Karl Albrecht (economist)
Karl Albrecht (born August 4, 1902 in Rathenow ; † 1976 ) was a German economist .
Life
He attended secondary school and the universities in Berlin and Jena. There he was active in the German-Völkisch student movement from 1920. In Jena he founded the Trutzburg University Guild, which still exists today . After his doctorate as Dr. rer. pole. he worked in the optical industry for ten years. For example, in 1925 he wrote the operational history of Emil Busch AG Optische Industrie Rathenow.
After that, Karl Albrecht worked in Berlin as in-house counsel and as managing director of the Precision Mechanics Optics business group of main group II of the German economy and was the chief executive officer of Wigru Precision Mechanics and Optics. From 1943 until the end of the Second World War, Karl Albrecht was head of the foreign trade department of the Reichsgruppe Industrie und Reichswirtschaftskammer.
As a result of his initiative, the working group for foreign trade issues was founded on March 23, 1944 in the hall of the Deutsche Industriebank , whose first president was Hans Croon , and Friedrich von Poll was the managing director .
From 1947 to 1949 Karl Albrecht worked in the Ministry of Economics of the State of Württemberg-Hohenzollern as head of the research center for economic development. In 1949 he was transferred to the newly founded Federal Ministry for Affairs of the Marshall Plan , in which Karl Albrecht was head of the main department for economic cooperation until 1953 and at the same time head of department II (European reconstruction work). In 1953 he was appointed general manager of the Düsseldorf Chamber of Commerce and Industry. He resigned from this position in 1967. His activity as a managing board member of the C. Rudolf Poensgen Foundation for the promotion of young business leaders, of which he was a co-founder, testifies to his unusual activity. He was also a member of the board of trustees of the Ifo Institute for Economic Research in Munich and a member of the administrative board of the Rhine-Westphalian Institute for Economic Development in Essen. Furthermore, his work as deputy chairman of the state group North Rhine-Westphalia in the rationalization board of the German economy, his membership in the administrative board of the Freundeskreis der Deutschen Auslandsschulen eV and his chairmanship of the working group foreign schools of the German Industry and Commerce Congress should be mentioned. In 1971 he retired.
literature
- Herrmann AL Degener : Degeners Who is it? , Berlin 1935, p. 13.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ The DHG Trutzburg-Jena zu Göttingen
- ↑ The history of Emil Busch A.-G. Optical industry, Rathenow, from an economic point of view. A contribution to the knowledge of the structure of economic life , Erfurt, 1925.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Albrecht, Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German economist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th August 1902 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rathenow |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1976 |