Herbert Giersch

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Herbert Giersch (1974)

Herbert Giersch (born May 11, 1921 in Reichenbach , Lower Silesia Province , † July 22, 2010 in Saarbrücken ) was a German economist .

Life

Giersch studied from 1939 to 1942 Economics in Wroclaw and Kiel and in 1948 at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Munster , where he worked as an assistant since 1947, with a thesis on "balancing the burdens of war from the standpoint of social justice" for Dr . rer. pole. PhD . From 1948 Giersch was a fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science and worked as a consultant for the Organization for European Economic Co-operation, OEEC in Paris (1950 to 1951 and 1953 to 1954). In 1950 he completed his habilitation and from 1951 to 1953 he was a private lecturer at the Westphalian Wilhelms University. In 1954 and 1955 he was a deputy professor at the Technical University of Braunschweig . In 1955 he was appointed full professor at Saarland University . He was visiting professor at Yale University (1962 and 1977 to 1978).

Herbert Giersch (left) and the other members of the Expert Council, February 1964

Herbert Giersch was appointed a founding member of the Advisory Council in 1964 to assess macroeconomic developments and until 1970 had a decisive influence on the work of this body and the annual reports. Giersch coined the term “ concerted action ” - but later became an offer theorist .

In 1969 Giersch moved to the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel as a full professor and, as Erich Schneider's successor, also became President of the Institute for World Economy there . He held both positions until 1989. From 1986 to 1988 he was President of the Mont Pèlerin Society .

Giersch coined the term in 1985 Euro sclerosis to describe the policy of Europe in the 70s and 80s and was a signatory of the Euro-critical manifesto The monetary policy decisions of Maastricht: A danger for Europe (1992). Furthermore, the term “dictation of empty coffers” goes back to him, with which Giersch describes a political strategy to push through a cut in government spending against resistance. Instead of directly cutting social policy expenditures, Giersch recommended reducing the state's income side through tax cuts and thus reducing its leeway.

Giersch was involved in numerous scientific organizations. From 1960 to 2007 he was a member of the Scientific Advisory Board at the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology . Giersch had been a member of the Order Pour le Mérite for science and the arts since 1991 . The Herbert Giersch Foundation , based in Frankfurt am Main, is named after him.

honors and awards

Fonts

  • General economic policy I. Basics , Gabler reprint 1991 (1960/1977), ISBN 3409582819
  • Controversial questions of economic policy , Piper, Munich 1971, ISBN 3-492-00321-4 .
  • In focus: economic policy. Critical contributions 1967 to 1977 , Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Stuttgart 1978, ISBN 3-421-01874-X .
  • General economic policy II. Economic and growth policy in the open economy , Gabler 1983, ISBN 3409602321
  • Against Europessimism. Critical contributions 1977 to 1985 , Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Stuttgart 1986, ISBN 3-421-06334-6 .
  • The world economy in perspective. Essays on international trade and European integration , Elgar, Aldershot 1991, ISBN 1-85278-457-1 .
  • Farewell to economics. Economics in global competition , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3898430626
  • The open society and its economy. Essays and comments from five decades , Murmann, Hamburg 2006, ISBN 3938017325

literature

  • Lars P. Feld u. a. (Ed.): The age of Herbert Giersch. Economic policy for an open world , Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2013 (studies on the theory of order and policy, volume 64), ISBN 978-3-16-151044-1 (with bibliography Herbert Giersch, pp. 263-288).

Web links

Commons : Herbert Giersch  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Herbert Giersch: Eurosclerosis , Kieler Discussion Contributions, 2, Kiel 1985
  2. ↑ see list of signatories for the online reproduction of the manifesto in the economic blog Wirtschaftliche Freiheit , blog entry from December 11, 2016; accessed July 12, 2020.
  3. ^ Foundation Market Economy-Europe Economy 1991. Regulatory tasks in East and West
  4. ↑ Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology: Members of the Scientific Advisory Board ( Memento of the original dated November 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) 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.bmwi.de
  5. ^ Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed June 1, 2020 .


personal data
SURNAME Giersch, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist
DATE OF BIRTH May 11, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Reichenbach , Province of Lower Silesia
DATE OF DEATH July 22, 2010
Place of death Saarbrücken