Rudolf Meimberg

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Rudolf Meimberg (born December 19, 1912 in Prüm ; † November 4, 2011 ) was a German economist and university professor .

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Rudolf Meimberg was the son of the lawyer Alfred Meimberg. He attended grammar schools in Aachen , Münster / Westphalia and Potsdam and passed the Abitur. From 1931 he studied law and political science at the universities of Innsbruck , Berlin and Göttingen . In 1934 he obtained his degree in economics , and in 1936 he passed the first state examination in law. He then became an assistant to Jens Jessen at the University of Berlin . In 1937 he was promoted to Dr. rer. pole. doctorate , in 1939 he completed his habilitation. During the Second World War he was a lecturer in Berlin and was drafted into the Wehrmacht several times . In 1944 he became a professor at the Technical University in Prague .

After the Second World War he worked in Berlin again and initially worked for the German Central Administration for Industry in the Soviet zone of occupation . From 1946 to 1948 he was a correspondent for the Europa-Archiv magazine . In 1948 he became an economic advisor to the currency commission for the implementation of the currency reform , from 1948 to 1952 he was director of the Berlin central bank . From 1949 to 1952 he was also a lecturer at the German School of Politics , and in 1952, when he was commissioner for the Senate of West Berlin, he was a member of the German delegation at the London Debt Conference . During this time he began to deal with problems of the socialist economic system.

In 1953 he moved to Frankfurt am Main and had a teaching position at the Philipps University in Marburg . In Frankfurt he became a member of the board of directors of Süddeutsche Bank and later until 1960 of Deutsche Bank . In 1954, he was appointed University of Frankfurt as an honorary professor . He dealt increasingly with international economic policy, especially with problems in developing countries. For several years he was chairman of the “Developing Countries” committee in the Association for Social Policy .

In 1960 he was appointed full professor at the Faculty of Law and Economics at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and devoted himself primarily to academic teaching and research. In his inaugural address, he dealt with the dispute over the exchange rate of the Deutsche Mark . In 1979 he retired .

Rudolf Meimberg founded the "Peregrinus Foundation" in 1994 to promote study abroad for students of economics or law at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, which also awards an annual dissertation prize in the areas of economic system, economic policy, constitutional law, international law and criminal law. The Peregrinus Foundation Prize is awarded every two years by the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . Rudolf Meimberg founded the Rudolf Meimberg Prize , which has been awarded every two years by the Mainz Academy of Sciences and Literature since 1996. In 2007 he transferred 50,000 euros from his assets to the municipality of Rimsting to set up a “Rudolf Meimberg Foundation” to support senior citizens and cases of social hardship.

Rudolf Meimberg was awarded the Leibniz Medal of the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz in 1999. In 2011 he was posthumously awarded the Bene merenti in silver from the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

Fonts

  • The farm's credit. An investigation into the money and credit needs of the hereditary farm and the possibilities of adequate loan security. Dissertation. University of Berlin 1938. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Berlin 1938.
  • The economy and currency of West Berlin between East and West. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin / Munich 1950.
  • The economy of West Berlin. Development, problems, tasks. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin / Munich 1950.
  • About the one-sidedness. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1952
  • The?? economic development in West Berlin and in the Soviet zone. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin / Munich 1951. 2nd edition 1952.
  • with Franz Rupp: Public finances in the Soviet zone and in the Soviet sector of Berlin. Federal Ministry for All-German Issues, Bonn 1951.
  • Problems of the right thing in the life of society. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1952.
  • Alternatives of order. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1956.
  • with Harald Jürgensen : Problems of financing investments in developing countries. Edited by Rudolf Stucken. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin-Lichterfelde 1959.
  • On the dispute over the exchange rate of the Deutsche Mark. Extended text of the inaugural lecture at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz on November 17, 1960. Knapp, Frankfurt am Main 1960.
  • The monetary value in the conflict of interests. Knapp, Frankfurt am Main 1961.
  • About the element of arbitrariness in socio-economic value judgments. In: Yearbook for Social Science. Volume 15, Issue 3. Lucius & Lucius, Stuttgart 1964, pp. 312-336, JSTOR 20713940 .
  • On the problem of the flexible exchange rate of the currency of a relatively stable country. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966.
  • (Ed.): Requirements of a global development policy and contributions to cost and benefit analysis. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1971, ISBN 3-428-02391-9 .
  • with Rolf Lösch, Johannes Caspar von Reitzenstein: Agriculture in the regions of the EEC and its connection to the other economic sectors. Ifo Institute for Economic Research, Munich 1971.
  • The international currency crisis and its influences on the German credit system. Savings Banks and Giro Association Rhineland-Palatinate, Mainz 1972.
  • On the rational content of societal models and objectives. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1979, ISBN 3-428-04485-1 .
  • To justify disruptions in the market economy for ideal and other reasons. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1983, ISBN 3-428-05331-1 .
  • Principles of economic and social policy. On the question of their determinability. Scripta-Mercaturae, St. Katharinen 1989, ISBN 3-922661-59-9 .
  • Values ​​as such - means / end values. Experienced - speculative - postulates. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-10157-X ( limited preview in the Google book search).

literature

  • August Ludwig Degener, Walter Habel: Who is who? The German Who's Who. Volume 16. Arani, Berlin 1970, ISBN 3-7605-2007-3 , p. 830.
  • Gundmar Epple, Manfred Feldsieper, Richard Gross (Hrsg.): Economic policy in a cosmopolitan economy. Festschrift for the 70th birthday of Rudolf Meimberg. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1983, ISBN 3-428-05333-8 , in particular pp. 5-8 ( limited preview in Google book search).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Awarding of the Leibniz Medal 1961 to 1999 on adwmainz.de, accessed on January 6, 2016
  2. ↑ Markus Gloe: Planning for German Unity. The research advisory board for questions relating to the reunification of Germany 1952–1975. VS, Wiesbaden 2005, ISBN 3-322-80651-0 , p. 86 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  3. ↑ A kind of fake government. In: Der Spiegel . July 9, 1952
  4. ↑ Bernd Adolph: The beginnings of the research advisory board for questions of the reunification of Germany from 1952–1954. epubli, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-8442-7537-7 , p. 31, footnote 93 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  5. ^ Peregrinus Foundation on the website of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
  6. ^ Rudolf Meimberg Foundation on the Rimsting community website
  7. ^ Medal Bene merenti in Akademie Aktuell. Journal of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. 1/2012, p. 7 (PDF; 9.4 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Meimberg, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Prüm
DATE OF DEATH November 4, 2011