Gustav Stolper

Gustav Stolper (25 July 1888 – 27 December 1947) was an Austrian-German economist, economics journalist and politician.

Life and work Stolper was born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary. He was born into a Jewish family that had immigrated from Poland to Austria.

In 1913 he established Der Österreichischer Volkswirt. Stolper and Joseph Schumpeter reportedly knew each other when they lived in Vienna in the 1910s. In 1925, Stolper moved to Berlin. In 1929 he drafted a platform for the German Democratic Party geared towards the interests of the middle class; it was well-received but came too late to prevent the party's disintegration.

Stolper was elected to the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic in 1930 as a member of the German State Party.

Stolper migrated to the United States after Hitler's rise to power.

In 1940, he published German Economy, 1870-1940, an economic history of modern Germany. In 1948, he published German Realities; A Guide to the Future Peace of Europe.

Gustav Stolper Prize The Gustav Stolper Prize is awarded by the Verein für Socialpolitik for "outstanding scientists who have employed the findings of economic research to influence the public debate on economic issues and problems, and have made important contributions to understanding and solving contemporary economic problems."

Winners: 2007: Bruno S. Frey 2008: Hans-Werner Sinn 2009: Martin Hellwig 2010: Ernst Fehr 2011: Otmar Issing 2012: Wolfgang Franz 2013: Clemens Fuest 2014: Carl Christian von Weizsäcker 2015: Justus Haucap 2016: Christoph M. Schmidt 2017: Ludger Wößmann 2018: Isabel Schnabel 2019: Ulrike Malmendier 2020: Markus Brunnermeier 2021: Lars Feld 2022: Monika Schnitzer 2023: Veronika Grimm 2024: Simon Jäger

Family His eldest son Wolfgang Stolper (1912-2002) was an American economist.