Karl Walker

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Karl Walker in June 1975

Karl Walker (born January 4, 1904 in Strasbourg , † December 5, 1975 in Berlin ) was a German social scientist and politician, from 1946 as chairman of the New Confederation . He also published under the pseudonym Carl Heinrich .

Life

Walker grew up in a home for most of his youth and even then suffered from illnesses that remained with him throughout his life. He completed a bookbinder training and dealt as a self-taught with the economics . In 1930 he worked as a typesetter in a Berlin printer. During the Nazi regime, as a small business owner with up to 40 employees, he carried out fire protection coatings. Walker exchanged letters with various economists, including John Maynard Keynes .

After 1938, despite the ban on the free economy movement issued during the Nazi era, a so-called free economy working group was formed , to which Karl Walker belonged in addition to Otto Lautenbach and Franz Hochstetter . They came together “irregularly, but continuously”. As part of this group, the three named developed an immediate program in 1943/44 to overcome the consequences of the war financially and economically . “This immediate program served the supporters of Silvio Gesell after the German collapse in May 1945 as a basis for resuming their activities. It called for the abolition of all forms of forced state economy as soon as possible. On this common basis of all free economists who had survived National Socialism, a new free economic movement was formed. "

After the Second World War, Walker settled in Bavaria as a publishing editor and tried to introduce the WIR Bank (Wirtschaftsring) Swiss pilot project in Germany. He was editor of The Companions: Monthly for Knowledge and Action , which was published from 1946 to 1950 by Rudolf Zitzmann . On November 8, 1952, Walker became a member of the board of directors of the Freiwirtschaftsbund . In 1948, together with Carl Rist, he launched a so-called FFF seminar , which can be regarded as the forerunner of the social science society . This seminar apparently made too high demands: "Many supporters of free economics and also others interested in solving the social question were willing to participate, but in the long run the seminar work was too arduous for most of them." The institution therefore remained relative like its sponsor unsuccessful. According to Rist, the Social Science Society was newly founded by Walker in 1960 and then had the addition of the name: Rhein-Main-Zweig , to set it apart from the failed 1950s form.

To secure his livelihood, he also worked as the manager of a cable car in the 1950s . In 1959 his association We , an association of producers, dealers and consumers, was defeated against Bavarian retailers with reference to the Discount Act , which prohibited discounts of more than 3%. He was also a city ​​councilor for the SPD . In the 1960s, Walker developed a simulation game on economics ( Walker's model ), which was awarded the bronze medal at an inventors' fair in Brussels.

The Gesell student Walker was a critical supporter of Silvio Gesell's free economics . In the capitalism discussion , for example, he took an independent point of view compared to his teacher. He defined capitalism as an "economic system that is primarily geared towards the achievement of capital gains". Overcoming it - so Walker - presupposes the exemption from the profitability principle. He followed this guiding principle continuously since 1936 and tried to expand it in all directions.

In the summer of 1975, Walker moved from Altenahr to Berlin, where he died on December 5, 1975.

Karl Walker Prize

In Germany, the Foundation for Personal Freedom and Social Security began in 1983 with the establishment of a free economic library. As a cornerstone for scientific research into Silvio Gesell's theories, she published an 18-volume complete edition of his works from 1988. This is the basis for a series of books entitled Studies on the Natural Economic Order, which began with a general overview of the one hundred year history of the NWO movement and with a selection from the works of Gesell's most important student Karl Walker. The foundation also supports other book publications on questions of land law and the monetary system and, together with the social science society founded by Walker, publishes the journal for social economics . In this context, she awarded a Karl Walker Prize in 1988 and 1995 for scientific work on the independence of the financial markets from the real economy and on ways to overcome unemployment.

Fonts

author

  • The problem of our time and its mastery , 1931
  • Active economic policy , O. Lautenbach, Berlin 1936.
  • Overcoming imperialism , Rudolf Zitzmann Verlag, Lauf near Nuremberg 1946
  • Democracy and human rights , Rudolf Zitzmann Verlag, Lauf near Nuremberg 1947
  • The book money . Vita Verlag, Heidelberg-Ziegelhausen 1951
  • The technology of securing the circulation of money , Vita Verlag, Heidelberg-Ziegelhausen 1952.
  • Wirtschaftsring: Modern sales channels , Rudolf Zitzmann Verlag, Lauf near Nuremberg 1959
  • Money in history , Rudolf Zitzmann Verlag, Lauf bei Nürnberg 1959. (The re-awakening money economy. Excerpt from a chapter.) New edition: Nikol Verlag, 2009, ISBN 978-3-86820-030-0 online
  • Spirit and world design , Rudolf Zitzmann Verlag, Lauf near Nuremberg 1960
  • New European currency order: index currency, flexible exchange rates, European mark. A critical investigation and a suggestion , Rudolf Zitzmann Verlag, Lauf bei Nürnberg 1962
  • Economics in the business game: 5 business game lessons for the business game "Walker-Modell", Wirtschaftsring 1967.
  • Thoughts on the theory of value , Peter Weiz, Freising 1970.
  • The world currency system: A criticism of the theoretical foundations and a draft for reform , Gauke Verlag, Hannoversch Münden 1979, ISBN 3-87998-515-4 .
  • Selected works , Gauke GmbH - Verlag für Sozialökonomie, Lütjenburg [now Kiel] 1995, ISBN 3-87998-482-4

Editor and editor

  • Silvio Gesell : The natural economic order through open land and free money , Rudolf Zitzmann Verlag, Lauf near Nuremberg 1949
  • The companions: Monthly for knowledge and action (editor), Rudolf Zitzmann Verlag, Lauf near Nuremberg 1946–1950

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Social Science Society: Book Notes Karl Walker
  2. ^ Political Studies, Volume 20, Munich University for Political Sciences, 1969, p. 255.
  3. ↑ Remaining lonely in truthfulness . Commemorative publication on the death of Karl Walker, Chr.Gauke Verlag, ISBN 3-87998-507-3 online PDF file, p. 13.
  4. ^ A b Günter Bartsch : The NWO movement Silvio Gesells , Gauke, Lütjenburg 1994, ISBN 3-87998-481-6 . Part 3, II. The new organizations online
  5. ↑ a b c d Remaining lonely in truthfulness . Commemorative publication on the death of Karl Walker, Chr.Gauke Verlag, ISBN 3-87998-507-3 online PDF file, p. 15.
  6. ↑ Remaining lonely in truthfulness . Commemorative publication on the death of Karl Walker, Chr.Gauke Verlag, ISBN 3-87998-507-3 online PDF file, p. 26.
  7. ↑ a b Remaining lonely in truthfulness . Commemorative publication on the death of Karl Walker, Chr.Gauke Verlag, ISBN 3-87998-507-3 online PDF file, p. 16.
  8. ^ Günter Bartsch: Anarchism in Germany. Volume I: 1945 - 1965. Hanover 1972, p. 81.
  9. ↑ FFF is an abbreviation used by the free trade movement with the original meaning free land , free money , free trade . The last term was later replaced by fixed currency .
  10. ^ Günter Bartsch: The NWO movement Silvio Gesells. Part 3, III: Institutions for research and education online
  11. ↑ Remaining lonely in truthfulness . Commemorative publication on the death of Karl Walker, Chr.Gauke Verlag, ISBN 3-87998-507-3 online PDF file, p. 30.
  12. ↑ Remaining lonely in truthfulness . Commemorative publication on the death of Karl Walker, Chr.Gauke Verlag, ISBN 3-87998-507-3 online PDF file, p. 22.
  13. ↑ Werner Onken : Model experiments with socially responsible soil and money , Fachverlag für Sozialökonomie, Lütjenburg 1997, ISBN 3-87998-440-9 , Chapter 4, The meaning of economic experiments for the present and future online
  14. ↑ Ekkehard Lindner : 50 Years of the Social Science Society 1950 eV ( Memento of the original from July 19, 2011 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sozialwissenschaftliche-gesellschaft.de
  15. ↑ Werner Onken: Brief introduction to the free field free money theory by Silvio Gesell and its history. INWO Germany, September 29, 2003, accessed on October 23, 2017 .
  16. ↑ Remaining lonely in truthfulness . Commemorative publication on the death of Karl Walker, Chr.Gauke Verlag, ISBN 3-87998-507-3 online PDF file, p. 27.
  17. ↑ The book money . Vita Verlag, Heidelberg-Ziegelhausen 1951 online PDF file
  18. ^ Publishing house for social economy: Archive for money and land reform
  19. ↑ Silvio Gesell: The natural economic order through open land and free money online
personal data
SURNAME Walker, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heinrich, Carl (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German social scientist and politician
DATE OF BIRTH 4th January 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Strasbourg
DATE OF DEATH 5th December 1975
Place of death Berlin