10 Facts About Rudolf Meidner

Rudolf Alfred Meidner was a Swedish economist and socialist.

Son of Alfred Meidner and Elise Bandmann, Meidner was born on 23 June 1914 in Breslau, Silesia.

Rudolf Meidner was forced to flee Nazi Germany after the Reichstag fire in Berlin 1933, being Jewish and a socialist.

In 1937, Rudolf Meidner married Ella Jorgenssen and became a citizen of Sweden in 1943.

Rudolf Meidner was an economist and the developer of the employee funds plan proposed by the Swedish Trade Union Confederation in the 1970s.

Rudolf Meidner studied under the economist and Nobel Prize laureate Gunnar Myrdal.

Rudolf Meidner got his Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1954 with a dissertation labeled Swedish Labour Market at Full Employment.

Rudolf Meidner spent most of his work life at the Swedish Trade Union Confederation as a researcher.

Rudolf Meidner was awarded the Illis quorum by the Swedish government in 1997.

Rudolf Meidner died on 9 December 2005 in Lidingo, aged 91.