Karl Brandt (economist)

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Karl Brandt (born January 9, 1899 in Essen ; died July 8, 1975 in Menlo Park ) was a German-American economist.

Life

Karl Brandt studied at the Hohenheim Agricultural University and graduated there in 1921. He then worked as a consultant for the Landbund and for agricultural cooperatives and banks. In 1926 he received his doctorate from the University of Berlin under Friedrich Aereboe . In 1929 he was appointed professor at the Agricultural University in Berlin , where he became head of the Institute for Agricultural Market Research, which he founded with Otto Klepper . One of his students was Roderich Plate . He continued to act as an advisor.

After the handover of power to the National Socialists in 1933, Brandt emigrated to the USA. He supported other emigrants and had contact with resistance groups against National Socialism in the German Reich. In New York he worked at the New School for Social Research , at the American Institute for Food Distribution, and in 1938 he was a professor at Stanford University in California and an employee and later director of the Food Research Institute there. After his retirement he worked for the Hoover Institution from 1964 . In 1947 he was one of the founders of the Mont Pelerin Society . Brandt worked as a consultant for the World Bank and the FAO and was a member of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1958 to 1961 . He was a fellow with the American Farm Economic Association (AAEA).

Brandt wrote statements on the economic reorganization in Germany during and after the Second World War. He was one of the founders of the economically liberal ORDO yearbook .

Brandt received the Great Cross of Merit with a Star from the Federal Republic . He was the recipient of the Justus von Liebig Prize for World Food and an honorary doctorate from Heidelberg University . When he was honored, he was one of the few Germans who were accepted into the French Ordre national du Mérite . Brandt Cove , a bay on the coast of South Georgia , is named after him .

Brandt married Anitta Hewell von Lindenfels for the second time in 1932, they had four sons. His son Jobst Brandt (1935–2015) was born in the USA, he worked as an engineer and was a bicycle enthusiast.

Fonts (selection)

  • "Paper" in: Felix Morley (Ed.): Conference on the Necessary Conditions of a Free Society. 1961 . Princeton, NJ: Van Nostrand, 1963
  • Farm price supports-rigid or flexible? New York: American Enterprise Association, 1954
  • with Otto Schiller; Franz Ahlgrimm: Management of agriculture and food in the German-occupied and other areas of fortress Europe: A study in military government . Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1953
  • Germany: key to peace in Europe . Foreword Harold W. Bradley. Claremont, Calif. : Claremont College, 1949
  • Is there still a chance for Germany? : America's responsibility . Hinsdale, Ill .: Regnery, 1948
  • The reconstruction of world agriculture . New York: Norton, 1945
  • Fats and oils in the war . Stanford: Stanford Univ., Food Research Inst., 1943
  • Whale oil: an economic analysis . Stanford: Stanford Univ., Food Research Inst., 1940
  • The German fat plan and its economic setting . Foreword by Joseph Stancliffe. Stanford: Food Research Inst., Stanford Univ., 1938
  • Agricultural co-operation. In: Max Ascoli, Fritz Lehmann (Ed.): Political and Economic Democracy . Foreword by Alvin Johnson . New York: Norton, 1937, pp. 126-141
  • Karl Brandt; Walter Eucken ; Wilhelm Gerloff; Karl Lange; Rudolf Löb : Autarky: five lectures . Berlin: Rowohlt, 1932
  • with Julius Hirsch (Ed.): Die Handelsspanne - Workshop of the Research Center for Commerce, Berlin, on April 22, 1931 . With 15 discussion speeches and an appendix of tables on the level of trading margins and trading costs. Berlin: Research Center for Commerce, 1931
  • Organizing the sale of agricultural products within the framework of a promising agricultural policy . Berlin: P. Parey, 1930, (from: Landw. Jahrbücher. Vol. 71, 1930, H. 1)
  • The damage to the German dairy industry . Berlin: Magazin der Wirtschaft, vol. 6. 1930, No. 23 and 24
  • The current status of the Berlin milk supply . Berlin: P. Parey, 1929
  • Investigations into the development, nature and forms of agricultural tenancy . In: Landwirtschaftl. Yearbooks. Vol. 66, 1927, pp. 535-634. Berlin, LaH., Diss., 1927
  • with Ernst Buske : The German Agricultural Crisis and Overcoming it . Geestemünde: Verlag des Landbund, 1924

literature

  • Reichs Handbuch der Deutschen Gesellschaft - The handbook of personalities in words and pictures . First volume, Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1930, ISBN 3-598-30664-4
  • Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 , Vol II, 1 Munich: Saur 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 141
  • Günther Schmitt: Brandt, Karl. In: Harald Hagemann , Claus-Dieter Krohn (Hrsg.): Biographical manual of the German-speaking economic emigration after 1933. Volume 1: Adler – Lehmann. Saur, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-598-11284-X , pp. 70-72.
  • Reinhard Hopfer: Berlin agricultural economists in the “Third Reich” - Karl Brandt and the Institute for Agricultural Market Research. In: Economics and social science subjects of the Agricultural-Horticultural Faculty of the Humboldt University. Issue 60, (Berlin) 2001.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d W. Glenn Campbell, Walter P. Falcon, William O. Jones: Karl Brandt ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Obituary at Stanford University (en) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / historicalsociety.stanford.edu
  2. ^ Astrid von Pufendorf: Otto Klepper (1888–1957). German patriot and citizen of the world . Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 1997, p. 62f.
  3. ↑ Dieter Schneider : Business Administration. 4. History and methods of economics . Munich: Oldenbourg, 2000, p. 221f.
personal data
SURNAME Brandt, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American economist
DATE OF BIRTH January 9, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH eat
DATE OF DEATH July 8, 1975
Place of death Menlo Park