Philipp Rieger (economist)

Philipp Rieger (born January 3, 1916 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; died September 20, 2007 in Vienna) was an Austrian economist and publicist .

Life

Rieger, who came from an assimilated Jewish family on his father's side, attended high school in Vienna and began studying law. As an activist of the socialist student movement that was illegal from 1934 onwards, Rieger was initially imprisoned in the Dachau concentration camp after the Anschluss . After his release he emigrated to England in 1939. There he learned the job of instrument maker , but also continued his studies at the University of London and the London School of Economics . From 1952 to 1957 he was an Education Officer with the Pakistan High Commission.

In 1957 Philipp Rieger returned to Vienna with his family on a call from Eduard März and joined the economics department of the Chamber for Workers and Salaried Employees in Vienna. In 1960 he received his doctorate from the University of Vienna Dr. rer. pole. In 1963 he was nominated as the first managing director on the employee side in the newly created Advisory Council for Economic and Social Issues of the Joint Commission . In 1965 Philipp Rieger became a member of the board of directors of the Austrian National Bank , of which he was a member until his retirement in 1982. He then worked as a consultant at the Creditanstalt Bank Association and at the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (WIIW). Rieger was also chairman of the Dr. Benedikt Kautsky . He was buried at the Neustift cemetery in Vienna.

literature

• Reinhard Müller (Ed.): Vanishing Point England , Graz 1996.
• Festschrift for Theodor Prager and Philipp Rieger, Economy and Society 8/1982.
• Obituary in: Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft 3–4 / 2007, p. 632.
• Günther Chaloupek : Rieger, Philipp. In: Harald Hagemann , Claus-Dieter Krohn (ed.): Biographical handbook of German-speaking economic emigration after 1933. Volume 2: Leichter branch. Saur, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-598-11284-X , pp. 563f.

Web links

• On the restitution matter of the Heinrich Rieger Collection (PDF; 220 kB)