Walther springs
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
- Literature by and about Walther Federn in the catalog of the German National Library
- from RA Ernst's e-publication about the Federn family
Individual evidence
- ^ The Federn family through the ages , accessed on February 22, 2009.
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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 |