Helmut Faulwetter

Helmut Faulwetter (born April 17, 1929 in Renthendorf ; † October 22, 1989 ) was a German economist and diplomat . He was the GDR's ambassador in Ceylon and the Maldives .

Live and act

Faulwetter, son of a worker, attended elementary school and learned the trade of bricklayer . After 1945 he qualified as a vocational school teacher, a teacher for social sciences and a lecturer in vocational school teacher training in Gotha . In 1953 Faulwetter took up a position as a scientific assistant at the Institute for Political Economy at the Berlin School of Economics (HfÖ). In 1957, he passed his state examination as a teacher for political economy at the Humboldt University in Berlin . 1960 doctorate he attended the HFOE on the wage policy of the West German SPD to Dr. rer. oec.

From 1961 Faulwetter worked as an economic advisor to the GDR trade agency in Cairo and from 1963 as head of the branch of the GDR trade agency (with the rank of trade councilor) in Madras, India, involved in developing economic relations between the GDR and developing countries .

These activities gave him the impetus to deal scientifically with the problems of the developing countries. In 1964 he made himself available to the newly founded Institute for Economics in Developing Countries at the HfÖ. Faulwetter contributed to the establishment and consolidation of the reputation of this institute, which he had taken on for two terms of office. There he defended his habilitation thesis on foreign trade and the reproductive process in India in 1967 and was appointed full professor in 1970.

1970 Faulwetter was appointed extraordinary and plenipotentiary ambassador of the GDR in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) and the Republic of the Maldives. In 1974 he returned to the Institute for Economics in Developing Countries.

Faulwetter's work deals, among other things, with the exploitation of developing countries, with their struggle for a new international economic order and with the brain drain .

Faulwetter was the spokesman for the socialist states at the United Nations World Conference of the Least Developed Countries in Paris in 1981 and a member of government delegations and expert groups in UNCTAD , ECE and UNESCO . He was also active in GDR bodies such as the Central Council for Asian, African and Latin American Studies , the League of the United Nations of the GDR and the URANIA Presidium.

Faulwetter died of heart failure on October 22, 1989 while preparing for an operation.

He had been a member of the SED since 1948 .

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

• The social function of today's right-wing social democrats in West Germany illustrated using the example of their theoretical and practical behavior on wage issues . HfÖ, Berlin 1960 ( dissertation A ).
• (together with Peter Stier): Basic questions of the connection between foreign trade and the reproduction process in India . HfÖ, Berlin 1967 ( Dissertation B ).
• (together with Peter Stier): India: Balance sheet and perspective of a capitalist development. Internal and external conditions of economic reproduction . (Studies on the history of Asia, Africa and Latin America, Volume 22). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1970.
• (together with Martin Breetzmann, Joachim Garscha and Peter Stier): Industry and industrial planning in developing countries. Experiences - problems - tasks . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1981.
• Developing countries and the new international economic order. Analysis and perspective . State Publishing House of the German Democratic Republic, Berlin 1982.
• (together with Peter Stier): Marxist views on the transformation of the international economic order . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1983.
• (together with Peter Stier): Developing countries at a crossroads . Publishing house Die Wirtschaft, Berlin 1984.
• (together with Ulrich Hoffmann): Developing countries: Getting out of the debt carousel? State publishing house of the German Democratic Republic, Berlin 1988.

items

• (together with Peter Stier): On the problem of import substitution in the process of economic growth in developing countries . In: Scientific journal / Berlin School of Economics. Contributions from research and teaching , 13 (1968), Heft 2, pp. 197-203.
• The influence of invisible trade on the accumulation problem in developing countries . In: Scientific journal / Berlin School of Economics. Contributions from research and teaching , 13 (1968), Heft 4, pp. 415-423.
• (together with Peter Stier): Food problem and economic growth in India . In: New India Customer. Festschrift for Walter Ruben's 70th birthday . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1970, pp. 273–286.
• The least developed countries of the capitalist economic system and their development problems . In: Asia, Africa, Latin America , 4 (1976), Heft 3, p. 456ff.
• (together with Gerhard Scharschmidt): The 4th session of the Conference on Trade and Development of the United Nations (UNCTAD) . In: Asia, Africa, Latin America , 4 (1976), Heft 4, pp. 863-880.
• "Brain robbery" - pillaging of developing countries . In: Horizont , 10 (1977), No. 39, pp. 22-23.
• The reverse transfer of technology (brain drain), instrument of neo-colonialist exploitation and an impediment to the development of science and technology in developing countries . In: Scientific contributions from the Institute for the Economics of Developing Countries at the University of Economics “Bruno Leuschner” Berlin , 12 (1977), Issue 3, pp. 5–13
• (together with Bernd Wolf): A "development ray". Attempt to quantify the economic development of countries in the capitalist world economic system . In: Asia, Africa, Latin America , 5 (1977), Heft 3, pp. 374-377.
• On some aspects of tripartite economic cooperation . In: Scientific journal / Berlin School of Economics. Contributions from research and teaching , 23 (1978), issue 2, pp. 60–70.
• (together with Gerhard Scharschmidt): The demand of the developing countries for a “new international economic order” in the light of some recent development tendencies in the capitalist world economic system . In: Deutsche Außenpolitik , 23 (1978), pp. 74-88.
• (together with Gerhard Scharschmidt): On the foreign debt of developing countries . In: Asia, Africa, Latin America , 6 (1978), No. 6, pp. 1066-1077.
• (together with Bernd Wolf): The differentiation of the development of capitalism in Asia, Africa and Latin America . In: Asia, Africa, Latin America , 6 (1978), Heft 2, pp. 216-238.
• (together with Bernd Wolf): Different developments of capitalism in countries of the “Third World” . In: Deutsche Außenpolitik , 23 (1978), pp. 71–84.
• (together with Willi Luchterhand): The struggle of the developing countries to change their position in the capitalist world economy and the V. UNCTAD . In: Asia, Africa, Latin America , 7 (1979), Heft 5, pp. 789-802.
• V. UNCTAD: Struggle for international economic relations on an equal footing . In: Deutsche Außenpolitik , 24 (1979), pp. 59–73.
• Current questions of the conflict between the developing countries and the capitalist industrialized countries about a new international economic order . In: Scientific journal / Berlin School of Economics. Contributions from research and teaching , 25 (1980), Heft 3, pp. 97-103.
• Processes and new tendencies in the struggle of the developing countries to change their position in international economic relations . In: Scientific journal / Berlin School of Economics. Articles from research and teaching , 28 (1983), Issue 1, pp. 47-55.
• (together with Ulrich Hoffmann): The mechanisms of the formation of capitalist production relations in developing countries . In: Asia, Africa, Latin America , 11 (1983), No. 4, pp. 953-968.
• (together with Ulrich Hoffmann): The exploitation of the developing countries by imperialism . In: Asia, Africa, Latin America , 12 (1984), No. 4, pp. 595-608.

literature

• Günther Buch: Names and dates of important people in the GDR. 4th, revised and expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin (West) / Bonn 1987, ISBN 3-8012-0121-X , p. 64.
• Helmut Faulwetter † . In: Asia, Africa, Latin America , 18 (1990), Heft 1, pp. 201-202.
• Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990 . Volume 1: Abendroth - Lyr . KG Saur, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-598-11176-2 , p. 172.
• Eberhard Funk: The German League for the United Nations (= Politica series , volume 25). Kovač, Hamburg 1997, ISBN 3-86064-535-8 , pp. 284f.