Herbert Meißner (economist)

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Herbert Meißner (born May 16, 1927 in Dresden ) is a German scientist in the field of political economy .

Life

Meißner became a member of the KPD at the age of 18 (after the forced unification of the SPD and KPD, the SED ). He studied economics at the University of Leipzig and took his final exam in 1951. Subsequently, he was head of department in the State Secretariat for Higher Education and was responsible for questions relating to basic social science studies. After studying in Leningrad for a while ( doctorate there in 1956), he got a professorship at the University of Economics in East Berlin after his habilitation .

At the Central Institute for Economics of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR in East Berlin, Meissner was initially a department head and later one of three deputy directors. For three years he was Deputy Secretary General of the Academy of Sciences. In 1981 he became a full member of the Academy. In addition, Meißner was deputy chairman of the council for research on imperialism , member of the board of the National Committee for Political Science and member of the committee for scientific questions of securing peace and disarmament . In his position he belonged to the so-called travel cadre of the GDR . At the end of the 1970s he became an unofficial employee of the Ministry for State Security of the GDR.

After he was caught stealing in the West Berlin department store Wertheim in 1986 , he asked to transfer to the Federal Republic of Germany and contact the Federal Intelligence Service in Pullach near Munich, where he was questioned. After the Federal Prosecutor's Office first issued an arrest warrant against him, which was later revoked, he returned to the GDR through the GDR mission in Bonn. After his return he worked for a long time in the psychiatric department of the government hospital in Berlin-Buch, on December 31, 1986 he was "released" by the President of the Academy of Sciences and for him a separate working group "History of Political Economy" at the Central Institute there Economics created.

Meißner is a member of the Leibniz Society of Sciences in Berlin and a member of the Die Linke party . He lives in Oranienburg near Berlin.

Publications (selection)

  • Herbert Meißner (head of the collective of authors): On the economic conception of the SPD. Publishing house Die Wirtschaft, Berlin 1957.
  • Herbert Meißner, Willi Kunz, Fredo Müller (transl. From the Russian): Issachar Moissejewitsch Faingar: The development of German monopoly capital - ground plan. Publishing house Die Wirtschaft, Berlin 1959.
  • Growth Theories - Savior of Capitalism? The modern bourgeois political economy and the economic competition of the two world systems. Publishing house Die Wirtschaft, Berlin 1962.
  • Herbert Meißner (translation from the Russian): Izrailʹ G. Bljumin: The crisis of modern bourgeois political economy. (Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Institute for World Economy and International Relations) Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1962.
  • Methodological problems in dealing with the bourgeois economy. Meeting reports of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin, class for philosophy, history, political science, law and economics; Born in 1964, No. 3. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1964.
  • Helmut Koziolek , Helmut Mann, Herbert Meißner: Current Problems of Political Economy. Publishing house Die Wirtschaft, Berlin 1966.
  • Herbert Meißner (ed.): Bourgeois economy in modern capitalism. Ideological and practical significance of West German economic theory. German Academy of Sciences in Berlin, Institute for Economics. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1967.
  • Convergence Theory and Reality. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1969, 2nd edition 1971; Verlag Marxistische Blätter, Frankfurt (Main) 1971; Kossuth Könyvkiadó, Budapest 1971; Izdatel'stvo Progress, Moskva 1973; Nakladatelství Svoboda, Prague 1975.
  • Theory of Economic Growth - Hope and Dilemma of the Bourgeois Economy. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1972; Marxist sheets publishing house, Frankfurt (Main) 1972.
  • Methodological problems of ideological debate under the influence of peaceful coexistence. Meeting reports of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR; Born 1975, No. 8 G: Social Sciences. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1975.
  • Herbert Meißner, Gertraud Wittenburg (ed.): Contributions to the history of the political economy of socialism. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1975.
  • Herbert Meißner (ed.): Bourgeois economy without perspective. Academy of Sciences of the GDR, Central Institute for Economics. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1976; Verlag Marxistische Blätter, Frankfurt (Main) 1976.
  • Heinrich Scheel (ed.), Manfred Buhr , Gunther Kohlmey , Herbert Meißner: To the crisis of the bourgeois ideology. Lectures to the Social Sciences I class on December 15, 1977 and January 26, 1978, ed. on behalf of the President of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1978.
  • Herbert Meißner (ed.): History of the political economy. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1978, 2nd edition 1985; Verlag Marxistische Blätter, Frankfurt (Main) 1978.
  • Herbert Meißner, Karlheinz Lohs (ed.): Disarmament, science, responsibility. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1978.
  • Herbert Meißner, Karlheinz Lohs (ed.): Science and peace. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1982.
  • New tendencies in bourgeois criticism of socialism and our anti-criticism. Lecture at the meeting of the Social Sciences I class on November 12, 1981. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1982.
  • Herbert Meißner, Karlheinz Lohs (ed.): Peace without an alternative. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1985.
  • The Physiocrats as the economic pioneers of the French Revolution. Lecture at the meeting of the Philosophy, Economics, History, Political and Legal Sciences class of the AdW of the GDR on April 13, 1989. Academy of Sciences of the GDR: Session reports of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR / G / Social Sciences; Born in 1990, No. 1. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1990.
  • Karl Hartmann , Herbert Meißner: Productive Forces and Production Relations in the Present. GNN-Verlag, Schkeuditz 2010, ISBN 978-3-89819-342-9 .
  • Trotsky and Trotskyism - yesterday and today. A Marxist Analysis. Verlag Wiljo Heinen, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-939828-82-2 , 2nd edition 2012, ISBN 978-3-95514-002-1 .
  • Nonviolence and class struggle - considerations of revolutionary theory. Verlag Wiljo Heinen, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-95514-012-0 .

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Individual evidence

  1. Gerbert Mejssner (author of the dissertation): Kritika osnovnych napravlenij sovremennoj buržuaznoj političeskoj ėkonomii zapadnoj Germanii. Leningrad State University AA Zdanova, 1956.
  2. Herbert Meißner: The development of the equilibrium and growth theory as an expression of the decline process of the bourgeois political economy. Berlin, University of Economics, habilitation thesis, Berlin 1962.
  3. SECRET SERVICES: Like on a stage . In: Der Spiegel . No. 30 , 1986 ( online - July 21, 1986 ).
  4. ^ GDR professor put aside . In: Der Spiegel . No. 18 , 1987 ( online - 27 April 1987 ).