Konrad Zweig

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Konrad Zweig (born October 11, 1904 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; died September 10, 1980 in Haslemere , Surrey ) was an Austro-British economist.

Life and activity

Konrad Zweig was the son of the internist Walter Zweig . After attending school, he studied economics and political science in Vienna, where in 1926 he received a doctorate thesis supervised by Hans Mayer . rer. oec. PhD.

In 1926, at the recommendation of Ludwig von Mises , Zweig was hired as an assistant at the Institute for the World Economy in Kiel, where he then worked for several years under Adolf Löwe . In this position he was responsible for the statistical research of international capital flows.

After coming to power of the Nazis in the spring of 1933 branch was in accordance with the provisions of the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil dismissed from the civil service in April 1933rd He moved to Great Britain, where he worked since 1934 for the food company J. Lyons and Co., whose statistical department he organized.

After the outbreak of World War II, Zweig was temporarily interned as a member of an enemy power. Upon his release, he was promoted to management at J. Lyons and Co.

After 1971 Zweig once again distinguished himself scientifically as a representative of the Freiburg School of Neoliberalism .

Fonts

• Time in Business , 1926
• Structural changes and economic fluctuations in English foreign trade in the pre-war period , 1929.
• Germany through Inflation and Recession: An Object Lesson in Economic Management, 1973-1976 , 1976.
• The Origins of the German Social Market Economy. The Leading Ideas and their Inttelctual Roots , 1980.

literature

• German Biographical Encyclopedia , Vol. 10 (Thies-Zymalkowski), Munich 2008, p. 905.
• Ulf Beckmann: Zweig, Konrad. In: Harald Hagemann , Claus-Dieter Krohn (ed.): Biographical handbook of German-speaking economic emigration after 1933. Volume 2: Leichter branch. Saur, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-598-11284-X , pp. 766f.