Martin Pfaff (born 31 March 1939) is a German economist and politician of theSocial Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) who was a member of theBundestag from 1990 to 2002.
Pfaff was born inTevel (now inTolna County, Hungary) on 31 March 1939. After completing high school, he studied in India, graduating with aBachelor of Commerce degree in 1961. He then studied at theUniversity of Pennsylvania in the United States, earning an MBA in 1963 and PhD in economics. During his student years he was a staff member and honorary treasurer of two schools for the blind in India, from 1958 to 1962.
From 1965 to 1974, Pfaff worked as a university lecturer and professor at various universities in the United States. Since 1971 he has also held an economics chair at theUniversity of Augsburg. He was founder and scientific director of the International Institute for Empirical Social Economics (INIFES), a socioeconomic research center based inStadtbergen, near Augsburg. He has authored and edited several books and monograph and numerous articles on economic and social policy.
In 1976 Pfaff became a member of the local branch of the SPD in Hochfeld, and he soon became a local party leader forSwabia. He became a member of the Association of the Social Democrats for Health Care (ASG) and in 1994, National Chairman of the ASG. In 1990, Pfaff was elected to theBundestag, where he served three terms of office, until 2002.
He is married toAnita Bose Pfaff (born 1942), also an economics professor, and the daughter of Indian nationalistSubhas Chandra Bose.[1] They have three children: Peter Arun, Thomas Krishna, and Maya Carina.[2]
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