Kurt Nemitz

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Kurt Nemitz (born July 10, 1925 in Berlin ; † February 16, 2015 in Bremen ) was a German economist, Bremen Senate Director and President of the State Central Bank .

biography

family

Nemitz's Jewish father was Julius Moses (SPD), a member of the Reichstag , who was murdered in the Theresienstadt concentration camp in 1942 . Nemitz's grandmother Anna Nemitz (1873–1962, SPD) was one of the first female members of the Reichstag. His mother Elfriede Nemitz was also active as a social democrat. Moses and Elfriede Nemitz had to separate in 1935 after the National Socialist race laws were passed .

He was married to Rosemarie Nemitz († 2016), who holds a doctorate in economics and was Bremen's district chairwoman of the Workers' Welfare Association (AWO) for eight years from 1970 to 1978 .

education and profession

In 1945 Nemitz was an intern in an electroplating factory that was relocated from Berlin to Geislingen an der Steige ; this is where he went into hiding during the Nazi era. Shortly before the Wehrmacht surrendered , he was appointed editor-in-chief of the Geislinger Zeitung by Geislingen's new mayor Reichle at the end of April 1945 and was also City Councilor of Geislingen in May 1945. He was only able to publish one issue when the American military government halted for lack of a newspaper license. After that he was able to publish 93 issues by 1946 before moving to Berlin.

Nemitz studied economics , among others at the Harvard School of Public Administration (now the Kennedy School of Government), and a PhD Dr. rer. pole. He then worked, among other things. as a journalist. He was state press chief under Prime Minister Heinz Kühn for the SPD North Rhine-Westphalia and closest collaborator to DGB boss Ludwig Rosenberg .

From 1964 to 1976 he was Senate Director for the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen as Deputy Senator of the Senator for Economics and Foreign Trade during the time of Senators Karl Eggers , Oskar Schulz , Karl-Heinz Jantzen and Dieter Tiedemann (all SPD).

From 1976 to 1992 he was President of the Landeszentralbank Bremen and thus also a member of the Central Bank Council of the Deutsche Bundesbank . He was also an honorary professor at the University of Bremen .

Further memberships

  • Like his father, Nemitz was a member of the SPD , shaped by the experiences of the Nazi era when his father was kidnapped and murdered.
  • Since the 1990s he has been involved in research into the German-Jewish press. To this end, he initiated the establishment of a department in the German Press Research Institute at the University of Bremen .
  • He was a member of the board of directors against forgetting - for democracy .
  • He was a member and from 1993 to 2000 chairman of the board of the Wilhelm Wagenfeld Foundation .

Honors

  • 1982: Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class
  • 1985: Large Federal Cross of Merit
  • 1992: Large Federal Cross of Merit with a star

Works

Gravestone for Anna Nemitz and Kurt Nemitz at the forest cemetery in Zehlendorf
  • The economic and regulatory conception of the German social democracy . Bonn 1959
  • Socialist market economy . European publishing house, Frankfurt a. M. 1960.
  • Union - Economy - Society . 1963.
  • Codetermination and economic policy . Bund-Verlag, Cologne 1967.
  • Julius Moses and the debate about the birth strike in 1913. In: Yearbook of the Institute for German History. Edited and introduced by Walter Grab. Volume 2, 1973, Tel Aviv 1973, pp. 321-335.
  • Efforts to create a Reich Ministry of Health in the first phase of the Weimar Republic 1918–1922. In: Medical History Journal. Volume 16, 1981, pp. 424-445.
  • Money supply targets in conversation . University of Bremen, Bremen 1988
  • Anna Nemitz . SPI, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-924061-21-1 .
  • Preserve the spiritual heritage in a meaningful way. In memory of the doctor and parliamentarian Dr. Julius Moses. Special print from medicine and Judaism. Lectures at the memorial event in Dresden on the occasion of the November pogrom 1938. Self-published by the Association for Regional History and Politics Dresden eV Special issue of the Historischen Blätter. Dresden 1994.
  • Market economy in social responsibility . Hanover 2000.
  • Jewish parliamentarians in the Weimar Republic . Heidelberg 2000.
  • The shadows of the past . Oldenburg 2000.
  • Bundesratufer - memories . BIs-Verlag, Oldenburg 2006.

swell

  • Ex-Senate Director Kurt Nemitz has died . In: Weser-Kurier , February 18, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Nemitz, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist, Bremen Senate Director and President of the State Central Bank
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH February 16, 2015
Place of death Bremen