Walter Adolf Jöhr

Walter Adolf Jöhr (born February 8, 1910 in Zurich ; † June 1, 1987 there ) was a Swiss economist .

Walter Adolf was the son of the Swiss banker and functionary Adolf Jöhr (1878–1953). He studied law at the University of Zurich and received his doctorate in 1933 on unemployment benefits. After completing a second degree at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin , he did his doctorate a second time with Werner Sombart . His second dissertation, published in 1937, received very critical reviews in the Swiss press due to its anti-Semitic statements. The employment of the frontist Jöhr in 1937 at the St. Gallen commercial college led to an interpellation by the social democratic faction in the town council of St. Gallen. In 1937, Jöhr was of the opinion that liberalism and socialism had outlived each other. The “historical mission” of fascism consists in bringing the society, which has been broken apart by these ideologies, back to a unity. Therein lies the deeper meaning of what is called conformity.

Jöhr taught and researched in St. Gallen from 1937 to 1977. There he founded the Research Association for Economics and was rector of the university from 1957 to 1963, when he campaigned for the new building on the Rosenberg.

He determined the economics of the post-war period significantly, among other things with the work "The economic fluctuations" (1952). In 1965 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Geneva and in 1967 one from the University of Bonn .

Jöhr was married and a lieutenant colonel in the general staff of the Swiss Army.

literature

The mission of economics. Selected Writings. Mohr, Tübingen 1990, ISBN 3-16-345559-X .

Web links

Katja Hürlimann: Jöhr, Walter Adolf. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Literature by and about Walter Adolf Jöhr in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

^ Thomas Metzger: Anti-Semitism in the city of St. Gallen. 1918–1939 (= religion, politics, society in Switzerland. 42). Academic Press, Friborg 2006, ISBN 3-7278-1563-9 , p. 186, (At the same time: Friborg, Universität, Licentiate thesis, 2005).
^ Neue Zürcher Zeitung , September 24, 1937, morning edition, sheet 2
↑ Jakob Tanner : "The events march quickly." Switzerland in the summer of 1940. In: Andreas Suter , Manfred Hettling (ed.): Structure and event (= history and society . Special issue. 19). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-36419-9 , pp. 257-282, JSTOR 40194697 .

personal data
SURNAME	Jöhr, Walter Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss national economist
DATE OF BIRTH	February 8, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH	Zurich
DATE OF DEATH	June 1, 1987
Place of death	Zurich

[1] Thomas Metzger: Anti-Semitism in the city of St. Gallen. 1918–1939 (= religion, politics, society in Switzerland. 42). Academic Press, Friborg 2006, ISBN 3-7278-1563-9 , p. 186, (At the same time: Friborg, Universität, Licentiate thesis, 2005).

[2] Neue Zürcher Zeitung , September 24, 1937, morning edition, sheet 2

[3] Jakob Tanner : "The events march quickly." Switzerland in the summer of 1940. In: Andreas Suter , Manfred Hettling (ed.): Structure and event (= history and society . Special issue. 19). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-36419-9 , pp. 257-282, JSTOR 40194697 .