Helmut Koziolek

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Helmut Koziolek (born July 5, 1927 in Beuthen , Upper Silesia , † May 19, 1997 in Berlin ) was a German Marxist economist and director of the Central Institute for Socialist Economic Management .

Helmut Koziolek (1991)

Life

Helmut Koziolek was born into a Catholic family. The father Nikolaus Koziolek was a full-time Reichsbahnlokführer and part-time violinist in a music group. The stepfather was a carpenter and the mother Gertrud a tailor.

From 1937 to 1945 he was a member of the German Jungvolk (Fähnleinführer) and the Hitler Youth . Until 1944 Koziolek attended the high school for boys in Katowice . Koziolek then completed his working hours and was taken prisoner of war in Neuengamme near Hamburg. From 1945 he attended the textile engineering school in Chemnitz , studied law and political science at the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg and graduated in 1948 with the academic degree of economics degree. In 1956 he was promoted to Dr. sc. oec. with a dissertation on the Marxist-Leninist theory of national income.

From 1948 to 1953 Koziolek was assistant or lecturer at the administration academy "Walter Ulbricht" Forst Zinna and guest lecturer at the University of Leipzig. In 1953 he moved to the Hochschule für Finanzwirtschaft , whose prorector for research he was until 1956. In 1957 he then went to the University of Economics in Berlin-Karlshorst, the training center for the socialist planned economy in the GDR, as professor of political economy and deputy director . In 1961 he completed his habilitation on basic questions of the Marxist-Leninist theory of national income .

In 1962 Koziolek took over the management of the Economic Research Institute of the State Planning Commission , which was involved in the development of the New Economic System of Planning and Management (NÖSPL) and at the same time became a member of the commission's management.

In March 1966 Koziolek became director of the Central Institute for Socialist Economic Management at the Central Committee of the SED . Koziolek also paid special attention to economic contacts with the West.

In 1974 Koziolek, as director of the Institute for Socialist Economic Management, prepared an expert report together with Otto Reinhold , Willi Kunz and Karl-Heinz Stiemerling. Koziolek: "It belongs to the realm of fable to believe that the leadership of the GDR until 1988 did economic decision about the state of your." This opinion was u. a. showed that there would be a sharp decrease in productive accumulation and that foreign debt would rise to 28 billion marks by 1980, and that the housing program would lead to a deterioration in the renovation of old buildings and to a neglect of industrial construction.

Until his retirement at the end of July 1990, Koziolek was a full professor at the Institute for Management . From 1976 to 1990 chairman of the GDR-USSR economics commission. In 1965 Koziolek became a full member of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin, in 1988 a foreign member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR and, after the dissolution of the USSR, an external member of the Russian Academy of Sciences . Since 1977 he has been an Honory Scholar at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Laxenburg near Vienna. As a science functionary, he was involved in the planning and coordination of economic research in the GDR and in the Comecon .

From 1976 to 1981 he was a candidate, from April 1981 a full member of the Central Committee of the SED . Koziolek took part in the two-plus-four talks .

Research areas

  • Marxist-Leninist reproduction and national income theory
  • National Income Growth Factors
  • socialist economic management

Awards

Memberships

Publications

Numerous publications with translations in over 20 languages.

  • Introduction to the teaching of socialist economic management (with G. Friedrich)
  • Basic questions of the Marxist-Leninist theory of national income (socialism) (1957)
  • Helmut Koziolek, Helmut Mann, Herbert Meißner : Current Problems of Political Economy. Publishing house Die Wirtschaft, Berlin 1966
  • Reproduction and National Income (1979)
  • Science, Technology and Reproduction (1981)
  • Value formation and economic cycles (1984)
  • Reproduction and Infrastructure (with W. Ostwald and H. Stürz, 1986)
  • Contact between physics and economics (with Rainer Schwarz 1986)
  • Did the New Economic System have a chance? “Meeting reports of the Leibniz Society” Volume 10, 1996 Volume 1/2, ISBN 3-89597-276-2

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Theo Pirker : The GDR was a housekeeping. In: The Plan as Command and Fiction. Page 258
personal data
SURNAME Koziolek, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Marxist economist and university professor of the GDR
DATE OF BIRTH July 5, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Beuthen , Upper Silesia
DATE OF DEATH May 19, 1997
Place of death Berlin