Martin Götz

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Martin Götz (born September 13, 1903 in Nuremberg , † 1969 in London ) was a German-British economist and journalist.

Life and activity

Götz was a son of the bank director Albert Götz. After attending the New Gymnasium in Nuremberg, he studied economics at the universities of Munich (from summer semester 1922), Freiburg (from summer 1923) and Berlin (from summer 1924). His minor subjects were law, philosophy and history. His teachers were u. a. Ladislaus von Bortkiewicz , Julius Hirsch , Emil Lederer , Schumacher, Werner Sombart (economics and business administration), Köhler, Wertheimer (philosophy), hardening (history). He completed his training in 1933 with a dissertation supervised by Julius Hirsch on the organization of wholesaling after the First World War.

In 1930, Götz took part in the work of the trading group of the Enquet Committee as assistant to Wendelin Hecht . He then got a job as Hirsch's assistant at the Research Center for Commerce.

Due to his - according to National Socialist definition - Jewish descent, Götz was ousted from academic life in Germany in 1933. He moved to Great Britain, where he had been registered with the Society for Protection of Science and Learning (SPSL) as "unplaced" since February 1934 .

In Great Britain Götz got by with odd jobs. He later worked as a freelance journalist on economic and financial issues. Despite recommendations from Emil Lederer and Joachim Tiburtius, he was unable to continue his scientific career .

In Germany, Götz was classified as an enemy of the state after his emigration: around 1938 his expatriation was publicly announced in the Reichsanzeiger and Prussian State Gazette . In the spring of 1940 he was placed on the special wanted list by the Reich Security Main Office , a directory of persons who, in the event of a successful invasion and occupation of the British Isles by the Wehrmacht, were to move into the country from the occupying forces following special SS units, with special priority should be made and arrested.

After the outbreak of the Second World War, Götz was interned by the British authorities in Liverpool as a member of a hostile power - despite his expatriation - but was finally released again in November 1940 on the basis of the recommendations of the SPSL. He then worked again as a business journalist. In addition to writing for newspapers, he also wrote for the Ministry of Information's Feature Service . Until the 1960s Götz published articles in The Statist and for Business International . He also worked for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

In Germany Götz was awarded DM 40,000 in compensation in 1962 for the damage he suffered from persecution by the National Socialists.

Fonts

  • Changes in the organization of the German wholesale trade after the war with special consideration of the functional changes , 1933. (Dissertation)

literature

  • Displaced German Scholars. A Guide to Academics in Peril in Nazi Germany During the 1930s , The Borgo Press, San Bernardino, California 1993 (reprint of the List of Displaced German Scholars , London 1936), p. 29.
  • Peter Mantel: Business Administration and National Socialism. A study of the history of institutions and people , 2010. pp. 387f.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ England and Wales Death Registration Index, Kensington, vol. 5c, page 1532.
  2. ↑ Michael Hepp / Hans Georg Lehmann: The expatriation of German citizens 1933-45 according to the lists published in the Reichsanzeiger , 1985, p. 173.
  3. ^ Entry on Martin Götz on the special wanted list GB (reproduced on the website of the Imperial War Museum in London).
personal data
SURNAME Götz, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-British economist and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH 1969
Place of death London