Robert René Kuczynski

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Robert René Kuczynski (born August 12, 1876 in Berlin ; died November 25, 1947 in Oxford ) was a German economist and demographer . He is considered to be one of the fathers of modern population statistics .

Life

Robert René Kuczynski was the son of the wealthy Berlin banker Wilhelm Kuczynski , who was also a member of the council of elders of the Berlin merchant class. He studied economics and law at the universities of Freiburg im Breisgau, Munich, Strasbourg and Berlin and received his doctorate in 1897 with his dissertation Der Zug nach der Stadt . He then volunteered for four years with Carroll D. Wright , head of the Washington Labor Statistics bureau. There he dealt mainly with questions of labor statistics , which he summarized in a large monographic study on wages and working hours in Europe and America, 1870-1909 . After returning to Germany, he taught, among other things, at the Berlin commercial school and worked for various statistical offices.

Kuczynski was never a member of any party, but in the Weimar Republic since 1920 he always voted for the KPD , remarking that it was the least intolerable party. In 1926 he achieved prominence as head of the committee that organized the popular initiative for the expropriation of princes . The petition for a referendum was then submitted to the Reich Minister of the Interior together: Ernst Thälmann (KPD), Otto Wels (SPD) and René Kuczynski.

After the National Socialists came to power in 1933, he fled to Great Britain with around 20,000 books, half of the family library, due to his Jewish origins . There he taught at the London School of Economics and worked as an advisor on population issues in the Colonial Office. In September 1943, under his chairmanship, the Free German Movement was formed in Great Britain . In 1944 a three-member presidium was formed, to which he in turn belonged. He and his wife Berta had six children: Jürgen , Ursula , Brigitte, Barbara, Sabine and Renate.

His estate is managed together with that of his son Jürgen Kuczynski in the historical collections of the Central and State Library Berlin Foundation .

Works

  • German bonds abroad 1924–1927 (second, extended German-language edition of “American Loans to Germany”), publisher: Institute of Economics in Washington, Berlin 1928.
  • Wall Street and the German bonds. Banker Profits and Public Losses , German edition of “Banker's Profits from German Loans”, publisher: Buske, Leipzig 1933.
  • Demographic Survey of the British Colonial Empire, 1948–1953

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kuczynski estate. (No longer available online.) Central and State Library Berlin , archived from the original on June 16, 2016 ; accessed on June 16, 2016 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.zlb.de
personal data
SURNAME Kuczynski, Robert René
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist and demographer
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH November 25, 1947
Place of death Oxford