Walter Slotosch

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Walter Karl Slotosch (born April 23, 1911 in Königshütte , Province of Silesia , † 2006 ) was a German economist , business journalist and publicist.

Life

Slotosch was born the son of an industrialist in Upper Silesia . He studied law and political science at the Technical University of Danzig , the Technical University of Berlin , the University of Geneva and the University of Greifswald . In 1935 he was at the University of Breslau with the dissertation The importance of foreign trade for today's Poland to Dr. rer. pole. PhD . Then he was an assistant at the Technical University of Darmstadt .

From 1938 to 1942 he worked as a department head at the German Institute for Economic Research in Berlin.

From 1945 to 1951 he was Councilor at the Bavarian State Statistical Office in Munich. In 1948 he became head of the economic department of the Ifo Institute for Economic Research in Munich.

From 1951 to 1965 he was head of the business editorial department of the Süddeutsche Zeitung in Munich and business commentator for Bavarian Broadcasting . In 1952, he was the only journalist in the Federal Republic to be admitted to the Moscow World Economic Conference. In the 1950s he introduced an economic report for the Süddeutsche Zeitung . He also wrote editorials . In addition, he took u. a. participated in a cultural exchange program to the USA .

He was also a participant in the Bergedorf discussion group on issues relating to the free industrial society of the Körber Foundation .

Slotosch was married and the father of three children. He lived in Grünwald near Munich.

Work and reception

He was a successful publicist among German business journalists. Slotosch is a staunch supporter of a stability policy . Being in the publishing Kurt Desch published nonfiction The money with which we must live. The Deutsche Mark 1950–2000 (1971) was critically reviewed by the Spiegel business editor Leo Brawand : “An interesting book for at least those who have read in this subject. The layman [...], on the other hand, will be tempted after the abundance of facts and figures to withdraw all savings from the account in order to quickly cheer them up. "In this context, he particularly criticized Slotosch's nagging about the D-Mark and his ubiquitous" Kassandra - Columns ”in the Süddeutsche Zeitung .

Awards

Fonts (selection)

  • Foreign economic policy, a question of fate for today's Poland. An economic policy study (= economic and financial issues of the time . Volume 4). P. Moser, Berlin 1935.
  • Investment index. Method and results (= series of publications by the Institute for Economic Research Munich, No. 2). Published by the Institute for Economic Research, Munich 1949.
  • The money we have to live with. Panorama of world inflation. The German Mark 1950–2000 . Desch, Munich a. a. 1971, ISBN 3-420-04633-2 .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Norbert Beleke (Ed.): Who is who? The German who's who . 28th edition, Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1989, ISBN 3-7950-2009-3 , p. 1294.
  2. ^ Karl-Heinz Schlarp: Between confrontation and cooperation. The early years of German-Soviet economic relations in the Adenauer era (= Eastern Europe . Volume 28). Lit, Münster u. a. 2000, ISBN 3-8258-5055-2 , p. 35.
  3. ^ Paul Hoser: Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ) . In: Historical Lexicon of Bavaria
  4. ↑ a b Helmut Maier-Mannhart: economic researcher and top journalist . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , May 21, 2001, p. 23.
  5. ↑ Ellen Latzin: Learning from America? The US cultural exchange program for Bavaria and its graduates (= Transatlantic Historical Studies . Volume 23). Steiner, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-515-08629-3 , p. 205.
  6. ↑ Bergedorf Round Table: Walter Slotosch ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Website of the Körber Foundation, accessed on August 1, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.koerber-stiftung.de
  7. ^ Rudolf Radler (Ed.): The German-language non-fiction literature II . (= Kindler's literary history of the present . Volume 10). Revised edition, Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1980, ISBN 3-596-26470-7 , p. 482.
  8. ^ Frithjof Kessel, Manfred Koch: Alex Möller. Federal budget 1970 . In: Manfred Koch (Ed.): The focus is on people. Speeches by Karlsruhe SPD MPs . Info Verlag, Karlsruhe 2001, ISBN 3-88190-281-3 , p. 174.
  9. ↑ a b Leo Brawand : On the hunt for prizes with a magnifying glass . In: Der Spiegel . No. 34 , 1971, p. 116 ( online ).
  10. ↑ Ernst H. Kunze, Klaus Schelle: The Association of Tax Payers (= offices and organizations of the Federal Republic of Germany . Volume 48). Droste, Düsseldorf 1977, ISBN 3-7700-7048-8 , p. 63.
personal data
SURNAME Slotosch, Walter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Slotosch, Walter Karl (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist, business journalist and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Königshütte , Province of Silesia
DATE OF DEATH 2006