Wolfram Langer
Wolfram Maria Aloysius Langer (born September 16, 1916 in Berlin-Charlottenburg ; † April 16, 2002 in Pullach im Isar valley ) was a German economist and state secretary .
Career
Langer was born in 1916 as the son of the head of the Catholic teacher training institute in Berlin. After graduating from high school in Waldenburg in 1936 and completing the compulsory Reich Labor Service , he studied law and economics in Breslau and Geneva. After the first state examination in law in 1939, he was called up for military service. During his service he received his doctorate in 1941 at the Faculty of Law and Economics at the University of Wroclaw. Towards the end of the war he was taken prisoner by the British.
From 1947 to 1958 he worked as a business journalist. Then he came to the Federal Ministry of Economics as head of Department I (Economic Policy) at the suggestion of Ludwig Erhard and was State Secretary there from October 1963 to June 1968. From 1968 to 1978 he was President of the Pfandbriefanstalt in Wiesbaden.
Honors
- 1969: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
literature
- Walter Henkels : 99 Bonn heads , reviewed and supplemented edition, Fischer-Bücherei, Frankfurt am Main 1965, p. 151ff.
- International Biographical Archive 41/1979
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Langer, Wolfram |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Langer, Wolfram Maria Aloysius (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German economist and State Secretary |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 16, 1916 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin-Charlottenburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 16, 2002 |
| Place of death | Pullach i.Isar Valley |