Lutz Hoffmann (economist)
Lutz Hoffmann (born May 15, 1934 in Flensburg ; † August 23, 2019 in Regensburg ) was a German economist .
Life
The son of the university professor Walther G. Hoffmann graduated from high school in Münster and studied economics in Münster, Freiburg and Kiel from 1954 to 1959. In 1962 he did his doctorate in Kiel under Erich Schneider . After his habilitation at the University of Saarbrücken, he was given a professorship in economics at the University of Regensburg in 1969 , where he taught until 1985. From 1971 to 1973 he also worked as a consultant for the planning office of the Prime Minister of Malaysia. In 1977/78 he was a consultant at the World Bank in Washington. In 1985 he took a leave of absence from the University of Regensburg and was director of UNCTAD for research and long-term planning in Geneva until 1989 .
In 1989 he moved to the Free University of Berlin as a professor of economics and was President of the DIW in Berlin until 1999 . In addition, he worked in an advisory capacity to the government of Kazakhstan from 1993 to 1999. From 2001 to 2005 he headed the Eastern Europe Institute in Munich.
Fonts (selection)
- Import substitution and economic growth in developing countries . Mohr (Siebeck), Tübingen 1970
- World economic turbulence and economic development . Institute for the World Economy, Kiel 1988
- Waiting for the upswing . Transfer-Verlag, Regensburg 1993
- Vitalization of the economy in the east . Klaus Dieter Arndt Foundation, Bonn 1993
Web links
- Portrait at DIW
- Lutz Hoffmann in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Obituary notice Lutz Hoffmann , Süddeutsche Zeitung from August 31, 2019
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hoffmann, Lutz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German economist and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 15, 1934 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Flensburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | 23 August 2019 |
| Place of death | regensburg |