FOLIO I · DENKER
Born on 3 February 1922 in Bergkamen.
Luftwaffe pilot (Messerschmitt Bf 109) in the Second World War; shot down over North Africa on 31 August 1942 and subsequently held as a US prisoner of war until the end of the war (latterly on a farm in Wilson, Arkansas). Iron Cross.
Studied at the University of Marburg and graduated as a Diplom-Volkswirt (graduate economist).
Doctorate (Dr. rer. pol.) at the University of Cologne in 1949.
Completed his Ph.D. in 1955 at New York University, as the first American Ph.D. student of Ludwig von Mises.
Professor at Grove City College in Pennsylvania from 1956 to 1992.
Publication of "The Great Depression" (1969); an application of Austrian business cycle theory to the Great Depression.[1]
President of the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE), based in Irvington-on-Hudson (New York), from 1992 to 1997.
Died on 23 June 2007 in Grove City (Pennsylvania).
Translated numerous writings of Mises from German into English and thereby contributed substantially to the spread of Austrian monetary and business cycle theory in the English-speaking world.[1]
Ein Kurs bei Sennholz am Grove City College weckte Boettkes Interesse an Ökonomie und an der Wiener Schule.
Ron Paul (US Congressman, libertarian presidential candidate in 2008/2012) traces his interest in economics back to his personal encounter with Sennholz.[3]
Mitglied der Mont Pèlerin Society — im klassisch-liberalen Netzwerk geführt.[2]
Hans Sennholz in the context of the School as a whole — five generations, their teacher-student lineages, circles and collegial ties.
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