Bernhard Steinberger, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Bernhard Steinberger

German economist

Date of Birth: 17-Sep-1917

Place of Birth: Munich, Bavaria, Germany

Date of Death: 16-Dec-1990

Profession: economist, university teacher

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Bernhard Steinberger (17 September 1917 - 16 December 1990) was a German engineer and economist.
After 1945 he became an East German political dissident and / or victim, spending most of the period between 1949 and 1960 in prisons and labour camps.
He had, by this time, already spent the war years accommodated in a succession of "emigrants' camps" in Switzerland, where he had arrived from Milan with his mother and sister in 1938 in order to escape the effects of newly introduced antisemitic legislation in Italy.
(The family were Jewish.)