Otto Donner
Otto Donner (born April 22, 1902 in Berlin ; † June 30, 1981 in Washington ) was a German-American political scientist.
Career
Donner studied from 1925 to 1933 at the Institute for Business Cycle Research in Berlin. From 1933 to 1934 Donner studied at the Institute for World Economy at Kiel University. In 1935 Donner joined the NS motor corps. From 1935 to 1937 he was employed by the Reich Statistical Office. In 1937 Donner was a lecturer at the German University of Politics .
From 1938 to 1939 Otto Donner was employed at the Reich Banking Supervisory Office. From 1940 to 1943 he was the personal advisor to State Secretary Erich Neumann . From 1940 to 1943 he was head of the Research Center for Defense Economics of the department four-year plan with Hermann Goering , the Commissioner of the Four Year Plan. The four-year plan was an economic and social policy department headed by a "small central office" with a little over a hundred posts. The individual economic departments were controlled by this, and Hermann Göring was supposed to make drafts "to coordinate the individual work, eliminate deficiencies and danger points". In 1947, Donner received US citizenship and a professorship in Washington.
From 1952 to 1956 Donner was Deputy Managing Director for the Federal Republic of Germany (initially also for Yugoslavia ) at the IMF . From 1954 to 1968 Donner was Executive Director for the Federal Republic of the World Bank . Otto Donner was also Managing Director of the International Development Organization from 1960 .
Honors
- 1968: Large Cross of Merit with Star of the Federal Republic of Germany
Publications
- Seasonal fluctuations as a problem in business cycle research Berlin, Reimar Hobbing , 1928
- Money and Economy: Contributions to Current Economic Policy Publisher: Berlin: C. Heymann, 1934
- Statistics Hamburg: Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt 1937 in Fundamentals of Law and Economics; Row B
- War costs and limits of national debt with Bernhard Benning, Jena: Fischer 1942
- On the discomfort about development aid : Lecture Berlin; Munich: Duncker & Humblot 1962 in a special edition of the Ifo Institute for Economic Research ; No. 32
- America's three economic goals in the lecture series of the German Industrial Institute Cologne: Deutsche Industrieverlagsgesellschaft
literature
- Maria Keipert (Red.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871–1945. Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service. Volume 1: Johannes Hürter : A – F. Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2000, ISBN 3-506-71840-1 .
- Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Otto Donner in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Otto Donner in the German Digital Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Die Deutsche Kriegswirtschaft , in: Nauticus, Yearbook for Germany's Sea Interests, Volume 27, 1944
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Donner, Otto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-American political scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 22, 1902 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 30, 1981 |
| Place of death | Washington, DC |