Vladimir Woytinsky

Woytinsky in Irkutsk 1914/15 (left on the chair)

Vladimir Woytinsky ( Russian Владимир Савельевич Войтинский , Vladimir Savelyevich Voitinsky ; born November 12, 1885 in Saint Petersburg , Russian Empire ; died June 11, 1960 in New York City , United States ) was an economic statistician and head of the statistical department as head of the statistical department ADGB launched an expansive economic program during the global economic crisis, which WTB-Plan suggested.

Life

The son of a Jewish mathematics professor joined the Bolshevik wing of the RSDLP during the Russian Revolution of 1905 and emerged as chairman of the St. Petersburg Student Council. As a result of his activities, he was deported to Siberia in 1908, where he stayed until 1912. After the February Revolution of 1917 , he moved away from the Bolsheviks and joined the Mensheviks , the reform-oriented part of Russian social democracy. Therefore, he came into conflict with the dictatorship of the Bolshevik Party, which had arisen as a result of the October Revolution . Initially imprisoned by his former comrades, Woytinsky was able to emigrate to Georgia in 1918, where he became involved in the social democratic government .

In 1922, after the Democratic Republic of Georgia was crushed by the Bolsheviks, Woytinsky came to Germany, where he became head of the statistical department of the ADGB from 1929. As such, as the main author of the WTB plan formally adopted by the ADGB in April 1932, he suggested an expansive economic policy in times of crisis, but countered the skepticism of the prevailing tendency in the moderate left at the time, which tended more towards financial orthodoxy. 1933–35 Woytinsky worked for the International Labor Organization ( ILO ) in Geneva, in 1935 he emigrated to the USA as a supporter of the New Deal . There Woytinsky's autobiography "Stormy Passage" appeared after his death (1961).

literature

• Christof Rühl: Woytinsky, Wladimir Savelievich. In: Harald Hagemann , Claus-Dieter Krohn (ed.): Biographical handbook of German-speaking economic emigration after 1933. Volume 2: Leichter branch. Saur, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-598-11284-X , pp. 757-761.
• Ziva Galili: The Menshevik Leaders in the Russian Revolution: Social Realities and Political Strategies . Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1989 ISBN 069105567X

Web links

• Literature by and about Wladimir Woytinsky in the catalog of the German National Library
• Biographical article Wladimir Woytinsky, the revolutionary from St. Petersburg from "New Solidarity", dated November 13, 1996, last accessed on February 22, 2014.
• Biographical article on SOLonline ( Memento from February 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) by Gabriele Liebig from March 13, 2009, last accessed on February 22, 2014.