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Fritz Lehmann, 1901-1940.

German money and banking economist.

Born in Berlin, of Jewish extraction,  Fritz Lehmann obtained his doctorate at Freiburg in 1923 and joined the faculty at Cologne in 1926, quickly making a name for his studies on monetary problems.

Lehmann was dismissed from Cologne by the Nazis in 1933.  In the Spring of 1934, Frtiz Lehmann joined the exodus of German scholars that made their way to the New School for Social Research, one of the younger scholars of that cohort. 

Lehmann's study on US tax policy with Gerhard Colm in 1938 attracted considerable attention at the time.

Fritz Lehmann died in July 1940, in an apparent suicide, at the young age of 39.

 

  

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Major Works of Fritz Lehmann

  • "The Problem of financing small and intermediate industries", 1935, Social Research
  • "100% Money", 1936 Social Research
  • "Public Spending and Recovery in the United States", with G. Colm, 1936, Social Research
  • Economic Consequences of Recent American tax policy with G. Colm, 1938
  • “The Role, of the Multiplier and the Interest Rate in Keynes General Theory", 1938, Economic Doctrines of John Maynard Keynes
  • "Germany's Economic Mobilization for the War", with H. Staudinger, 1940, Conference Board Economic Record
  • "The Gold Problem", 1940, Social Research

 
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Resources on Fritz Lehmann

  • "Fritz Lehmann, 1901-1940", 1940, Social Research

 

 
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