Siegfried Moos

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Siegfried Moos (born April 19, 1904 in Munich ; † 1988 ) was a German-British economist.

Life and activity

During the Weimar Republic Moos was active in the Communist Party of Germany . For this he distinguished himself as a theoretician of revolutionary theater, a topic on which he published numerous articles in magazines such as Arbeiterbühne and Film . In addition, he was considered one of the most important theorists and at the same time sharpest critic of the agitprop troop movement .

After the National Socialists came to power, Moos emigrated to Great Britain. There he worked until 1937 as secretary of a group in exile of the KPB in Great Britain, before he left the party that year. He then found a job as a researcher at the Institute of Statistics at Oxford University, where he devoted himself to economic studies.

After his emigration, the National Socialists classified Moos as an enemy of the state: around 1937 he was officially expatriated in Germany. In the spring of 1940, the Reich Main Security Office in Berlin put him on the special wanted list GB , a list of people whom the Nazi surveillance apparatus considered particularly dangerous or important, which is why they will be succeeded by the occupation troops in the event of a successful invasion and occupation of the British Isles by the Wehrmacht Special SS commandos were to be identified and arrested with special priority.

After the Second World War, Moos became a lecturer in economics and statistics at the University of Durham . From 1966 to 1970, Moos served as an economic advisor to the Harold Wilson government .

family

Moos was with the poet Lotte Moos , geb. Jacoby (1909-2008) married, with whom he had a daughter.

Fonts

  • A Pioneer of Social Advance: William Henry Beveridge 1879-1963 , 1963.

literature

  • Merilyn Moos: Beaten but not Defeated: Siegfried Moos: A German Anti-Nazi who settled in Britain , Chronos, Ropley 2014.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michel Hepp / Hans Georg Lehmann: The expatriation of German citizens 1933-45 according to the lists published in the Reichsanzeiger , 1985, p. 195.
  2. ^ Entry on Siegfried Moos on the special wanted list GB .
personal data
SURNAME Moss, Siegfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-British economist
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH 1988