Werner Plumpe

Werner Plumpe (born 1954) is an economic historian. He studied history and economics in Bochum, earned his doctorate in 1985 and completed his habilitation in 1994. After teaching at Ruhr University Bochum and serving as a visiting professor at Keio University in Tokyo, he became Professor of Economic and Social History at Goethe University Frankfurt in 1999, where he is professor emeritus. From 2008 to 2012, he chaired the Association of Historians and Historians of Germany. In 2014, he received the Ludwig Erhard Prize for Economic Journalism. His publications include “Wirtschaftskrisen. Geschichte und Gegenwart,” “Die Große Depression,” and “Das kalte Herz. Kapitalismus: Die Geschichte einer andauernden Revolution” (2019).