Rolf Gocht

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Rolf Gocht (* 1913 ; † 2008 ) was a German economist .

Life

Rolf Gocht studied economics at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg under Walter Eucken , where he was a research assistant from 1937 to 1938, where he then obtained his doctorate in 1939. This was followed by a job at the Ergonomics Institute in Berlin, before he did military service from 1939 and was taken prisoner. From 1946 to 1949 he was an employee of the Baden Ministry of Economics and Labor. In 1951 he joined the Federal Ministry of Economics under the direction of Ludwig Erhard . There he worked in various functions. From 1959 he was head of the sub-department “Basic Issues of Economic Policy” until he was promoted to department head “Economic Policy” in 1963. In 1967 he joined the board of directors of the Deutsche Bundesbank . After his retirement in 1976 he became a board member of the Walter Eucken Institute until 1983. This institute was founded in 1954 with the help of Ludwig Erhard and deals in particular with regulatory and economic issues in the sense of the ordoliberalism of the “Freiburg School”.

Gocht developed ideas for a new monetary system, which was later called the sovereign money system.

literature

  • Rolf Gocht: The interdependence of orders, to K. Paul Hensel's introduction to the theory of the central administration economy. In: ORDO: Yearbook for the Order of Economy and Society, Volume 7 (1955), pp. 215-218.
  • Rolf Gocht: Critical considerations on the national and international monetary order. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2nd edition 2011, ISBN 978-3-428-13651-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rolf Gocht: The control of production under the influence of the revenue laws and the moment of time. Schramberg 1939 (dissertation)
  2. ^ Paul Schreyer: A new monetary order. Telepolis, February 1, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Gocht, Rolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist
DATE OF BIRTH 1913
DATE OF DEATH 2008