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Walther Federn (born August 6, 1869 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary , † February 1, 1949 in New York ) was an Austrian economist and business journalist.

Life

Walther Federn came from a family of doctors who were originally Jewish in Prague ( Paul Federn and Karl Federn were his brothers, Etta Federn-Kohlhaas his sister, Ernst Federn his nephew). Walther Federn graduated from the commercial academy in Vienna and worked as a bank employee. In 1908 he founded the magazine Der Österreichische Volkswirt , based on the model of the London Economist , and remained its editor until 1934. As a freelance journalist, he also wrote about economic issues for the Frankfurter Zeitung and the later daily newspaper Die Zeit .

After the Anschluss , Federn first emigrated to Sweden and a year later to the USA, where he also died.

He represented a liberalism with a social component and enjoyed, among other things, the esteem of Karl Kraus . Feder found a long-term opponent in Ludwig von Mises .

Works

  • War and Currency , 1915
  • 10 years of successor states: Almanac 1908-1918-1928 , 1928
  • The financial, economic and social significance of foreign loans , 1928

literature

  • Karl Polanyi: Walther Federn als Mensch , in: Der Österreichische Volkswirt, Volume 35 (1949), No. 7, p. 3.
  • Rosita Anna Ernst: The Federn family through the ages - a biographical and industrial history analysis of a psychoanalytically oriented family , diploma thesis Klagenfurt 2002
  • Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 . Volume 2.1. Munich: Saur, 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 283

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Federn family through the ages , accessed on February 22, 2009.
personal data
SURNAME Springs, Walther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian economist and business journalist
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH February 1, 1949
Place of death new York