Eduard Heimann
| Eduard Magnus Mortier Heimann | |
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| Born |
11 July 1889 Berlin, Germany |
| Died | 31 May 1967 (aged 77) Hamburg, Germany |
| Nationality | German |
| Occupation | Economist and social scientist |
Eduard Magnus Mortier Heimann (11 July 1889 – 31 May 1967) was a German economist and social scientist who advocated ethical socialist programs in Germany in the 1920s and later in the United States. He was hostile to capitalism but thought it was possible to combine the advantages of a market economy with those of socialism through competing economic units governed by strong state controls.
Eduard Magnus Mortier Heimann was born in 1889. He came from a merchant family with Jewish origins. His father, Hugo Heimann, was a publisher who served as a Social Democrat (SPD) member of the Berlin City Council, the Prussian House of Representatives and the National Parliament of the Weimar Republic, or Reichstag until 1932. Heimann studied economics under Franz Oppenheimer and Alfred Weber. He became a Christian Socialist.
Although Heimann was attracted to the German Youth Movement, he supported the SPD in the November Revolution of 1918. Early in 1919 the provisional government in Berlin made him general secretary of the Socialization Commission. In Easter 1923 Heimann spoke to a group of young socialists demonstrating against the French occupation of the Ruhr. He stressed the spiritual aspects of socialism in his speech. Heimann was professor of theoretical and practical social economics at the University of Hamburg from 1925 to 1933.
In the 1920s Heimann tried to convince the Social Democrats to follow an ethical socialist program of greatly expanded social programs and improvements to working conditions. From 1930 he was co-editor of the Neue Blätter fūr den Socialismus with Fritz Klatt and Paul Tillich. He deliberately used terms similar to those of the National Socialists in an effort to gain the support of the Mittelstand, but by confusing ethical socialism with Nazism he probably inadvertently advanced the cause of the Nazis. Heimann's books were among those banned and burned by the Nazis in 1933.
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