László Radványi

Johann Lorenz Schmidt ( born December 13, 1900 in Budapest László Radványi; † July 3, 1978 in Berlin) was a German sociologist and economist.

Life

Radványi studied 1918/19, Economics and Philosophy at the University of Budapest and became involved in the revolutionary student movement. He participated in the anti-militarist Galilei Circle and was as a listener of the lectures at the Budapest Free School of Humanities, in which among others Georg Lukács taught invited to Sunday circle.

After the fall of the Hungarian Soviet Republic of 1919 Radványi fled to Germany and studied from 1920 to 1923 Philosophy, Psychology, Sociology and Economics at the University of Heidelberg. Here he was with Karl Jaspers Dr. phil. doctorate. He then worked as a bookseller, and from 1925 to 1930 under the name of Johann Lorenz Schmidt as an economist at the Soviet trade mission in Berlin. Since 1924 member of the German Communist Party, he was also a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party and co-founder of the Marxist Workers School ( MACHINE ). On August 20, 1925 he married Anna Seghers.

In February 1933 Schmidt emigrated with his family to Paris, where he co-founded the Free German Academy for German students in exile and led from 1934 to 1939. After entry of the German troops, he was interned in 1940 in Le Vernet and Les Milles. It succeeded but in 1941, emigrate with his family to Mexico, where he was employed at the National University of Mexico as a university lecturer at the Universidad Obrera de Mexico and from 1944. Like his wife, he was a member of the Heinrich- Heine- club, whose president Anna Seghers was. In 1946, he was a Mexican citizen.

1952 ( five years after his wife Anna Seghers ) Schmidt returned to East Berlin, where he became professor of Berlin problems of modern imperialism at the Humboldt University. 1954 to 1965 he was Head of Department at the Institute of Economics of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR.

Schmidt was since 1961 President of the German -Latin American society, the later GDR Friendship Society Latin America. In 1960 he was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit of the GDR in 1971 in silver and gold.

Works (selection)

• The millenarianism: an attempt to the knowledge of chiliastic chiliastic idea and action. Budapest:. Lukács Archívum 1985 dissertation Heidelberg 1923 ISBN 978-9630165891. .
• Problems of neo-colonialism: the peculiarities of the West German neo-colonialism. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag 1963.
• Developing countries: origin, location, perspective. Berlin: Verlag The economy in 1974.
• International corporations. Berlin: Verlag The Economics of 1981.