Hilde Behrend

Hilde Behrend (born August 13, 1917 in Berlin ; † January 11, 2000 ) was a German-born British economist and university professor .

Career

Behrend is the daughter of the teacher Felix Wilhelm Behrend , temporarily chairman of the German Association of Philologists , and brother of the mathematician Felix Behrend . After her father lost his job as a Jew in the Nazi state , she emigrated to Great Britain in 1936. After various smaller jobs, she got a job as a typist at the London School of Economics , which at the time was housed in Cambridge due to the war . Later she was able to enroll as a student at the university, in 1944 she finished her studies with honors.

At first Behrend worked as a teacher of French and German at secondary schools in Middlesex and Birmingham , before she got a job as a research assistant at the university in 1949 after meeting Sargant Florence , a professor at the University of Birmingham . After completing her Ph.D. She later took on a position as a lecturer in social science research at the University of Edinburgh . In 1973 she received an economics professorship at the university, and in 1982 she retired. After living in Edinburgh for a while, she moved to her family in Buckinghamshire in the 1990s . She later developed Alzheimer's disease .

Behrend researched in particular in the areas of labor economics and industrial relations . In doing so, she also dealt with psychological aspects, such as motivation to work. She was involved in the International Association for Research in Economic Psychology , in 1982 she was instrumental in organizing the 7th International Conference on Business Psychology of the organization.

literature

• Harald Hagemann, Claus-Dieter Krohn (Hrsg.): Biographical manual of the German-speaking economic emigration after 1933. Vol. 1. Munich: Saur 1999.S. 36-37.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Hilde Behrend - Economist who probed our motivation to work"