Horst Blumberg

Horst Blumberg is a German economist .

Horst Blumberg received his doctorate in 1962 at the Hochschule für Ökonomie Berlin-Karlshorst with a thesis on the development of the German woolen and worsted industry in the period of the industrial revolution, especially in the period from 1834 to 1869 , experts were Hans Mottek and Alfred Schröter . In October 1966 he became a lecturer in economic history at the Institute for Economic History in Karlshorst. In September 1968, Blumberg moved to the Marxism-Leninism section of the Humboldt University in Berlin as a professor of the history of the German labor movement . In 1978 he was awarded the Silver Patriotic Order of Merit .

Fonts

• The German textile industry in the industrial revolution , Academy, Berlin 1965 (publications by the Institute for Economic History at the University of Economics, Berlin-Karlshorst, vol. 3)
• Economic history of Germany: 1. The development of German imperialism and its special features (1871-1914) , University of Economics, Berlin 1968
• The development of capitalism in Germany from 1789 to 1840 , Deutsche Historiker-Gesellschaft, Berlin 1970 (Scientific contributions for the history teacher No. 6)

literature

• Lothar Mertens : Lexicon of the GDR historians. Biographies and bibliographies on the historians from the German Democratic Republic. Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-11673-X , p. 142.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Berliner Zeitung , 25./26. February 1978, p. 4