Norbert Walter (economist)

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Norbert Walter (born September 23, 1944 in Weckbach , Lower Franconia ; † August 31, 2012 in South Tyrol ) was a German economist . From 1990 to 2009 he was chief economist of the Deutsche Bank Group.

Life

After graduating from high school in Miltenberg , Walter studied economics at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main from 1963 to 1968 . In 1968 he received his diploma and worked at the Institute for Capital Market Research (today Center for Financial Studies ) in Frankfurt am Main. In 1971 he was awarded a Dr. rer. pole. PhD. From 1971 to 1986 he worked as an assistant to Herbert Giersch at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy . During this time Walter prepared his habilitation . After working as a research group leader, he became head of the economic department in 1975 and, in 1978, professor and director of the Institute for World Economy. After a dispute with Giersch because of deviating prognoses, Walter went to the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore as a John J. McCloy Distinguished Research Fellow in 1986 .

In 1987 Walter moved to the economics department of Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt am Main and in 1990 succeeded Franz-Josef Trouvain as chief economist. In 1992 he also took over the management of the newly founded subsidiary Deutsche Bank Research and became chief economist of the Deutsche Bank Group. After retiring due to old age at the end of 2009, Walter founded Walter & Töchter Consult . Thomas Mayer was his successor as chief economist of the Deutsche Bank Group .

Walter was involved in the committee of the "Seven Wise Men" to regulate the European securities markets at the EU Commission in Brussels. He was also a member of the inter-institutional monitoring group (appointed by the European Parliament, the European Council and the European Commission) for the Lamfalussy process to monitor the securities markets. He was chairman of the university council of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar , chairman of the board of trustees of the Federal Institute for Population Research in Wiesbaden and a member of the advisory board of the ecological tax reform association . Walter was a member of the Association of Catholic Entrepreneurs (BKU) and the Central Committee of German Catholics (ZdK).

On October 7th, 2009 Walter gave the 10th Berlin speech on religious policy .

Norbert Walter was married and the father of two daughters. He died of a heart attack on August 31, 2012. After his death, Walter's wife Christa established a foundation named after them, which serves to promote Frankfurt economics students.

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Web links

Commons : Norbert Walter  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary in the Taunus Zeitung (online) of August 31, 2012 (last change September 1, 2012) ( Memento of September 8, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Jörn Bender: Controversial economist with an ethical view. In: Weser Kurier v. September 1, 2012, p. 27.
  3. ^ Norbert Walter 1944–2012: Economist with an ethical eye . In: pro-medienmagazin, August 31, 2012.
  4. ↑ Alexander Kohnen: The religious fragments of thought of a stimulus figure . In: Die Welt, October 8, 2009.
  5. ^ Former Deutsche Bank chief economist Norbert Walter is dead ; Report on faz.net from August 31, 2012
  6. ↑ Martin Kaelble: Obituary: Norbert Walter, the faith economist. FTD , August 31, 2012; archived from the original on September 3, 2012 ; Retrieved September 1, 2012 .
  7. ↑ In memoriam Norbert Walter ( Memento from November 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ The Christa and Norbert Walter Foundation ( Memento from March 7, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Walter, Norbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Weckbach , Lower Franconia
DATE OF DEATH August 31, 2012
Place of death South-Tirol