Ludwig Yehuda Oppenheimer

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Ludwig Yehuda Oppenheimer (born October 21, 1897 in Berlin ; died February 1979 in Rehovot , Israel ) was a German-Israeli agricultural economist.

Life

Ludwig Oppenheimer was one of several children of the sociologist Franz Oppenheimer (1864-1943) and the singer Martha Amalia Oppenheim (1868-1949). Oppenheimer studied economics and sociology in Berlin, Frankfurt am Main and Heidelberg. He received his doctorate in Berlin with a dissertation on Proudhon with Werner Sombart and Hermann Schumacher . From 1923 to 1925 he did an apprenticeship as a banker . In 1927 he became a lecturer at the Berlin School of Politics . After the transfer of power to the National Socialists in 1933, he was dismissed and subsequently made his way as an advisor to the Reich Representation of German Jews . In 1935 he married the non-Jew Elsa Kappler. Both emigrated to Palestine in 1938 . From 1939 Oppenheimer worked in the agricultural economic research and agricultural planning of the Jewish Agency in Palestine and from 1948 for the Israel Ministry of Agriculture as head of research at the Agricultural Research Center in Rehovot .

Fonts (selection)

  • The unity of the Proudhon system . Diss. Berlin, 1923
  • Large and small businesses in the settlement . Jena: G. Fischer, 1934
  • Cold War or Land Reform? In: Union monthly journal . 5. 1954. pp. 36-40
  • Franz Oppenheimer: Experienced, strived for, achieved. Life memories . Edited by Ludwig Yehuda Oppenheimer. Düsseldorf: Melzer, 1964

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