Wolfgang Heinrichs

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Wolfgang Heinrichs (born February 9, 1929 in Danzig ; † March 14, 1994 ) was a German economist .

Life

Heinrichs studied economics in Rostock and Leipzig ; From 1951 to 1963 he taught, first at the Forst Zinna Administration Academy , then at the University of Internal Trade in Leipzig. In 1954 he received his doctorate at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig, where he qualified as a professor there in 1957 with the work The State Wholesale in the German Democratic Republic .

In 1963 he took on leading positions in the Ministry of Trade and Supply of the GDR, first as division manager, then as deputy minister. From 1969 to 1973 he was rector of the Leipzig Graduate School of Management, then until 1990 director of the Central Institute for Economics of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR .

In 1976 he became a corresponding member and in 1987 a full member of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR. He was chairman of the National Committee for Economics of the GDR and chairman of the Scientific Council for Energy and Material Economics, and for several years he was a member of the Executive Committee of the World Federation of Economists. He devoted himself particularly to the problems of socialist reproduction and the change in its internal and external conditions.

Heinrichs was a school friend of Günter Grass , in whose work Skinning the Onion he is mentioned by name and his life is outlined.

Awards

Fonts (selection)

  • Economics of internal trade in the GDR , Die Wirtschaft publishing house, Berlin 1961
  • Laws of the intensely expanded reproduction in the further shaping of the developed socialist society , Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1976
  • Basic questions of the socialist reproduction theory , Dietz-Verlag, Berlin 1982
  • Comprehensive intensification and reproduction theory , Dietz-Verlag, Berlin 1987

Individual evidence

  1. Interview with Günter Grass (feature section of the FAZ from August 12, 2006)
  2. Reading sample from: When peeling the onion. P. 19
  3. Neues Deutschland , April 30, 1977, p. 5
  4. Neues Deutschland , October 8, 1988, p. 4

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