Eva Altmann

Eva Altmann (born Eva Pfingst: 17 December 1903 – 1 March 1991) was a German economist who in 1950 became the first rector of the new Academy for Economic Planning ("Hochschule für Planökonomie"), as the institution was known before 1956.

Life Provenance and early years Eva Pfingst was born in Berlin. Her father was in business. She studied Economics at Frankfurt, Kiel and Berlin. Sources stress that her communist belief was born of a deep conviction, which would endure through her adult life. In Berlin she was one of the co-accused in a trial that followed the death of Hans Otto (actor), but was released due to lack of evidence.

Despite her unwavering commitment to the tenets of the socialist system, in April 1953 she received a severe reprimand from the powerful Party Central Committee because one of the academy's teachers had referred in a lecture to an article that had criticised Stalin. 1959 Patriotic Order of Merit