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Karl Otto Pöhl

German economist (1929-2014) · Germany · On the map · Academics · Died at 85

Karl Otto Pöhl was a German economist and a president of the Bundesbank and chairman of its Central Bank Council from 1980 to 1991.

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2014Died9 December 20141991Grand Cross 1st class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of GermanyAwardLudwig Erhard Prize for Publications in EconomicsAward1990Hessian Order of MeritAwardTie Man of the YearAward1987Karl-Bräuer-PreisAward1929Born1 December 1929

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Grand Cross 1st class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany1991
Ludwig Erhard Prize for Publications in Economics1991
Hessian Order of Merit1990
Tie Man of the Year1990
Karl-Bräuer-Preis1987
Commander of the Legion of Honour
Honorary Doctor of the University of Maryland
Honorary Doctor of the Ruhr University Bochum
Honorary Doctor of Georgetown University
Honorary Doctorate of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt
Grand Cross of the Order of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria

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Germany
Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1929 to 2014 · aged 85

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