Karl Wagner (statistician)

Richard-Strauss-Brunnen in Kaufingerstraße Munich, in the background the Bavarian State Statistical Office

EF Karl Wagner (* 1893 ; † 1963 ) was the founder of the Ifo Institute for Economic Research and President of the Bavarian State Statistical Office (today's Bavarian State Office for Statistics ).

Life

In 1931 Wagner received his doctorate in law and political science with the dissertation Breaking interest bondage at the University of Würzburg.

Until 1941, Wagner worked for the Reich Statistical Office.

On February 12, 1946, Wagner became acting head of the Bavarian State Statistical Office and, from 1947, its president. His predecessor, Friedrich Burgdörfer , was dismissed from office in October 1945 due to an Allied order. Burgdörfer had also been active in the statistical office of the Reich from 1925 as well as a consultant in the race-political office of the NSDAP .

Wagner founded the Ifo Institute for Economic Research on January 24, 1949 .

At the end of January 1956, the Bavarian State Statistical Office moved into the offices across from Brenninkmeijer on Kaufingerstrasse in Munich. Wagner retired in 1959. Richard Schachtner was his successor as head of the State Statistical Office .

literature

• Literature by and about Karl Wagner in the catalog of the German National Library