Wilhelm Noelling

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Wilhelm Nölling (born November 17, 1933 in Wemlighausen ; † November 21, 2019 in Hamburg ) was a German financial scientist and politician ( SPD ). He was a member of the Senate of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg from 1974 to 1982 and was then President of the Landeszentralbank Hamburg until 1992 .

Life

Wilhelm Nölling was born in the small farming village of Wemlighausen (now part of Bad Berleburg ) in the Rothaar Mountains as the son of a forest worker. His father was a farmer. In order to create sufficient living space for his large family, his parents moved to Schloss Homburg in Oberbergisches Land , where their father worked as a forest worker in the Sayn-Wittgensteinschen Fürstlichen Forstverwaltung Berleburg. There the family lived in a big house, in the "castle", as other villagers said, without running water, without heating, without a bathroom. Wilhelm Nölling was taught reading, writing and arithmetic in a dwarf school. He is shaped by the Christian teaching of Martin Luther and was a member of the YMCA from 1948 to 1953 .

After elementary and commercial school, from 1950 to 1953 he did vocational training as an administrative clerk at the Gummersbach employment office. He passed the entrance exam for the Hamburg Academy for Community Economy . He successfully completed his studies after the normal study period of four semesters. His fatherly friend and mentor was the economist Georg Hummel, a respected Keynesian .

Due to his good degree, he received the subject-specific higher education entrance qualification . A scholarship from the Mitbestigung Foundation made it possible for Wilhelm Nölling to study at the University of Hamburg , which he completed with a degree in economics . After an outstanding diploma examination, Wilhelm Nölling received a doctoral scholarship, which enabled him to study research at the University of California, Berkeley . Nölling was so in 1964 in Berkeley Master of Arts in Economics and in 1968 when Hans-Dietrich Ortlieb in Hamburg with a thesis on unemployment and Berufsnot youth in the United States to Dr. rer. pole. PhD.

From 1966 to 1969 he taught economics at the Academy for Economics and Politics - formerly the Academy for Community Economics , Hamburg.

From October 20, 1969 to May 20, 1974 Nölling was a member of the Hamburg-Eimsbüttel constituency of the German Bundestag for the SPD . At the state party of the SPD Hamburg in January 1970, he spoke out together with Hans Apel , Peter Blach stone , Jens Litten and January Ehlers against it from, is that the Axel Springer Verlag at Studio Hamburg , a 100 percent subsidiary of the Norddeutsche Rundfunk involved. The state party congress then passed a resolution in which, among other things, it said: "The state party congress expects all decision-making bodies of the NDR and its subsidiaries to oppose the planned transaction in its current form."

From April 30, 1974 to November 12, 1974 Senator for Health in Senate Schulz II . From November 12, 1974 to June 28, 1978 Senator in Senate Klose I , initially for the health department, from April 28, 1976 as Senator for Economy, Transport and Agriculture. From June 28, 1978 to June 24, 1981 Senator for Finance in the Klose II Senate , and then Senator for Finance in the Dohnanyi I Senate until May 18, 1982 . In the 1978 general election he was also elected to the Hamburg parliament , but his mandate was suspended for the entire legislative period because of his membership in the Senate.

From 1982 to 1992 Nölling was President of the Landeszentralbank in Hamburg and a member of the Central Bank Council of the Deutsche Bundesbank.

Since 1992 Nölling has been a lecturer and since 1995 professor in the economics department at the University of Hamburg. In 1992 he founded the East-West consulting agency in Hamburg.

He has been married since 1958 and has three children. Since 1979 the family lived in their home "Hohe Leucht" in Stormarn Switzerland in the north-east of Hamburg.

Act

Together with Wilhelm Hankel , Joachim Starbatty and Karl Albrecht Schachtschneider , he sued the Federal Constitutional Court (in vain) in 1998 against the introduction of the European monetary union.

In May 2010, Joachim Starbatty announced that he would file a lawsuit with Wilhelm Hankel, Wilhelm Nölling and Karl Albrecht Schachtschneider and Dieter Spethmann before the Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe against the billion- euro loan for aid to Greece. In their opinion, a corresponding law violates EU law and the German Basic Law. The application submitted for a temporary injunction (Section 32 BVerfGG) was rejected. In the meantime, however, the Federal Constitutional Court has accepted the complaint and submitted it to the parties involved (Federal Government, Bundestag and Bundesrat) for comment. With its judgment of September 7, 2011, the Federal Constitutional Court declared the guarantees for Greece and other debtor states to be fundamentally constitutional, but called for greater participation by the Bundestag.

Publications

As an author, Nölling has written a number of books, book chapters and a large number of articles, especially in national magazines and newspapers.

  • In November 2003, Der Ökonom als Politiker - Europa, Geld und die Sozialfrage, Festschrift für Wilhelm Nölling ”appeared. It was published by Hankel / Schachtschneider / Starbatty.
  • Nölling published an anthology in 2005 under the title Hohe Leuchten - Evaluation of my reading experiences .
  • In 2007 he published his 1088 page three-volume autobiography with the title: How many anchors do humans need? Documentation of my development at Schümann Verlag.
  • "Ab ins Archiv" - selection from publications… from 1963–2013, five volumes

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Studio participation is checked" , in: Hamburger Abendblatt from January 26, 1970, accessed on March 22, 2020.
  2. ↑ This man wants to stop aid to Greece. Tages-Anzeiger , May 4, 2010
  3. ↑ Application in full text ( Memento from January 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Wilhelm Hankel: "Acknowledgments to the donors and status of the lawsuit" ( Memento from May 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Press conference on February 23, 2011 ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2011 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / pressekonferenz.tv
  6. ↑ David Böcking: Euro savers must dare to do more democracy , Spiegel Online, September 7, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Nölling, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist and politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH November 17, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Wemlighausen , Germany
DATE OF DEATH November 21, 2019
Place of death Hamburg