Walter Graevell

Walter Graevell (born June 26, 1891 in Klotzsche , † after 1942 ) was a German statistician and civil servant.

Life and activity

1914 doctorate Gravell at the University of Göttingen with a thesis on the influence of socio-economic aspects of the infant mortality in Prussia Dr. phil .

From 1914 to 1918 Grävell took part in the First World War. In 1919 he got a job as a laborer at the Saxon State Statistical Office. In 1920 he moved to the Reich Statistical Office in Berlin , where he was appointed head of the foreign trade and transport department as a member of the government.

In 1923 Grävell moved to the Reich Chancellery as an economic consultant . In 1924 he was promoted to senior government councilor and in 1926 to ministerial councilor.

In October 1926, Grävell was given leave of absence from the Reich Chancellery to take on the post of Secretary General of the Committee to Investigate the Conditions of Production and Sales in the German Economy.

From 1927 to 1929 Grävell was given leave of absence from the German civil service to lead the reorganization of the statistical office in Santiago de Chile .

In the 1930s and 1940s Grävell was again active as director of the Reich Statistical Office. He also acted as general secretary of the parliamentary inquiry committee and went public with various publications on statistical topics.

Fonts

• Infant mortality in Prussia in relation to social and economic conditions , 1914.
• The compulsion to import and export. Foreign trade, state and economy , 1932.
• “On the question of the rearrangement of imports”, in: Writings of the German Industry and Trade Day: Economy and Trade Policy , Berlin 1934.
• New tasks in foreign trade statistics , 1936.
• Quantity, value, volume. On the interpretation of the foreign trade statistics , 1937.
• Statistics in the Greater Economic Area , 1942.

Web links

• Walter Grävell in the online version of the Reich Chancellery Edition Files. Weimar Republic