

From 1972 Helmut Creutz worked as a freelance architect and writer, since 1982 as a business analyst and publicist. In 1979/80 he co-founded the Alternative List and the Greens in Aachen and North Rhine-Westphalia.

In 1973 he published his first book, Gehen oder kaputtiegen - an operating diary within the publications of the working group literature in the world of work to which he belonged. IG Metall obtained 3,000 copies of the total print run of 50,000 for its shop stewards. His second book, Haken, one crooked in time - a father's school diary was a critical examination of the German educational system , the “forced learning system”, as Creutz calls it.

Since 1980 he has dealt with the connections between money and society, currency and economy. He held numerous lectures and seminars on this topic and published several books and more than a hundred essays. Creutz is considered a supporter of the teachings of Silvio Gesell . In 1996, Creutz updated the approach propagated by Gesell that there could be an “optimal and crisis-free functioning market economy of independent and free economic subjects and citizens, beyond capitalism” . Hermann Kendel attested that Creutz had “ resumed the largely forgotten findings of Silvio Gesell from the beginning of the last century - namely that a small minority lets the vast majority of people work for them with the help of compound interest - and they tirelessly and courageously further developed " .

In 1993 Creutz's main work Das Geld-Syndrom was published . It has been translated into Hungarian, English, French and parts of it into Persian. It was also published as an audio book. In 2012, at the age of almost 90, Creutz published a completely revised new edition under the title Das Geld-Syndrom 2012 .

Helmut Creutz was married and had two daughters. He died on October 10, 2017 at the age of 94 in his hometown Aachen.

reception

Since the financial crisis in 2007 , Helmut Creutz has been noticed by some economists. For example, by Christian Kreiß at Aalen University : “In contrast to conventional economics, outsiders like Helmut Creutz, from whom the opening quote of this statement comes, have long been pointing out errors in common economics and structural undesirable developments in the economic system, but have been (and are for the most part also still) not taken seriously by the haughty adherents of the current economics ”. Jürgen Kremer, a business mathematician in Koblenz , wrote that he had been made aware of the redistribution mechanisms of interest through Helmut Creutz. “Dealing with him and his findings inspired me to develop dynamic analysis. The results obtained are among the most important scientific insights of my life. "

Creutz has been accused of right-wing extremist tendencies on various occasions, which is justified by the fact that at the beginning of the 1980s he gave at least two lectures at the Collegium Humanum's folk high school and for the journal The Third Way of the Free Social Union and for the DAZ of the NPD-affiliated German workers' association wrote. Creutz rejected the allegations: his critics are only concerned with defamation, neither in his vita nor in all of his publications can be found incriminating. On the In Personal Affairs page of his website, he commented in detail and stated: "I dissociate myself unreservedly from both right-wing and left-wing extremism!"

Books

• Das Geld-Syndrom 2012 (updated new edition), Wissenschaftsverlag Mainz, Aachen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8107-0140-4 .
• The 29 mistakes about money , Munich: Signum Wirtschaftsverlag, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-7766-8004-0 .
• The money syndrome (1st edition), Wirtschaftsverlag Langen Müller / Herbig, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-7844-7306-7 .
• Building, living, renting - what role does money play? , Gauke Verlag, Lütjenburg 1987, ISBN 978-3879984077 .
• Growth up to the crisis (together with Werner Onken and Dieter Suhr), Basis-Verlag, Berlin 1986, ISBN 978-3880254145 .
• Hooks are bent at times - a father's school diary , Bertelsmann, 1977, ISBN 978-3423100823 .
• Go or break - an operating diary , Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, 1973, ISBN 978-3436017040 .

Interviews

• The key rate is pure psychology , TAZ interview July 2003
• Interview with Helmut Creutz , Deutschlandfunk on August 10, 2003
• Special: Financial crisis and monetary reform , Aachener Zeitung, January 22, 2009
• Interview with Helmut Creutz , Münchner Merkur , July 22, 2009
• Such an economic system must collapse , Aachener Zeitung , November 11, 2009

Videos

• Money syndrome . Brief introduction to the problems of the interest system based on the book of the same name. Running time: 10:30 minutes.
• "The Money Syndrome" - about the author . Proponents of monetary reform about the work of Helmut Creutz. With English subtitles. Running time: 9:58 minutes.

Web links

• Literature by and about Helmut Creutz in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage of Helmut Creutz
• The money syndrome
• Article by Helmut Creutz in the journal Humane Wirtschaft [1]

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Klaus Wulsten, Ekkehard Lindner and Werner Onken: Helmut Creutz is 75. (PDF) In: Zeitschrift für Sozialökonomie. Foundation for Reform of Monetary and Land Order and Social Science Society 1950 e. V., June 1998, p. 44 f. , accessed on October 11, 2017 (No. 117). 
2. ↑ Entry at the top right of the Creutz website
3. ↑ Detlef Georg Siebert: We in space - the space in us. Ken Wilber's vision of an undivided existence. Concepts for a human evolution , Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2001, p. 143.
4. ↑ For Hermann Kendels personal support of an application for award of the Right Livelihood Award in 2007 to Helmut Creutz. Retrieved from Helmut Creutz's homepage on June 21, 2010.
5. ↑ Gerald Eimer: Aachen lateral thinker Helmut Creutz died at the age of 94. Aachener Nachrichten, October 17, 2017, accessed on October 19, 2017 . 
6. ↑ ^{a b} Christian Kreiss: Is it all just coincidence? The impact of the financial crisis on Spain , horizon 37, Monsheim March 2011. Retrieved November 28, 2013.
7. ^ From the foreword to his book Fundamentals of the Economy - Money System, Growth, Interest and the Polarization of Society , Metropolis, Weimar near Marburg 2012.
8. ↑ For example in Oliver Geden: Rechts Ökologie; Jutta Ditfurth : Relaxed into barbarism; Justus Ulbricht: Green as a bridge to brown?
9. ↑ See Klaus Schmitt: Relax, Ms. Ditfurth! , Espero & Editions Achtacht3, 1998, p. 33. Retrieved June 18, 2012.
10. ^ Constitutional Protection Report for the State of North Rhine-Westphalia 1994, p. 55f
11. ↑ Helmut Creutz: On our own behalf