Eduard Heimann, (1889-1967) was a German/American economist and historian of economic thought. Heimann was born in Berlin in a social-democratic family (his father Hugo Heimann would later be elected in the Reichstag). He studied social and economic sciences in the universities of Heidelberg, Vienna and Berlin between 1908 and 1912, obtaining the Dr. Phil. in Heidelberg in 1912. His favourite teachers were Alfred Weber, Max Weber and Franz Oppenheimer.

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  • Eduard Heimann, (1889-1967) was a German/American economist and historian of economic thought. Heimann was born in Berlin in a social-democratic family (his father Hugo Heimann would later be elected in the Reichstag). He studied social and economic sciences in the universities of Heidelberg, Vienna and Berlin between 1908 and 1912, obtaining the Dr. Phil. in Heidelberg in 1912. His favourite teachers were Alfred Weber, Max Weber and Franz Oppenheimer. After a period of practical work in the private sector he became Secretary General of the first "Sozialisierungskommission" in 1919, which brought him into close contact with Walther Rathenau. In 1922 he switched to an academic career, accepting an appointment as Lecturer of Finance and Social Policy at the University of Freiburg. In 1925 he was appointed Professor of Economics at the University of Hamburg. With his Christian Socialist views, Heimann was an influential critic of Marxism. He departed sufficiently from Marxian theory to provide it with an "idealistic" edge, almost to the extreme of Manchester School liberalism. In his writings of this period he also developed a model of market socialism, that anticipates the positions taken by Fred M. Taylor, Oskar Lange and Abba Lerner in the "Socialist Calculation Debate" a decade later. In 1933 he left Germany for political reasons. In the United States he soon found employment in the New School for Social Research, as did many Central-European refugee social scientists. The University of Hamburg granted him an Honorary Doctorate in 1948. In 1963 he returned to Hamburg, where he lived the last few years of his life.
  • Eduard Magnus Mortier Heimann war ein deutscher Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftler. Er zählte zu den führenden religiösen Sozialisten um den Theologen Paul Tillich. In den Anfangsjahren der Weimarer Republik konzentrierte sich Heimann auf Sozialisierungsfragen. Nachdem er sich 1922 habilitiert hatte, erhielt er 1925 einen Ruf an die Universität Hamburg. Dort befasste er sich bis 1933 mit Fragen der Sozialökonomie. Dabei interessierte ihn insbesondere die Entwicklung einer Theorie der Sozialpolitik. 1933 zwangen ihn die Nationalsozialisten zur Aufgabe seiner akademischen Tätigkeiten. Im gleichen Jahr ging er ins Exil. Heimann verbrachte drei Jahrzehnte in den Vereinigte Staaten und lehrte dort in New York Wirtschaftswissenschaft und Soziologie. Auch nach seiner Rückkehr nach Hamburg im Jahr 1963 widmete er sich weiterhin der Frage, wie zwischen Kapitalismus und Kommunismus ein „dritter Weg“ gefunden werden könne. Das publizistische Werk Heimanns umfasst zirka 200 Abhandlungen.
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  • Eduard Heimann, (1889-1967) was a German/American economist and historian of economic thought. Heimann was born in Berlin in a social-democratic family (his father Hugo Heimann would later be elected in the Reichstag). He studied social and economic sciences in the universities of Heidelberg, Vienna and Berlin between 1908 and 1912, obtaining the Dr. Phil. in Heidelberg in 1912. His favourite teachers were Alfred Weber, Max Weber and Franz Oppenheimer.
  • Eduard Magnus Mortier Heimann war ein deutscher Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftler. Er zählte zu den führenden religiösen Sozialisten um den Theologen Paul Tillich. In den Anfangsjahren der Weimarer Republik konzentrierte sich Heimann auf Sozialisierungsfragen. Nachdem er sich 1922 habilitiert hatte, erhielt er 1925 einen Ruf an die Universität Hamburg. Dort befasste er sich bis 1933 mit Fragen der Sozialökonomie.
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