Norbert Kloten

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Norbert Kloten (born March 12, 1926 in Sinzig ; † April 5, 2006 in Tübingen ) was a German economist .

Life

Kloten was a member of the Expert Council for the assessment of macroeconomic developments and was its chairman from 1970 to 1976. In the course of this office he wrote reports, such as 1973 on the macroeconomic effects of the oil crisis . He was also a professor at the economics faculty of the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen and Vice President of the Christian Youth Village Association in Germany (CJD) .

From 1948 Kloten studied economics in Bonn . In 1951 he received his doctorate with a financial thesis on the topic of the limits of public association activity with the means of theoretical economics , before he started his career in 1956 with the topic of "The rail tariffs in freight transport. Attempt of a theoretical foundation. ” Habilitated. In 1960 he followed a call from the University of Tübingen to the Chair of Economics. Since then, Kloten has lived in Tübingen.

Until 1976, Kloten was a full professor of economics at the University of Tübingen. After that he was President of the Landeszentralbank Baden-Württemberg and member of the Central Bank Council of the Deutsche Bundesbank until 1992 .

Norbert Kloten is buried in the Tübingen city cemetery.

Tübingen city cemetery

Honors

  • Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class (April 2, 1982)
  • Grand Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (January 31, 1986)
  • Large Federal Cross of Merit with Star (January 13, 1992)

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Individual evidence

  1. a b c Office of the Federal President