Helmut Meinhold

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Helmut Meinhold (born November 22, 1914 in Stargard ; † August 29, 1994 in Heidelberg ) was a German economist and political scientist .

Life

Meinhold was the son of a senior apprentice who fell in World War I. His mother married a college teacher. Upon completion of secondary school, he studied economics at various universities: 1933 to 1934 in Leipzig until 1936 in Hamburg and then to 1939 in Kiel . In 1936, he became the exam to graduate in economics , received his doctorate in 1939 for Doctor of Political Sciences and habilitated there in 1944. Meinhold was the Under the regime of the National Socialists lecturer denied.

Meinhold worked in the market department of the Hamburg Reichsnährstand in 1936 and worked from 1937 to 1946 at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy as a research assistant and assistant . During the Second World War he worked at the Cracow Institute for Eastern Labor and was deployed from 1942 to 1943 as part of military service in Russia and France . He was discharged from the Wehrmacht in 1943 due to his wounding.

After the war Meinhold returned to the Kiel Institute for the World Economy. He taught there until the autumn of 1946. He took a leave of absence and became a member of the Minden planning department of the Central Office for the Economy of the British Zone . Meinhold belonged to the bizonal administrative office for economy, where he last worked as a ministerial advisor, and until 1952 to the Federal Ministry of Economics in Bonn. After the war he worked with Ludwig Erhard and Johannes Semmler to rebuild the German economy. In addition, from 1947 to 1952 he was a private lecturer in Frankfurt am Main and Bonn .

From 1952 Meinhold taught as a full professor at the University of Heidelberg . His interest lay in the theory of economic policy. He rated the market economy as the “least worst system”. In 1962 he was appointed professor of economic political science and director of the seminar for economic and social policy at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt . In 1980 he retired there .

Since 1952 Meinhold was a member of the scientific advisory board of the Federal Ministry of Economics and in 1959 he became chairman of the social advisory board for the statutory health insurance and from 1981 to 1983 chairman of the Bonn pension commission. At times he also took over the chairmanship of the Bonn commission for social security for women and the bereaved.

In 1965 his name became known nationwide when he settled the big wage dispute in the iron and steel industry of North Rhine-Westphalia and brought about an agreement between IG Metall and the employers' association . This agreement entered wage policy as the “ Meinhold Formula ” . He was the first scientist to mediate in a collective bargaining agreement.

Meinhold wrote, among others, in collaboration with Hans Achinger , Walter Bogs , Ludwig Neundörfer and Wilfried Schreiber the 4th chapter of the "Social Enquête" initiated by the Federal Government in 1964 with the title "Economic Problems of Social Security". Many of his contributions have been published in scientific compilations and specialist journals.

Private

Meinhold was married to his wife Gerda since 1941. Together they had three sons and a daughter.

Publications (excerpt)

  • How much can wages rise ?, German Trade Union Confederation, Düsseldorf, 1965
  • Economic problems of social security. Lecture at the Institute for the World Economy at the University of Kiel, June 7, 1978
  • The proposals of the Expert Commission for Social Security for Women and Survivors. Collaborative Research Center 3, Microanalyt. Basics d. Social Policy, Frankfurt am Main 1981

literature

  • Fiscal policy through social policy Parafisci, Mohr, Tübingen 1976, ISBN 978-3-16-338181-0
  • Economic problems of social security, Mohr, Tübingen 1978, ISBN 978-3-16-341261-3
  • Susanne Heim and Götz Aly: An advisor to power. Helmut Meinhold or the connection between social policy and the extermination of the Jews, Hamburg Institute for Social Research, Hamburg, 1986.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Helmut Meinhold - Munzinger biography. Retrieved January 6, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b Obituary for Helmut Meinhold. (PDF) In: Journal for Foreign and International Labor and Social Law (ZIAS). Institute for Labor Law and Industrial Relations in the European Community Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Social Law, 1994, pp. 269–270 , accessed on January 6, 2019 .
  3. ^ Who teaches economics today (VIII): Helmut Meinhold, Frankfurt: Seeks to square the circle. Retrieved January 6, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Meinhold, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist and political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Stargard
DATE OF DEATH August 29, 1994
Place of death Heidelberg