Werner Z. Hirsch

Werner Zvi Hirsch (June 10, 1920 – July 10, 2009) was a German-born American economist. Born in small-town Germany, Hirsch emigrated to Mandatory Palestine (later known as Israel) to escape the Nazis in the late 1930s, where he attended the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He emigrated to the United States in 1946 and received a PhD in economics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1949. He was a professor of economics at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) from 1963 to 1990. He was an expert on urban economics and higher education policy.

Early life Werner Hirsch was born on June 10, 1920, in Linz am Rhein, Germany. Due to the rise of antisemitic National Socialism in Germany, Hirsch and his family moved to Haifa, Mandatory Palestine (now known as Israel) in 1936. He took the middle name "Zvi" in Israel.

Hirsch endowed the Werner Z. Hirsch Award in Representational Drawing in the Department of Art at UCLA.

Personal life and death Hirsch married Hilde Emma Zwiren, known as Esther, whom he met in Israel. They resided in Los Angeles, California, where he died of pancreatic cancer, aged 89, on July 10, 2009.

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