Walter Hoffmann (economist)

Grave of the economist Walter Hoffmann (1891–1972) in the cemetery in Schäftlarn, Bavaria.

Walter Alexis Karl Hoffmann (born September 20, 1891 in Eisleben , † April 14, 1972 in Schäftlarn , Bavaria ) was a German economist and university professor .

Life

Family and education

The Evangelical baptized Walter Hoffmann, son of the businessman in 1910 Charles Hoffmann put, a high school on Martin Luther High School Eisleben from. After completing a commercial apprenticeship at Darmstädter Bank in Berlin , he began studying economics , law and history at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin , the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen and the Justus Liebig University in Gießen from 1912 zu, there he acquired the academic degree of Dr. phil. Walter Hoffmann was married to Liselotte Karla, born Hufnagel, for the second time in 1953. He died in the spring of 1972 at the age of 80 in Schäftlarn, Bavaria.

Professional career

After completing his studies, Walter Hoffmann took on positions as a research assistant at the Preußenkasse and as an assistant at the Halle Chamber of Commerce . After Hoffmann had been called up for military service in the artillery or flak since 1916 in the First World War , he took command of an anti-aircraft platoon, in April 1918 he switched to the staff service as an intelligence and reporting officer (promoted to lieutenant , awarded the Iron Cross II . Class ). Hoffmann became a co-founder of the Stahlhelm, Bund der Frontsoldaten . From 1919 to 1923 he was appointed deputy syndic of the Halle Chamber of Commerce. In 1921 he completed his habilitation as a private lecturer in the subjects of private economics and economics at the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg . In 1920 he became a brief member of the DNVP . In 1923 he followed a call to a full professor for economics and political economy at the Bergakademie Freiberg , which he filled up to 1942. Since 1924 he has been a member of the DVP. On March 1, 1933, he joined the NSDAP and in November 1933 signed the confession of the German professors to Adolf Hitler . Hoffmann also acted as a lecturer in economics from 1929 to 1931, from 1930 also as director of the Central Europe Institute at the Technical University of Dresden , in 1934 as a research officer at the Academy for Regional Research and National Planning in Berlin and from 1942 to 1945 as a full professor for Economics at the Technical University of Dresden. During the Second World War he worked as an expert and economic planner for the German government in Southeast Europe , in particular he was committed to the integration of Romania into the "Greater German" economic area (publications: Danube Region-Völkerschicksal, 1939; Romania von heute, 1943).

After the Second World War, from 1951 to 1953 he held a teaching position for banking and savings banks and for science in Southeast Europe at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . Hoffmann, who stood out in particular with contributions to the economics of Southeast Europe and Central Germany , last held a teaching position at the Clausthal Mining Academy from 1959 to 1961 . 1956 Hoffmann was elected President of before in Erfurt -based non-profit Academy Sciences in Erfurt chosen from 1958 he was chairman of the Central German Cultural Council.

Fonts

• Central Germany: the new economic center, Dr. Richter & Co./ Verlag für Volkswirtschaft, Berlin, 1924
• Southeast Europe: Bulgaria-Yugoslavia-Romania; a cross-section through politics, culture and economy. With several tables. In: books of inventory., 3, WR Lindner, Leipzig, 1932
• Trade customer and trade policy. In: State, Law, Economy, Vol. 11., Ehlermann, Dresden, 1933
• Danube Region Völkerschicksal: With 7 maps, Felix Meiner Verlag, Leipzig, 1939
• Habitat or Imperialism: An Economic Policy Study of Southeast Europe. In: England without a mask, no.27, German Information Center, Berlin, 1940
• Greater Germany in the Danube region. In: Nationalpolitische Aufklärungsschriften, Issue 17. In Propaganda-Verlag Paul Hochmuth, Berlin, 1941
• Romania today; a cross-section through politics, culture and economy, Cugetarea Verlag, Bucureşti, 1941
• Marxism or Titoism? Tito's attempt to reorganize social relations in the state, Isar Verlag, Munich, 1953
• The Mansfeld copper slate mining: a contribution to central German economic history, In: Mitteldeutschland; Cross-sections through politics, economy and culture, Booklet W1, 1957., A. Hain, Meisenheim am Glan, 1957
• as editor: Bergakademie Freiberg - Freiberg and its mining. The Saxon Bergakademie Freiberg (= Mitteldeutsche Hochschulen series , Volume 7), W. Weidlich, Frankfurt am Main 1959, DNB 452068126 , OCLC 7899664 .

literature

• Werner Schuder (Hrsg.): Kürschner's German learned calendar . Volume 1, 10th edition, Walter de Gruyter & Co, Berlin 1966, p. 967.
• Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German who's who. XV. Edition of Degeners who is it ?, Arani Verlags-GmBH., Berlin, 1967, p. 791.
• Hoffmann, Walter. In: Dorit Petschel : 175 years of TU Dresden. Volume 3: The professors of the TU Dresden 1828–2003. Edited on behalf of the Society of Friends and Supporters of the TU Dresden e. V. von Reiner Pommerin , Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2003, ISBN 3-412-02503-8 , p. 378.

Web links

• Entry on Walter Hoffmann in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis