Robert René Kuczynski
Robert René Kuczynski ( born August 12, 1876 in Berlin, † November 25, 1947 in Oxford ) was a German economist and demographer. He is considered one of the fathers of modern vital statistics.
He studied at the universities of Freiburg, Munich, Strasbourg and Berlin Economic and Legal Sciences and in 1897 received his doctorate for work the train to the city. He then volunteered for four years at Carroll D. Wright, the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics in Washington. There he dealt mainly with questions of labor statistics, which he put together in a large monographic study on wages and working hours in Europe and America, 1870-1909. After returning to Germany, he taught at the Berlin trade school and worked for various statistical offices.
Kuczynski was never a member of a party, but chose in the Weimar Republic since 1920 always KPD, with the remark that she was the least unbearable party. In 1926, he gained prominence as head of the committee that organized the petition for expropriation prince. The application for petition presented then the Reich Minister of the Interior in common: Ernst Thalmann (KPD ), Otto Wels (SPD ) and René Kuczynski.
After the seizure of power by the Nazis in 1933, he fled because of his Jewish origin with some 20,000 books, half of the family library, to Britain. There he taught at the London School of Economics and worked as a consultant for population issues in the Colonial Office. In September 1943, under his presidency was the formation of the Free German movement in Britain. 1944, a three-member presidium was formed, to which he belonged again. Together with his wife Berta he had six children: Jürgen, Ursula, Brigitte, Barbara, Sabine and Renate.
Works
- German bonds abroad 1924-1927 (second, expanded German edition of "American Loans to Germany" ), Publisher: Institute of Economics in Washington, Berlin 1928.
- Wall Street and the German bonds. Banker profits and public losses, German edition of " Banker's Profits from German Loans " published by Buske, Leipzig 1933.
- Demographic Survey of the British Colonial Empire, 1948-1953