Otto Veit
Otto Veit (born December 29, 1898 in Frankfurt am Main ; † January 31, 1984 in Wiesbaden ) was a German economist . His research areas were in particular currency and banking policy. He was a member of the neoliberal Mont Pelerin Society .
Life
Veit was born as the son of a general in Frankfurt a. M. born. Until 1933 he was an official of the Reich Office for Foreign Trade in Berlin. From 1945 he was General Director of Nassauische Landesbank and from 1947 to 1952 President of the Landeszentralbank von Hessen.
From 1952 Otto Veit was an associate professor and from 1957 a full professor of economic political science at the University of Frankfurt a. M. and director of the Institute for Credit Management at Frankfurt University.
Honors
- 1954: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
Fonts (selection)
- The tragedy of the technical age , Berlin 1935
- Real theory of money , Tübingen 1966
- Ambivalence between people and the world . Frankfurt (Main) 1981, ISBN 3-88323-256-4
- Christian-Jewish coexistence . 2nd edition Frankfurt a. M. 1971
literature
- Heinz Rieter: Veit, Otto. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 26, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-428-11207-5 , pp. 736-738 ( digitized version ).
- Heinz Solf: Otto Veit - an ordoliberal . Würzburg 1988 ISBN 3-89247-015-4
- German Biographical Encyclopedia, Vol. 10, Munich 1999, p. 189
Web links
- Literature by and about Otto Veit in the catalog of the German National Library
- Short biography
- Otto Veit in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
- Veit, Otto. Hessian biography. (As of May 2, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Veit, Otto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German economist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 29, 1898 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 31, 1984 |
| Place of death | Wiesbaden |