Josef Winternitz

Josef Winternitz (born February 18, 1896 in Oxford , † March 22, 1952 in London ) was an economist and KPD functionary.

Life

Winternitz was a son of the Austrian Indologist and ethnologist Moriz Winternitz . He studied philosophy in Prague , was a member of the Czechoslovak Social Democracy (ČSSD) and later the Communist Party (KSČ) . In 1923 he went to Germany and became a full-time functionary and theoretician of the KPD. He wrote under the pseudonyms "Lenz" and "Sommer". From 1927 he was a candidate for the Central Committee of the KPD and from 1929 a member. In 1933 Winternitz emigrated to Czechoslovakia , in 1939 to England. 1945 to 1948 he was a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain. In September 1948 Winternitz went back to East Germany. He joined the SED and became a professor at the University of Berlin, as well as head of the political economy department at the scientific research institute of the party college "Karl Marx" . In March 1949 he became the first director of the Marx-Engels-Lenin Institute . At the end of February 1950, however, he was dismissed for allegedly supporting a "campaign by the imperialists and Tito's agents against Stalin". The following year he moved to England to avoid the threat of arrest.

Publications

• Josef Winternitz: Value and Prizes: A Solution of the So-Called Transformation Problem . In: The Economic Journal . tape 58 , no. 230 , June 1948, p. 276-280 .

literature

• Bernd-Rainer Barth :  Winternitz, Joseph . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
• Mario Keßler: Josef Winternitz between Prague, Berlin and London , in: ders .: Exile and post-exile. Displaced intellectuals in the 20th century . VSA-Verlag, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-87975-877-8 , pp. 55-78.

Web links

• Literature by Josef Winternitz in the catalog of the German National Library
• Josef Winternitz as a prominent KPD functionary