Robert Liefmann

Robert Liefmann (18741941) was a German economist.

Liefmann was born on 4February 1874 in Hamburg to Semmy and Auguste Juliane Liefmann, and had five siblings - three brothers, Karl, Alfred and Harry, all of whom died young, and two sisters, and Martha Liefmann. His family moved to Freiburg in 1885, and after the death of his parents, Liefmann lived with his two surviving sisters in the family home, the at 33Goethestraße.

Liefmann studied economics and law at the University of Freiburg, notably under Max Weber. He was appointed associate professor at the university in 1904, and full professor from 1914. He is known for his scholarship on trusts and cartels, and the interplay of psychology and economics.

In 1933, Liefmann was forced by the Third Reich to stop teaching. The was subsequently seized by the Gestapo, and Liefmann and his sisters were arrested on 22October 1940 and imprisoned in the Gurs internment camp. Through the intervention of , the three siblings were permitted a holiday in Morlaàs in February 1941, where Liefmann, who was in poor health, died on 20March 1941.

Selected works Kartell, 1905 Beteiligungs- und Finanzierungsgeselschaften, 1909 "Geld und Gold", 1916 Grundsätze der Volkswirtschaftslehre, 2 Vols., 1917-1919 "Die Geldvermehrung im Weltkriege und die Beseitigung ihrer Folgen : eine Untersuchung zu den Problemen der Übergangswirtschaft",1918