Walther G. Hoffmann

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Walther Gustav Hoffmann (born February 8, 1903 in Hartmannsdorf , Lauban district , Province of Silesia ; † July 2, 1971 ) was Professor of Economics at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster . He became known for his work on the economic growth of the German and English economies.

life and work

Hoffmann attended schools in Lauban and Görlitz and then studied economics at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen and at the Institute for World Economy in Kiel. In 1929 he received his doctorate from Adolf Löwe in Tübingen and then worked at the Institute for World Economy until 1945. Since 1943 he was an associate professor in Kiel, in 1945 he was appointed to a chair at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster . In 1946 he succeeded Heinrich Weber as director of the Dortmund Social Research Center. In addition, he co-founded the Münster Student Union with Professors Heinrich Weber and Adolf Kratzer in autumn 1945 and carried out decisive development work in the years that followed. From 1953 to 1956 he held the Robert Schumann Chair at the Europakolleg in Bruges . From 1948 to 1969 Hoffmann was also a member of the scientific advisory board of the Federal Ministry of Economics . He was also active in other policy advice, particularly with regard to industrialization in developing countries. In 1954 and 1956 he was elected President of the Verein für Socialpolitik . From 1948 to 1968 he was co-editor of the journal for the entire political science .

On July 8, 1964, Walther G. Hoffmann received an honorary doctorate from the Free University of Berlin for his fundamental analyzes of problems of economic growth, income distribution and wage structure. He gave decisive suggestions and gained international reputation.

On Hoffmann's initiative, Richard H. Tilly, the American pioneer of a quantitatively oriented economic history, was appointed to the chair for economic and social history at the University of Münster in autumn 1966 and was appointed director of the Institute for Economic and Social History at the University of Münster .

Hoffmann was editor and lead author of the important work "The growth of the German economy since the middle of the 19th century". Almost all the time series between 1850 and 1960 that are of interest to economic development are listed on over 800 pages in 250 tables, and some are supplemented by estimation methods.

Aftermath

Since possible errors in Hoffmann's data have recently been discussed, a research project at the University of Münster attempted to correct errors in the data and to present a new series of the German net national product for the years 1851–1913.

Publications

  • Stages and types of industrialization . Jena 1931; Completed English translation: The Growth of Industrial Economies. Manchester University Press 1958.
  • The growth of the German economy since the middle of the 19th century (1965), Springer-Verlag, ISBN 3-54-003274-6 .
  • The conditions of economic growth in the past and future. Commemorative publication for Walther G. Hoffmann (1984), published by Ernst Helmstädter, Tübingen, ISBN 3-16-344727-9 .
  • Studies on the growth of the German economy (1971), Tübingen, ISBN 3-16-331652-2 .
  • The German National Income: 1851-1957 (1959), Tübingen.
  • Problems of Spatial Balance in Economics (1959), Berlin, Writings of the Verein für Socialpolitik NF 14.
  • Growth and forms of growth in the English industrial economy from 1700 to the present (1940), Jena, Fischer.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Manfred Hermanns: Social ethics in the course of time. Paderborn 2006, p. 216.
  2. ^ "The Contributors", in: JH von Stuvenberg (Ed.), Margarine. An Economic, Social and Scientific History , Liverpool University Press 1969, pp. Xix-xx.
  3. ↑ Toni Pierenkemper: Richard H. Tilly (1997) (PDF; 1.6 MB)

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personal data
SURNAME Hoffmann, Walther G.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hoffmann, Walther Gustav (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Hartmannsdorf , Lauban District , Silesia Province
DATE OF DEATH 2nd July 1971