Marie Dessauer-Meinhardt

Marie Dessauer-Meinhardt , née Marie Dessauer , also Marie Meinhardt (born April 28, 1901 in Bamberg , † 1986 ) was a German-British economist.

Life

Dessauer studied economics in Frankfurt and at the London School of Economics (1928–1929). In 1933 she did her doctorate with a thesis on English deposit banks .

In 1934 Dessauer emigrated to Great Britain when the National Socialists came to power. There she continued her studies at the London School of Economics from 1934 to 1936 and then worked there from 1937 to 1941 as research assistant to Friedrich Hayek . Her work at this facility ended when it was evacuated to Cambridge in 1941.

In 1940 she married and from then on carried the name Meinhardt. After the Second World War Meinhardt lived in Bournemouth .

On her death she left a sizable fortune, as well as a painting by Pissarro and a house in Switzerland to the Titmuss Fund, a fund named in honor of Richard Morris Titmuss - who helped her emigrate to Great Britain - to support financially disadvantaged students .

Fonts

• The Big Five: on the characteristics of the English deposit banks . Stuttgart, 1933.
• The German Bank Act of 1934. In: The Review of Economic Studies , June 1935.
• Unemployment Records, 1848-1859. In: Economic History Review , February 1940.
• Monthly Unemployment Records 1854-1892. In: Economica , August 1940.
• The annual accounts of public companies in Great Britain. In: Committee for economic administration , (Ed.): The annual financial statements of stock corporations in Europe and the USA , Vol. 1, Berlin 1965, pp. 59–105.

literature

• "Marie Dessauer", in: Robert Dimand, Mary Ann Dimand, Evelyn Forget (Eds.): A Biographical Dictionary of Women Economists , 2000. pp. 138-140.
• Hans-Michael Trautwein : Dessauer, Marie. In: Harald Hagemann , Claus-Dieter Krohn (Hrsg.): Biographical manual of the German-speaking economic emigration after 1933. Volume 1: Adler – Lehmann. Saur, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-598-11284-X , pp. 122-123.