Woldemar Koch

Woldemar Otto Koch (born January 19, 1902 in Charkow ; † February 17, 1983 in Tübingen ) was a German economist of Ukrainian origin.

Life

Woldemar Koch, who was born in Charkow , was the son of the businessman Woldemar Koch senior and Anna, née Krischewitsch, began studying economics at the universities of Berlin and Königsberg after graduating from high school , which he acquired in 1926 in Königsberg with the academic degree of Dr. . rer. pole. completed.

After years as an assistant , Woldemar Koch completed his habilitation in 1936 as a private lecturer in economics at the University of Cologne , in 1939 he moved to the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Berlin in the same position, and in 1943 he accepted an extraordinary professorship at the National Socialist Reich University in Poznan . In 1950 Koch was appointed full professor of economics at the Free University of Berlin , in 1954 he moved to Tübingen, where he took over the same professorship at the Eberhard Karls University . Koch, a member of the Scientific Advisory Board at the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology , retired in 1970 . Koch made contributions to economics and finance .

During the National Socialist era, Koch worked at the DAF's AWI Institute of Industrial Engineering .

Woldemar Koch, who married Johanna, née Walsdorff, in 1936, with whom he had two children, died in Tübingen in 1983 at the age of 81.

Publications

• The Bolsevite trade unions: a study in the sociology of domination, dissertation , Mitzlaff, Rudolstadt, 1926
• The state economy of fascism, G. Fischer, Jena, 1935
• Communism and individualism: arguments from economic theory, Mohr, Tübingen, 1949
• The importance of theoretical economics for general sociology, inaugural lecture, Mohr, Tübingen, 1955

literature

• Hermann August Ludwig Degener, Walter Habel: Who is who? The German who's who . Volume 17. Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1973, page 557.
• Werner Schuder (Hrsg.): Kürschner's German learned calendar . Volume 2, 13th edition, De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1980, ISBN 3-110-07434-6 , page 1996.
• Association of Friends of the University of Tübingen: Attempto: Messages for the Friends of Tübingen University, issues 67-71 , 1981, p. 67.

Web links

• Literature by and about Woldemar Koch in the catalog of the German National Library

notes

1. ↑ Irene Raehlmann: Human Factors in National Socialism. An analysis of the sociology of science. Springer, Berlin 2005 ISBN 9783531146782 p. 83
2. ^ Karl Heinz Roth : Intelligence and Social Policy in the "Third Reich". A methodological-historical study using the example of the Ergonomic Institute of the German Labor Front. Saur, Munich 1993 ISBN 3-11-199988-2 p. 36 and others .